American Empire: Blood and Iron

2001

The war is over and in the United States the victors have to come to terms with victory as much as those in the CSA has to come to terms with unexpected defeat.

In what had been the Dominion of Canada a new nation had been born - the Republic of Quebec, while the rest of the Dominion lay under the heel of the occupying Americans.

For some this lay hard; one farmer had lost his son, shot as a saboteur, his daughters taught lies about the history of the American revolution and all resolved to keep up the fight against the invaders. Others found life more fun: a Québécois farmer found his daughter marrying an American doctor and being paid an obscene amount for the use of his land.

On the European side of the Atlantic, Britain had been forced out of Ireland, not that this pleased all of the Irish either. And although not occupied, the CSA had lost great swathes of territory and faced ruinous inflation that led to hyperinflation.

Although a victor, this did not leave the US immune to the effects of the Spanish Influenza and industrial unrest as wage rates fell in the face of all the men returning from the war. Teddy Roosevelt's Democratic Party felt that it had earned re-election in the forthcoming Presidential Elections but the Socialists were riding high as they promised to curb the powers of the Bosses and to Do Something for the thousands of wounded.

But now that retribution had been done, can the winning alliance hold itself together in the face of victory?

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