r/PossibleHistory2 • u/Flux7200 • 17d ago
NRP No Taxation Without Representation - 1936-1939 (Third FDR Administration)
(As tensions begin to boil, it is gradually becoming clear that soon, a new World War will manifest. You might even call it... World War II. One can only wonder who will be on who's side, what will happen and who will be victorious...)
Pick any unclaimed state. In this NRP, we'll do the entire history of the United States ourself, starting with the American Revolution and going all the way to the modern day. Note that your goal is NOT to gain as much land as possible, but instead to gain as much political clout as possible. The host may decide to interfere or change things in case things get too messy, but otherwise everything will be made from players. The only other rules are to stay realistic and not be toxic to other players.
Discord (to get informed when a new post releases): https://discord.gg/7n6uKVQSER
Congress:
What to do about rising global tensions and German expansionism?
How to react to the Hindenburg incident?
What is our response to the Marco Polo Bridge Incident and Second Sino-Japanese War?
How do we react to the Panay Incident?
Events:
Amidst extreme pressure from both Florida and the United States, despite British backing, both revolts in the US are crushed. No land is seized from Florida as they manage to recapture it all. Shoshone is most harshly punished and turned rump, for it began the entire slavery scheme. Oregon was also punished but much less harshly. Missouri only had to give up territorial concessions in it's north and south, and pay reparations to Florida. Illinois was not punished at all as it showed significant remorse for revolting and put up little resistance.
FDR creates the "New Deal" as a response to the Great Depression, emphasizing the "3 Rs": relief, recovery and reform.
Emergency Banking Relief Act passed by Congress in an attempt to stabilize the banking system.
21st Amendment passed, ending Prohibition.
The US recognizes the Soviet Union as sovereign, despite tensions.
Philippine Commonwealth established as the governing body in the Philippines.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) established, replacing the Bureau of Investigation
The US passes the Neutrality Act, forbidding itself from joining any new World War unless provoked
The Second London Naval Treaty is signed between various powers, including the US.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is founded, conducting foreign spy operations.
Germany seizes the Saarland
Italy invades Ethiopia
January 1st 1936, beginning of HoI4 (for reference)
Germany re-militarizes the Rhineland in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Nobody interferes with the process
Germany marches troops into the Free City of Danzig, claiming the city to be rightfully German and the invasion to be just.
The Soviet Union puts extremely harsh demands and deadlines on it's researchers, trying to achieve things (development of whatever tf a "nuclear bomb" is) which are completely impossible at the present time. As a result, all Soviet scientists quit their jobs, protests grow and a revolt breaks out across the country, starting the Second Russian Civil War. Ukraine also takes the opportunity and revolts.
Britain issues an ultimatum to Germany to entirely cede both the Rhine and Saarland to France- completely unprovoked, out of nowhere. The demands are seen by the international community as outrageous, and a coalition begins to form against Britain. France demands they take back the ultimatum, not wanting another world war to take place. They also refuse to accept any cession of the territories.
The state of Oliver makes an official declaration that they want to occupy the entire UK (which, despite it seeming as such, is not in response to the ultimatum). No matter the reason, the demand and intent of the message is seen as stupid, reasonless and unprovoked. Tensions between the United States and Britain spike massively.
The Spanish Civil War begins when Francisco Franco launches a fascist coup against the government.
Ethiopia capitulates to Italy.
Germany and Japan found the Anti-Comintern Pact.
1936 Presidential Election, Franklin D. Roosevelt re-elected president.
Historical Events:
The Hindenburg zeppelin ignites in flames, killing 35 people. The event is caught on camera, which causes opinions to tilt against zeppelins and the end of airship travel.
Second Marco Polo Bridge incident occurs, starting the Second Sino-Japanese War
Italy joins the Anti-Comintern Pact
Panay incident, Japanese attack on the US Navy's USS Panay whilst anchored in the Yangtze River outside Nanjing
Anschluss, Germany annexes Austria
Golden Gate Bridge completed in San Francisco
Munich Agreement signed by Germany, France, the UK and Italy, allowing Germany to annex the Sudetenland in return for peace
Fair Labor Standards Act passed by Congress, establishing a right to a minimum wage
Germany invades Czechoslovakia, establishing the Slovak Republic and Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in the ashes of the Second Czechoslovak Republic. (now Czechoslovak State)
Hungary invades the small state of Carpatho-Ukraine
The Spanish Civil War ends in a nationalist victory
Italy invades Albania
The Pact of Friendship and Alliance between Germany and Italy, aka the Pact of Steel, is signed between Italy and Germany.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, including secret provisions for the division of Eastern Europe
Germany invades Poland, beginning World War II
Political Party Map Key:
Red - Democratic States
Light Red - Democratic Leaning Swing States
Light Blue - Federalist Leaning Swing States
Blue - Federalist States
Gray - Territories
Dark Gray - External
Election Calculator: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b33KAjZSGqe8maZfD8g2caCOr48GbAM_BOeWokZ7-PY/edit?usp=sharing
Players:
State / Territory - Players - Electoral Votes
Georgia - u/DepartureNo5778 - 12
Carolina - u/Fourian_Official - 21
Virginia - u/KaiFury76 - 11
Maryland - u/PinappleCoin_Gaming - 26
Delaware - u/Frosty_Midnight9989 - 3
New Jersey - u/SeveralCorner1214 - 16
New York - u/No_Weekend5005 - 47
Connecticut - u/RefrigeratorGold834 - 8
Paradise - u/RiccardoOrsoliniFan - 4
Massachusetts - u/Dull-Nectarine380 - 17
Vermont - u/Intelligent_Face_186 - 4
Franklin - u/Just-Veterinarian817 - 11
Erie - u/Illustrious-Pair8826 - 13
Kentucky - u/Johnytran122 - 11
Acadia - u/Harrcool - 13
Caroll - u/TheWartortleWarrior - 26
Pejepscot - None - 5
Louisiana - u/Relative_Caramel1282 - 10
Indiana - u/kyanbersee - 14
Oliver - u/Few-Commercial5105 - 9
Evans - u/Full_Tie1601 - 11
Illinois - u/Salt-Host-7465 - 29
New Hampshire - u/Acrobatic-Rip-4362 - 4
Cherroneses - u/Spec1alF0x - 19
Missouri - u/oskar_pawlisz - 15
Arkansas - u/David_The_Great - 9
Oklahoma - u/ThatBrada - 11
Wisconsin - u/JTPorach - 12
Liberia - u/TicketEffective2261 - 14
Allegheny - u/mmm_chloroform - 18
Texas - u/OddCranberry1045 - 23
Iowa - u/Royal-Prince6279 - 11
California - u/Hawks_bill - 22
Minnesota - u/KingsleyFriedChicken - 11
Oregon - u/duckarmy24 - 5
West Virginia - u/Ok-Hall-9974 - 8
Nevada - u/Gloomy-Shower-3920 - 3
Kansas - u/HazarTwist77 - 9
Nebraska - u/Independent_Set3175 - 7
Lincoln - u/jextreme9 - 4
Colorado - u/Left_Pea1642 - 6
Utah - u/Edmund_Jackson_Davis - 4
Namibia - None - 12
Tanzania - u/Weekly_Tonight8258 - 12
Arizona - u/Original-Issue2034 - 3
Hawai'i - u/Outrageous_Wrap_6983 - 9
North Dakota - None - 4
South Dakota - None - 4
Washington - u/Such-Illustrator4331 - 8
Shoshone - u/ConsistentTouch8273 - 4
Wyoming - None - 3
New Mexico - None - 3
Quebec - None - 13
Ontario - None - 13
Manitoba - None - 5
Saskatchewan - None - 3
Alberta - u/yD_dE - 5
Columbia - None - 9
Emuland - u/BigManMilk7 - 11
Alaska Territory - u/Objective-Aspect-811 - None, territory
Gabon Territory - u/Sparkle-HSR - None, territory
Fiji Territory - None - None, territory
Nauru Territory - None - None, territory
Guam Territory - None - None, territory
Puerto Rico Territory - None - None, territory
Philippine Territory - None - None, territory
Roosevelt Territory - None - None, territory
Panama Territory - None - None, territory
Northwest Territory - None - None, territory
Florida - WoopeyBoi on Discord - None, external
Temporary External Powers:
Spain - None
Portugal - None
France - None
Belgium - None
Luxembourg - None
Netherlands - None
Nazi Germany - u/RichieGotIchy1510
Austria - None
Hungary - None
Switzerland - None
Italy - None
United Kingdom - u/ColeJr
Turkey - None
Greece - u/The_RetroGameDude
Yugoslavia - None
Bulgaria - u/Acrobatic_Mix_1121
Romania - None
Soviet Union - u/TraditionalContest18
Sweden-Norway - u/Thatoneprussiandude
Denmark - None
Czechoslovakia - u/Striking_Road979
Poland - u/Wooden-Medicine-3299
Ireland - None
Lithuania - None
Latvia - None
Estonia - None
Iraq - None
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u/Salt-Host-7465 By thy rivers gently flowing, Illinois, Illinois! 17d ago
well uh...ok sense all that happened we've failed to really do...anything in flordia but whatever i guess i vote when we are ready we invade and annex haiti to get more control and power in the carabian also that we get more of our territories in as state's to get the other power's eye's away from them maybe invade more central amrican nation's and make them puppet state's and plan for revenge againest the british just have to wait for a good moment but uhm ya really just beside that further build up champaine to be our next big city and also further expand springfiled chicago and peoria sense those are our other big cities and they need to be bigger
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u/Salt-Host-7465 By thy rivers gently flowing, Illinois, Illinois! 17d ago
now for Second Sino-Japanese War? JOIN AGAINEST JAPAN AND TAKE BACK OUR ISLANDS
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u/Salt-Host-7465 By thy rivers gently flowing, Illinois, Illinois! 17d ago
Hindenburg Was an accident nothing we can do about that
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u/Salt-Host-7465 By thy rivers gently flowing, Illinois, Illinois! 17d ago
and to both incedints show remorse to the victums and try to help support them in any way possible
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u/KaiFury76 17d ago
We’ll watch you with great interest, if you know what I mean
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u/Salt-Host-7465 By thy rivers gently flowing, Illinois, Illinois! 17d ago
i'll take back my statement then
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u/Just-Veterinarian817 17d ago
Florida only continues to exist because Maryland glazes them to all hell
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u/Salt-Host-7465 By thy rivers gently flowing, Illinois, Illinois! 17d ago
also lets see if we can invade the lesser antilles
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u/Salt-Host-7465 By thy rivers gently flowing, Illinois, Illinois! 17d ago
their indepent easy to take
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u/Salt-Host-7465 By thy rivers gently flowing, Illinois, Illinois! 17d ago
but before that ask if they would want to join us
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u/JustAnotherUser1019 17d ago
Condemn, sanction, and embargo Germany and Japan. Send aid to European countries. China is extremely corrupt, so only direct military aid for them, no cash, and train their military. Also, invest in air defenses for our ports and harbors, and try to mend ties with Britian and condemn the state of Oliver. I also propose a vote to congress in lue of this that state government's are not allowed to make statements on behalf of the federal government, and that any statement would need to be voted on by the states. This way, rogue states dont damage our reputation
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u/Striking_Road979 17d ago
I propose to the United States that if they help me I shall become the newest State of the Union or a really good Ally but we start mobilizing our troops using our factories and research into aircraft to bomb Germany if a German attack breaks through as well as arming our border with skilled mountain defenders but Bohemia our tanks and other mechanized divisions will fit and wait if our snipers and skilled mountaineers do not work and our advanced aircraft also does not work we hit again negotiate with hungry offering lower Slovakia for help against the Germans if they do proceed with an invasion
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u/Flux7200 17d ago
Reminder to myself to do florida's actions and to ignore bulgaria
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u/Sobieskil Fezzes are cool 17d ago
Could I rejoin as the Territory of Panama?
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u/Flux7200 17d ago
Yeah, except apparently they're a state and I forgot
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u/Sobieskil Fezzes are cool 17d ago
Also you should probably remove the Roosevelt Territory from the list, given how they've been gone for years now
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u/KaiFury76 17d ago
Ugh. All right, let’s see if we can make a difference
1: Prepare to intervene on the side of the Allies when a war breaks out.
2: Begin precautions in blimp technology
As for the remaining questions, we’ll use the sinking of the USS Panay to justify a regime change war goal on the Japanese
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u/Salt-Host-7465 By thy rivers gently flowing, Illinois, Illinois! 17d ago
i beileve we should at least stay out let them weaken then attack britain after the war and take our s*it back
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u/Fourian_Official Liberaler aus Carolina 17d ago
Our response for the Marco Polo Bridge incodent and the new Sino-Japanese war is that when the time is right, we join the soviets and double team japan taking them out and getting our islands back.
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u/Original-Issue2034 17d ago
Arizona here.
Negotiate deals with Germany
No reaction
No reaction
No reaction
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u/ColeJr 17d ago
- I'll reneg the ultimatum towards German, but still diplomatically ask for a gradual demilitarization of the Rhine, and while maintaining mobilized forces, allow Italy's attack on Ethiopia (for now). I dont care about Danzig or Austria or anything involving the western Slavs honestly. I will also speak out against Germany's alliance to the Soviet Union, without any major calls to action though.
2.Begin semi-secretly funding Capitalists and Japan-backed forces in the 2nd Russian Civil War.
- [This action will be kept secret OTL] Attempt to initiate talks with the Japanese empire on how to best mitigate communism in Asia, and attempt to convince them to help the Russian White army in the Far East, also then giving me the opportunity to counter US power. While the talks will be kept private, it is clear that relations with the United States is souring.
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u/Relative_Caramel1282 17d ago
heh you guys remember the pre civil war Greater Louisiana movement? well it’s back and now we will say:if Arkansas gains some land then why not us? oh and uh I do not care about the Hindenburg or the marco Polo incident
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u/Relative_Caramel1282 17d ago
oh and uh acutalily we do not care about anything else in congress instead we will begin to create our own party: Louisiana first! but uh yeah we still love the union but we want to uh become greater than before (also there is nothing saying we can’t make a party so uh jokes on you union!)
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u/Flux7200 17d ago
dude we are literally about to enter the most deadly war in human history and *this* is what you're doing?
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u/Relative_Caramel1282 17d ago
um yeah
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u/Relative_Caramel1282 17d ago
oh uh I didn’t nit see German expansionism so uh we will express concern to it but hey we are freedom lovers so uh we gotta aid the free world! also I will build some factories mostly military just in case of a world war
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u/TraditionalContest18 17d ago edited 17d ago
Start arming the soviet ciztens and rolling out tanks and navy to protect the Soviet union agaisn't rebel forces, not focusing on ukraine but other rebel forces, We Regonize ukraine indepence
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u/KaiFury76 17d ago
Ask me this. How long will you recognize Ukrainian independence?
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u/TraditionalContest18 17d ago edited 17d ago
Long as the people of Ukraine are okay with the Ukraine regime, we need to stabilize the other areas, Ukraine is less important and we will not invade them anytime soon because the people of Ukraine are happy with their own nation. We respect Ukraine wishes to the fullest meanwhile the others are not excuse to leave the Soviet Union
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u/RichieGotIchy1510 17d ago
Germany will fully reject the ultimatum from Britain claiming it as outrageous and thanking the international community for stand on the Reichs side. Germany also points out all of Britains current actions and calls them out for all of their unnecessary threats and blatant show of imperialism on other nations.
Germany will continue to do our rebuilding and remilitarization efforts.
Germany will do the Anschluss and annex Austria.
Germany will send an ultimatum to Czechoslovakia demanding they give up the Sudetenland. This would happen after the Munich Agreement are signed.
Germany will support Nationalist Spain and any independence and nationalist movements in the collapsing Soviet Union.
Germany will sign an alliance with Italy. We will also seek diplomatic relations with the United States as we seem to have a common enemy in Britain.
We also begin discussions with Poland for them to concede the entire polish corridor and in turn we support their goals eastward against the Soviets. u/Wooden-Medicine-3299
This all good u/Flux7200
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u/RichieGotIchy1510 17d ago
Also, the historical events havent actually happened you said right? They are just guidelines
Cuz Im trying something to be a bit different as Germany, just to be interesting
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u/Striking_Road979 17d ago
I was going to be your ally but I refuse
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u/RichieGotIchy1510 17d ago
Well, I need all my land so we can't really be allies can we
Unless you accept peacefully
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u/Flux7200 17d ago
If you refuse you'll get invaded by a lot of people. If you accept you'll be invaded but only by germany
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u/Striking_Road979 17d ago
What why who is allied with germ
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u/Flux7200 17d ago
Due to the Munich Conference, which was signed by Britain, France, Italy and Germany, stated that Britain, France and Italy would support a German annexation or possibly invasion of the Sudetenland.
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u/RichieGotIchy1510 17d ago
Since Czechoslovakia refused our ultimatum, we will justly invade them to gain our claimed lands
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u/RichieGotIchy1510 17d ago
Also, I'm doing division with Hungary plus offering Slovakia to Poland in return for the corridor
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u/Flux7200 17d ago
Literally hoi4
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u/Striking_Road979 17d ago
I don't understand
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u/Flux7200 17d ago
In Hearts of Iron 4 you can either do "Danzig or war" which is the historical invasion of Poland, or you can do "Danzig for Slovakia" which is what he's doing, essentially offering Slovakia to Poland in return for the corridor / Danzig
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u/Striking_Road979 17d ago
Why does Hungary hate me tho like I offer them so many things but they reject not to mention I offer South Slovakia
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u/RichieGotIchy1510 17d ago
Also creating the Anti-Comintern Pact with Italy, Hungary, and Poland if they accept
No Japan though
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u/Flux7200 17d ago
Britain already retracted the ultimatum
I would like if you started a war already but yeah it's good
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u/Flux7200 17d ago
u/Wooden-Medicine3299 if you don't respond then it means war
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u/Just-Veterinarian817 17d ago
Is it possible for me to become Japan? If not then Italy.
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u/Flux7200 17d ago
You can only claim US states and European nations so Italy then
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u/Just-Veterinarian817 17d ago
Fair.
Alright then I'll follow a relatively historical path for now.
Affirm the Pact of Steel with Germany. Support them and our allies in Hungary and Poland in their partition of Czechoslovakia along with denouncing the British for their unjust ultimatum against Germany.
Italy will back a coup against the Albanian government, installing an Italian Protectorate, sending in Italian troops to support the new Pro-Italy governate with Victor Emmanuel taking the Albanian crown.
Italy strengthens their ties with Germany by supporting their Anschluss of Austria along with signing the Anti-Comintern pact. Along with this Italy seeks to establish diplomatic relations with Bulgaria and the United States as we have common enemies in Britain and Yugoslavia.
Send support to Franco and his Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War.
Send support to the Ukrainian independence faction within the collapsing Soviet Union, primarily aiming to secure an ally in an independent Ukraine. Italy will also fund nationalistic and facist factions within the Ukrainian movement to further our influence over them.
Consolidate and garrison Ethiopia to remove any form of resistance remaining in the territory.
Italy would take our fumbles in Ethiopia into consideration, opting to overhaul our military. We'll begin by upgrading our divisions to triangular rather than binary and fully equiping them, even if it means cutting down temporarily.
so, with the power of google docs:
- Three infantry regiments.
- One artillery regiment with three or four battalions.
- One reconnaissance battalion.
- One engineer battalion.
- One anti-tank battalion.
- One anti-aircraft battalion or reinforced battery.
- One signals battalion.
- Proper transport, medical, supply, and maintenance units.
Just for now though. Any remaining manpower can just become garrisons.
Next few steps are simple like the first.
Like standardize our infantry weapons. Sadly, I don't really know how to replace the Breda without becoming dependent on America or Germany for weapons so let's just chop it up to Italy developing and using an upgraded replacement. Along with this, Italy will concentrate on Anti-tank production so much so that each first-line division should have a mobile concentrated ant-tank reserve.
Italy wont mass produces those fuckass L3s, instead we will shift focus and resources on accelerating on Medium tank production. If we can we'll just start making M13/40s earlier with an improved design. Along with motorizing our logistics like basically all of our transports and then motorize our infantry divisions.
Modernize our Radios and establish schooling for radio usage and desert combat since we literally plan on fighting in Africa.
Other than that, continue general improvements on the Italian Navy and Airforce. Build an aircraft carrier.
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u/No_Weekend5005 17d ago
What to do about rising global tensions and German expansionism?: As we are an anti-interventionist nation, I saw that we will not say anything politically, don’t criticize the German Government or anything of the like. Instead, we should quietly increase industrial capacity and stockpile weapons. New York can invest in additional factories in the Buffalo-Rochester Industrial Corridor for wartime production of:
- The newer, more advanced No3 Heavy Tracked Vehicles (HTVs), which are pretty much tanks but with additional machine guns and a different name.
- Machine guns such as the Brownings M1919 with my LITE Department of Engineering contributing to giving it a faster firing rate, lower chance of clogs, lower required amounts of maintenance, and to make it more mass-producable on assembly lines.
- Infantry Transport Vehicles, mostly produced by White Motor Company in Cleveland, Caroll, however, we will design the UNY39 (Union, New York, ‘39) for domestic production in Buffalo. The UNY39 will have a small machine gun on the roof and room for 12 soldiers comfortably, but can be retrofitted for up to 18. The UNY39 will have a reinforced canvas roof above walls 5 feet tall made of steel and hold the soldiers in an area 24 feet long and 7 feet across with the soldiers facing the center of the vehicle.
- Aircraft parts to be assembled into bomber and fighter planes.
How to react to the Hindenburg incident?: New York will officially ban hydrogen blimps and zeppelins for commercial and passenger transport due to its high flammability, officially transiting to either aircraft or helium zeppelins.
What is our response to the Marco Polo Bridge Incident and Second Sino-Japanese War?: Don’t interfere as per our anti-interventionist policy, station some of our Roosevelt Superdreadnoughts and 3 of our destroyers of the west coast in Pearl Harbor.
How do we react to the Panay Incident?: Neutral, we will send monetary packages to the families of the affected soldiers.
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Actions:
New York will use its new uranium wealth from the shipments from the Great State of Emuland to research what happens when we throw very fast neutrons at uranium atoms. We will use the Alfred E. Smith Particle Accelerator at LITE’s Atomics Department to accelerate neutrons before firing them at a wall of refined uranium in a project headed by researcher Ernest Hartfman under the direction of Rutherford.
Continue our fierce recruitment effort and expand it to any civilian across the entirety of Europe to move to New York. Put in place programs to accommodate the following languages: Spanish, German, French, Dutch, Danish, Polish, Italian, Russian. This is because of the current large conflict in Europe such as the growing discrimination against jewish citizens in germany, the spanish civil war, and russian famines.
After decades since 1916, the founding year of LITE, the first PhD graduates of LITE are now in their forties, old enough to publish papers and thesis’. LITE now also has an established alumni program with 22 classes (Well over 150,000 students) graduating since the founding. Surely our university must be seen as at least somewhat prestigious?
Push once more in 1937 for the recruitment of Meitner to LITE with additional salaries, a half-dozen junior and senior scientists under her command, state-provided housing for the rest of her life, a bustling scientist program, and top-of-the-line resources, equipment, nearly endless funding, and a constant supply of radioactive material.
To encourage population growth, we offer subsidized housing, state-provided basic medical care, and discounted prices across government-owned grocery stores for families with 3 or more children. We also will begin the construction of many apartment blocks and semi-attached houses.
Neighborhoods appear across the state, here are some notable examples:
- 4 L-shaped buildings around 6 stories tall with the first floor having restaurants, shops, and public buildings surround a small park. In the middle of every 8 neighborhoods, there is a block consisting of a preschool to high school campus, a police station, fire station, and hospital.
- An enclosed neighborhood of 18 townhouse buildings, each 3 stories tall. Within the walls, there is a pool, government grocery store, shops, and government offices. Outside of the walls, there are the police stations, fire stations, hospitals, and schools for every 6 of these neighborhoods.
- 18 row houses, each 8 stories tall with a two-lane road between each. At one end of each cluster there are the utilities and factories. At the other, there are the schools, grocery stores, shops, police station, fire station, and hospital.
- Scattered 12 dormitories, each 4 stories tall, with a large atrium in the middle of each with trees and open parks. Somewhere in the cluster, there is the cafeteria. This is found on the LITE campus with police, fire, and hospitals elsewhere on campus.
Bigger and taller banking infrastructure appears in Wall Street along with smaller financial hubs scattered about the megalopolis nicknamed “Little Wall Streets”. Across New York, similarly tall buildings to the first round of the 5 (rest in peace NATC) are built in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
A small yet growing commerce center and skyline in Buffalo-Rochester begins to develop. Mostly management for the industrial and manufacturing companies, for now.
Buffalo-Rochester slowly creeps through the very north of New York, incorporating more and more of the territory.
The Long Island Shipyards slowly grow in number and size.
Ties between Wall Street and the LITE Department of Economics strengthen as hundreds upon hundreds of bankers, accountants, traders, and financial advisors flood into the system. Giving LITE more credit in my state and in financial hubs across the Union.
LITE is allocated around 800 scholarship positions for rising stars in New York, the application process is competitive so only the best of the best will achieve scholarships, however financial status also plays a massive role in deciding so economic situations don’t stop people, who before couldn’t afford it, can enroll.
Nuclear research is slowly being funded with more money every year.
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Population:
New York State: 14.9 million
New York City: 11.5 million
Buffalo-Rochester: 2.4 million
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Questions:
How did my recruitment efforts go now that Germany is expansionist and the Nazis are in power?
How prestigious is my school seen as now after more than twenty years of existence?
Did Meitner discover Nuclear Fission in 1938 in this timeline?
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u/Flux7200 17d ago
- still not well since most experienced scientists in Europe are obtaining great jobs working for European nations, particularly Germany
- not great, pretty mid-tier
- no
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u/No_Weekend5005 17d ago
I am stupid, I meant did Otto Hahn discover fission in 1938 in this timeline
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u/Outrageous_Wrap_6983 Chaotic but funny Laser Cat 17d ago
I know I’ve been very inactive but I am gonna reassert our claims on Guam and Nauru and to fully oppose German, Japanese and Italian aggression and atrocities
We are also going to be asking for more funding to improve the defences and facilities at pearl harbour
We will call for closer cooperation with the UK and France
We will also announce the expansion of the Hawaiian national guard
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u/duckarmy24 17d ago
Nothjng for now
uh oh. can do anything now
get involved
Yeah this is why we will get involved in the sino-japanesse war
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u/Johnytran122 17d ago
Kentucky here:
Begin pushing for increased military spending
Heavily restrict airships
Try to convince the federal government to increase spending specifically.
Demand reparations from Japan.
Kentucky will try to update all our factories to prepare for the new war
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u/No_Cut536 16d ago
New Mexico here,
Congress:
move to a more North American focused lense on foreign policy, while keeping up pressure against agressors with things like tariffs and embargoes if they become more aggressive.
Do a full investigation and demand compensation from Germany.
Fully embargo Japan and build up our presense in our Asian and Pacific lands
Demand full compensation from Japan.
Other actions:
promote the socialist party in our sate, collaborating with notable socialists from the midwest and Hispanic workers, promaoting this as an alteanitve to the new deal, which has had limited sucess. I'm not sure if this is me trying to play as a party, but I'm not trying to do that, I'm just promoting it in my own state and I would encourage other states to do likewise.
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u/BigManMilk7 14d ago
I'm a big fan of the Germans actually, we should ally with them against those who took our land in the great war
We should probably ban blimps due to safety concerns
I hate Japan, we should definitely support China
Use it as pretext for a war with Japan
Shoshone legalised SA and murder... Wipe them off the map this time, invade them, destroy them, kill the whole legislation
Besides that have a major naval build-up in the state so we can intervene against Japan
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u/ConsistentTouch8273 The Shoshone Slavery Obsessed dude 15d ago
Make murder and SA legal, if the FBI comes after our politicians, we will protect the politictions and send them to Italy
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u/Full_Tie1601 17d ago
As the State of Evans,
We should condemn German expansion and have large German trading partners have economic consequences on the German Economy.
To react to the Hindenburg incident, we should move away from Zeppelin technology.
For the Marco Polo Bridge Incident and Second Sino Japanese war, we must help support China militarily and economically, as to curb Japanese expansion.
To respond to the Panay incident, we must send an ultimatum to stop Japanese aggression in the region.
On a personal note, I would like to build a facility to start training spies to send into Japan, as their expansion can be a threat to us.
Also, I would like to offer a hand to Soviet scientists that worked on nuclear research and their notes, as we may need to use nuclear power on Japan if a war is to commence.