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Settling Accounts As of the beginning of ''Return Engagement'', North America is a continent divided. Canada , minus the independent Republic of Quebec , is under U.S. occupation — which, as the Confederacy re-arms and the U.S. redeploys forces south to meet them, has come to mean occupation by U.S.-allied Québécois soldiers. To the south, Kentucky and northwestern Texas have recently been returned to the Confederacy by popular vote (Sequoyah — Oklahoma — having been flooded by US citizens, and its original Native American inhabitants outnumbered, has voted to stay in the U.S.), but other formerly Confederate territories occupied by the U.S. after the Great War remain '' Unredeemed ''. In total, Virginia north of Fredericksburg has been annexed to West Virginia , a sliver of northeastern Arkansas is attached to Missouri , and a U.S. Salient into the state of Sonora (purchased by the Confederacy along with Chihuahua in 1881) is part of an outsized New Mexico that also contains our current state of Arizona . The U.S. also controls the formerly British island territories of the Sandwich Islands (including Hawaii ), Bermuda and the Bahamas ; Cuba , purchased by the Confederacy in the 1870s , remains Confederate. On an international scale the Britain has reformed itself around conservative Winston Churchill and fascistic "silver Shirts" led by Oswald Mosley . In the wake of another defeat from the hated Germans, the French Third Republic has collapsed under popular support for the hard-line Catholic and monarchistic Action Francais. Both countries are politically allied with the Confederacy, as are Japan (though it openly threatens Pacific European possesstions) and Tsarist Russia (Russia remains Tsarist; as mentioned in the American Empire series, the "Great Man" and the "Man of Steel" are defeated by the Tsar's forces around Tsaritsyn, a.k.a. Stalingrad). The U.S. is allied with the German Empire , the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire , while Quebec stays officially neutral but continues to supply occupation soldiers to the U.S. for now-exclusively-English Canada . Ireland , with some material support from the United States, won its independence from Britain at the end of the Great War, has been invaded by British forces and there now exists a state of guerilla war. On June 22 , 1941 , Confederate dictator Jake Featherston launches the war with a bombing attack on all major U.S. cities within reach of the border, quickly followed by an invasion of Ohio from Kentucky . At home, he continues his campaign of Genocide on the Confederacy's black population. Under Socialist President Al Smith , the U.S. must quickly gear up and attempt to prevent the CSA salient from reaching Lake Erie and dividing the country, though some (risky) lake shipping and the Canadian rail network north of Lake Superior would remain available in that event. Both Confederate and U.S. scientists are aware of the potential for atomic weapons, though one side appears to have an operational edge. In the U.S., Smith must put down yet another Mormon rebellion in Utah , which is surreptitiously aided by the Confederacy just as the U.S. aids black retaliation in the Confederacy. Timeline-191 It follows Turtledove's book '' How Few Remain '' (set in the early 1880s) and trilogies '' Great War '' ( World War I ) and '' American Empire '' ( Interwar Period ). |
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