Byrd Man

World in Revolution: 1900

I noticed the 1900 US presidential election wasn't in the update. Don't know if you guys forgot about it or it it's going to be it's own thing.

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HeySeuss said
I am open to suggestions, but I was leaning toward the idea that we go week to week rather than post by post -- so we figure out how much time has passed IC in an OOC week.

I like that. That should keep us from moving along at a nice and steady pace.

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I am curious on how we'll keep track with the progress of time. Are we going to just keep progressing events in the IC posts as we go, will you just do time skips at certain points?

World in Revolution: 1900

I hate to do this but I'm going to give up Germany. I just don't know enough about the country at the time period and don't have the time to do the research to where I'd be comfortable running the country.

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Found a few figures on US occupations around 1950 and added them to my sheet.

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Posted my sheet. Let me know if I need to add on anything.

The Sword of Damocles: Cold War NRP (Sheets)

Nation's full name: United States of America

Population: 150,697,361 per the 1950 Census

Current leadership:

Harry S Truman - President
Alben Barkley - Vice President
Dean Acheson - Secretary of State
George C. Marshall - Secretary of Defense
General Omar Bradley - Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
General Douglas MacArthur - Supreme Commander Allied Powers, Japan
Walter Bedell Smith - Director of Central Intelligence

Government Type: Federal, presidential constitutional republic

Military Strength:

As of 1950

Army
593,167
Navy
380,739
Air Force
411,277
Marines
74,279

Total
1,459,462

Occupation Forces

West Berlin/West Germany: 80,000
Austria: 9,500
Trieste: 4,800
Japan and Japanese Islands: 50,000


State of the Union Summary:

Five years removed from the end of World War II, The United States now stands as the dominant superpower in the western world. The culture, economic philosophy, and of course the Truman Doctrine and its vow to stop Communist expansion around the globe has placed the US as the main foe to the Soviet Union. American military and economic might in the form of the occupation of western Germany and the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe have been two of the biggest foreign policy efforts of the Truman administration. George Kennan's policy of communist containment has spurred Truman and his administration to be tough on Communist aggression abroad. On the domestic front, a growing movement by Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy has placed the fear of Communist infiltration in the government in the minds of many US citizens. Another growing movement is the Civil Rights movement throughout the southern states. Black voters in the south seek to break free of the Jim Crow laws that have led to their disenfranchisement while the Democratic Party fights with its image as the part of liberal america while many Southern Democrats fight tooth and nail to prevent blacks from getting the vote.

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Working on a US sheet at the moment. Should have it done by tonight.

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I played a Cold War game earlier this year and had fun. I'd like to be the US if nobody else has called dibs on them.

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Yeah I had my heart set on the US, but I won't complain too much about getting Germany instead. I'll do what I can/do my best with them.