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American Empire Following the Great War , the United States and German Empire are the dominant world powers. The United States has Occupied Canada (less the Republic of Quebec , a U.S. Puppet State ) and Sequoyah ( Oklahoma ), has annexed Kentucky and portions of Texas , Arkansas , Sonora and Virginia , and has placed the rebellious state of Utah under military occupation. Having led the U.S. to victory, Theodore Roosevelt now faces a challenge to his third-term bid by the Socialist candidate Upton Sinclair , and struggles to maintain order in the occupied territories as rebels and terrorists strike. Meanwhile, in a defeated Confederacy wracked by Inflation and despair, a former Confederate Army sergeant named Jake Featherston and his Freedom Party are preaching a message of hate, blaming the southern Aristocracy and the " Nigger s who stabbed us in the back" for the Confederacy's defeat. The European situations mirrors North America: the aging Kaiser Wilhelm II and his victorious Germans fight to hold onto captured Belgium , Alsace-Lorraine , and the Ukraine , and their Vassal State of Poland . The Roman Catholic Fascists of Action Française wish to topple the Third Republic and enthrone Charles XI, while Mosley's Silver Shirts are a growing power in the British Parliament . As the 1920s draw to a close the world economy crashes and the Great Depression begins, paving the way for fanatics and demagogues the world over to seize power. Timeline-191 It is followed by the Settling Accounts tetralogy, of which the first book Return Engagement was published in August 2004. |
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