American Expansion

From Alternative History

After the assassination of president William McKinley new president Theodore Roosevelt, confident after America's military victories in 1898 decided that America must expand it's influence and power in order to protect liberty, freedom and democracy. Soon after Roosevelt began one of the greatest expansions in world history and thus changed the course of human history.

Contents 1 The First Buildup 2 Conquest of Latin America 3 Tensions with Britain 4 First World War 5 Postwar Prosperity 6 Great Depression 7 Second World War 8 Cold War 9 Third World War 10 Pax Americana

[edit] The First Buildup

1901 Weeks after the assassination of president McKinley president Roosevelt says to congress that "The United States must keep a large and powerful military in order to insure the survival of American liberty and to safeguard the good health of the union".

1902 A bill is passed in the senate that allows an unprecedented building and reconstruction of the military. It allows the massive expansion of the army as well as the navy and marine core. President Roosevelt begins calling for action against America's southern neighbor Mexico.

1903 The United States Army now has more than three and a half million men while the navy has four hundred and fifty thousand men and the marine core has three hundred thousand men under arms. President Roosevelt sends U.S Marines and warships to defend the Panama Canal. Roosevelt also says that their needs to be a U.S sphere of influence across Latin America.

[edit] Conquest of Latin America

1904 President Roosevelt asks that Mexico become a client state of the United States. Mexico boldly refuses and says it will crush America if attacked. After hearing this president Roosevelt and Congress immediately declare war on Mexico. After a month of fighting U.S forces quickly overrun poorly trained under supplied Mexican garrisons along the border. Two weeks later U.S forces capture the last northern Mexican holdout of Monterrey.

1905 The U.S Army armed with heavy machine guns enters Mexico City and easily defeats the remainder of the Mexican military which was making it's last stand there. What's left of the Mexican government is used to help form a democratic government in Mexico loyal to the United States. Soon after President Roosevelt says the United States has achieved victory over Mexico.

1906 Roosevelt orders U.S army and marines to invade Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic and several other small Caribbean islands.

1907 After more victories throughout Latin America Colombia ,Venezuela and Ecuador agree to become American satellites.

1908 Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay agree to receive military assistance from the United States in an invasion of Brazil. In exchange they will all become American satellites. In November William Howard Taft is elected President of the United States.

1909 An alliance of South American nations invade Brazil. U.S warships blockade Brazilian ports. After several months of intense losses the Brazilian government realizes defeat and decides to become an American satellite.

[edit] Tensions with Britain

1910 The United States sends five million Americans north to Canada in order to bring Canada into the United States internally. Britain warns the United States that any attempt on Canada's sovereignty will be an act of war. President Taft officially creates the United States Air Force and invests money in the modernization of the military. This modernization plan includes the adding of automobiles and new artillery to the army and the expansion of the navy to include submarines.

1911 The United States military prepares for possible war with Britain. The United States and her Latin American satellites sign the treaty of Havana which insures the support of all treaty members in the event of attack by a non treaty member. In response Britain sends troops to Canada, Belize, Jamaica and the Bahamas. Britain also sends warships to Bermuda but few can deny Britain faces other threats in Europe.

1912 Tensions in Europe begin to reach a boiling point and relations between Britain and the United States collapse. In November William Howard Taft loses election to Democrat Woodrow Wilson who promises to never back down to Britain.

[edit] First World War

1913 The United States invades Canada and is immediately thrust into a war with Britain. France remains neutral but is soon invaded by Germany. Britain in turn declares war on Germany and is joined by Spain and Russia. The Ottoman Empire comes to the aid of Germany which is soon followed by the Austro-Hungarians as Italy descends into civil war. The Netherlands comes to the aid of the Germans and soon attacks Belgium. The United States signs an alliance with the Germans and soon splits British defenses in Canada by capturing Montreal. Britain responds by invading the Dominican Republic but is soon pushed back when America's Latin American satellites invade Belize and Jamaica. In France the Germans continue advances on Alsace and Lorraine. German troops pour across the eastern front easily beating back Russian troops who begin experiencing heavy casualties. On the western front Germans begin assisting the Dutch. By Fall the North Italians lay siege to Rome and in the America's naval battles between U.S and British vessels are intensely fought. As the year comes to a close both sides begin to set up heavily entrenched defensive positions and begin rationing food supplies.

1914 At the beginning of the new year Portugal allies with Germany and the British launch a counter offensive by invading Maine and up state New York. Within weeks the British have captured Augusta and are on the outskirts of Albany. In Europe the Germans capture Alsace and Lorraine and then strike in the East by sending Russian forces into a massive retreat across Eastern Europe while Dutch forces are held at Antwerp. By mid May the entire conflict has been reduced to trench warfare. In August the British finally move on Albany and push it's American defenders to the cities outskirts while simultaneously besieging the American garrison at Montreal. After weeks of intense fighting American reinforcements drive the British out of Albany all the way back to Buffalo and gain some much needed moral. By October the French have held their defensive positions and the war at sea moves slightly in Britain's favor against Germany. On the eastern front the Ottomans begin to become weak and divided internally but the Russians have also become war weary. In Italy the South Italians lose control of Florence to the North Italians while the Spanish begin a naval buildup in their own country.

1915 In February the British launch a shocking surprise attack by starting a naval battle in New York Bay. The British manage to land troops on Manhattan Island and urban combat soon erupts. After weeks of fighting the British realize they can never capture New York and decide to destroy the city instead. As soon as the British are about to open fire on Manhattan a squadron of flying aces led by Captain Orville Redenbacker manage to sink the attacking vessels. In retaliation for the assault on New York the U.S air force bomb a series of vessels as they enter Britain's main North American naval base at Halifax Harbor a lucky hit from an American plane manages to destroy a British munitions ship and sets of an explosion that destroys the entire base as well as most of the industrial areas of the city.In Europe German forces are halted in Belgium with both sides suffering serious casualties.On the Eastern front Russian Battalions begin experiencing mass desertion and low moral while in Italy the south Italians surrender to the north. In southwestern Europe Spanish troops overwhelm Lisbon and successfully occupy all of Portugal. At the end of the year a surviving Portuguese naval vessel arrives in Jacksonville, Florida and reports that a large fleet of Spanish naval and transport ships is headed toward a destination somewhere in the western hemisphere.

1916 At a peace conference in Bermuda, Britain cedes all of her American territories to the USA in a separate peace. This ensures America withdraws from the war allowing the Entente to focus on Germany. In a separate act France sells all of her American colonies to the United States in order to create funds for the ongoing war. Later in the year Spanish warships are discovered while preparing an attack on the U.S Atlantic fleet in Bermuda. After their attempted attack fails Spain sues for peace with the United States. The event angers the United States so much that several week later congress declares war on the Central powers and takes it's satellites with it. In November, President Wilson is defeated for re-election losing to Republican Charles Evans Hughes who pledges to win the war faster than Wilson.

1917 U.S troops officially enter the trenches of western Europe. The German army is pushed by hundreds of miles in a matter of months. German public opinion soon turns strongly against the war and Germany surrenders on November 11. Meanwhile in Russia a Communist Revolution takes place lead by fanatic Vladimir Lenin. The communists slaughter the Czar and the entire Russian royal family. Russia soon becomes the worlds first Communist state now known as the Soviet Union.

[edit] Postwar Prosperity

1920 President Hughes is re-elected by a landslide over former president Woodrow Wilson, due to America's booming economey and the victory in the "Great War".

1924 Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover is elected president over Democrat James M. Cox.

1928 The United States enters its ninth consecutive year of economic growth. President Hoover is re-elected in a landslide against NY Governor Al Smith.

[edit] Great Depression

1929 After more than a decade of economic prosperity the stock markets on Wall street crash, sending the entire world into financial crisis.

1930 With the global economy in turmoil Nationalist Parties begin rising all around the world including the National Socialist Workers Party or Nazi Party in Germany.

1932 In the midst of an economic resesion Vice President Calvin Coolidge is elected in the presidential election in a defeating Democrat New York senator Franklin Roosevelt, the cousin of former president Theodore Roosevelt.

1933 Shortly before his taking office Coolidge dies of a heart attack and Vice President-elect Charles Dawes becomes president. In Germany, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party come to power. Hitler's anti Semitic stance leads President Dawes to consider allowing mass Jewish migrations to the United States.

1936 Dawesis elected over Franklin Delano Roosvelt.

1937 When Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan begin to go on the rise,Dawes signs the Safe Refuge Act, declaring Alaska, Montana, the Dakotas and Wyoming open for Jewish settlement. Shortly afterward, Jewish settlers arrive by the millions. Jewish scientists were given top priority and were granted "priority one" visas.

1938 The invasions of Austria and Czechoslovakia lead to many Jews and Czechs settling in America. New Mexico is declared open for settlement for this wave.

1939 Nazi Germany invades Poland starting the Second World War. The last remaining Jews are evacuated by this stage.

[edit] Second World War

1940 Nazi Germany's forces swarm across Europe and by April 1940 France has surrendered to Germany. The German Luftwaffe begin air raids against the United Kingdom. After weeks of air to air combat Germany fails to defeat Britain and thus misses a valuable opportunity. Later in the year Vice President Alf Landon is elected on a promise to keep America strong and to remain neutral in the war.

1941 In June Hitler orders the invasion of the Soviet Union under the codename operation Barbarossa. The invasion is highly successful as Germany manages to capture Moscow and Leningrad despite suffering enormous casualties. Despite massive defeats Stalin orders the Soviet Union to fight on against their Nazi invaders allowing for an extremely bloody battle at Stalingrad. In December the world is shocked when Japan bombs invades and successfully occupy all of Hawaii. President Roosevelt immediately declares war on Japan. The USA's satellites move closer to the USA.

1942 The United States begins building up a vast military industrial complex to begin a counter attack against the Japanese, who have by now established a dominant military hold in the Far East. In Europe Germany signs a peace agreement with Britain and Ireland as it gains even greater victories against the Soviet Union.

1943 Japan is finally forced off Hawaii as American industrial might becomes too formidable for Japan to hold off. Japan is soon pushed back all over the Pacific and northern Australia is freed within weeks. The amount of American carriers in the Pacific is now more than twice that of Japan. In Europe the German military finally crushes the last major toehold of Russian resistance at Samara. Stalin soon comes to the conference table to talk peace with Hitler. After much debate Stalin accepts an offer that will cede all Soviet land west of the Ural mountains to the Reich. In exchange the German military will allow Soviet citizens to move East towards whats left of the Soviet Union. On December 3,1943 the War between the Soviet Union and Germany is over. Hitler's Reich has been established.

1944 When the Soviet Union falls, US satellites request annexation by the USA. FDR signs the Union of the Americas act shortly afterward, spreading the USA across two entire continents. Many refugees lucky enough to get to America settle in the Midwest, Jefferson (formerly Alberta), Alaska, Northwest territories, Chile, Argentina, Utah, Nevada and Arizona. the massive influx of immigrants lead to new cities being built. One famous city is called Haven in Nevada that boasts a population which rivals that of Chicago. Another famous city in Alaska named Bastion had a population which rivaled Houston, while New York City became one of the largest cities in the world. In the Pacific the Japanese are pushed back to the Japanese home islands.

1945 Shortly after the death of President Roosevelt reports come in of a massive explosion in the Northwest territories. US president Truman confirms a test of "the ultimate weapon of war". But at the same time, Japan has a massive arsenal of Bio warfare agents. The United States responds by launching a Nuclear surprise attack against Japan that destroys her Bio warfare capabilities as well as the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Germany also tests the bomb, thus leading to a cold war.

1946 The last territories are admitted into the union, with the USA having a grand total of 107 states. The Philippines is also granted statehood, and is an isolated island of liberty in an ocean destruction.

1949 Mao Zedong defeats the Nationalist Chinese effectively ending the Chinese Civil War and thus creating the People's Republic of China. In an agreement with the soviet remnant in exchange for Comintern Membership, China opens it's borders to Soviet weapons imports. Over time, the PRC gains allies in south East Asia. Mao would ensure the PRC was on par with the Nazis and the Americans. The British warned them off of taking British Commonwealth territories, although they had to let go of Singapore, New Guinea and Malaya. The Chinese would eventually gain their first nuke in 1953. This three way Cold war will inevitably lead to a Third and Final World War.

[edit] Cold War

A Cold War begins between the USA/British Commonwealth/Iceland/Eire/Japan and the Axis as well as a Maoist Comintern (China, Eastern Soviet Union, Indochina, Siam, Malaya, Singapore, Korea, Indonesia, Formosa) . Many agree that the scales are tipped in favor of the Alliance due to its massive scientific community of Jewish refugees as well as the vast resources at its disposal. The Comintern has a massive pool of able bodied men at their disposal, while the Axis has a mixture of both.

Culturally, the "Yellow Peril" still has a hold on the Allies and the Axis, while a "White Scare" is present in the Allies and the Comintern, with Anti-capitalism rife in the Axis and the Comintern. This barred the possibility of an alliance of any two powers. The advantage was initially with the Axis due to the Von Braun Stations, but the Allies and the Comintern caught up quickly, with all of them having bases on Mars and beyond by 1980.

The election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 pushes the stakes to new heights, with the US military receiving a greater expansion than even under Taft. The USA had even developed an ABM shield that protected both Americas from nuclear missiles. This meant that the war to come would be decided by force of arms. The children of the refugees mainly went into the military or R&D in order to give the United States the best possible advantage. During this time, the CIA famously extracted an Ebola sample from a Chinese Biowarfare research facility, which led to a much celebrated cure for the disease in 1978.

[edit] Third World War

By 1997, a reckoning was inevitable. Fuhrer Waldheim decided that the USA has become too powerful and that Germany must strike "before it was too late". He ordered Plan Ragnarok to go into effect. Newly elected President John McCain was as hawkish as any other president before him. Meanwhile Chinese Premier Hu Jintao ordered the PLA to be in high alert, and discusses "Case Mao" to come into effect (a plan for war with the USA and Nazi Germany).

The storm hit on May 18 1997, when a massive German fleet of Zeppelins and attack aircraft left the West coast of Africa for the Americas, while a massive land army headed East for China and India. But Hu Jintao, John McCain and Tony Blair of the United Kingdom, America and Britain respectively were waiting for this, and mobilized all available forces in Asia, while the Chinese used the Bering strait to send a massive force across to Alaska. Meanwhile, Chinese hackers launched a computer worm into the Von Braun Network (known as the People's Liberation Programme). Chinese Dragon and American Raptor/British Cyclone fighters fought over the Pacific Ocean.

1997 Germany lands on Britain/Iceland/East Coast. The Jews who lived on the Coast take up their arms (Dring the cold war, the Americans were expected to have at least one M-22 assault rifle with several clips in their homes in case of war breaking out). The PLA and the Wehrmacht engage in battles across the Steppes of central Asia. Omsk is hit with a Nazi Kinetic strike. The Irish Defence Force smash the Nazis at Galway. General of The Army Noam Chomsky lands at Australia to take full control of the Allied Armies against the Chinese. Manila is almost wiped off the map by the PLAAF. Waldeheim gives orders for "every Jew to be killed on sight". These atrocities spark protests in occupied America, Britain and Iceland (none of them have fallen so far). Meanhwile in space, on Luna and Mars, three way battles are common as they vie for world domination with the U.S. and her allies winning most of the time.

1998 Hu Jintao begins to hope for victory, as the PLA march across Alaska. But they would be caught up in Bastion, where the US would make their stand. Meanwhile Japan has managed to hold out form being shelled by the PLAN and the PKN. Bastion would descend into a fiasco like Stalingrad, with hundreds of thousends dead. The Battle ultimately stopped the chinese advance, resulting in a turnaround of the situation in North America. As the Axis and are being pushed back, the war in Asia is turning in the Comintern's favour. Meanwhile the Axis are forced off of North America. Omsk is liberated from the Nazis

1999 The Chinese were forced off of North America. Allied landings take place on Chukotka and Kamchatka. Japan has barely managed to hold off the siege it is undergoing. An American/British pincer squeezes the chinese forces. General Chomsky lands with forces on the Inchon Peninsula. They get to pyongyang within 6 weeks. The Axis are regaining ground from the Chinese Ural offensive. British and American forces land in France on June 6. But the landings were a Fiasco.

2000 General Chomsky and his armies march down to Peking and force Hu Jintao to sign the surrender instrument. China comes under allied occupation, and the ROC (Taiwan) is given full control of the mainland as a provisional government. As a result, much of the PLA come under ROC control and thus change alleigance. John McCain announces this to a roar of congessinal applause. With this vast pool of soldiers, the Allies are now capable of defeating the axis. With the Comintern thus subdued, the Allies begin to make headway with the Axis.

2003 Half the entire Reichskommissariat of Moskau has been liberated.

2004 American kinetic strikes devastate Berlin, Munich, Nuremberg, Vienna among other cities. The Third reich is nearly decapitated by these blasts. Thelast Axis holdouts in the Caucasus fall. Commonwealth forces begin their push up to Ethiopia. By the end of the year, there are riots across Axis held africa, with their military barely suppressing the revolts. The Jews in Moscow (who have been suffering the most under the Nazis, while not being exterminated, but still being subject to Apartheid-esque rules). General Petraeus reports that ReichsKommissariat Ukraine is visible. Reichsfuhrer SS Georg Haider attempts a coup but is squashed.

2005 Waldheim Dies, and the new Fuhrer Angela Merkel signs the surrender instrument at New Delhi, thus ending World War 3. This was just after George W. Bush was sworn in as president (Elections continued as normal). America is now the only superpower in the world. Bush gives his "well done" speech, which congratulates the "efforts made by the millions who gave their lives in this war". He also comes up with a surprise announcement: America will begin investing in going further into space. The post WW3 world leads to the Republic of Russia (former USSR plus Finland) regaining the lost territories from WW2, Poland becoming independent, The Republic of China (Former PRC plus Mongolia), India getting Siam, Indochina, Singapore, Afghanistan and Malaya, The Middle Eastern Union, The European Union (Except Russia), The Union of Africa and The Pacific Alliance.

[edit] Pax Americana

2004 George W Bush wins the election against Howard Dean.

2007 US astronauts successfully land on Ganymede, while a probe lands on Pluto. There is now an internet service called Google Mars.

2008 Obama wins a narrow election against Bush after the much disputed state of Minnesota is called for Obama (Norm Coleman defeated Al Franken by a wide margin). Casey Sheehan, who won the Medal of Honor for the Battle of Pyongyang successfully runs as a Republican for congressman from Texas, while Governor Uribe of Colombia is considering his candidacy for the Republican Nomination for 2012. America begins to make massive strides in space. Senator Evo Morales of Bolivia wins a second term.

2009 Obama is sworn in at noon on January 20. His speech about "change from eternally preparing for war" is welcome to the people and he becomes very popular. However on January 28, he is given a memo about a new threat beginning to rise in the world...

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