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When did Texas rejoin the US? And why didn’t Houston rejoin the state?
Late reply, but well done with this post my friend.Acts of FZP Terrorism Outside Greater Poland (1970s Onward)The victim had been a young German paratrooper officer who had partaken in so-called ”Murderous Monday Massacre” wherein on April 7, 1975 a unit of Fallschirmjäger or paratroopers, enforcing a ban on a planned civil rights march at the time, opened fired on a crowd of Solidarność civil rights protestors killing 23 people including a 12 boy. The incident led to widespread outrage particular in the Kingdom of Poland where the German Embassy in Warsaw was set alight in front of crowd of many thousands with even the aging Polish monarch Karl Albrecht of Hapsburg-Lorraine (King Stanisław III to his subjects) at the head of the crowd united with his subjects in rage.
German police investigation of a car bombing outside Munich circa 1977.
Aftermath of the bombing of the German embassy in Stockholm, Sweden circa 1980 which was the climax of the “Stockholm Embassy Siege” in which FZP militants took control of the embassy in August of that year and for 3 weeks held the entire embassy staff, and anyone else inside the building at the time, hostage and secretly planted bombs. When the Swedish police stormed the embassy after a breakdown in negotiations where the main sticking point was an end to internment as well as the complete and unconditional withdrawal of all German military personnel from Greater Poland the FZP set off the bombs which killed not only the police but the hostages and all but 5 of the 60 terrorists as well.
Map already shows Libya being part of Italy. And it makes perfectly sense since it had pretty low population and Italy remained neutral during SGW/joined to CPs on final stages of the war, it was able to keep Libya.
But Italy having LGBT marriage equality is pretty surprising. I would imaginate the country being pretty conservative regarding LGTB rights.
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Picture of Irish veterans in old uniforms in an event against joining the Second Great War, ca. early June 1941.
During the early days of the Second Great War, there was a debate amongst the Irish public about joining the Second Great War on the side of the Central Powers. Some argued that they should join the war because the Central Powers helped in their liberation in the previous Great War and crushed the 1924 Northern Irish Uprising. Others argued that if Ireland joined the war on the side of Germany, Northern Ireland would be a hotbed of resistance once again due to Britain still being on the Entente. One of the most iconic phrases of this period is, "Why die for Alsace–Lorraine and Ukraine? [1]" The debate would end once news came that British forces had landed in Ulster.
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1. TL-191 version of Why Die for Danzig?
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During the 1980s and 1990s, American authorTom Clancy would publish several thriller novels depicting the geopolitical situation towards the end of the Great Game, many of which became movies and video games in their own right.
On Grey Tides(1984) was Clancy's first novel, describing the fictional defection of the German captain of a von Holtzendorff class ballistic missile submarine to the United States. It was the first to feature the character Jim Ryan, who would become a stape of Clancy's books and a pop culture icon.
A still from the 1990 adaptation with Scottish actor Sean Connery as the German captain. Connery was exiled from Great Britian and revoked of his citizenship in 1983 due to his support for Scottish independence, as well as criticism against the authoritarian and pro-German National Unity Coalition.
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During the 1980s and 1990s, American authorTom Clancy would publish several thriller novels depicting the geopolitical situation towards the end of the Great Game, many of which became movies and video games in their own right.
On Grey Tides(1984) was Clancy's first novel, describing the fictional defection of the German captain of a von Holtzendorff class ballistic missile submarine to the United States. It was the first to feature the character Jim Ryan, who would become a stape of Clancy's books and a pop culture icon.
A still from the 1990 adaptation with Scottish actor Sean Connery as the German captain. Connery was exiled from Great Britian and revoked of his citizenship in 1983 due to his support for Scottish independence, as well as criticism against the authoritarian and pro-German National Unity Coalition.
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During the 1980s and 1990s, American authorTom Clancy would publish several thriller novels depicting the geopolitical situation towards the end of the Great Game, many of which became movies and video games in their own right.
On Grey Tides(1984) was Clancy's first novel, describing the fictional defection of the German captain of a von Holtzendorff class ballistic missile submarine to the United States. It was the first to feature the character Jim Ryan, who would become a stape of Clancy's books and a pop culture icon.
A still from the 1990 adaptation with Scottish actor Sean Connery as the German captain. Connery was exiled from Great Britian and revoked of his citizenship in 1983 due to his support for Scottish independence, as well as criticism against the authoritarian and pro-German National Unity Coalition.
Patiot Games (1987) was the second novel in Tom Clancy's Jim Ryan series. The novel begins with Ryan visiting the Central African Federation as part of intelligence work analyzing German communications in Namibia. While walking in the capital of Salisbury, he manages to save President Muzorewa from an attack by the RRF (Rhodesian Resistance Front), a racist terrorist group formed by former Rhodesian soldiers after the defeat of the German and South African supported white minority government. While the chief assassin and leader of the group, Sean Miller, is arrested, the RRF (supported by South African SAS) launches an attack on the prison where he is being held, and manages to free him and other RRF terrorists who are promptly taken to South Africa.
A still from the movie adaptation showing Jim Ryan (Harrisson Ford) during the assassination attempt shooting an RRF terrorist.
The RRF decides to go to the United States and assassinate Jim Ryan and Muzorewa, who is planning on attending an international economic forum in Philadelphia . The goal of the operation is not only to get revenge on Ryan for foiling their earlier plan, but to also discredit the United States' international image by having one of their stauchest allies killed on American soil. Furthermore, they hope that the attack will result in a decrease in popular support for American military aid to the Central African Federation.
Sean Miller in South Africa, with a South African SAS helicopter in the background.
Arriving in the United States, Sean Miller, with the help of South African intelligence operatives, teams up with Neo-Freedomite guerilla groups who jointly prepare for the operation. Muzorewa has also decided to secretly visit Ryan at his home to thank him for saving his life, but this plan is relayed to the RRF by South African intelligence. The terrorists are delighted at the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. During President Muzorewa's visit, the RRF and Neo-Freedomite terrorists attack Jim Ryan's oceanside home using speedboats, overwhelming both CAF and Secret Service guards. Ryan and Muzorewa manage to hold off the terrorists, but the terrorists capture Murorewa's family as hostages and flee the Ryan household using their boats.
President Muzorewa (Samuel Jackson) shooting at RRF terrorists who are attacking the Ryan home.
Jim Ryan commandeers one of the speedboats that the terrorists left behind, and chases the terrorists to a ship that they are planning on using to escape the United States. In the book, Ryan sneaks onto the ship and alerts the US coastguard, who are able to seize it before it goes into international waters. In the movie, however, Ryan boards the ship and disposes of the terrorists himself, only managing to capture Sean Miller alive.
The book ends with the introduction of a new character, John Clark, who is seen leading a covert OSS operation (with the help of anti-Apartheid freedom fighters) inside South Africa that attacks and destroys RRF and Neo Freedomite training camps.
Perhaps by 2162.
In my headcanon, Texas rejoined the Union after a referendum in 2010 under Texan President James Richard Parry, where the citizens of Texas voted 52% to 48% to rejoin the Union. The referendum was announced in 2007 by the previous President Anthony Sanchez, who in 2004 ran on a platform of revisiting Texas' relations with the Untied States.
Good points. I changed Italy to have just civil unions.
A scenic photo of Lerwick, the capital and largest city of the Shetland Islands, C. 2023. Following the end of the Second Great War under the terms of the Treaty of the Hague, the Shetlands became a Norwegian mandate, which would last until 1999. In the late autumn of that year, a referendum would be held where the voters had a choice of choosing between becoming independent, formally be annexed into Norway, or rejoin the UK. 61% would vote for the islands to become fully independent, and on May 5, 2000, the Shetland Islands would formally become independent from Norway, and since then, has become a little tourist hub anchored in the North Altantic.
A scenic photo of Lerwick, the capital and largest city of the Shetland Islands, C. 2023. Following the end of the Second Great War under the terms of the Treaty of the Hague, the Shetlands became a Norwegian mandate, which would last until 1999. In the late autumn of that year, a referendum would be held where the voters had a choice of choosing between becoming independent, formally be annexed into Norway, or rejoin the UK. 61% would vote for the islands to become fully independent, and on May 5, 2000, the Shetland Islands would formally become independent from Norway, and since then, has become a little tourist hub anchored in the North Altantic.
Intresting. What did happen to Orkney Islands there? These were part of Norway in Middle Ages so Norway could perhaps want them back.
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The Post-Occupation Era (Part I)
The Post- Occupation Era refers to the time period in the United States between 1993 and 2002. The time period was seen as a time of optimism and economic prosperity, but also saw various cultural and political conflicts, many of which stemmed over the legacy of Remembrance ideology.
A picture of Times Square in the 1990s.
While southern states gained their independence in 1993, the withdrawal of US troops began as early as 1991 with the end of military-civilian administrations as part of the Round Table Talks. The last US army troops would leave the south in 1996.
US troops during the Victory Day parade in Mobile, Alabama before their withdrawal (1995)
Though US military presence in the South died down, the war against Southern resistance groups continued. Many moderate and Neo-Freedomite groups laid down their arms after the Round Table Talks and were allowed to form political parties, but the more extremist elements continued their "liberation war". Cells of the Red Army Front and White Republic Army used tactics such as bombing, kidnapping, and assassinations throughout the FRSSA and US border states against what they considered to be an "illegitimate" government that was a smokescreen for "Yankee interests". Further stoking this violence were the several militia groups founded during the political and economic instability of the early years of the FRSSA.
The Louisville Bombings of 1995 were conducted by the RAF, who used car bombs on multiple targets in the city killing 17 people and wounding at least 30.
Despite this, violence from Southern groups was on the decline in the 1990s, and never reached the levels seen during the seventies and eighties.
The Post- Occupation Era refers to the time period in the United States between 1993 and 2002. The time period was seen as a time of optimism and economic prosperity, but also saw various cultural and political conflicts, many of which stemmed over the legacy of Remembrance ideology.
A picture of Times Square in the 1990s.
While southern states gained their independence in 1993, the withdrawal of US troops began as early as 1991 with the end of military-civilian administrations as part of the Round Table Talks. The last US army troops would leave the south in 1996.
US troops during the Victory Day parade in Mobile, Alabama before their withdrawal (1995)
Though US military presence in the South died down, the war against Southern resistance groups continued. Many moderate and Neo-Freedomite groups laid down their arms after the Round Table Talks and were allowed to form political parties, but the more extremist elements continued their "liberation war". Cells of the Red Army Front and White Republic Army used tactics such as bombing, kidnapping, and assassinations throughout the FRSSA and US border states against what they considered to be an "illegitimate" government that was a smokescreen for "Yankee interests". Further stoking this violence were the several militia groups founded during the political and economic instability of the early years of the FRSSA.
The Louisville Bombings of 1995 were conducted by the RAF, who used car bombs on multiple targets in the city killing 17 people and wounding at least 30.
Despite this, violence from Southern groups was on the decline in the 1990s, and never reached the levels seen during the seventies and eighties.
U.S. troops of the 115th Infantry Regiment retreat from Columbus, Ohio following the city's capture by the Confederate Army in the Fall of 1941. Although men like the 115th fought bravely and doggedly, they were often outmatched by the more modern equipement and tactics of the Confederates. It would take another year before U.S. industry was able to close the gap in more moder weapons' production.
Of note: the 115th would be personally selected by Major General Abner Dowling to serve as the training cadre for the 11th Army, due to its combat prowess and experience.
Of note: the 115th would be personally selected by Major General Abner Dowling to serve as the training cadre for the 11th Army, due to its combat prowess and experience.
SV: Romance of the Three Empires event
王獏 (O-Baku) sunbomb test in 1958
At a yield of 120 megatons it was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and tested over the New Siberian Islands.
The bomb was dropped by parachute from a Z1K Tateyama detonated autonomously 4,000 metres (13,000 ft) above the surface. The resulting explosion resulted in not just the loss of the aircraft and aircrew but also an ecological disaster as even the shockwave was felt across the Arctic in Greenland, Nunavut, Yukon, American Northern Territories and Alaska as even windows were shattered in the aforementioned locations.
What was supposed to be a show of force ended in the Imperial Japanese Armies downfall, due to the loss of the aircrew and aircraft the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service unanimously agreed to split from the Army and become their own military branch (Imperial Japanese Air Force).
The IJA would never recover from this and would never hold as much influence politically as it had.
王獏 (O-Baku) sunbomb test in 1958
At a yield of 120 megatons it was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and tested over the New Siberian Islands.
The bomb was dropped by parachute from a Z1K Tateyama detonated autonomously 4,000 metres (13,000 ft) above the surface. The resulting explosion resulted in not just the loss of the aircraft and aircrew but also an ecological disaster as even the shockwave was felt across the Arctic in Greenland, Nunavut, Yukon, American Northern Territories and Alaska as even windows were shattered in the aforementioned locations.
What was supposed to be a show of force ended in the Imperial Japanese Armies downfall, due to the loss of the aircrew and aircraft the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service unanimously agreed to split from the Army and become their own military branch (Imperial Japanese Air Force).
The IJA would never recover from this and would never hold as much influence politically as it had.
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