@The_Frozen_1: Unfortunately I am a little to late to stop them from getting French protection.
@salidas16: Hehe, accidents. Personally, I prefer to "accidently" park some US battleships outside of Rio and them "accidently" order some marines into the city. I think that will be a better way to handle the Brazilian syndicalists.
@Issac Wolfe: I dont really want to be too harsh on the poor latin americans, don't want Hugo Chavez in the future to have MORE propaganda material.
@Zhuge Liang: That is what I was planning to do with them actually. Best wait until the syndicalists are busy with the Germans so I can crush them without too much trouble.
@everyone else: Thank you for your continued comments!
November, 1940. The time has come for the people of the United States to go to the polls and vote in the country's Presidential elections. In complete contrast to the hotly contested 1936 election that led to the 2nd American Civil War, the 1940 elections are held in a much more stable atmosphere. With both the CSA and the AUS crushed militarily and banned by federal law, the only 2 major parties to take part are the Democratic and Republican parties. Presidential Incumbent John Nance Garner, who has become extremely popular among the people for his leadership of the country during and after the chaos of the civil war, runs for a second term, and wins the electoral college vote by a landslide.
With tensions still rising in Europe and all out war still raging in Asia, the federal government continues to increase the readiness of American industries for war production. Another world war has the threat of swallowing up the United States in global conflict, and the government is determined to be ready if or when the time comes.
The United States Army moves into positions in both Chiapas and the Yucatan, after reports arrive to the FBI and the OSS of armed bands of guerrillas trying to infiltrate southern Mexico from the Syndicalist state of Centroamerica. Clashes with these guerrillas reveal that many are armed with French, Spanish, or Italian weapons, proving that the Internationale is actively trying to influence some kind of popular uprising in occupied Mexico.
January, 1941. The war in Asia expands as the German controlled AOG is brought into the war against Japan. Many view the entry of the German corporate state into the Japanese-German conflict as a last desperate attempt by the Germans to either halt Japanese expansion in Asia or reverse it entirely.
China further descends into chaos as the mysterious Shangqing Tianguo, a highly closed and religious state that seeks to create a new "kingdom of heaven", invades the warlord nation of Xibei san ma.
At this point I decided to up the difficulty, from normal to hard. This should make the inevitable world war rather interesting. Also note, that this will not be the only time I raise the difficulty.
German influence grows in Europe, as Hungary, and its ally Croatia, join the Mitteleuropan alliance.
Syndicalist influence grows too, this time in South America. The Brazilian syndicalists decide to throw in their lot fully behind the internationale, entering into a military alliance with the French.
This is followed soon by the full entry of Bolivia into the Internationale. It is clear that Syndicalism is fully entrenched in Latin America now, and will require nothing short of all out war to remove the blight of international syndicalism form the western hemisphere.
The lines in Europe are now being drawn in Scandinavia, as the authoritarian government of Sweden decides to enter the Mitteleuropan alliance led by Germany, ending years of Swedish neutrality.
The entry of Sweden into Mitteleuropa is followed closely by the entry of Finland into the same alliance. It looks like the Germans are trying to get whatever allies they can to help prepare themselves for a final showdown with the French and their allies.