The American Monarchy

[Lief 🗽]

I'll do a map of the world after the war is over, as it's almost identical to our own timeline's map pre-war (with the exception of a larger United States and Alaska belonging to the United Kingdom).

[Хahar 🤔]

I'll do a map of the world after the war is over, as it's almost identical to our own timeline's map pre-war (with the exception of a larger United States and Alaska belonging to the United Kingdom).

You said you would have North America soon.

[Lief 🗽]

North America looks the same as it did in our timeline, except that the British have Oregon, Washington and Alaska, and the United States owns present day New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Chihuaha, Sonora, Cuba and parts of Ontario and Quebec.

[Хahar 🤔]

Okay. What happened to the elctions? Have they been cancelled?

[Lief 🗽]

A new election doesn't need to happen until May 1921.

[Person Man]

When does the war end?

[MasterJedi]

My God people, let the man write his story without you guys trying to push him along. And you guys should at least ask questions that aren't answered in the story, not ask questions that will eventually be answered.

[Хahar 🤔]

My God people, let the man write his story without you guys trying to push him along. And you guys should at least ask questions that aren't answered in the story, not ask questions that will eventually be answered.

He doesn't update enough. We're impatient.

[Person Man]

My God people, let the man write his story without you guys trying to push him along. And you guys should at least ask questions that aren't answered in the story, not ask questions that will eventually be answered.

He doesn't update enough. We're impatient.

Yeah!

[MasterJedi]

My God people, let the man write his story without you guys trying to push him along. And you guys should at least ask questions that aren't answered in the story, not ask questions that will eventually be answered.

He doesn't update enough. We're impatient.

Yeah!

Wow, you're complaining when he updates once a week, for those of us that love Harry's TL, he hasn't updated in two years!

[Хahar 🤔]

My God people, let the man write his story without you guys trying to push him along. And you guys should at least ask questions that aren't answered in the story, not ask questions that will eventually be answered.

He doesn't update enough. We're impatient.

Yeah!

Wow, you're complaining when he updates once a week, for those of us that love Harry's TL, he hasn't updated in two years!

We're numb to that. Lief teases us with the occasional update.

[Lief 🗽]

Update on 1919-1920 tonight.

[Хahar 🤔]

I can't wait.

[Robespierre's Jaw]

I can't wait.

[Person Man]

where is it?

[Хahar 🤔]

where is it?

Patience, young Padawan; he's online right now.

[MasterJedi]

where is it?

My god you guys are pathetic about this TL. -_-

[Хahar 🤔]

where is it?

My god you guys are pathetic about this TL. -_-

Start a really good one and we'll be pathetic about that.

[MasterJedi]

where is it?

My god you guys are pathetic about this TL. -_-

Start a really good one and we'll be pathetic about that.

If Lief doesn't update in two years, like Harry, you have rights to bitch, until then, nope!

[Хahar 🤔]

where is it?

My god you guys are pathetic about this TL. -_-

Start a really good one and we'll be pathetic about that.

If Lief doesn't update in two years, like Harry, you have rights to bitch, until then, nope!

I'd like to see you start a TL, if you couldn't get the hint.

[MasterJedi]

where is it?

My god you guys are pathetic about this TL. -_-

Start a really good one and we'll be pathetic about that.

If Lief doesn't update in two years, like Harry, you have rights to bitch, until then, nope!

I'd like to see you start a TL, if you couldn't get the hint.

Yeah, there's this little thing about time, which I don't have that much of so I know the time it takes to do something like this which is one of the reasons I know not to complain about it.

[Хahar 🤔]

where is it?

My god you guys are pathetic about this TL. -_-

Start a really good one and we'll be pathetic about that.

If Lief doesn't update in two years, like Harry, you have rights to bitch, until then, nope!

I'd like to see you start a TL, if you couldn't get the hint.

Yeah, there's this little thing about time, which I don't have that much of so I know the time it takes to do something like this which is one of the reasons I know not to complain about it.

That sucks.

[Lief 🗽]

I'll update in about half an hour. No need to squabble amongst yourselves.

[Хahar 🤔]

I'll update in about half an hour. No need to squabble amongst yourselves.

[Lief 🗽]

The American Monarchy: 1919 - 1920

Germany quickly transferred troops from the Eastern Front to the Western Front, while Austria-Hungary refocused on the Balkans. In late 1918, the Austrians had over-run Serbia, and were now fighting the remains of the Serbian army and Romania. On the Western Front, Germany began the 1919 Spring Offensive in early March, a wide assault across the western front, focusing again on the French town of Verdun. Once again, the French initially held out against the German attackers. However, by this point in the war, morale in both the British and French armies was at an all time low. Mutinies within the French ranks began to slowly occur, while in the major metropolitan cities of France there was wide-spread rioting, as war weariness and a shortage of food and other supplies began to take its toll. In Britain, there was similar unrest, as the situation in Ireland and India began to look increasingly bleak. In April, as bloody battles raged across France, British Prime Minister Asquith was forced to resign. Andrew Bonar Law, leader of the opposition Conservatives, formed a government with support from some anti-Asquith Liberals (led by Winston Churchill, who had resigned from Asquith’s government as First Lord of the Admiralty in December 1917, before the disastrous Battle of the Skagerrak¹). Prime Minister Law began negotiations with the United States on April 23rd and Germany on April 24th.

On April 26th, Germany crossed the Somme, as the British forces fell back in disarray, many units surrendering without a fight, aware that peace negotiations had already begun. At Verdun, news of the British retreat hit French morale particularly hard, and there were bloody mutinies, as French mutineers, loyal French soldiers, and German soldiers became embroiled in a bloody melee. By the second week of May, the Germans had taken Verdun. When the news reached Paris that Verdun had been lost, the city erupted in chaos. Prime Minister Clemenceau and the French government escaped the city. Within a day, communist and working class Parisians had declared a Second Paris Commune (lead by Boris Souvarine), barring French soldiers from entering the city. The leaders of the Commune raided the French National Bank, and there were many incidents of middle-class Parisians being murdered and robbed by the mob. Similar communes were proclaimed throughout the large cities of France, an uprising historians would term the Summer Revolutions. Clemenceau’s government escaped to Orléans, where they immediately got in touch with Germany. On June 3rd, 1919, an armistice was signed between France and Germany, and the Great War came to a close.

Prime Minister Roosevelt indicated that he wanted peace treaty negotiations to occur in a neutral, central location. Roosevelt and the German government eventually agreed on the city of Rome, in Italy (which had remained genuinely neutral throughout the conflict). But the Summer Revolutions in France soon led to similar uprisings throughout Europe. Rioting and strikes engulfed cities throughout Britain, with Soviets declared by striking and unemployed workers in Liverpool and Glasgow. A defeated Russia saw rebellions in Poland and the Ukraine and communist riots in Petrograd and Moscow, as Kerensky’s government became increasingly unstable. In Ireland, British soldiers and the IRC saw increasingly high casualties, as Irish attacks grew bolder and deadlier, and the Irish Republican Army (still supported in large part by American soldiers, but unofficially) had taken control of the major cities on the island. A British assault on Dublin in early May was an abysmal failure, as the Irish (backed-up by German and American weapons) turned the British away after two weeks of urban warfare.

The Rome Peace Conference began on July 4th, 1919. The victorious nations of the Great War were all represented: Theodore Roosevelt (the first sitting Prime Minister to visit Europe) represented the United States, with Chief Political Advisor to King Robert II Woodrow  also attending, as the king himself was too unhealthy to attend; Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg represented Germany, along with General Paul von Hindenburg; Emperor Franz Ferdinand I attended representing Austria-Hungary (though he was often pulled away from the meetings due to instability back home); and Grand Vizier Damat Ferid Pasha represented the Ottoman Empire. Roosevelt and Wilson pushed hard against the German, Austrian and Ottoman delegations, who all wanted heavy reparations and territorial concessions from the defeated Entente. Wilson, meanwhile, with the support of King Robert II, pushed his Ten Points on Roosevelt, which called for:
1)   The abolition of secret treaties.
2)   Freedom of the seas.
3)   Free trade between the nations signing the peace treaty.
4)   A general reduction of armaments and weapons between the nations.
5)   The assured independence of Russia and Belgium.
6)   The establishment of an independent Ireland, free of British influence or control.
7)   The establishment of an independent Poland, free of Russian and German influence, and with access to the Baltic Sea.
8 )   Democratization and greater civil liberties in the nations involved in the treaties.
9)   Greater autonomy for the ethnic minorities of Europe and the Middle-East.
10)   An international association of nations, to enforce peace and encourage prosperity.

Roosevelt supported all ten points, though the other victorious powers were bitterly opposed to a number of them. Germany, now the world’s chief naval power (after the defeat of the British fleet) opposed the second point, and refused to allow a wholly independent Poland or Belgium. Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire were both frightened by the implications of the ninth point, as both had already seen limited rebellions and unrest from the ethnic minorities within their own states.

As the negotiations continued, the British, Russians and French tried to restore some semblance of normality to their countries. In August, the French Army, still ragged and poorly-supplied after the war, attack Paris, in an effort to defeat the Paris Commune. The Commune’s survival for nearly 3 months in the country’s capital had been humiliating for Clemenceau and the nation, and had led to further communist uprisings throughout France. The French government knew that if it did not retake Paris, the entire country could descend into civil war. But the French army was demoralized, and the Paris Commune had taken 3 months to reinforce the city. By the end of August, the Commune was still in control of the city, and the French army was fighting communist forces throughout the country. Prime Minister Clemenceau, still leading the French government in Orléans, reluctantly begged the Germans and Americans for help. Roosevelt and Bethmann Hollweg (still in Rome) agreed to send material aid to the French government, and the German army, still occupying eastern France along the Rhine, moved into Paris, supporting the French government. By late September, the Paris Commune had been defeated, and communist rebels throughout France were mostly defeated by 1920.

In Britain, labor groups throughout the country (from coal miners to railroad workers to dock workers) went on strike, culminating in unrest throughout the country worse than the “Great Unrest” of the early 1910s. Andrew Bonar Law’s Conservative-Independent Liberal government became increasingly weak, to the point that elections were needed in early 1920. British troops in Ireland were also increasingly bloodied, as the Irish populace turned against the harsh anti-revolutionary measures undertaken by the British. This all culminated in a landslide Labour victory in February 1920, giving Ramsay MacDonald (an original opponent of the war) a narrow majority in the House of Commons. MacDonald immediately pursued peace in Ireland. Meanwhile, in Russia, Alexander Kerensky oversaw the Russian Republic’s first democratic elections, resulting in a solid majority for his Socialist Revolution Party (a moderate leftist party). Nonetheless, monarchist revolutionaries and socialist revolutionaries in the Ukraine presented problems to Kerensky’s government.