The American Empire
From Alternative History
By the year 1968 the world is divided amongst a few mega-states, racing to explore space.
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[edit] Timeline
[edit] Prologue
- 1838: Colonel Fredrick Ritterman moves to the US to train and drill the army.
- 1892: William Augustus Ritterman is born to Andrew and Mary Ritterman in Fort Worth Texas.
- 1916: William Ritterman joins the Marine Corps as a Lieutenant.
- 1917-18: William Ritterman serves in World War I. He distinguishes himself in the Battle of Belleau Wood,being promoted to Captain, then in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, being promoted to Lieutenant Colonel(skiping the rank of Major).
- 1919: Attorney General Mitchell Palmer and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt are killed by a bomb in Mitchell's library. It is widely believed to have been planted by anarchists.
- 1921: The National Party is founded by Charles Victorson in Dallas Texas. It preaches that Jews, Blacks and Mexicans were the cause of the World War and the influenza epidemic, but it also holds some socialists idealst that all white men should share wealth and the economy sould be planned. It gains marginal popularity in the deep south
- 1926: Ritterman joins the National Party. He is charismatic, able to whip crowd into a frenzy, plus he fully agrees with the party's policies. He replaces Victorson as the top party member
- 1931: The full impact of the Great depression is felt. The National Party,which once only held regional offices(their higest office until 1932 was a state senator), gains huge populatiry,even ouside the South.
[edit] The Rise of a Menace
- 1932: Charles Curtis is elected (minor POD) due to the Democrats being unable to field a strong canidate and the National Party taking Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Alabama. The Democratic losses in congress are just as bad to the Nationals loosing nealy all in the aforementioned states and a good portion of theirs inside other states in the South. Ritterman comes in third for President, with 51 Electoral votes.
- 1933: In April a four-way race riot, between Jews, Blacks, Hispanics and Whites, occured in Chicago. Fourteen days later ones occured in San Francisco, New York and Philidelphia.
- 1934: The Democratic party implodes, with a third going for the nationals, a third for the Republicans and a third staying in the weakened party. The Nationals take the place as the second party and continue their sweeping congressional gains in the great plains and rockies. Led by a charismatic Ritterman, the Nationals control every legislative seat from the deep South.
- 1935: The Senate is evenly divided between Nationals and Republicans. Repblicans lead in Congress by five seats. The Texas state legislature passes a bill demanding the registration of any 'Negro, Semetic or Hispanic peoples' reiding in the state. The National happily signs it into law. Ritterman begins a vigorous Presidential campaign. The first of its kind, it incorporates viciously attacking you opponents policies (named slinging for the phrase slinging mud) and fully using the propoganda potential of newspapers and radio. He sweeps through the great plains, southern border states and rockey mountains, swaying millions to his National Socialist ideology. The worst race riots in American history up to this point occur, with an estimated 3000 Jews, 4500 blacks and 2500 Latinos lynched or beaten to death.
- 1936: The election of William Augustus Ritterman as the 33rd president of the United States. He takes the South(including West Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri) the Great Plains and the Rockies. The Republicans hold on to the West coast, the Rust Belt and New England.
- 1937: Ritterman begins massive economic reforms to revive the nation from the Depression. He builds up the military and begins to catch up with Europe in technological might. In a move that shocks the world he announces that Haiti and the Dominican Republic have been annexed. The first plans for the 'Resettlement' of Blacks, Jews, Hispanics and other 'undesirables' to West Texas.
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