In 1901 by Robert Conroy the German Empire decides to enact one of their bolder war plans against the United States in well, the year 1901, in order to seize Cuba and the Philippines.
The novel has the Germans land on Long Island and seize Brooklyn before taking the rest of Manhattan and downstate New York as well as part of Connecticut before trench warfare sets in.
The Americans win the war in the end (spoiler) by cutting German supply lines with the Germans never managing to leave the pocket around New York City and reach Boston (their secondary goal). The book then has Germany fall to a military coup at the end that is basically Nazis 30 years early.
I'm interested in how the aftermath of the book would shake up, particularly the effect on the national character of the United States if the fantasy scenario of an enemy army on the East Coast actually happens. In the book the US under Teddy Roosevelt builds up a large army to drive out the Germans and I imagine being invaded will make the US decide to not dissolve this army as completely as we dissolved the Army of the Republic.
Would the US begin to become more bureaucratic earlier? Would the Progressive reforms take place with greater ferocity in response to the pressures of war? Would the US end up interventionist at an earlier date?
The novel has the Germans land on Long Island and seize Brooklyn before taking the rest of Manhattan and downstate New York as well as part of Connecticut before trench warfare sets in.
The Americans win the war in the end (spoiler) by cutting German supply lines with the Germans never managing to leave the pocket around New York City and reach Boston (their secondary goal). The book then has Germany fall to a military coup at the end that is basically Nazis 30 years early.
I'm interested in how the aftermath of the book would shake up, particularly the effect on the national character of the United States if the fantasy scenario of an enemy army on the East Coast actually happens. In the book the US under Teddy Roosevelt builds up a large army to drive out the Germans and I imagine being invaded will make the US decide to not dissolve this army as completely as we dissolved the Army of the Republic.
Would the US begin to become more bureaucratic earlier? Would the Progressive reforms take place with greater ferocity in response to the pressures of war? Would the US end up interventionist at an earlier date?