Background for the Nations of TWTUD
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mrpwn3r
Stereotypical Asian
The Free French Forces have something to say about that.
I will probably add something on my brief reign in France once homework lightens up. Keep up the good work EQ!
jeps
Arcadefire
what do you think the SEA of unhappy is? the after war debt, after war rebellions, after war sicknesses...
jeps
Arcadefire
war war? which was that?
These following chapters are all rather massive. Therefore installments will continue. The enxt installment will be American (North and South) domestic policies following the Great War.
I love all of this information coming out about before 1910 when the NES started. I mean even if for some reason you decide not to write about post 1910, with the extensive background we can now piece together a comprehensive history. Its awesome.
[size=”5”]Chapter 2: 1905-1920, Picking Up the Pieces[/SIZE]
The fifteen years after the fall of the British Empire were not marked by prosperity and growth as the conspirators of the Portsmouth Conference believed. Instead, the period was reflected by persistent violence and unrest as nations attempted to consolidate their gains from Britain. Consolidation occurred in the form of a multitude of wars and revolts which would ultimately result in the brutal turmoil of the Second World War, less than a generation after the First.
The United States of America was one of the biggest winners of the First World War. The extensive claims taken by the American government were easily justified by the lives lost in the conflict. Unfortunately the gains would serve to create a major constitutional crisis. The influx of Spanish and French speaking people into the United States caused by the annexation of Colombia, Haiti, and Quebec was the heart of the crisis, as prior to the First World War, states gained admittance based on English-speaking population. The Democratic Party argued for soveriegnity to be granted to the regions gained, restoring new governments under American guidance. President Roosevelt and the Progressive Party spoke harshly against the proposed policy, stating that to give up the territory would be to disrespect the American lives lost in the war. Ultimately the Progressives won in Congress. After six years of military government, most of Canada would be recognized as territories of the United States. In 1911, the Roosevelt Statehood Bill was passed, leading to the passing of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which would create a new policy on admitting states to the Union. The Roosevelt Amendment and Bill stated that if over 30% of a territory’s population spoke fluent English, they would be eligible as a state in the Union. This would also include a population minimum of a mere hundred thousand full time residents in a territory. Under the new policy the state of Vancouver would be admitted in 1912 and the state of Hawaii was admitted in 1913. Over a dozen new states would admitted by the new policy between 1911 and 1960.
In the United States prior to 1915, controversy emerged over the treatment of those Africans who had previously been slaves. Over a process of fifty years after the end of the American Civil War, blacks, though allowed to participate, were gradually eased out of politics and voting in the South and Midwest by use of violence and intimidation. After Roosevelt’s election for a third time in 1912, he stated that he would “make America the true land of the free.” The Civil Rights Acts of 1914 and 1915 made discrimination and intimidation at the polls a felony and called for closer monitoring of the electoral process to prevent discrimination. Further allowances were made to prevent some discrimination in the workplace, especially in the emerging fields of heavy industry and other urban occupations. The heads of the Democratic Party threatened succession over the passing of the new laws, reminiscent of 1860. Crisis was averted when President Roosevelt threatened to “repeat the acts of 1864-1865” should a rebellion occur. Thanks to the Civil Rights, the Progressive Party lost the southern vote, a fact which would return to haunt it in the 1920 election. Despite that fact, the Progressive Party would win Congressional and Presidential elections in 1916. Sparked by election reforms across the world, the American woman voter’s movement gained momentum in the United States, leading to a further Constitutional Amendment being passed in 1917, allowing all women over 18 to vote.
Directly south of the United States, the nation of Mexico faced massive turmoil in the years following the Great War. Between 1905 and 1917, there were over twenty “Presidents of Mexico” and a variety of militarist warlords which held power. When elections were held, they frequently were influenced by the ruling party through fraudulent means of acquiring votes. Unlike in other American republics, reform did not take hold in Mexico and instead, a civil war broke out in 1913 and a multitude of generals proclaimed themselves warlords over large regions of Mexico. In 1916, the warlord Pancho Villa, in an attempt to force the United States to mediate the war, struck across the Rio Grande and attacked several Texan towns.
Pancho Villa’s act outraged the American public and a mere month after the attack, the United States Congress declared war on Mexico. Over a quarter million US soldiers invaded Mexico, easily seizing control of the largest cities and main roads. The warlords, often refusing to work together, would be overrun and destroyed by the American armies piecemeal. By the end of 1917, the final strongholds of the warlords fell to the United States military. The American Congress voted for direct annexation of Mexico, an act which one Senator claimed, “filled the Manifest Destiny denied us in 1847.”
Manifest Destiny aside, the annexation of Mexico presented the United States’ government with an extensive problem. Unlike regions taken by the American government in the past, the nation of Mexico was vastly different in culture, ethnicity, and even religion. Furthermore, rebels and bandits roamed the countryside, threatening stability and peace throughout Mexico and even the southwestern United States. American troops were forced to retaliate frequently and even the taking of hostages was incapable of ending the threat of a full-scale rebellion.
President Roosevelt discovered the solution to rebellion in a meeting of the Tehran Pact in 1917. The ambassador of the nation of Liberia, which had dramatically increased in size since the onset of the Communist War, made a passing reference to manpower shortages within the newly created empire. Further inquires into the situation revealed that though the fledgling republic possessed massive stockpiles of resources and money, the population was at 100% of employment and skilled and unskilled labor were at a high demand. The Treaty of Monrovia was concluded a few days after the Tehran Pact meeting as a solution to both the Mexican problem and the labor issues in Liberia. Under orders of President Roosevelt, the United States Army and Navy nationalized the pitiful remnants of the Mexican merchant marine. Soldiers rounded up entire villages and large portions of the Mexican population, and began shipping them to Africa. Between 1918 and 1924, the American government shipped over 60% of the pre-war Mexican population to Liberia, though government shipping halted in 1925 after the inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt as President.
The international problems caused by the forced Mexican Exodus were considerable for Presidents Roosevelt and Coolidge. The incident was one of the precipitating factors for the collapse of the Tehran Pact as nations within the alliance, particularly Eire and Scotland, denounced the American actions. Canadian nationalists, capitalizing on fear of a similar deportation method in Canada, led a revolt based out of Ottawa. Afraid of a revolt across both Canada and Australia, President Roosevelt immediately called for negotiations with the rebels. The American government agreed to give Canada equal footing in Congress and governmental posts, removing administrators from the south who had been placed in charge. The Canadians were also allowed to retain weapons and militias to protect themselves if the United States reneged on its treaty. Similarly, observers from the rebellion were allowed to monitor all elections to prevent fraud under the provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1915.
In Central America, the period immediately following the Great War was one of reconciliation and consolidation. Guatemala’s military successes in Belize and Honduras led to a further war against San Salvador in 1906. The small nation was easily conquered and annexed by the Guatemalans, and the United Provinces of Central America was proclaimed. From the outset, the UPCA was strictly an expansion of a Guatemalan Empire. The other provinces were given few rights and treated as occupied territories. Under diplomatic pressure by the United States and Mexico, the government of the UPCA was forced to allow voting rights for the occupied territories by 1909. Between 1910 and 1920, reforms within the UPCA by Presidents Gomez and Heuva resulted in the establishment of a true republic. The UPCA would follow their American friends to the north by passing the Total Suffrage bill in 1919, allowing full voting rights for all residents within the nation.
The nation of Nicaragua, following the military skirmishes with the United States in Panama, declared itself the “opposition to American imperialism.” Under military rule since the conquest of Costa Rica, Nicaragua gave extensive support to both the Mexicans and Canadians in their respective crises with the United States. Nicaragua was the first American nation to join the Common Front International in the hopes of affirming international support in a possible war over Panama and the newly constructed Canal. Despite the rhetoric, tensions with the United States would gradually fade from 1910 to 1920 and would turn towards the UPCA. The leaders of Nicaragua quickly turned greedy eyes on the UPCA’s provinces of Honduras and San Salvador. Failed attempts to destabilize the UPCA would result in the 1920-1922 war as a last act of imperial action by Nicaragua. Domestically, Nicaragua was crippled by political in-fighting between the military leaders of the nation. Unemployment was frequently hovering between 20% and 30%, and industrial growth was near nil. The Nicaraguan Socialist led several minor uprisings within the nation, and with the turmoil caused by the Central American War, collapse threatened the nation.
The fifteen years after the fall of the British Empire were not marked by prosperity and growth as the conspirators of the Portsmouth Conference believed. Instead, the period was reflected by persistent violence and unrest as nations attempted to consolidate their gains from Britain. Consolidation occurred in the form of a multitude of wars and revolts which would ultimately result in the brutal turmoil of the Second World War, less than a generation after the First.
Building a New America
The United States of America was one of the biggest winners of the First World War. The extensive claims taken by the American government were easily justified by the lives lost in the conflict. Unfortunately the gains would serve to create a major constitutional crisis. The influx of Spanish and French speaking people into the United States caused by the annexation of Colombia, Haiti, and Quebec was the heart of the crisis, as prior to the First World War, states gained admittance based on English-speaking population. The Democratic Party argued for soveriegnity to be granted to the regions gained, restoring new governments under American guidance. President Roosevelt and the Progressive Party spoke harshly against the proposed policy, stating that to give up the territory would be to disrespect the American lives lost in the war. Ultimately the Progressives won in Congress. After six years of military government, most of Canada would be recognized as territories of the United States. In 1911, the Roosevelt Statehood Bill was passed, leading to the passing of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which would create a new policy on admitting states to the Union. The Roosevelt Amendment and Bill stated that if over 30% of a territory’s population spoke fluent English, they would be eligible as a state in the Union. This would also include a population minimum of a mere hundred thousand full time residents in a territory. Under the new policy the state of Vancouver would be admitted in 1912 and the state of Hawaii was admitted in 1913. Over a dozen new states would admitted by the new policy between 1911 and 1960.
In the United States prior to 1915, controversy emerged over the treatment of those Africans who had previously been slaves. Over a process of fifty years after the end of the American Civil War, blacks, though allowed to participate, were gradually eased out of politics and voting in the South and Midwest by use of violence and intimidation. After Roosevelt’s election for a third time in 1912, he stated that he would “make America the true land of the free.” The Civil Rights Acts of 1914 and 1915 made discrimination and intimidation at the polls a felony and called for closer monitoring of the electoral process to prevent discrimination. Further allowances were made to prevent some discrimination in the workplace, especially in the emerging fields of heavy industry and other urban occupations. The heads of the Democratic Party threatened succession over the passing of the new laws, reminiscent of 1860. Crisis was averted when President Roosevelt threatened to “repeat the acts of 1864-1865” should a rebellion occur. Thanks to the Civil Rights, the Progressive Party lost the southern vote, a fact which would return to haunt it in the 1920 election. Despite that fact, the Progressive Party would win Congressional and Presidential elections in 1916. Sparked by election reforms across the world, the American woman voter’s movement gained momentum in the United States, leading to a further Constitutional Amendment being passed in 1917, allowing all women over 18 to vote.
Directly south of the United States, the nation of Mexico faced massive turmoil in the years following the Great War. Between 1905 and 1917, there were over twenty “Presidents of Mexico” and a variety of militarist warlords which held power. When elections were held, they frequently were influenced by the ruling party through fraudulent means of acquiring votes. Unlike in other American republics, reform did not take hold in Mexico and instead, a civil war broke out in 1913 and a multitude of generals proclaimed themselves warlords over large regions of Mexico. In 1916, the warlord Pancho Villa, in an attempt to force the United States to mediate the war, struck across the Rio Grande and attacked several Texan towns.
Pancho Villa’s act outraged the American public and a mere month after the attack, the United States Congress declared war on Mexico. Over a quarter million US soldiers invaded Mexico, easily seizing control of the largest cities and main roads. The warlords, often refusing to work together, would be overrun and destroyed by the American armies piecemeal. By the end of 1917, the final strongholds of the warlords fell to the United States military. The American Congress voted for direct annexation of Mexico, an act which one Senator claimed, “filled the Manifest Destiny denied us in 1847.”
Manifest Destiny aside, the annexation of Mexico presented the United States’ government with an extensive problem. Unlike regions taken by the American government in the past, the nation of Mexico was vastly different in culture, ethnicity, and even religion. Furthermore, rebels and bandits roamed the countryside, threatening stability and peace throughout Mexico and even the southwestern United States. American troops were forced to retaliate frequently and even the taking of hostages was incapable of ending the threat of a full-scale rebellion.
President Roosevelt discovered the solution to rebellion in a meeting of the Tehran Pact in 1917. The ambassador of the nation of Liberia, which had dramatically increased in size since the onset of the Communist War, made a passing reference to manpower shortages within the newly created empire. Further inquires into the situation revealed that though the fledgling republic possessed massive stockpiles of resources and money, the population was at 100% of employment and skilled and unskilled labor were at a high demand. The Treaty of Monrovia was concluded a few days after the Tehran Pact meeting as a solution to both the Mexican problem and the labor issues in Liberia. Under orders of President Roosevelt, the United States Army and Navy nationalized the pitiful remnants of the Mexican merchant marine. Soldiers rounded up entire villages and large portions of the Mexican population, and began shipping them to Africa. Between 1918 and 1924, the American government shipped over 60% of the pre-war Mexican population to Liberia, though government shipping halted in 1925 after the inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt as President.
The international problems caused by the forced Mexican Exodus were considerable for Presidents Roosevelt and Coolidge. The incident was one of the precipitating factors for the collapse of the Tehran Pact as nations within the alliance, particularly Eire and Scotland, denounced the American actions. Canadian nationalists, capitalizing on fear of a similar deportation method in Canada, led a revolt based out of Ottawa. Afraid of a revolt across both Canada and Australia, President Roosevelt immediately called for negotiations with the rebels. The American government agreed to give Canada equal footing in Congress and governmental posts, removing administrators from the south who had been placed in charge. The Canadians were also allowed to retain weapons and militias to protect themselves if the United States reneged on its treaty. Similarly, observers from the rebellion were allowed to monitor all elections to prevent fraud under the provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1915.
In Central America, the period immediately following the Great War was one of reconciliation and consolidation. Guatemala’s military successes in Belize and Honduras led to a further war against San Salvador in 1906. The small nation was easily conquered and annexed by the Guatemalans, and the United Provinces of Central America was proclaimed. From the outset, the UPCA was strictly an expansion of a Guatemalan Empire. The other provinces were given few rights and treated as occupied territories. Under diplomatic pressure by the United States and Mexico, the government of the UPCA was forced to allow voting rights for the occupied territories by 1909. Between 1910 and 1920, reforms within the UPCA by Presidents Gomez and Heuva resulted in the establishment of a true republic. The UPCA would follow their American friends to the north by passing the Total Suffrage bill in 1919, allowing full voting rights for all residents within the nation.
The nation of Nicaragua, following the military skirmishes with the United States in Panama, declared itself the “opposition to American imperialism.” Under military rule since the conquest of Costa Rica, Nicaragua gave extensive support to both the Mexicans and Canadians in their respective crises with the United States. Nicaragua was the first American nation to join the Common Front International in the hopes of affirming international support in a possible war over Panama and the newly constructed Canal. Despite the rhetoric, tensions with the United States would gradually fade from 1910 to 1920 and would turn towards the UPCA. The leaders of Nicaragua quickly turned greedy eyes on the UPCA’s provinces of Honduras and San Salvador. Failed attempts to destabilize the UPCA would result in the 1920-1922 war as a last act of imperial action by Nicaragua. Domestically, Nicaragua was crippled by political in-fighting between the military leaders of the nation. Unemployment was frequently hovering between 20% and 30%, and industrial growth was near nil. The Nicaraguan Socialist led several minor uprisings within the nation, and with the turmoil caused by the Central American War, collapse threatened the nation.
an excerpt from a future, already written section:
The onset of the Third World War was unexpected by many. A tangled web of alliances and diplomacy would eventually lead to the beginnings of a war which would shake the foundations of most of the world. The Congressional Massacre of November, 1936 would be the spark that lit the powder keg of global war. As would come to light many years later, the Massacre was prepared and executed thanks to the influential support of...
The onset of the Third World War was unexpected by many. A tangled web of alliances and diplomacy would eventually lead to the beginnings of a war which would shake the foundations of most of the world. The Congressional Massacre of November, 1936 would be the spark that lit the powder keg of global war. As would come to light many years later, the Massacre was prepared and executed thanks to the influential support of...
jeps
Arcadefire
We will all know in time. Before 2000 EVERYTHING will be known. 
nice chapter.
nice chapter.
TerrisH
Mischief?
yay, my plotting and evil deeds will be revealed at last!
jeps
Arcadefire
I will say that for a while I had a large part of the world convinced. That is all.
The CSA on the other hand, knows we cannot go deeper into this anymore, and temporarily blames the conservative governments of Brazil and Argentina, neither of which exist anymore, for the Massacre, but as the current regimes are different and it is years later holds no grudges.
The CSA on the other hand, knows we cannot go deeper into this anymore, and temporarily blames the conservative governments of Brazil and Argentina, neither of which exist anymore, for the Massacre, but as the current regimes are different and it is years later holds no grudges.
You dont have to stay in character on this thread j_eps. This whole thread is OOC and not binding if it isnt directly a story or part of the background. Feel free to voice your speculations.
jeps
Arcadefire
right, forgot which thread this was.
anyway, the nation with the most to gain from the congressional massacre committed it, regardless of what it got them in the end. and what could it have gotten argentina? i knew what would happen if i tried AGAIN to destabilise the US from inside, especially after that warning I got
so i knew better than to even try.
anyway, the nation with the most to gain from the congressional massacre committed it, regardless of what it got them in the end. and what could it have gotten argentina? i knew what would happen if i tried AGAIN to destabilise the US from inside, especially after that warning I got
so i knew better than to even try.
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