The United States of America
Leader: Thomas E. Dewey
Ideology: Democracy (Republican)
Category: Major Power
The United States of America is what many have called the “Sleeping Giant” since the end of the Great War in 1918 in which was the last major conflict it involved itself in, allying itself with the Allied Powers against the German Empire and the Central Powers - a war which ended in their defeat. Following the Great War, the majority of Americans vehemently opposed the idea of their government involving itself and, as they perceived, unnecessarily putting the lives of countless of their own soldiers in another overseas conflict, especially if it has little impact on America itself. This outlook would see the United States maintain a policy of isolationism, especially upon the dawn of the Great Depression in the 1930’s, which saw the U.S. economy plummet to catostrophic lows and thereafter cemented the idea that the American government must focus on fixing the issues within its own country, opposed to that of others.
Following the outbreak of the Second World War in the fall of 1939, the then President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, continued to maintain the ongoing policy of isolationism, even despite Great Britain’s many pleas for assistance. By 1941, with Western Europe firmly under the grasp of the German Reich and Grear Britain wholly isolated, with its fate seemingly inevitable, many in the U.S. government had fixed their eyes upon the Far East with great concern as the Japanese Empire engages in its quest for total dominance over Asia. These fears were later quashed in late 1942 after President Roosevelt recieved a personal telegram from the military and government leader of the Imperial government, Hideki Tojo, who requested of the American president a mutual maintainance of peace between their two nations, which had indeed been honored by both parties.
In 1945, with invovlement in conflict still being ardently avoided, President Rossevelt, who had been suffering from polio for quite some time, succumbed to his disease, being briefly succeeded by his Vice President, Harry S. Truman. Truman personally sought for the United States to counter the Fascist dominance in Europe, which by this time was colossal in scope, particularly with the Soviet Union on the brink of collapse and the British Isles expecting an invasion any day. Regardless, the America public wouldn’t budge on their support for isolationism, thus making Truman’s stance greatly unpopular. Truman as a result lost the 1948 election to his Republican opponent Thomas E. Dewey, who supported a continuation of peace and avoiding U.S. involvement in foreign wars.
By the year 1948, the United States of America remains one of the last bastions of democracy in the western world. Now with global superpowers exercising their dominance just across both seaboards of the country, the American government now feels more vulnerable than ever and has initiated a plan to overhaul the nation’s defenses in preperation of an ever more seemingly impending attack from either coastline...or both...