100 Years: The World Changes
- Thread starter Mr_ Bondoc
- Start date
October 13,1918: Emperor Wilhelm III meets Hugo Eckener at the Zeppelin factory. Soon after another Air Fleet is commissioned to help Germany maintain its large overseas empire.
Here is the second draft of the 1910s:
May 18th, 1910: Earth passes through the tail of Halley's Comet. Charles Taze Russell, head of the "Jehovah's Witnesses" movement commits suicide in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania after proclaiming "the Rapture"...
May 31st, 1910: Emma Goldman is killed in a car accident in Spokane, Washington, sending shockwaves through the labor community.
July 30, 1910: Former President Theodore Roosevelt succumbs to a massive heart attack while visiting family. At the age of fifty-one, the 'Trust-Buster' is out of the picture.
August 1, 1910: President Taft calls for a national day of mourning in remembrance of Theodore Roosevelt.
August 29th, 1910: Korean Emperor Sunjong calls for active resistance to Japanese military rule in Seoul, Korea....
September 2nd, 1910: Koreans rebel against Japanese rule.
December 25th, 1910: The 'Christmas Revolution' begins in Peru and Bolivia. 28 officials killed throughout the day.
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March 12th, 1911: Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili (or Joseph Stalin as he is more commonly known) is found while attempting to escape from his exile in Solvychegodsk, and killed. The junior member of the Okhrana that found him was later killed after he disobeyed orders to simply recapture this man.
May 8th, 1911: Mexican Magonista guerillas launch an attack on San Diego, Califonia, sparking tensions between the United States and Mexico....
May 10th, 1911: Captain Jack Mosby, USMC, leads raid of American troops against Magonista positions in Tijuana, Mexico.
September 27th, 1911: The Italo-Turkish diplomatic crisis is settled in Italian favour by Germany, who is unwilling to see her allies fight. Italy annexes Libya but pays a small monetary compensation to the Ottoman Empire. In turn for the negotiation help, the Ottomans join the Central Powers. Germany signs a defensive pact with the Ottomans, as does Austria.
November 1st, 1911: Nikola Tesla marries Anne Morgan. Financier J.P. Morgan is in attendance.
December 4th, 1911: Inspired by Korean rebels, Li Yuan-hung proclaims the creation of a republic in Beijing, China...
December 30th, 1911: Li Yuan-hung is elected the first President of the Republic of China in Nanjing, sparking international attention...
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January 15th, 1912: The Federal League is founded to counter the monopoly baseball in America by the American and National Leagues. Founded are 8 teams; the Baltimore Terrapins, the Brooklyn Feds, the Buffalo Blues, the Chicago Whales, the Indianapolis Hoosiers, Kansas City Packers, the Pittsburgh Rebels and the St. Louis Terriers. Some credence is also given to the league when star pitcher Walter Johnson signs onto the Whales.
February 12th, 1912: 7-year old Emperor Hsuan T'ung (a.k.a. Pu Yi) is transported by British and Japanese forces to Hong Kong, after refusing to abdicate the throne to Republican forces...
February 13th, 1912: Great Britain, Russia, France, and Japan refuse to diplomatically recognize the Republic of China, calling it a "rebel insurgency". The United States and Germany recognize the state...
March 19th, 1912:Anarchist bomb a brewery in Boston, killing 12.
April 15th, 1912 - The RMS Titanic successfully completes its Maiden Voyage (the Iceberg was spotted early enough and course was corrected)
June 7th, 1912: Nikola Tesla is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on wireless power transmission in Stockholm, Sweden.
August 17th, 1912: A Russian man named Gregori Rasputin immigrates to Japan.
October 14th, 1912: German zepplin airships bomb Sheerness, Kent, sparking calls for resignation of the War Minister...
October 16th, 1912 - Fred Snodgrass easily catches a flyball in Game 8 of the 1912 World Series. The New York Giants defeat the Boston Red Sox 2 to 1.
November 5, 1912: Woodrow Wilson is soundly defeated by the incumbent Taft in the Presidental election of 1912. Also on this day, Franklin Roosevelt is re-elected to his seat in the New York State Senate, despite taking a break from campaigning to work for the failed Presidential bid of Woodrow Wilson. In the years' Congressional election, Democrats hold control of the House, but with reduced majorities, as the Republicans keep control of the Senate. Notably, many members of the nascent Socialist Party take up seats in the House, owing to the strong showing of Eugene V. Debs in the Presidential Election (10.1% of the popular vote).
December 10th, 1912: After an ultimatum, Montenegro, Serbia, Greece and Bulgaria declare war on the Ottoman Empire, certain that their enemies will not intervene.
December 11th, 1912: Germany demands that the Balkan powers cease hostilities. They refuse. Austria-Hungary declares war.
December 12th, 1912: Germany declares war. Russia, knowing that Serbia was the agressor but also knowing that it can't let her allies fall, declares war on the Central Powers. Also on this day, Hearst Newspapers publish sensational stories, reportedly being written by a worker in the American Embassy in Mexico City. These stories raise the tensions between the United States and Mexico. War is now closer then ever before. Also on this day, Anarchists bomb several farms in northern Kansas.
December 14th, 1912: France joins the war on Russia's side.
December 19th, 1912: In trade for a declaration of war on the Entente, Italy receives an influence sphere in Albania and Kosovo, as well as Austrian Trento. Italy declares war on the Entente.
December 20th, 1912: Germany invades Belgium, following the Von Schlieffen Plan. Britain declares war. Japan refuses to join the war, being busy with the Korean revolt. In the Balkans, the Serb advance stalls after conquering Kosovo thanks to having to fight a two-front war.
December 25th, 1912: President Taft secretly contacts the British to plan for a possible arbitration should the United States and Mexico do declare war.
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January 5th 1913: Gregori Rasputin becomes the spiritual advisor for the Emperor of Japan.
January 4th, 1913 - The German's win the Battle of Verdun. Young Charles de Gaulle dies in Battle of Verdun.
January 24th, 1913: Franz Kafka announces the completion of his novel Amerika in Prague, Austria-Hungary....
February 10th, 1913: Military officials in Toronto, Ontario report several German zeppelin airships hovering over the capital, causing riots and civil unrest in both Canada and the United States...
February 14, 1913 - the Valentine's Day raid upon San Diego, California occurs, the Taft administration is hesitant to declare war
February 19th 1913: Adolf Hitler dies in Serbia.
February 22nd, 1913: British naval transport HMS City of Leeds is sunk off the coast of Spurn Point, England...
March 20th, 1913: "September Morn" by Paul Chabas becomes a big hit of the art world in Paris, France.
March 22nd, 1913 - Hearst newspapers call for "A war upon Baja". Less than a week later, a Senate vote is called. The 63rd Congress votes 74 to 22 in favor of a declaration of war upon Mexico's "Baja Peninsula". The Baja War has begun. Also on this day, Pope Pius X dies in the Vatican City, sparking a succession crisis, many people attribute the stress of the war...
April 16th, 1913: the Tesla Dynamic Corporation is founded in New York City.
April 23rd, 1913: Basilio Pompilj (a.k.a. Benedict XV) is named Pope by the College of Cardinals in the Vatican City...
April 26th, 1913: Yuan Shikai, backed by British and Japanese forces, calls for rebellion against the Republican government in Nanjing...
May 4th, 1913: Czarevitsh of Russia Alexei injured and dies from bleeding.
May 9th, 1913: In Poland, nationalist demonstrations erupt in violence demanding autonomy.
June 5th, 1913: In Finland, violence erupts as nationalist demonstrations take place.
June 6th, 1913: Paris falls to the Central Powers.
June 7th, 1913: Emperor Wilhelm II suffers a stroke and dies later that same day.
July 1st, 1913: Korea gains independence from Japan
July 23rd, 1913: Chinese Civil War; Monarchist forces led by Yuan Shikai, and backed by foreign military forces, lay siege to Nanjing....
August 5th 1913: Turning point of the revolution in Peru and Bolivia. Rebels are winning.
September 10th, 1913: The German High Seas Fleet and the British Grand Fleet clash in the biggest Naval Battle since Trafalgar near the Dogger Bank in the North Sea. Superior training and tactics lead to a clear and decisive Victory for the British, loosing three Dreadnoughts, HMS King George V, HMS Vanguard and HMS Orion. The Germans losses are far worse, only SMS Kaiser Wilhelm II is undamaged, and only three other ships of the Battle Line make it back. It is the end of the German Surface Fleet since Emporer Wilhelm III decides that the resources should be put to use in the Army. However Tirpitz and the rest of the SKL hope to rebuild the fleet after the war is won. All ships under construction are scrapped and any guns, if existing, are turned over to the Army Artillery.
September 11th, 1913 - The Revenue Act of 1913, which would implement a federal income tax is not passed by the United States Senate, as a response to the Socialist bloc increasing the income tax rate to levels that Senator Elihu Root (R-NY) called "ludicrously high". Despite the successful passage of the 16th amendment. Republicans blame the Socialist bloc in the House of Representatives. Taft, who supported the tax is now a lame duck president.
November 5th, 1913 - The Battle of Ensenada occurs, approximately 800 American soldiers die in the battle. The Secretary of State warns him about the continuing chaos of the Mexican revolution and privately says to Taft, "The instant we got involved, we made this whole Revolution explode."
November 19th, 1913: President Li Yuan-hung calls for an alliance with Germany and the Central Powers in Nanjing...
December 21st, 1913: French Forces invade Germany in Alsace. German border fortifications hold, and cause heavy losses to the French over the next few weeks, preventing the French advancing more than twenty or thirty miles.
December 25th, 1913: William Randolph Hearst, following his extreme dissatisfaction with the Democrats conduct during the Income Tax debacle, pens an editorial where he announces that he is "switching bandwagons". The support of Hearst newspapers in the 1914 midterm election would prove a valuable tool for the Republican party.
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March 7th, 1914: The British Expeditionary Force lands in France.
March 29th, 1914: The BEF first encounters a German advance force. Accurate and fast Rifle Fire, paired with artillery support allow the British to beat back several German attacks. Even so the BEF is eventually forced to retreat when down south the French 7th Army begins to retreat without prior notification.
April 2nd, 1914: The Inaugural season starts fro the Federal League. After a close season, the Chicago Whales win the League championship over the Indianapolis Hoosiers by a .001 winning percentage. Star Walter Johnson is a great help.
April 11th, 1914 - Japan embarassed by Korea's successful bid for independence and bitter regarding Russia behavior during the incident, decides to exploit an opportunity presented by the war in Europe, and declares war on Russia, while trying to remain neutral in the war in Europe arguing that the war in Asia will not effect the European one. Emperor Taisho declares war upon Russia. The Second Russo-Japanese War has begun.
May 1st, 1914: Emperor Hsuan T'ung is returned to Beijing, under guard by foreign military forces.
May 16th 1914: German Forces reach the Marne.
May 20th 1914: The main German attack towards Paris resumes. The French have rushed whatever forces they can spare to the defence of the Capital, hoping for a miracle on the Marne, but early German troops lead by a young Lieutenant Erwin Rommel of the 6th Württemberg Infantry Regiment force a bridgehead which allows the Infantry to break through and the Cavalry Divisions held back in reserve to roam the French rear areas.
May 24th, 1914: The British Expeditionary Force begins to retreat towards the Channel port of Le Havre once the British realize that Paris might fall and that they are in danger of being cut off. The French complain loudly, but at this time the BEF is most of the British Army in Europe and thus too valuable to risk it's destruction.
June 1st, 1914: The Battle of Paris begins. Civilian and Civil Servants stream out of the city even as French and German forces battle on the approaching roads to Paris.
June 9th, 1914: After the fall of Paris the new Emperor immediately issues orders to stop the ongoing sacking of the Government buildings in Paris. He also issues directives on how the war is to be conducted, including unrestricted Submarine Warfare if things go bad.
June 28th, 1914 - Franz Ferdinand survives an Assasination attempt. The man who tackled Gavrilo to the ground and holding him until police could intervene, Nikolai Wolfgang Neretva a manager at a local bank is awarded a medal by Franz Ferdinand. In later years Neretva would become a prominent voice of support for Austro-Hugarian empire, and a friend of Franz Ferdinand.
June 29th, 1914: The German Emperor visits Paris against the advice of his minders, and publicly states that Paris will be restored to France once the war is over. Quite obviously no one believes him.
June 30th, 1914: Residents of Alta, Norway report several German airships flying over Elvebakken and Bosekap, sparking fears of an expanding Northern Front for the war. Also on this day, the iconic picture of the Emporer at Napoleon's tomb is taken, and in a reversal of History Wilhelm III says that had Napoleon be alive, he wouldn't be here.
July 4th, 1914: The French attack the German forces west of Paris.
July 14th, 1914: German troops under Field Marshal Falkenhein eject the last Russian troops from German and Polish territory. The Germans and the Austro-Hungarians gear up for a new offensive designed to break the Russian Army once and for all in spite of the recent Austrian losses in men.
July 16th, 1914: After twelve days of hard combat both the German and the French Field Armies west of Paris are all but detroyed as fighting forces, but unlike the French, the Germans have something of a reserve to fall back on.
September 6th, 1914: Pope Benedict XV proclaims the war in Europe as "the suicide of civilization" during a mass in Rome, sparking international attention...
November 5th, 1914 - Across the country vicious smear attacks appear against many democrats. Many of the secrets that Hearst editors kept in their files when their boss was a democrat, were now ammunition against the Democrats, following Hearst or as his editors knew him as "the Chief" switch to the Republican party. The Republicans maintain their hold and actual gain ground in the Senate with a margin of 57 to 39. The House Democrats lose 17 seats but the Republicans don't gain those seats either. 207 Democrats, 195 Republicans, 25 Socialists and 8 Independents. One of the few new democrats was House Representative Fiorello Henry La Guardia.
November 21st, 1914: German zeppelin airships bomb Tjolta, Norway, destroying the Skjaervaer Lighthouse, killing 24 people....
December 11th, 1914 - Arthur Zimmerman is fired as Foreign secretary of the German Empire, following Wilhelm III hearing about Zimmerman's plan to ally with Mexico against the United States. The telegraph is never sent.
December 22nd, 1914: German zeppelin airships bomb Morganbladet, Norway, killing 213 people...
December 23rd, 1914: Pope Benedict XV calls for an armistice from both sides of the European conflict, through diplomatic channels and during Christmas Mass....
December 26th, 1914 - German Zeppelins begin bombing runs deep into Russia, prepping for an invasion in April. Following suit many other powers begin constructing their own Air Legions
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January 1st, 1915 - The Japanese land in Port Arthur and Vladivostock, and begin moving North, cutting off the Trans-Siberian Railway, crippling Russian Logistics in this theater.
January 12th, 1915 - Italian troops besiege the city of Marseilles, France. Italian supply lines have been stretched to their limit following an effective trench defensive strategy by the French, and bad weather delaying German Zeppelins.
January 15th, 1915: Lateran Treaty; Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli, on behalf of Pope Benedict XV, announces a political agreement with the Italian state after negotiating the successful release of c. 20,000 POWs, granting broad political powers to Vatican officials...
February 1st, 1915 - Wilhelm III, seeks to end this war of his father. Germany now controls about half of France and has ejected all Russian troops from Poland. He seeks to end the war in Europe. He wants an accord with Britain, reparations from France, and a demilitarized zone in Western Russia.
February 5th, 1915 - Under the cover of darkness the German ambassador meets with British officials in Copenhagen, to begin talks of an armistice. Considering that the British control the Seas, but Germany controls both France and have effectively defeated the Russians. The German ambassador states during the meeting, "Mr Ambassador, the German Empire has no desire to make an enemy out of Great Britain. You have proven your supremacy on the high seas, and his majesty Wilhelm II wants to reach an accord to end the war with Britain. Any accord would require your neutrality regarding France, but considering the last time Europe was at war, Napoleon dared to attack your shores. Leave France to their fate and there shall be peace in our time."
February 8th, 1915: Birth of a Nation released by director D.W. Griffith. Many see the film as a call for resistance against "Republican tyranny" in Hollywood, California...
February 12th, 1915 - Tsar Nicholas II is assassinated. Okhrana uses the assassination as an excuse to round up dissidents and political opponents. Lenin,Trotsky and others flee Russia for Britain. There is no clear line of succession and Okhrana places Nicholas daughter Tatiana as Tatiana I of Russia (Grand Duchess Olga, Tatiana's older sister had gone missing while tending to wounded on the frontlines. Rumors abound about her capture by either Austro-Hungary or Germany). Lenin, Trotsky and 2 other Bolsheviks elude the Okhrana and flee Russia.
March 12th, 1915: Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg is assigned to command ground forces against Japan, at Vladivostok...
March 14th, 1915: President Li Yuan-hung calls for the cessation of diplomatic relations with Great Britain and France...
April 4th, 1915: To start of the entire baseball season, the Chicago Whales play the 1914 World Series winning Boston Braves. In a tense game, Walter Johnson pitches a 3 hitter while Whales batter Dutch Zwilling gets a 3 run rare out of the ball park home run to win 3-0. The game helps boast Federal League attendance.
June 9, 1915: Future President Lester "Les Paul" W. Polfuss is born.
July 1st-6th, 1915: East St. Louis Riots; Federal troops are ordered into East Saint Louis, Missouri after race riots spread across the city...
July 12th, 1915: Bisbee Massacre; Local vigilantes burn the Mexican-American town of Bisbee, Arizona after rumors of a "Mexican fifth column"...
July 25th, 1915: Future President Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. is born.
July 28th-29th, 1915; Harlem Riots; Race riots erupt in Harlem, New York after rumors that African-Americans are aiding Mexican forces...
August 10, 1915 - Dr. Ernest Manchester (a nobody in OTL) of Florida attests that for most therapeutic purposes, marijuana can be an appropriate substitute for alcohol.
August 14th, 1915: Chinese Congress declares war against Great Britain, France, and Japan....
August 17th, 1915: Jewish factory owner Leo Frank is lynched in Atlanta, Georgia over the alleged murder and rape of Mary Phagan. Lynch mob members place the sign "Moneybagger" is hung on Frank's neck...
August 27, 1915 - General Pershing's house in the San Francisco Presidio burns down. Fortunately Pershing's wife and three sons survive the blaze unharmed, although his son Warren was heavily scarred.
September 17th, 1915: Local vigilantes attack the town of Hermanas, New Mexico, amidst rumors of the rape of a white woman...
October 9th, 1915: The Brooklyn Feds start batter Benny Kauff goes head to head with Walter Johnson, with Kauff winning the competition by ending a shut out with a walk-off-in-the-park-grand-slam to clinch the last game of the season for the Feds, giving them the best win record and thus the championship of the league.
October 14th, 1915: The Philadelphia Phillies beat the Boston Red Sox in a close series, claiming the title for the Phillies in there first World Series win.
December 3rd, 1915: The Supreme Court rules in favor of the Federal League in its charges of violating the Sherman anti-trust act against the National and American Leagues.
December 20, 1915: French Resistance Leader Jacques laCroix is killed. His lieutenant 31 year old Henri Fortescue begins to undertake the task of the Defense of Toulouse. With fighting in the streets he is able to halt the Italian last ditch attempt to take the city before the Vatican Conference. Hailed as a hero in France following the Vatican treaty. After the war takes up his old editor job in Paris, penning many editorials about the "Betrayal of the British" and being "under the boot of the Central Powers".
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January 5, 1916: Wilhelm III asks Pope Benedict XV to hold the Vatican Peace Conference. Lloyd George of Britain, Wilhelm III of Germany, Mehmed VI of the Ottoman Empire, Giovanni Giolitti of Italy, Franz Ferdinand of Austro-Hungary and Clemeanceau of France. The issue is to negotiate an end to the war.
Britain who had throughly trounced the German Navy, and had already gotten much out of the war (the supremacy of the Royal Navy). Seeks to somewhat stymy the German War Machine, and a restoration of France.
France is exhausted. Its Trench strategy has failed following the Germans use of Air bombardments. They have lost Paris, and are bitterly entrenched in Toulouse.
Germany's monarch Wilhelm III, seeks to end this war, he requires reparations from France, the Alsace Lorraine, and a demilitarized zone between Verdun and the German border.
Austro-Hungary is attending to support Germany in these negotiations. They seek reparations from France considering their support of the Italian army
Italy thanks to the German Air Fleet, was able to drive the French all the way back to Toulouse. They seek a demilitarized zone as well from the 45 parallel south, and East of Marseilles.
At the conclusion of the conference, Clemeanceau is supremely displeased with the peace that France had to agree to. Britain had abandoned them in his eyes to Germany and Italy. The great French Colonial Empire, save Algeria had been divvied up amongst the powers attending the Vatican Conference. But in the end he had to pen his name to the Vatican treaty. Thankfully Lloyd George had negotiated with Wilhelm III and gotten reduced reparations. France will be restored but without Alsace-Lorraine, and with two large DMZs.
Wilhelm III earned the title "Peacemaker of Europe" and now that the Western war was complete, he could focus on peace on the Eastern Front.
January 7th, 1916: William E. "Pussyfoot" Johnson, head of the Anti-Saloon League, advocates marijuana as a replacement for alchohol
January 15, 1916 - Smedley Butler, and a division of Marines land in Veracruz. Their mission is to March to Mexico City, and force a surrender, much like in the First Mexican American War. Along their march they encounter an envoy from Venustiano Carranza de la Garza and his Constitutional Army. Butler and Carranza meet and agree to what would be known as the Veracruz Accords. After the Installation of Carranza in Mexico City, he would cede Baja to the United States, and he would have the support of the American military. Time would tell if this would come to pass. President Taft hoped an end to the war so that at least he would be remembered as something other then failing to be Teddy Roosevelt's successor.
February 11th, 1916: With the Western Front winding down, Germany and Austria focus on Russia.
March 11th, 1916 - Butler reaches Mexico City, and Carranza is installed as President of Mexico. The Accords of Veracruz were followed, much to dismay of the Mexican citizenry.
March 17th, 1916: Faced with a losing war on two fronts, the Russian army revolts.
April 4th, 1916: As the new baseball season starts the Federal League uses there leverage to get all 8 teams into the American and National Leagues. The influx of teams though results in the need for the movement of teams. As a result, many of the ex-Federal League teams move, south especially. At the start of the season, the new MLB set-up is as follows (Italics representing ex-Federal teams):
American League
- New York Yankees
- Boston Red Sox
- Chicago White Sox
- Cleavland Indians
- Detroit Tigers
- St. Louis Browns
- Philadelphia Athletics
- Washington Senators
- Chattanooga Rebels
- Kansas City Packers
- Chicago Whales
- Atlanta Feds
National League
- Chicago Cubs
- Boston Braves
- New York Giants
- Philadelphia Phillies
- Pittsburgh Pirates
- Cincinnati Reds
- Brooklyn Robins
- St. Louis Cardinals
- Baltimore Orioles (changed from Terrapins)
- Indianapolis Hoosiers
- New Orleans Blues
- Charleston Terriers
April 9th, 1916: As a condition of the Vatican Treaty, all foreign debts that the Ottomans owed to France were forgiven. With the freeing of capital the Ottomans are reinvigorated as a power and go about stabilizing their fractured empire. They begin to make plans to strike down the al Saud family, who were leading an insurgence in Riyadh.
April 19th, 1916: "Spectric" Art Movement is established by Emanuel Morgan and Anne Knish in New York City, New York.
May 1st, 1916: Nikolai Bukharin declares the United Russian Soviet Republic. He sends peace feelers to the Germans and Japanese.
June 1st, 1916 - the USAS Ticonderoga, the first Bombardment Airship of the United States is completed. the USAS Lexington and Concord, follow 2 months later as aircraft carrier. All other powers follow suit.
June 2nd, 1916: Treaty of Warsaw. Germany establishes satellite kingdoms in Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Belarus. Japan establishes a puppet regime in the Russian Far East called Primorsk. Russian influence over the Far East is ended.
June 4th, 1916: Aleskandr Kerensky launches a coup against Bukharin, starting the Russian Civil War.
June 10th, 1916 - the Republican National Convention convenes in Chicago. After several rounds of voting they decide upon Charles Evan Hughes and as his running mate Robert M. LaFollette. Hearst himself now sits on the Republican National Committee, he wanted LaFollette to be the Presidental candidate and Hughes as Vice President, but was unable to get the other committee members to do so.
June 15th, 1916 - The German Empire, fresh from its victory in the Great European War finds itself with both a huge continental and overseas empire. In order to achieve fiscal security. They sell the Northern half of the former French colony of Indochina to Japan.
June 16th, 1916 - Leon Trotsky moves to Finland. Also on this day, the Democratic National Convention convenes in St. Louis. After only two rounds of voting they decide upon: William McAdoo, the Assistant to the President of the Central Bank of the United States. The running mate was selected to be James M. Cox.
July 4th, 1916 - The New York Times pens an article about how all the candidates seem to be chasing Teddy's ghost for an endorsement.
July 4th, 1916 - Tesla's company, Tesla Dynamic lights up the city of New York with its first Wireless Power Station Antenna in Brooklyn. Thomas Edison upon hearing the news had a heart attack. The Wizard of Menlo Park had died at the age of 69.
August 10th, 1916 - A bomb is detonated in San Francisco, killing 38 people and injuring 120 others. The bomb was detonated, outside of the Hearst Newspaper building. The next day all Hearst papers carry the harrowing tale across the country. Hearst himself is eager to blame the Socialists.
August 20th, 1916 - the American Air Fleet is deployed to Veracruz.
October 15th, 1916: After a fierce, close season, the National League Pennant Winners, the Brooklyn Robins, are narrowly beaten 4-3 in the 7th game of the World Series by the American League Pennant winners, the Chicago Whales. The win gives the now expanded MLB a source of excitement. The snub starts one of the most heated inter-league rivalries as well.
October 30th, 1916: Count Yoshimichi Hasegawa warns the Emperor in Tokyo, that as "gaijin", Grigori Rasputin can't be trusted...
November 8th, 1916: Surprising the Republican party, William McAdoo is elected to become the 28th President of the United States. A democrat is in the White House after nearly 20 years of Republican supremacy. Socialist candidate Victor Berger takes 12% of the vote running on an anti-war platform. He manages to tip both the state of Nevada and the state of Oklahoma to the Socialists in the electoral college.
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January 30th, 1917: The Italian delegation arrives in Paris to bid on the "Louvre Auction", a condition that France was forced to sign at the Vatican. The rich and wealthy from around the globe attend. Hearst gets the winning bid on the Mona Lisa. Italy gets about 70% of the Leonardos back, and roughly 30% of Napoleon's plunder back. The German Royal Family wins many bids, using the plundered treasures as powerful gifts to engender goodwill amongst nations. The Smithsonian Institute also attends. A French mob descends upon the Louvre, in an attempt to save many French treasures. It is considered one of the great museum losses of history. As many treasures are lost. In the end about a third of the items on the auction block were taken by the French mob. Leonardo da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks is missing. The Venus de Milo was saved by a young corporal in the Italian army by the name of Benito Mussolini and is given a commendation and promotion to Sergente.
February 2, 1917: Henri Fortescue pens a highly inflamatory editorial, which blames the "Louvre Defilement" on the foreign powers of "The traitors in Britain, the German Empire, Austro-Hungary, and the United States." Curiously he forgot to include the Japanese and the Ottomans in his article.
April 6th, 1917: The baseball season starts again. 1916 World Champions the Chicago Whales are heavily favored.
May 4th, 1917: Tiananmen Square Massacre; Anti-Japanese riots erupt in Beijing, as student leaders demand Japanese withdrawal from Shangdong province, killing c.3,000 Chinese demonstrators...
May 10th-October 1st, 1917; Red Hot Summer of 1917; Race riots, targetting African-Americans and Mexican-Americans, erupt in Charleston, South Carolina; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Baltimore, Maryland; Washington D.C.; Norfolk, Virginia; New Orleans, Louisiana; Chicago, Illinois; New York City, New York; and Omaha, Nebraska...
May 29, 1917: John F. Kennedy dies in infancy.
June 27th, 1917: Annapolis Riots; African-American naval recruits are lynched outside the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland...
August 5th, 1917: Nikola Tesla unveils "radionics" tracking system for the U.S. Army at Wardenclyffe, New York....
September 23rd, 1917: The Chicago White Sox lose the American League Pennant to their crosstown rivals, the Chicago Whales. It seems the new team has a shot at a second consecutive World Series win.
September 30th, 1917: Elaine Massacre; 285 African-Americans are lynched and killed Philips County, Arkansas after 1,000 African-Americans call for wages from share-cropping...
October 10th, 1917: The favored Chicago Whales win the first 3 games of the World Series against the National League Pennant winning Philadelphia Phillies. But, in a close shutout game, in the bottom of the ninth with 1 out and a man on third, Phillies Shortstop Dave Bancroft hits a bloop ball into right field that Whales fielder Les Mann misjudges due to glare. The ball lands and allows 2nd baseman Bert Niehoff to get home. The walkoff hit turns the tide of the series, and the Phillies make a comeback, winning the next 3 games and the series.
October 31st, 1917 - Soon to be known as the October Revolution plunges Finland into a civil war against the German puppet government.
November 16th, 1917 - Wilhelm III now finds Germany stretched to its limit and "grants" Finland independence.
Novemeber 20th, 1917- Future President Robert Byrd born. Also on this day, Finland renames itself the The People's Republic of Finland.
November 22nd, 1917: The Treaty of Berlin is signed between Belgium and Germany. In exchange for some minor border adjustmens and trade agreements in Africa, the Belgians are not turned into a sattelite state as per pre-war plans. This is partially done because the Emporer does not want even more territory that needs to be held down and partly to better relations with the British.
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January 1st, 1918: The British Prime Minister makes a speech in the House of Commons, saying that Britain came out of the war ahead, achieved all it's war aims and even enlarged the British Empire, and can thus count it as a victory in spite of the French defeat. This and the French reaction to it spark international attention. Also on this day, Germany signs a trade agreement with Korea. Also on this day, Battle of Berbera; Forces loyal to Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (a.k.a. "the Mad Mullah") launch a sneak attack on British forces encamped at Berbera, Somalia...
January 22nd, 1918: The Emporer refuses to accept a motion of electoral reform that would not only grant universal suffrage for all Germans over the age of 21 be they male of female. Even though female suffrage is granted in mid 1919, the rest of the motion will remain an issue of discontent between the Reichstag and the Throne.
January 28th, 1918: Forces loyal to Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (a.k.a. "the Mad Mullah" seize the strategic towns of Jideli and Hassan, Somalia...
March 18th, 1918: Los Angeles Bombing; 7 people killed in a bombing linked to Ricardo Flores Magón in Los Angeles, California, sparking international attention...
April 1st, 1918: The baseball season starts off on April Fool's day. The New York Yankees make a splash by beating the Boston Red Sox in the season opener, which many take as a joke.
July 9th, 1918: Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill is court-martialed for his military failures against Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (a.k.a. "the Mad Mullah") in London, England...
August 13th, 1918: William Randolph Hearst visits Nikola Tesla at the Tesla Dynamic building in South Manhattan. He pitches the idea for a magazine and would like for Tesla to be a contributing writer, talking about his latest experiments and what not. Tesla agrees provided a few conditions. The periodical Popular Mechanics is reforged by Hearst into Popular Electric, where Tesla contributes a column each month, and writes 4 articles a year.
September 5th, 1918: John Maynard Keynes visits the United States. While there he visits President McAdoo, Robert Marion La Follette. While on his way back North he meets Nikola Tesla, Herbert Hoover. Keynes also speaks at Coloumbia about "the foreign debt crisis" and how a financial catactrophe can be averted.
September 29th, 1918: Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo, for "betrayal of the Yamato people"...
October 9th, 1918: The New York Giants defeat the Boston Red Sox in the 1918 World Series.
October 13th,1918: Emperor Wilhelm III meets Hugo Eckener at the Zeppelin factory. Soon after another Air Fleet is commissioned to help Germany maintain its large overseas empire.
November 5th, 1918: Franklin Roosevelt is elected President of the New York State Senate in Albany, New York thanks to the votes of both Socialists and Democrats in that chamber. Also on this day, Governor Geoffrey Francis Archer blames the failure of British forces in Somalia due to inadequate air power, calling for a stronger "Air Legion"....
December 5th, 1918: Nikola Tesla perfects his long range wireless set.
December 6th 1918: The People's Parliament of Finland passes the new constitution, drafted mainly by O.W. Kuusinen. In effect, Finland is now a Parliamentary Socialist Democracy, with a socialized command economy. Bourgeois parties have been suspended from representation in parliament since the previous year. There are malcontents to the new order, though...
December 21st, 1918: Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (a.k.a. "The Mad Mullah") seizes control of Mogadishu, Somalia, despite heavy resistance by British forces...
December 31st, 1918: The emperor of Japan dies. With debate over who should take the throne, a civil war begins with the poor and members of the newly annexed territories favoring Rasputin and the rich favoring an aristocrat.
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January 1st, 1919- Prince Hirohito (18yo) and Prince Chichibu (16yo) call for the execution of Grigori Rasputin as "defiance to Yamato people" during a speech in the imperial capital in Kyoto...
January 5th, 1919: Warsaw Rebellion; Polish nationalists Marian Januszajtis-Żegota and Prince Eustachy Sapieha launch a failed coup in Warsaw, Poland in an effort to drive out German occupation forces...
March 13th, 1919: Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg is proclaimed warlord over Mongolia at Ulan Bator, sparking international attention...
March 15th, 1919: Eugene V. Debs lets it be known that he will again seek the Presidential nomination of the Socialist Party while serving time for speaking out against American involvement in Mexico.
April 1st 1919: Prohibition comes into effect in Finland.
May 1st, 1919: May Day Rebellion; Gustav Landauer leads military rebellion in Berlin, Germany sparking concern about national stability...
May 1st, 1919: A. Mitchell Palmer, the U.S. Attorney General, J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis are killed in a series of anarchist bombings in Washington D.C.,....
May 2nd, 1919: Following the loss of his Attorney General, President McAdoo calls for a national day of mourning. He asks the Director of the FBI to put his best man on the case. A young J. Edgar Hoover is given the task of tracking down these anarchists and bringing them to justice.
May 5, 1919: The Socialist Party officially condemns anarchist violence in a statement issued by the party's legislative leader, Victor Berger. Revolutionary elements within the SPA begin agitating against the reformist trend of the SPA, and talk of forming a separate party...
May 30th-31st, 1919: Tulsa Race Riots; Race riots against African-Americans erupt in the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma, leaving c.10,000 people homeless...
June 15th, 1919: Wilhelm III works out Tesla wireless agreements with the major powers. There is now a direct line of comunication to the leaders of the following nations: Great Britain, German Empire, Austro-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, and the United States. Due to internal chaos in Russia, no line is established, Japan's wireless line will be ready in June 1920.
August 2nd- August 19th 1919: The Ålands Crisis. Following a long diplomatic row between the People's Republic of Finland and Sweden regarding the ownership of the Åland islands, violence breaks out in Mariehamn between a local militia and Red Guards from the mainland. Citing the security of the local inhabitants and their pleas for help, the Swedish make a landfall and take control of the islands, easily defeating and disarming the outnumbered Finnish Red Guards. A declaration of war is considered in Helsinki, when the German government announces its support for the Swedish claim on the islands. The Finnish Socialist government, protesting loudly but seeing its position untenable, backs down and grudgingly accepts the de facto Swedish occupation. The crisis casts a long shadow into Swedish-Finnish relations, whereas in Finland the situation pushes the hardline Red Guard leaders and the Socialist political leadership into open confrontation.
August 6th, 1919: István Friedrich launches a failed coup against the Hapsburg Dynasty in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, sparking concerns of the polical instability of the country...
August 12th, 1919: "Showa Restoration" proclaimed by P.M. Saitō Makoto, claiming that Rasputin as a "gaijin" must be executed in Tokyo....
September 4th, 1919-Venezelan President Hernando Domico declares himself President for life.
September 9th, 1919: General C.G.E. Mannerheim dislike about losing of Aland and passive eastern politic of government of Finland. He begin create army and start military coup.
September 12th, 1919: Finnish rebellions occupy cities of Oulu and Vaasa. Government of Finland send army against general Mannerheim.
October 1st, 1919: After the election of a 77% majority Social-Democrat Reichstag, Emporer Wilhelm III refuses to make the new majority leader Phillip Scheidemann the Chancellor. This is just the latest in a series clashes between the Reichstag and the Emporer over just who rules Germany. The Reichstag desires a solution similar to Great Britain, while the Emporer wants to retain what powers he still has.
October 15th, 1919-Julius Martov is exiled when he and his freind Vladimir Lenin start the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, or in short the RSDLP.
November 4th, 1919-Julius Martov makes it out of Siberia, his freind Vladimir dosent.From there he leaves to Argentina where he starts the Venezuela Socialist Party, which works in small groups.
November 11th, 1919: A young Ronald Reagan is asked by his 3rd grade teacher, to fill in for young Philip Hammond in writing an article for the school paper. This would be the first of many articles written by Ronald Reagan in his long journalistic career.
November 25th - December 15th, 1919: First Battle of Seinäjoki. The Finnish government forces and Mannerheim's rebels (dubbed "the Blues") meet in a first major battle. While the Blue forces are pushed back, the government army under Red Guards commander Ali Aaltonen is not able to break the rebellion by mid-December. As Aaltonen decides to wait for reinforcements from Tampere, both sides settle into defensive positions.
December 12, 1919: A student at the Peking University, checks out the works of Marx and Engels, and never returns them. As a result a young librarian named Mao will never read them.
May 18th, 1910: Earth passes through the tail of Halley's Comet. Charles Taze Russell, head of the "Jehovah's Witnesses" movement commits suicide in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania after proclaiming "the Rapture"...
May 31st, 1910: Emma Goldman is killed in a car accident in Spokane, Washington, sending shockwaves through the labor community.
July 30, 1910: Former President Theodore Roosevelt succumbs to a massive heart attack while visiting family. At the age of fifty-one, the 'Trust-Buster' is out of the picture.
August 1, 1910: President Taft calls for a national day of mourning in remembrance of Theodore Roosevelt.
August 29th, 1910: Korean Emperor Sunjong calls for active resistance to Japanese military rule in Seoul, Korea....
September 2nd, 1910: Koreans rebel against Japanese rule.
December 25th, 1910: The 'Christmas Revolution' begins in Peru and Bolivia. 28 officials killed throughout the day.
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March 12th, 1911: Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili (or Joseph Stalin as he is more commonly known) is found while attempting to escape from his exile in Solvychegodsk, and killed. The junior member of the Okhrana that found him was later killed after he disobeyed orders to simply recapture this man.
May 8th, 1911: Mexican Magonista guerillas launch an attack on San Diego, Califonia, sparking tensions between the United States and Mexico....
May 10th, 1911: Captain Jack Mosby, USMC, leads raid of American troops against Magonista positions in Tijuana, Mexico.
September 27th, 1911: The Italo-Turkish diplomatic crisis is settled in Italian favour by Germany, who is unwilling to see her allies fight. Italy annexes Libya but pays a small monetary compensation to the Ottoman Empire. In turn for the negotiation help, the Ottomans join the Central Powers. Germany signs a defensive pact with the Ottomans, as does Austria.
November 1st, 1911: Nikola Tesla marries Anne Morgan. Financier J.P. Morgan is in attendance.
December 4th, 1911: Inspired by Korean rebels, Li Yuan-hung proclaims the creation of a republic in Beijing, China...
December 30th, 1911: Li Yuan-hung is elected the first President of the Republic of China in Nanjing, sparking international attention...
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January 15th, 1912: The Federal League is founded to counter the monopoly baseball in America by the American and National Leagues. Founded are 8 teams; the Baltimore Terrapins, the Brooklyn Feds, the Buffalo Blues, the Chicago Whales, the Indianapolis Hoosiers, Kansas City Packers, the Pittsburgh Rebels and the St. Louis Terriers. Some credence is also given to the league when star pitcher Walter Johnson signs onto the Whales.
February 12th, 1912: 7-year old Emperor Hsuan T'ung (a.k.a. Pu Yi) is transported by British and Japanese forces to Hong Kong, after refusing to abdicate the throne to Republican forces...
February 13th, 1912: Great Britain, Russia, France, and Japan refuse to diplomatically recognize the Republic of China, calling it a "rebel insurgency". The United States and Germany recognize the state...
March 19th, 1912:Anarchist bomb a brewery in Boston, killing 12.
April 15th, 1912 - The RMS Titanic successfully completes its Maiden Voyage (the Iceberg was spotted early enough and course was corrected)
June 7th, 1912: Nikola Tesla is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on wireless power transmission in Stockholm, Sweden.
August 17th, 1912: A Russian man named Gregori Rasputin immigrates to Japan.
October 14th, 1912: German zepplin airships bomb Sheerness, Kent, sparking calls for resignation of the War Minister...
October 16th, 1912 - Fred Snodgrass easily catches a flyball in Game 8 of the 1912 World Series. The New York Giants defeat the Boston Red Sox 2 to 1.
November 5, 1912: Woodrow Wilson is soundly defeated by the incumbent Taft in the Presidental election of 1912. Also on this day, Franklin Roosevelt is re-elected to his seat in the New York State Senate, despite taking a break from campaigning to work for the failed Presidential bid of Woodrow Wilson. In the years' Congressional election, Democrats hold control of the House, but with reduced majorities, as the Republicans keep control of the Senate. Notably, many members of the nascent Socialist Party take up seats in the House, owing to the strong showing of Eugene V. Debs in the Presidential Election (10.1% of the popular vote).
December 10th, 1912: After an ultimatum, Montenegro, Serbia, Greece and Bulgaria declare war on the Ottoman Empire, certain that their enemies will not intervene.
December 11th, 1912: Germany demands that the Balkan powers cease hostilities. They refuse. Austria-Hungary declares war.
December 12th, 1912: Germany declares war. Russia, knowing that Serbia was the agressor but also knowing that it can't let her allies fall, declares war on the Central Powers. Also on this day, Hearst Newspapers publish sensational stories, reportedly being written by a worker in the American Embassy in Mexico City. These stories raise the tensions between the United States and Mexico. War is now closer then ever before. Also on this day, Anarchists bomb several farms in northern Kansas.
December 14th, 1912: France joins the war on Russia's side.
December 19th, 1912: In trade for a declaration of war on the Entente, Italy receives an influence sphere in Albania and Kosovo, as well as Austrian Trento. Italy declares war on the Entente.
December 20th, 1912: Germany invades Belgium, following the Von Schlieffen Plan. Britain declares war. Japan refuses to join the war, being busy with the Korean revolt. In the Balkans, the Serb advance stalls after conquering Kosovo thanks to having to fight a two-front war.
December 25th, 1912: President Taft secretly contacts the British to plan for a possible arbitration should the United States and Mexico do declare war.
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January 5th 1913: Gregori Rasputin becomes the spiritual advisor for the Emperor of Japan.
January 4th, 1913 - The German's win the Battle of Verdun. Young Charles de Gaulle dies in Battle of Verdun.
January 24th, 1913: Franz Kafka announces the completion of his novel Amerika in Prague, Austria-Hungary....
February 10th, 1913: Military officials in Toronto, Ontario report several German zeppelin airships hovering over the capital, causing riots and civil unrest in both Canada and the United States...
February 14, 1913 - the Valentine's Day raid upon San Diego, California occurs, the Taft administration is hesitant to declare war
February 19th 1913: Adolf Hitler dies in Serbia.
February 22nd, 1913: British naval transport HMS City of Leeds is sunk off the coast of Spurn Point, England...
March 20th, 1913: "September Morn" by Paul Chabas becomes a big hit of the art world in Paris, France.
March 22nd, 1913 - Hearst newspapers call for "A war upon Baja". Less than a week later, a Senate vote is called. The 63rd Congress votes 74 to 22 in favor of a declaration of war upon Mexico's "Baja Peninsula". The Baja War has begun. Also on this day, Pope Pius X dies in the Vatican City, sparking a succession crisis, many people attribute the stress of the war...
April 16th, 1913: the Tesla Dynamic Corporation is founded in New York City.
April 23rd, 1913: Basilio Pompilj (a.k.a. Benedict XV) is named Pope by the College of Cardinals in the Vatican City...
April 26th, 1913: Yuan Shikai, backed by British and Japanese forces, calls for rebellion against the Republican government in Nanjing...
May 4th, 1913: Czarevitsh of Russia Alexei injured and dies from bleeding.
May 9th, 1913: In Poland, nationalist demonstrations erupt in violence demanding autonomy.
June 5th, 1913: In Finland, violence erupts as nationalist demonstrations take place.
June 6th, 1913: Paris falls to the Central Powers.
June 7th, 1913: Emperor Wilhelm II suffers a stroke and dies later that same day.
July 1st, 1913: Korea gains independence from Japan
July 23rd, 1913: Chinese Civil War; Monarchist forces led by Yuan Shikai, and backed by foreign military forces, lay siege to Nanjing....
August 5th 1913: Turning point of the revolution in Peru and Bolivia. Rebels are winning.
September 10th, 1913: The German High Seas Fleet and the British Grand Fleet clash in the biggest Naval Battle since Trafalgar near the Dogger Bank in the North Sea. Superior training and tactics lead to a clear and decisive Victory for the British, loosing three Dreadnoughts, HMS King George V, HMS Vanguard and HMS Orion. The Germans losses are far worse, only SMS Kaiser Wilhelm II is undamaged, and only three other ships of the Battle Line make it back. It is the end of the German Surface Fleet since Emporer Wilhelm III decides that the resources should be put to use in the Army. However Tirpitz and the rest of the SKL hope to rebuild the fleet after the war is won. All ships under construction are scrapped and any guns, if existing, are turned over to the Army Artillery.
September 11th, 1913 - The Revenue Act of 1913, which would implement a federal income tax is not passed by the United States Senate, as a response to the Socialist bloc increasing the income tax rate to levels that Senator Elihu Root (R-NY) called "ludicrously high". Despite the successful passage of the 16th amendment. Republicans blame the Socialist bloc in the House of Representatives. Taft, who supported the tax is now a lame duck president.
November 5th, 1913 - The Battle of Ensenada occurs, approximately 800 American soldiers die in the battle. The Secretary of State warns him about the continuing chaos of the Mexican revolution and privately says to Taft, "The instant we got involved, we made this whole Revolution explode."
November 19th, 1913: President Li Yuan-hung calls for an alliance with Germany and the Central Powers in Nanjing...
December 21st, 1913: French Forces invade Germany in Alsace. German border fortifications hold, and cause heavy losses to the French over the next few weeks, preventing the French advancing more than twenty or thirty miles.
December 25th, 1913: William Randolph Hearst, following his extreme dissatisfaction with the Democrats conduct during the Income Tax debacle, pens an editorial where he announces that he is "switching bandwagons". The support of Hearst newspapers in the 1914 midterm election would prove a valuable tool for the Republican party.
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March 7th, 1914: The British Expeditionary Force lands in France.
March 29th, 1914: The BEF first encounters a German advance force. Accurate and fast Rifle Fire, paired with artillery support allow the British to beat back several German attacks. Even so the BEF is eventually forced to retreat when down south the French 7th Army begins to retreat without prior notification.
April 2nd, 1914: The Inaugural season starts fro the Federal League. After a close season, the Chicago Whales win the League championship over the Indianapolis Hoosiers by a .001 winning percentage. Star Walter Johnson is a great help.
April 11th, 1914 - Japan embarassed by Korea's successful bid for independence and bitter regarding Russia behavior during the incident, decides to exploit an opportunity presented by the war in Europe, and declares war on Russia, while trying to remain neutral in the war in Europe arguing that the war in Asia will not effect the European one. Emperor Taisho declares war upon Russia. The Second Russo-Japanese War has begun.
May 1st, 1914: Emperor Hsuan T'ung is returned to Beijing, under guard by foreign military forces.
May 16th 1914: German Forces reach the Marne.
May 20th 1914: The main German attack towards Paris resumes. The French have rushed whatever forces they can spare to the defence of the Capital, hoping for a miracle on the Marne, but early German troops lead by a young Lieutenant Erwin Rommel of the 6th Württemberg Infantry Regiment force a bridgehead which allows the Infantry to break through and the Cavalry Divisions held back in reserve to roam the French rear areas.
May 24th, 1914: The British Expeditionary Force begins to retreat towards the Channel port of Le Havre once the British realize that Paris might fall and that they are in danger of being cut off. The French complain loudly, but at this time the BEF is most of the British Army in Europe and thus too valuable to risk it's destruction.
June 1st, 1914: The Battle of Paris begins. Civilian and Civil Servants stream out of the city even as French and German forces battle on the approaching roads to Paris.
June 9th, 1914: After the fall of Paris the new Emperor immediately issues orders to stop the ongoing sacking of the Government buildings in Paris. He also issues directives on how the war is to be conducted, including unrestricted Submarine Warfare if things go bad.
June 28th, 1914 - Franz Ferdinand survives an Assasination attempt. The man who tackled Gavrilo to the ground and holding him until police could intervene, Nikolai Wolfgang Neretva a manager at a local bank is awarded a medal by Franz Ferdinand. In later years Neretva would become a prominent voice of support for Austro-Hugarian empire, and a friend of Franz Ferdinand.
June 29th, 1914: The German Emperor visits Paris against the advice of his minders, and publicly states that Paris will be restored to France once the war is over. Quite obviously no one believes him.
June 30th, 1914: Residents of Alta, Norway report several German airships flying over Elvebakken and Bosekap, sparking fears of an expanding Northern Front for the war. Also on this day, the iconic picture of the Emporer at Napoleon's tomb is taken, and in a reversal of History Wilhelm III says that had Napoleon be alive, he wouldn't be here.
July 4th, 1914: The French attack the German forces west of Paris.
July 14th, 1914: German troops under Field Marshal Falkenhein eject the last Russian troops from German and Polish territory. The Germans and the Austro-Hungarians gear up for a new offensive designed to break the Russian Army once and for all in spite of the recent Austrian losses in men.
July 16th, 1914: After twelve days of hard combat both the German and the French Field Armies west of Paris are all but detroyed as fighting forces, but unlike the French, the Germans have something of a reserve to fall back on.
September 6th, 1914: Pope Benedict XV proclaims the war in Europe as "the suicide of civilization" during a mass in Rome, sparking international attention...
November 5th, 1914 - Across the country vicious smear attacks appear against many democrats. Many of the secrets that Hearst editors kept in their files when their boss was a democrat, were now ammunition against the Democrats, following Hearst or as his editors knew him as "the Chief" switch to the Republican party. The Republicans maintain their hold and actual gain ground in the Senate with a margin of 57 to 39. The House Democrats lose 17 seats but the Republicans don't gain those seats either. 207 Democrats, 195 Republicans, 25 Socialists and 8 Independents. One of the few new democrats was House Representative Fiorello Henry La Guardia.
November 21st, 1914: German zeppelin airships bomb Tjolta, Norway, destroying the Skjaervaer Lighthouse, killing 24 people....
December 11th, 1914 - Arthur Zimmerman is fired as Foreign secretary of the German Empire, following Wilhelm III hearing about Zimmerman's plan to ally with Mexico against the United States. The telegraph is never sent.
December 22nd, 1914: German zeppelin airships bomb Morganbladet, Norway, killing 213 people...
December 23rd, 1914: Pope Benedict XV calls for an armistice from both sides of the European conflict, through diplomatic channels and during Christmas Mass....
December 26th, 1914 - German Zeppelins begin bombing runs deep into Russia, prepping for an invasion in April. Following suit many other powers begin constructing their own Air Legions
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January 1st, 1915 - The Japanese land in Port Arthur and Vladivostock, and begin moving North, cutting off the Trans-Siberian Railway, crippling Russian Logistics in this theater.
January 12th, 1915 - Italian troops besiege the city of Marseilles, France. Italian supply lines have been stretched to their limit following an effective trench defensive strategy by the French, and bad weather delaying German Zeppelins.
January 15th, 1915: Lateran Treaty; Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli, on behalf of Pope Benedict XV, announces a political agreement with the Italian state after negotiating the successful release of c. 20,000 POWs, granting broad political powers to Vatican officials...
February 1st, 1915 - Wilhelm III, seeks to end this war of his father. Germany now controls about half of France and has ejected all Russian troops from Poland. He seeks to end the war in Europe. He wants an accord with Britain, reparations from France, and a demilitarized zone in Western Russia.
February 5th, 1915 - Under the cover of darkness the German ambassador meets with British officials in Copenhagen, to begin talks of an armistice. Considering that the British control the Seas, but Germany controls both France and have effectively defeated the Russians. The German ambassador states during the meeting, "Mr Ambassador, the German Empire has no desire to make an enemy out of Great Britain. You have proven your supremacy on the high seas, and his majesty Wilhelm II wants to reach an accord to end the war with Britain. Any accord would require your neutrality regarding France, but considering the last time Europe was at war, Napoleon dared to attack your shores. Leave France to their fate and there shall be peace in our time."
February 8th, 1915: Birth of a Nation released by director D.W. Griffith. Many see the film as a call for resistance against "Republican tyranny" in Hollywood, California...
February 12th, 1915 - Tsar Nicholas II is assassinated. Okhrana uses the assassination as an excuse to round up dissidents and political opponents. Lenin,Trotsky and others flee Russia for Britain. There is no clear line of succession and Okhrana places Nicholas daughter Tatiana as Tatiana I of Russia (Grand Duchess Olga, Tatiana's older sister had gone missing while tending to wounded on the frontlines. Rumors abound about her capture by either Austro-Hungary or Germany). Lenin, Trotsky and 2 other Bolsheviks elude the Okhrana and flee Russia.
March 12th, 1915: Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg is assigned to command ground forces against Japan, at Vladivostok...
March 14th, 1915: President Li Yuan-hung calls for the cessation of diplomatic relations with Great Britain and France...
April 4th, 1915: To start of the entire baseball season, the Chicago Whales play the 1914 World Series winning Boston Braves. In a tense game, Walter Johnson pitches a 3 hitter while Whales batter Dutch Zwilling gets a 3 run rare out of the ball park home run to win 3-0. The game helps boast Federal League attendance.
June 9, 1915: Future President Lester "Les Paul" W. Polfuss is born.
July 1st-6th, 1915: East St. Louis Riots; Federal troops are ordered into East Saint Louis, Missouri after race riots spread across the city...
July 12th, 1915: Bisbee Massacre; Local vigilantes burn the Mexican-American town of Bisbee, Arizona after rumors of a "Mexican fifth column"...
July 25th, 1915: Future President Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. is born.
July 28th-29th, 1915; Harlem Riots; Race riots erupt in Harlem, New York after rumors that African-Americans are aiding Mexican forces...
August 10, 1915 - Dr. Ernest Manchester (a nobody in OTL) of Florida attests that for most therapeutic purposes, marijuana can be an appropriate substitute for alcohol.
August 14th, 1915: Chinese Congress declares war against Great Britain, France, and Japan....
August 17th, 1915: Jewish factory owner Leo Frank is lynched in Atlanta, Georgia over the alleged murder and rape of Mary Phagan. Lynch mob members place the sign "Moneybagger" is hung on Frank's neck...
August 27, 1915 - General Pershing's house in the San Francisco Presidio burns down. Fortunately Pershing's wife and three sons survive the blaze unharmed, although his son Warren was heavily scarred.
September 17th, 1915: Local vigilantes attack the town of Hermanas, New Mexico, amidst rumors of the rape of a white woman...
October 9th, 1915: The Brooklyn Feds start batter Benny Kauff goes head to head with Walter Johnson, with Kauff winning the competition by ending a shut out with a walk-off-in-the-park-grand-slam to clinch the last game of the season for the Feds, giving them the best win record and thus the championship of the league.
October 14th, 1915: The Philadelphia Phillies beat the Boston Red Sox in a close series, claiming the title for the Phillies in there first World Series win.
December 3rd, 1915: The Supreme Court rules in favor of the Federal League in its charges of violating the Sherman anti-trust act against the National and American Leagues.
December 20, 1915: French Resistance Leader Jacques laCroix is killed. His lieutenant 31 year old Henri Fortescue begins to undertake the task of the Defense of Toulouse. With fighting in the streets he is able to halt the Italian last ditch attempt to take the city before the Vatican Conference. Hailed as a hero in France following the Vatican treaty. After the war takes up his old editor job in Paris, penning many editorials about the "Betrayal of the British" and being "under the boot of the Central Powers".
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January 5, 1916: Wilhelm III asks Pope Benedict XV to hold the Vatican Peace Conference. Lloyd George of Britain, Wilhelm III of Germany, Mehmed VI of the Ottoman Empire, Giovanni Giolitti of Italy, Franz Ferdinand of Austro-Hungary and Clemeanceau of France. The issue is to negotiate an end to the war.
Britain who had throughly trounced the German Navy, and had already gotten much out of the war (the supremacy of the Royal Navy). Seeks to somewhat stymy the German War Machine, and a restoration of France.
France is exhausted. Its Trench strategy has failed following the Germans use of Air bombardments. They have lost Paris, and are bitterly entrenched in Toulouse.
Germany's monarch Wilhelm III, seeks to end this war, he requires reparations from France, the Alsace Lorraine, and a demilitarized zone between Verdun and the German border.
Austro-Hungary is attending to support Germany in these negotiations. They seek reparations from France considering their support of the Italian army
Italy thanks to the German Air Fleet, was able to drive the French all the way back to Toulouse. They seek a demilitarized zone as well from the 45 parallel south, and East of Marseilles.
At the conclusion of the conference, Clemeanceau is supremely displeased with the peace that France had to agree to. Britain had abandoned them in his eyes to Germany and Italy. The great French Colonial Empire, save Algeria had been divvied up amongst the powers attending the Vatican Conference. But in the end he had to pen his name to the Vatican treaty. Thankfully Lloyd George had negotiated with Wilhelm III and gotten reduced reparations. France will be restored but without Alsace-Lorraine, and with two large DMZs.
Wilhelm III earned the title "Peacemaker of Europe" and now that the Western war was complete, he could focus on peace on the Eastern Front.
January 7th, 1916: William E. "Pussyfoot" Johnson, head of the Anti-Saloon League, advocates marijuana as a replacement for alchohol
January 15, 1916 - Smedley Butler, and a division of Marines land in Veracruz. Their mission is to March to Mexico City, and force a surrender, much like in the First Mexican American War. Along their march they encounter an envoy from Venustiano Carranza de la Garza and his Constitutional Army. Butler and Carranza meet and agree to what would be known as the Veracruz Accords. After the Installation of Carranza in Mexico City, he would cede Baja to the United States, and he would have the support of the American military. Time would tell if this would come to pass. President Taft hoped an end to the war so that at least he would be remembered as something other then failing to be Teddy Roosevelt's successor.
February 11th, 1916: With the Western Front winding down, Germany and Austria focus on Russia.
March 11th, 1916 - Butler reaches Mexico City, and Carranza is installed as President of Mexico. The Accords of Veracruz were followed, much to dismay of the Mexican citizenry.
March 17th, 1916: Faced with a losing war on two fronts, the Russian army revolts.
April 4th, 1916: As the new baseball season starts the Federal League uses there leverage to get all 8 teams into the American and National Leagues. The influx of teams though results in the need for the movement of teams. As a result, many of the ex-Federal League teams move, south especially. At the start of the season, the new MLB set-up is as follows (Italics representing ex-Federal teams):
American League
- New York Yankees
- Boston Red Sox
- Chicago White Sox
- Cleavland Indians
- Detroit Tigers
- St. Louis Browns
- Philadelphia Athletics
- Washington Senators
- Chattanooga Rebels
- Kansas City Packers
- Chicago Whales
- Atlanta Feds
National League
- Chicago Cubs
- Boston Braves
- New York Giants
- Philadelphia Phillies
- Pittsburgh Pirates
- Cincinnati Reds
- Brooklyn Robins
- St. Louis Cardinals
- Baltimore Orioles (changed from Terrapins)
- Indianapolis Hoosiers
- New Orleans Blues
- Charleston Terriers
April 9th, 1916: As a condition of the Vatican Treaty, all foreign debts that the Ottomans owed to France were forgiven. With the freeing of capital the Ottomans are reinvigorated as a power and go about stabilizing their fractured empire. They begin to make plans to strike down the al Saud family, who were leading an insurgence in Riyadh.
April 19th, 1916: "Spectric" Art Movement is established by Emanuel Morgan and Anne Knish in New York City, New York.
May 1st, 1916: Nikolai Bukharin declares the United Russian Soviet Republic. He sends peace feelers to the Germans and Japanese.
June 1st, 1916 - the USAS Ticonderoga, the first Bombardment Airship of the United States is completed. the USAS Lexington and Concord, follow 2 months later as aircraft carrier. All other powers follow suit.
June 2nd, 1916: Treaty of Warsaw. Germany establishes satellite kingdoms in Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Belarus. Japan establishes a puppet regime in the Russian Far East called Primorsk. Russian influence over the Far East is ended.
June 4th, 1916: Aleskandr Kerensky launches a coup against Bukharin, starting the Russian Civil War.
June 10th, 1916 - the Republican National Convention convenes in Chicago. After several rounds of voting they decide upon Charles Evan Hughes and as his running mate Robert M. LaFollette. Hearst himself now sits on the Republican National Committee, he wanted LaFollette to be the Presidental candidate and Hughes as Vice President, but was unable to get the other committee members to do so.
June 15th, 1916 - The German Empire, fresh from its victory in the Great European War finds itself with both a huge continental and overseas empire. In order to achieve fiscal security. They sell the Northern half of the former French colony of Indochina to Japan.
June 16th, 1916 - Leon Trotsky moves to Finland. Also on this day, the Democratic National Convention convenes in St. Louis. After only two rounds of voting they decide upon: William McAdoo, the Assistant to the President of the Central Bank of the United States. The running mate was selected to be James M. Cox.
July 4th, 1916 - The New York Times pens an article about how all the candidates seem to be chasing Teddy's ghost for an endorsement.
July 4th, 1916 - Tesla's company, Tesla Dynamic lights up the city of New York with its first Wireless Power Station Antenna in Brooklyn. Thomas Edison upon hearing the news had a heart attack. The Wizard of Menlo Park had died at the age of 69.
August 10th, 1916 - A bomb is detonated in San Francisco, killing 38 people and injuring 120 others. The bomb was detonated, outside of the Hearst Newspaper building. The next day all Hearst papers carry the harrowing tale across the country. Hearst himself is eager to blame the Socialists.
August 20th, 1916 - the American Air Fleet is deployed to Veracruz.
October 15th, 1916: After a fierce, close season, the National League Pennant Winners, the Brooklyn Robins, are narrowly beaten 4-3 in the 7th game of the World Series by the American League Pennant winners, the Chicago Whales. The win gives the now expanded MLB a source of excitement. The snub starts one of the most heated inter-league rivalries as well.
October 30th, 1916: Count Yoshimichi Hasegawa warns the Emperor in Tokyo, that as "gaijin", Grigori Rasputin can't be trusted...
November 8th, 1916: Surprising the Republican party, William McAdoo is elected to become the 28th President of the United States. A democrat is in the White House after nearly 20 years of Republican supremacy. Socialist candidate Victor Berger takes 12% of the vote running on an anti-war platform. He manages to tip both the state of Nevada and the state of Oklahoma to the Socialists in the electoral college.
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January 30th, 1917: The Italian delegation arrives in Paris to bid on the "Louvre Auction", a condition that France was forced to sign at the Vatican. The rich and wealthy from around the globe attend. Hearst gets the winning bid on the Mona Lisa. Italy gets about 70% of the Leonardos back, and roughly 30% of Napoleon's plunder back. The German Royal Family wins many bids, using the plundered treasures as powerful gifts to engender goodwill amongst nations. The Smithsonian Institute also attends. A French mob descends upon the Louvre, in an attempt to save many French treasures. It is considered one of the great museum losses of history. As many treasures are lost. In the end about a third of the items on the auction block were taken by the French mob. Leonardo da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks is missing. The Venus de Milo was saved by a young corporal in the Italian army by the name of Benito Mussolini and is given a commendation and promotion to Sergente.
February 2, 1917: Henri Fortescue pens a highly inflamatory editorial, which blames the "Louvre Defilement" on the foreign powers of "The traitors in Britain, the German Empire, Austro-Hungary, and the United States." Curiously he forgot to include the Japanese and the Ottomans in his article.
April 6th, 1917: The baseball season starts again. 1916 World Champions the Chicago Whales are heavily favored.
May 4th, 1917: Tiananmen Square Massacre; Anti-Japanese riots erupt in Beijing, as student leaders demand Japanese withdrawal from Shangdong province, killing c.3,000 Chinese demonstrators...
May 10th-October 1st, 1917; Red Hot Summer of 1917; Race riots, targetting African-Americans and Mexican-Americans, erupt in Charleston, South Carolina; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Baltimore, Maryland; Washington D.C.; Norfolk, Virginia; New Orleans, Louisiana; Chicago, Illinois; New York City, New York; and Omaha, Nebraska...
May 29, 1917: John F. Kennedy dies in infancy.
June 27th, 1917: Annapolis Riots; African-American naval recruits are lynched outside the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland...
August 5th, 1917: Nikola Tesla unveils "radionics" tracking system for the U.S. Army at Wardenclyffe, New York....
September 23rd, 1917: The Chicago White Sox lose the American League Pennant to their crosstown rivals, the Chicago Whales. It seems the new team has a shot at a second consecutive World Series win.
September 30th, 1917: Elaine Massacre; 285 African-Americans are lynched and killed Philips County, Arkansas after 1,000 African-Americans call for wages from share-cropping...
October 10th, 1917: The favored Chicago Whales win the first 3 games of the World Series against the National League Pennant winning Philadelphia Phillies. But, in a close shutout game, in the bottom of the ninth with 1 out and a man on third, Phillies Shortstop Dave Bancroft hits a bloop ball into right field that Whales fielder Les Mann misjudges due to glare. The ball lands and allows 2nd baseman Bert Niehoff to get home. The walkoff hit turns the tide of the series, and the Phillies make a comeback, winning the next 3 games and the series.
October 31st, 1917 - Soon to be known as the October Revolution plunges Finland into a civil war against the German puppet government.
November 16th, 1917 - Wilhelm III now finds Germany stretched to its limit and "grants" Finland independence.
Novemeber 20th, 1917- Future President Robert Byrd born. Also on this day, Finland renames itself the The People's Republic of Finland.
November 22nd, 1917: The Treaty of Berlin is signed between Belgium and Germany. In exchange for some minor border adjustmens and trade agreements in Africa, the Belgians are not turned into a sattelite state as per pre-war plans. This is partially done because the Emporer does not want even more territory that needs to be held down and partly to better relations with the British.
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January 1st, 1918: The British Prime Minister makes a speech in the House of Commons, saying that Britain came out of the war ahead, achieved all it's war aims and even enlarged the British Empire, and can thus count it as a victory in spite of the French defeat. This and the French reaction to it spark international attention. Also on this day, Germany signs a trade agreement with Korea. Also on this day, Battle of Berbera; Forces loyal to Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (a.k.a. "the Mad Mullah") launch a sneak attack on British forces encamped at Berbera, Somalia...
January 22nd, 1918: The Emporer refuses to accept a motion of electoral reform that would not only grant universal suffrage for all Germans over the age of 21 be they male of female. Even though female suffrage is granted in mid 1919, the rest of the motion will remain an issue of discontent between the Reichstag and the Throne.
January 28th, 1918: Forces loyal to Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (a.k.a. "the Mad Mullah" seize the strategic towns of Jideli and Hassan, Somalia...
March 18th, 1918: Los Angeles Bombing; 7 people killed in a bombing linked to Ricardo Flores Magón in Los Angeles, California, sparking international attention...
April 1st, 1918: The baseball season starts off on April Fool's day. The New York Yankees make a splash by beating the Boston Red Sox in the season opener, which many take as a joke.
July 9th, 1918: Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill is court-martialed for his military failures against Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (a.k.a. "the Mad Mullah") in London, England...
August 13th, 1918: William Randolph Hearst visits Nikola Tesla at the Tesla Dynamic building in South Manhattan. He pitches the idea for a magazine and would like for Tesla to be a contributing writer, talking about his latest experiments and what not. Tesla agrees provided a few conditions. The periodical Popular Mechanics is reforged by Hearst into Popular Electric, where Tesla contributes a column each month, and writes 4 articles a year.
September 5th, 1918: John Maynard Keynes visits the United States. While there he visits President McAdoo, Robert Marion La Follette. While on his way back North he meets Nikola Tesla, Herbert Hoover. Keynes also speaks at Coloumbia about "the foreign debt crisis" and how a financial catactrophe can be averted.
September 29th, 1918: Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo, for "betrayal of the Yamato people"...
October 9th, 1918: The New York Giants defeat the Boston Red Sox in the 1918 World Series.
October 13th,1918: Emperor Wilhelm III meets Hugo Eckener at the Zeppelin factory. Soon after another Air Fleet is commissioned to help Germany maintain its large overseas empire.
November 5th, 1918: Franklin Roosevelt is elected President of the New York State Senate in Albany, New York thanks to the votes of both Socialists and Democrats in that chamber. Also on this day, Governor Geoffrey Francis Archer blames the failure of British forces in Somalia due to inadequate air power, calling for a stronger "Air Legion"....
December 5th, 1918: Nikola Tesla perfects his long range wireless set.
December 6th 1918: The People's Parliament of Finland passes the new constitution, drafted mainly by O.W. Kuusinen. In effect, Finland is now a Parliamentary Socialist Democracy, with a socialized command economy. Bourgeois parties have been suspended from representation in parliament since the previous year. There are malcontents to the new order, though...
December 21st, 1918: Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (a.k.a. "The Mad Mullah") seizes control of Mogadishu, Somalia, despite heavy resistance by British forces...
December 31st, 1918: The emperor of Japan dies. With debate over who should take the throne, a civil war begins with the poor and members of the newly annexed territories favoring Rasputin and the rich favoring an aristocrat.
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January 1st, 1919- Prince Hirohito (18yo) and Prince Chichibu (16yo) call for the execution of Grigori Rasputin as "defiance to Yamato people" during a speech in the imperial capital in Kyoto...
January 5th, 1919: Warsaw Rebellion; Polish nationalists Marian Januszajtis-Żegota and Prince Eustachy Sapieha launch a failed coup in Warsaw, Poland in an effort to drive out German occupation forces...
March 13th, 1919: Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg is proclaimed warlord over Mongolia at Ulan Bator, sparking international attention...
March 15th, 1919: Eugene V. Debs lets it be known that he will again seek the Presidential nomination of the Socialist Party while serving time for speaking out against American involvement in Mexico.
April 1st 1919: Prohibition comes into effect in Finland.
May 1st, 1919: May Day Rebellion; Gustav Landauer leads military rebellion in Berlin, Germany sparking concern about national stability...
May 1st, 1919: A. Mitchell Palmer, the U.S. Attorney General, J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis are killed in a series of anarchist bombings in Washington D.C.,....
May 2nd, 1919: Following the loss of his Attorney General, President McAdoo calls for a national day of mourning. He asks the Director of the FBI to put his best man on the case. A young J. Edgar Hoover is given the task of tracking down these anarchists and bringing them to justice.
May 5, 1919: The Socialist Party officially condemns anarchist violence in a statement issued by the party's legislative leader, Victor Berger. Revolutionary elements within the SPA begin agitating against the reformist trend of the SPA, and talk of forming a separate party...
May 30th-31st, 1919: Tulsa Race Riots; Race riots against African-Americans erupt in the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma, leaving c.10,000 people homeless...
June 15th, 1919: Wilhelm III works out Tesla wireless agreements with the major powers. There is now a direct line of comunication to the leaders of the following nations: Great Britain, German Empire, Austro-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, and the United States. Due to internal chaos in Russia, no line is established, Japan's wireless line will be ready in June 1920.
August 2nd- August 19th 1919: The Ålands Crisis. Following a long diplomatic row between the People's Republic of Finland and Sweden regarding the ownership of the Åland islands, violence breaks out in Mariehamn between a local militia and Red Guards from the mainland. Citing the security of the local inhabitants and their pleas for help, the Swedish make a landfall and take control of the islands, easily defeating and disarming the outnumbered Finnish Red Guards. A declaration of war is considered in Helsinki, when the German government announces its support for the Swedish claim on the islands. The Finnish Socialist government, protesting loudly but seeing its position untenable, backs down and grudgingly accepts the de facto Swedish occupation. The crisis casts a long shadow into Swedish-Finnish relations, whereas in Finland the situation pushes the hardline Red Guard leaders and the Socialist political leadership into open confrontation.
August 6th, 1919: István Friedrich launches a failed coup against the Hapsburg Dynasty in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, sparking concerns of the polical instability of the country...
August 12th, 1919: "Showa Restoration" proclaimed by P.M. Saitō Makoto, claiming that Rasputin as a "gaijin" must be executed in Tokyo....
September 4th, 1919-Venezelan President Hernando Domico declares himself President for life.
September 9th, 1919: General C.G.E. Mannerheim dislike about losing of Aland and passive eastern politic of government of Finland. He begin create army and start military coup.
September 12th, 1919: Finnish rebellions occupy cities of Oulu and Vaasa. Government of Finland send army against general Mannerheim.
October 1st, 1919: After the election of a 77% majority Social-Democrat Reichstag, Emporer Wilhelm III refuses to make the new majority leader Phillip Scheidemann the Chancellor. This is just the latest in a series clashes between the Reichstag and the Emporer over just who rules Germany. The Reichstag desires a solution similar to Great Britain, while the Emporer wants to retain what powers he still has.
October 15th, 1919-Julius Martov is exiled when he and his freind Vladimir Lenin start the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, or in short the RSDLP.
November 4th, 1919-Julius Martov makes it out of Siberia, his freind Vladimir dosent.From there he leaves to Argentina where he starts the Venezuela Socialist Party, which works in small groups.
November 11th, 1919: A young Ronald Reagan is asked by his 3rd grade teacher, to fill in for young Philip Hammond in writing an article for the school paper. This would be the first of many articles written by Ronald Reagan in his long journalistic career.
November 25th - December 15th, 1919: First Battle of Seinäjoki. The Finnish government forces and Mannerheim's rebels (dubbed "the Blues") meet in a first major battle. While the Blue forces are pushed back, the government army under Red Guards commander Ali Aaltonen is not able to break the rebellion by mid-December. As Aaltonen decides to wait for reinforcements from Tampere, both sides settle into defensive positions.
December 12, 1919: A student at the Peking University, checks out the works of Marx and Engels, and never returns them. As a result a young librarian named Mao will never read them.
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Well, we have gotten to a pretty cool point. I just need each of you to tell me if we can now go forward into the 1920s. I definitely think we have some great stuff here!!! All I need is confirmation from you guys...
Here are some of the PODs for the 1920s thus far:
November 8th, 1920: Former General John J. Pershing and Calvin Coolidge win the Presidential election, despite Pershing having never held an office.
December 15th, 1920-Julius Martov assembles a large following by 1920 and makes a run for President, but the government disputes his eligibility in Caracas, Venezuela.
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January 12th, 1921-A 3rd party poll states 30% approval rating for Julius Martov in the Venezuelan presidential elections.
Febuary 15th, 1921-Julius Martov overthrows the unpopular, "President for life" in a short 1 week coup.He declares it a Socialist Democracy, and makes himself the first Premier of the People's Republic of Venezuela.
March 21st, 1921: Violence erupts in Japanese Russia. Especially deeper inland, the natives protest the Japanese annexation. Japan attacks back with brute force.
April 11th, 1921: China signs a treaty with Korea, bringing the latter under her protection. This angers Japan, but interests Germany. They propose an alliance to China and renounce their own influence sphere in China for a low compensation price.
June 5th, 1921: In France, hyperinflation appears as a result of the war. Several generals from the war toy with the idea of staging a coup. The far-right and monarchist movements gain popularity en masse. As a result, the government is forced to remove the law from 1886 that disallows pretenders to enter the country. Napoleon Victor Bonaparte, Jaime de Bourbon and Philippe of Bourbon-Orléans return to France.
November 8th, 1920: Former General John J. Pershing and Calvin Coolidge win the Presidential election, despite Pershing having never held an office.
December 15th, 1920-Julius Martov assembles a large following by 1920 and makes a run for President, but the government disputes his eligibility in Caracas, Venezuela.
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January 12th, 1921-A 3rd party poll states 30% approval rating for Julius Martov in the Venezuelan presidential elections.
Febuary 15th, 1921-Julius Martov overthrows the unpopular, "President for life" in a short 1 week coup.He declares it a Socialist Democracy, and makes himself the first Premier of the People's Republic of Venezuela.
March 21st, 1921: Violence erupts in Japanese Russia. Especially deeper inland, the natives protest the Japanese annexation. Japan attacks back with brute force.
April 11th, 1921: China signs a treaty with Korea, bringing the latter under her protection. This angers Japan, but interests Germany. They propose an alliance to China and renounce their own influence sphere in China for a low compensation price.
June 5th, 1921: In France, hyperinflation appears as a result of the war. Several generals from the war toy with the idea of staging a coup. The far-right and monarchist movements gain popularity en masse. As a result, the government is forced to remove the law from 1886 that disallows pretenders to enter the country. Napoleon Victor Bonaparte, Jaime de Bourbon and Philippe of Bourbon-Orléans return to France.
If you can add one more POD to the 1910s:
June 9, 1915: Future President Lester "Les Paul" W. Polfuss is born.
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Now to the 1920s
April 8th, 1921: Gregori Rasputin recruits rebellious Russians and Manchurians under Japanese occupation as well as poor Japanese. They form a rebellion named The Faces of Truth, intend to sent up a communist government, declare themselves "true warriors", and strive for a peaceful Japan.
April 26th, 1921: Japanese princes Takamatsu and Mikasa are assassinated in a bombing.
May 13th, 1921: Prince Chichibu of Japan is assassinated by a revolutionary gunman named Yuri Yuri.
July 15th, 1921: Seven men attempt to assassinate Emperor Hirohito with katanas. Most are killed by guards but the emperor is seriously injured and his left arm had to be completely amputated .
October 19th, 1921: Emperor Hirohito organizes the upper classes of his nation, and begins to fight the Faces of Truth.
October 31st, 1921: Demon's Day, The Japanese army delivers a crushing blow to the rebels of The Faces of Truth. Gregori Rasputin is killed after sustaining four shots to the stomach, a knife directly into one of his eyes, a katana slice to the back, being burned and pushed into a frozen lake. He dies of hypothermia. The Faces of Truth finds itself completely defeated, less than a year after it's formation.
November 3rd, 1921: Many former Japanese revolutionaries sail to Korea, spreading their communist ideology. Emperor Hirohito grows a deep hatred towards Communists and Koreans.
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Ladies and gentlemen, meet the new Hitler!
June 9, 1915: Future President Lester "Les Paul" W. Polfuss is born.
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Now to the 1920s
April 8th, 1921: Gregori Rasputin recruits rebellious Russians and Manchurians under Japanese occupation as well as poor Japanese. They form a rebellion named The Faces of Truth, intend to sent up a communist government, declare themselves "true warriors", and strive for a peaceful Japan.
April 26th, 1921: Japanese princes Takamatsu and Mikasa are assassinated in a bombing.
May 13th, 1921: Prince Chichibu of Japan is assassinated by a revolutionary gunman named Yuri Yuri.
July 15th, 1921: Seven men attempt to assassinate Emperor Hirohito with katanas. Most are killed by guards but the emperor is seriously injured and his left arm had to be completely amputated .
October 19th, 1921: Emperor Hirohito organizes the upper classes of his nation, and begins to fight the Faces of Truth.
October 31st, 1921: Demon's Day, The Japanese army delivers a crushing blow to the rebels of The Faces of Truth. Gregori Rasputin is killed after sustaining four shots to the stomach, a knife directly into one of his eyes, a katana slice to the back, being burned and pushed into a frozen lake. He dies of hypothermia. The Faces of Truth finds itself completely defeated, less than a year after it's formation.
November 3rd, 1921: Many former Japanese revolutionaries sail to Korea, spreading their communist ideology. Emperor Hirohito grows a deep hatred towards Communists and Koreans.
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Ladies and gentlemen, meet the new Hitler!
February 11, 1920: President McAdoo's Secretary of State in Mexico. His goal is to somehow end American direct involvement. Presidente Carranza states that "foreign monetary aid", and "weapons donations" would be the most helpful. President McAdoo rebuffs that suggestion, delaying any action until the election is over
April 15, 1920: Hearst Newspapers smear the McAdoo Presidency. A leak revealed that McAdoo rejected a peace option for the Baja War.
May 24, 1920: Vice President Cox upon visiting from a return trip from London, is on board a passenger Zeppelin, called Air Ship One. While over the Labrador Coast, the ship is struck by lightning, which ignites the Hydrogen envelope. The airship crash is witnessed by the RMS Titanic which was travelling to Britain, and searches for survivors. None are found
June 6, 1920: The Democratic National Convention concludes. McAdoo wins renomination. To pacify the more socialist leaning side of the party a young congressman by the name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt is chosen to be McAdoo's running mate in the election. Following McAdoo's loss, Roosevelt is thankful he did not abandon his position in the State Senate, but plans to run for the US Senate seat for New York in 1922.
June 11, 1920: After the disaster of the 1916 presidency, and his own views being proven right, the RNC is more inclined to listen to Hearst, he names Pershing and Coolidge at the top of the List. Pershing upon being asked by the RNC, and after a long talk with his wife and family, accepts the nomination for the Presidency. Coolidge is his running mate
August 15, 1920: J. Edgar Hoover uncovers a bomb plot for Tesla Dynamic Tower in New York City. The bomb is defused and the perpetrators are led away to Sing Sing, where they will be interrogated by Hoover's team.
September 12, 1920: Hoover's investigation reveals that the plot was orchestrated by Communist sympathsizers, sheltered by the Socialists.
September 13, 1920: A raid is called upon a house in Arlington which reveals unfinished bombs, schematics of public buildings and an itinerary for President McAdoo. Hoover suggests to the Secret Service that White House security is tightened. Oddly enough not a single copy of any communist or socialist literature is found in the house. But it is widely reported in the Federal Journal, A Hearst Paper; and the Washington Post that "Communist Literature was found in Arlington".
October 4, 1920: Eugene V. Debs declares his candidacy as the Socialist candidate for the Presidency.
April 15, 1920: Hearst Newspapers smear the McAdoo Presidency. A leak revealed that McAdoo rejected a peace option for the Baja War.
May 24, 1920: Vice President Cox upon visiting from a return trip from London, is on board a passenger Zeppelin, called Air Ship One. While over the Labrador Coast, the ship is struck by lightning, which ignites the Hydrogen envelope. The airship crash is witnessed by the RMS Titanic which was travelling to Britain, and searches for survivors. None are found
June 6, 1920: The Democratic National Convention concludes. McAdoo wins renomination. To pacify the more socialist leaning side of the party a young congressman by the name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt is chosen to be McAdoo's running mate in the election. Following McAdoo's loss, Roosevelt is thankful he did not abandon his position in the State Senate, but plans to run for the US Senate seat for New York in 1922.
June 11, 1920: After the disaster of the 1916 presidency, and his own views being proven right, the RNC is more inclined to listen to Hearst, he names Pershing and Coolidge at the top of the List. Pershing upon being asked by the RNC, and after a long talk with his wife and family, accepts the nomination for the Presidency. Coolidge is his running mate
August 15, 1920: J. Edgar Hoover uncovers a bomb plot for Tesla Dynamic Tower in New York City. The bomb is defused and the perpetrators are led away to Sing Sing, where they will be interrogated by Hoover's team.
September 12, 1920: Hoover's investigation reveals that the plot was orchestrated by Communist sympathsizers, sheltered by the Socialists.
September 13, 1920: A raid is called upon a house in Arlington which reveals unfinished bombs, schematics of public buildings and an itinerary for President McAdoo. Hoover suggests to the Secret Service that White House security is tightened. Oddly enough not a single copy of any communist or socialist literature is found in the house. But it is widely reported in the Federal Journal, A Hearst Paper; and the Washington Post that "Communist Literature was found in Arlington".
October 4, 1920: Eugene V. Debs declares his candidacy as the Socialist candidate for the Presidency.
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May 5, 1920: Tesla Dynamic creates a new subsidiary. Tesla Radio Waves of America (TRWA) to sell Wavesets (radios in OTL) to ordinary Americans.
June 3, 1920: Washington DC and Philadelphia now join New York in being powered by Broadcast Power Stations. The upkeep of these stations is massive and requires state upkeep.
September 1, 1920: after heavy lobbying by Tesla Dynamic, the State of New York passes a Sales Tax applied across the State. Upstate New York is upset about this as the tax mostly benefits New York City, in the maintenance of the Broadcast Power Station.
January 1, 1921: the Tesla Broadcasting Corporation is founded with its Headquarters on Blackwell's Island (OTL: Roosevelt Island) demolishing the old Prison, to a new facility in Riker's Island. Blackwell's Island is called Tesla's Island
April 3, 1921: President Pershing's Secretary of State, Henry L. Stimson negotiates a peace with Mexico, that calls for the removal of American troops from Mexico, save Veracruz and Baja (which is now an American territory). The United States commits foreign aid and arms to the Carranza Presidency.
May 15, 1923: The Hearst Corporation creates the Hearst Broadcasting Network (HBN) in San Francisco.
June 5, 1924: Emperor Wilhelm III negotiates a Helium Trade Treaty with the United States.
June 3, 1920: Washington DC and Philadelphia now join New York in being powered by Broadcast Power Stations. The upkeep of these stations is massive and requires state upkeep.
September 1, 1920: after heavy lobbying by Tesla Dynamic, the State of New York passes a Sales Tax applied across the State. Upstate New York is upset about this as the tax mostly benefits New York City, in the maintenance of the Broadcast Power Station.
January 1, 1921: the Tesla Broadcasting Corporation is founded with its Headquarters on Blackwell's Island (OTL: Roosevelt Island) demolishing the old Prison, to a new facility in Riker's Island. Blackwell's Island is called Tesla's Island
April 3, 1921: President Pershing's Secretary of State, Henry L. Stimson negotiates a peace with Mexico, that calls for the removal of American troops from Mexico, save Veracruz and Baja (which is now an American territory). The United States commits foreign aid and arms to the Carranza Presidency.
May 15, 1923: The Hearst Corporation creates the Hearst Broadcasting Network (HBN) in San Francisco.
June 5, 1924: Emperor Wilhelm III negotiates a Helium Trade Treaty with the United States.
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Now let's make that evil Scandinavian nation. Anyone got some ideas for me to work off of?
Oct. 13, 1925: Future British Tory Prime Minister Margaret Roberts is born.
Nov. 13, 1925: Future Lockheed CEO Howard Baker is born.
Nov. 20, 1925: Future Republican President Robert Kennedy is born.
Nov. 13, 1925: Future Lockheed CEO Howard Baker is born.
Nov. 20, 1925: Future Republican President Robert Kennedy is born.
I was thinking that the next great war in the late thirties would be a three bloc fight between Communism vs. Imperials vs. Fascism. Creating a more multi-polar world.
I would like to see France go Fascist by the end of the 20s. We have Korea, Venezeula, and Finland as Communists already. Where should this Scandinavia fall? Commie or Fascist?
PODs:
January 2, 1922: Geneologist Nicholas Richard and Biologist Alphonse Pelletier begin a project in their spare time, to find the genetic descendents of Jesus Christ.
March 15, 1926: In Toulouse, a man Leon Leveque ascends to the National Assembly. He barely won the election, narrowly defeating a communist in the manufacturing heavy city. It was only with the aid of publisher Henri Fortescue's commendation that he was able to clench victory.
October 22, 1925: Cardinal Tridault, is censored by Pope Benedict XV following a writ from Tridault's hand that called for homilies which blamed the minorities of France for losing the war, calling them leeches. Cardinal Tridault ignores the pope's message.
November 5, 1925: Pope Benedict XV excommunicates Cardinal Tridault. Tridault forms his own offshoot of the catholic church, bringing several bishops and some priests. Bishop Montpiler of Marseilles, is made Cardinal in Tridault's place. The Merovengian Church is created with Tridault as its leader
(Don't bother looking up Tridault, Fortescue, or Leveque. They were nobodies in our timeline, but in a defeated French with reparations they become something else. )
July 15th, 1920: Battle of Kharkov; Ukrainian nationalist leader Nestor Makhno, leads armed insurrection against German forces in Kharkov...
November 27th, 1920: Battle of Kiev; German forces launch a counter-offensive against Nestor Makhno in Kiev,...
February 2nd, 1924: British officials in Peking report the outbreak of "Red Plague", a virulent strain of influenza...
March 1st, 1924: British officials report an outbreak of "Red Plague" in Mumbai, New Delhi, and Karachi...
March 11th, 1924: First reported U.S. case of "Red Plague" is uncovered at Catalina Island, California....
May 10th, 1924: Amiens, France is placed under martial law, after local officials warn of the failure of quarantine measures...
October 2nd, 1924: Reports of "Red Plague" occur in Los Angeles, California, with c.1,800-2,500 people infected...
October 6th, 1924: Health officials report the outbreak of "Red Plague" in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
October 24th, 1924: Anti-Chinese race-riots erupt in Seattle, Washington after rumors that Chinese immigrants have spread the plague, are published in Hearst newspapers...
November 16th, 1924: Doctor J. P. Frengley, spreads the rumor that Chinese immigrants are spreading "Red Plague" in Poverty Bay, New Zealand...
February 5th, 1928: Health officials report 112,200 deaths in New York City, due to the "Red Plague"....
February 24th, 1929: European health officials calculate 791,300 deaths related to "Red Plague" in Geneva, Switzerland...
November 27th, 1920: Battle of Kiev; German forces launch a counter-offensive against Nestor Makhno in Kiev,...
February 2nd, 1924: British officials in Peking report the outbreak of "Red Plague", a virulent strain of influenza...
March 1st, 1924: British officials report an outbreak of "Red Plague" in Mumbai, New Delhi, and Karachi...
March 11th, 1924: First reported U.S. case of "Red Plague" is uncovered at Catalina Island, California....
May 10th, 1924: Amiens, France is placed under martial law, after local officials warn of the failure of quarantine measures...
October 2nd, 1924: Reports of "Red Plague" occur in Los Angeles, California, with c.1,800-2,500 people infected...
October 6th, 1924: Health officials report the outbreak of "Red Plague" in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
October 24th, 1924: Anti-Chinese race-riots erupt in Seattle, Washington after rumors that Chinese immigrants have spread the plague, are published in Hearst newspapers...
November 16th, 1924: Doctor J. P. Frengley, spreads the rumor that Chinese immigrants are spreading "Red Plague" in Poverty Bay, New Zealand...
February 5th, 1928: Health officials report 112,200 deaths in New York City, due to the "Red Plague"....
February 24th, 1929: European health officials calculate 791,300 deaths related to "Red Plague" in Geneva, Switzerland...
I'm going to have to question Grigory Rasputin being able to raise support amongst Japanese peasants, as they were the source of the Imperialists' power OTL. Also, katanas are lous assasination weapons, and there is no way seven strangers would be allowed anywhere near the Emperor with such highly visible weapons. Anyway, here are a few events:
November 11th, 1921: Kerensky's forces deliver a crushing blow to the Soviets at Kyubishev, ending the Russian Civil War in the White's favor.
March 15th, 1924: President Kerensky is assasinated in Tsaritsyn. Marshal Anton Denikin declares marshal law and forms a triumvirate with Pyotr Wrangel and Admiral Aleskandr Kolchak.
June 7th, 1927: War breaks out between Russia and Ungern von Sternberg's Mongolia.
December 19th, 1920: Ottoman Empire crush Arab rebellions. Rebel leaders execute.
June 1st, 1920: United Kingdom send troops to Egypt stopping indepent fighters.
December 3rd, 1923: Norway, Sweden and Denmark take common currency.
January 19th, 1924: Norway, Sweden and Denmark found tariff union.
June 1st, 1920: United Kingdom send troops to Egypt stopping indepent fighters.
December 3rd, 1923: Norway, Sweden and Denmark take common currency.
January 19th, 1924: Norway, Sweden and Denmark found tariff union.
It has been added to the 1910s the permanent "Timelines & Scenarios". Here are a few more PODs:
March 5th, 1921: Takuma Dan, head of Mitsui Bank, is publicly executed in Tokyo, after expressing his sympathies for the rebels....
May 23rd, 1921: Professor Tatsukichi Minobe, Tokyo University, is found murdered and disembowelled after expressing the idea that Emperor Hirohito is not a god....
July 11th, 1924: Mexican bishops lead protest outside the Presidential Palace in Mexico City, calling President Venustiano Carranza de la Garza an "American puppet"...
August 3rd, 1924: Guadalajara Insurrection; Armed insurrection takes place after federal troops set fire to the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, killing 18 people and injuring 40 people...
August 4th, 1924: Armed insurrection spreads to Sahuayo, Michoacán, 240 people killed by federal troops, after protesting American occupation...
September 26th, 1924: Pope Benedict XV issues a letter to PresidentJohn J. Pershing for the American military actions taking place in Mexico, sparking tensions in many Roman Catholic communities...
September 28th, 1924: Rebel leader Luis Navarro Origel leads a rally in Pénjamo, Guanajuato, claiming that the violence won't stop until American forces withdraw completely....
February 25th, 1925: Mexican guerilla leaders capture government troops at San Francisco del Rincón, Guanajuato...
October 15th, 1925: American ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow is kidnapped by Mexican nationalist guerillas in Mexico City, Mexico...
January 22nd, 1928: Pope Benedict XV dies in Rome, considered by many Roman Catholic leaders as one of the "most influential leaders" of the 20th century...
February 11, 1920: Surprising the world of High Society in New York, Anne Morgan-Tesla gives birth to a baby girl. Her father named her before Anne had anything to say about it. Electra Tesla, one of the great engineers of the 1940s and 1950s is born.
April 20, 1922: Nikola Tesla and Anne Morgan-Tesla adopt a pair of twin boys from an orphanage in Brooklyn.
August 10, 1924: Following the insurrections in Mexico, President Pershing informs Carranza that America's 2nd Air Fleet will be deployed. They are equipped with Gas Canisters filled with CN gas. An army general proposes Mustard Gas but he is relieved of duty by President Pershing.
August 15, 1924: Major George S. Patton, prepares his tank battalion for deployment to Veracruz.
September 27, 1924: Hearst Newspapers deplore the war, and how long it has gone on. Hearst writes, "although this war was started because of the attack on San Diego it is time for peace to reign." Ironic considering that Hearst was the one that STARTED the war in Baja.
November 5, 1924: President Pershing wins re-election against the Democratic and Socialist Candidate. The Democratic candidate being Al Smith and his running mate Oscar W. Underwood.
July 4, 1925: The International Physics Exposition is held in Central Park in New York City. In attendance are Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Leo Szilard, Lise Meitner, Kurt Godel, Nikola Tesla and a young Enrico Fermi. During an intermission Tesla has coffee with Fermi and is suitably impressed by him. "Professor Fermi, I would like to offer you a job at my company, you can work and research on whatever you like with the company's facilities. A policy I came up with was to have all my employees designate 10% of their work week to their own personal projects."
After several weeks of consideration, Fermi decides to take the job and is placed with developing a nuclear power source, as Tesla's power requirements were growing very large, even Niagara Falls had a hard time meeting the power requirements of Tesla Dynamic, and the city of New York with its Broadcast Power System. As time passed more energy would be required. "The Manhattan Project" named because of its goal, to have the power illuminate Manhattan and have surplus power.
April 20, 1922: Nikola Tesla and Anne Morgan-Tesla adopt a pair of twin boys from an orphanage in Brooklyn.
August 10, 1924: Following the insurrections in Mexico, President Pershing informs Carranza that America's 2nd Air Fleet will be deployed. They are equipped with Gas Canisters filled with CN gas. An army general proposes Mustard Gas but he is relieved of duty by President Pershing.
August 15, 1924: Major George S. Patton, prepares his tank battalion for deployment to Veracruz.
September 27, 1924: Hearst Newspapers deplore the war, and how long it has gone on. Hearst writes, "although this war was started because of the attack on San Diego it is time for peace to reign." Ironic considering that Hearst was the one that STARTED the war in Baja.
November 5, 1924: President Pershing wins re-election against the Democratic and Socialist Candidate. The Democratic candidate being Al Smith and his running mate Oscar W. Underwood.
July 4, 1925: The International Physics Exposition is held in Central Park in New York City. In attendance are Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Leo Szilard, Lise Meitner, Kurt Godel, Nikola Tesla and a young Enrico Fermi. During an intermission Tesla has coffee with Fermi and is suitably impressed by him. "Professor Fermi, I would like to offer you a job at my company, you can work and research on whatever you like with the company's facilities. A policy I came up with was to have all my employees designate 10% of their work week to their own personal projects."
After several weeks of consideration, Fermi decides to take the job and is placed with developing a nuclear power source, as Tesla's power requirements were growing very large, even Niagara Falls had a hard time meeting the power requirements of Tesla Dynamic, and the city of New York with its Broadcast Power System. As time passed more energy would be required. "The Manhattan Project" named because of its goal, to have the power illuminate Manhattan and have surplus power.