TL-191: the Presbyterian Butcher

This map I found from "The Presbyterian Butcher: A History of the Presidency of Gordon McSweeney": www.alternatehistory.com/forum…. It's one of the many scenarios of Harry Turtledove's Timeline 191 where the Central Powers lose the Great War instead of wining. Germany and the US lost the war in the exact same manner as our timeline. The two nations formed this timeline's version of the Axis powers. Germany started this version of World War II with the invasion of Poland in September, 1939 as in actual history, while the US would invade the Confederacy and Canada in May, 1941. This timeline is a work in progress, so I'm not 100% sure of what happens in this history, but I do know that the US was defeated in 1946 and I'm pretty sure Germany was defeated in 1945 just like in our world.
 
Anyway, the treaties that ended the Great War were the treaties of Trenton and Versailles (just as in actual history). We all know what the terms of the Versailles treaty were, while here I have copied the terms of the Trenton treaty. Some of these terms I have used in my own "Entente Victory" scenario. In fact, a bunch of this timeline influences mine: freedim.deviantart.com/art/Tim…. Anyway, here are the treaty terms.


With the encirclement of Philadelphia by Confederate armored forces in May of 1917 in conjunction with the first outbreaks of the Red Uprising throughout the United States and the assassination of Teddy Roosevelt along with much of the Cabinet forced the American government to sue for peace in early June, 1917.

Representatives from Canada, Britain, the Confederacy and the United States convened in Trenton, New Jersey to discuss terms. They were noticeably harsh. Gone at the stroke of a pen were Maine which would be fully annexed by Canada. West Virginia, Maryland, eastern and southern New Mexico all gone to the Confederacy. The Sandwich Islands would be returned back to Britain. There were scores of minor border adjustments elsewhere between the U.S.-Confederate/Canadian borders, all in favor of the Entente nations. 

The loss of territory was bad enough but that was not all. The USA would have to pay yearly monetary payments to all three nations with 75% to the Confederacy, 20% to Canada and 5% to Britain. The United States was barred from creating new battleships, carriers, and submarines with all those currently in service to be taken by the three victorious nations. The amount of cruisers, destroyers, and frigates would be severely limited. The USS Remembrance which had just finished construction by the time of Philadelphia's encirclement was sent to Britain to be studied, modified and eventually put into service in the Royal Navy. The payments would be put to use to repair and rebuild territory damaged by the war as well, in the CSA and Canada's case, expand their industry to be better able to resist and fight in another war against the United States.

Limits would be placed on the U.S. Army and Army Air Force with the USAAF barred from producing new models of fighters and bombers, only current models were allowed and even then there would be no bombers and limited amount of fighter craft. The Army would downsize from its near five and a half million by 1917 to 150,000. Conscription would be halted along with heavy restrictions on how many artillery and machine gun weapons could be produced.

The Treaty was utterly humiliating for a nation that had now lost three times in a row. Throughout the nation hundreds of thousands protested and riots popped up throughout the major cities, some of them independent ones to vent anger and fear while others were organized and thrown by the Red extremists. The forced payment of money (mainly in copper, silver, gold and other valued material) to Canada, Britain and the Confederate States saw the U.S. dollar plummet and the U.S. Treasury near bankruptcy multiple times in the early 1920s. The war had cost the U.S. much and the payments that it was forced to deliver on a routine basis made the country barely able to scrape by from 1917-1922, just as the Entente hoped. Inflation would grow to be a national crisis by 1918.

The Treaty was finalized and signed June 17th, 1917 and the Treaty would help assure the rise of the NPPA to national dominance in the coming decades.

Almost all historians agree that if the Treaty of Trenton and Versailles were less harsh, more forgiving, than there likely would not have been a Patriotic America or Nazi Germany and in turn a different Second Great War, if one were to occur at all that is.