History Literature / RedsARevolutionaryTimeline

* RidddleForTheAges: The true identity of the infamous Brazilian Green Guard "O Diabo Verde" and his ultimate fate at the end of WWII remains a mystery. Some even speculate "O Diabo Verde" was a CollectiveIdentity for the leaders of the Green Guard.

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* TenMinuteRetirement: The Soviet ranks of the great heroes of 1945 are filled with many officers who lost their mettle and were dismissed in 1941 for "incompetence" but called back to service.
* TwentyFifthAmendment: Following the July Crisis brought on by [[spoiler:the assassination attempt on President Wood and his eventual death]], the "Executive Succession Amendment" is created to clearly define under which conditions the Vice-President can assume the powers of the President in his stead and clarify the lines of succession and command. It becomes the Nineteenth Amendment a year later.
* AbdicateTheThrone: Edward VIII actually avoids his OTL abdication and is allowed to marry Wallis Simpson, who becomes Princess Consort rather than Queen. However he is still forced to abdicate as the anti-interventionist government of Edward Wood he supported is deposed by a vote of no confidence and replaced by a new government that will declare war on the Axis.
* AcePilot: Mentioned and deconstructed somewhat, noting that the Nazis almost certainly lied about their ace pilots' kill counts, and the Nazi habit of keeping their ace pilots running sorties until they died instead of rotating them back out to train new recruits meant that Luftwaffe had a hard time maintaining the skill of its pilots in the face of attrition. It also meant that they wouldn't pass on their skills onto other pilots, making the air force perform worse overall.
* ActionGirl: Jane Schafer, a young woman who grew up during the revolution, and after reaching adulthood, made the jump from PluckyGirl to this by joining the army. Not much of her character arc has been revealed yet, except for her being highly decorated for her service in the Second World War (as well as gaining quite a few scars from it, both of the physical and mental kind).
* ActualPacifist: Some pacifists oppose American entry in World War II, even to fight against Fascists. Their political campaign against war is mostly ignored but sometimes vilified. Conscientious objectors called to service are assigned to non-combat roles far from the front to respect their beliefs.
* ActionPolitician:
** Tom Lawson is a decorated war veteran and first man in space who becomes a People's Alliance politician pushing environmental policies later in life.
** Harry Haywood enters politics and becomes Premier after a long carrier in the armed forces where he continues to push for an aggressive foreign policy.
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Jacques Doriot and Pierre Clémenti, the fascist leaders of the ''Parti Populaire Français'' and the ''Parti Français National-Collectiviste'' respectively, enjoy a cordial relationship ITTL while IOTL Clémenti was deeply hostile towards Doriot because he considered him still to be a communist.
* AdaptationalUpbringingChange: [[UsefulNotes/JacquelineKennedy Jacqueline Bouvier]] and her sister Caroline Lee are orphaned by the Second American Civil War.
* TheAlcatraz: After the Red May Revolution, the UASR expands the Alcatraz prison to serve as the primary repository for infamous counterrevolutionaries and only a single person, Alvin Karpis, ever managed to successfully escape..
* TheAlliance:
** The Vladivostok Compact (VOSCOM) is a military alliance uniting Comintern members and its allied fellow traveler regimes. The INTREV (International Revolutionary Armed Forces) is a unified military command to coordinate the different national armies of VOSCOM.
** The Federation of Greater Central America, despite its name implying it is TheFederation, is actually an alliance between the dictatorships of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador against the Comintern-allied regimes encircling them. The alliance is dissolved with their complete defeat in the Central American Revolutionary War.
** The Axis is the obvious villainous example. It gets expanded compared to OTL with the addition of Brazil, Bolivia, Petain's France, Paraguay, Nationalist Spain, Sweden, Turkey and Iraq.
** After the Western Allies join the war against the Axis, they and the VOSCOM form the United Nations.
** The Western Allies form the Alliance of Free States (AFS) after WWII. Consequently, the liberal and communist powers which fought the Axis are more often collectively referred to as the United Nations in historiography rather than the Allies.
* AlliterativeTitle: The franchise ''Commander Columbia'' has some alliterative titles, the title of the franchise itself and the subtitles of some entries: ''Transamurian Troubles'' and ''Alaskan Avenger''.
* AllohistoricalAllusion:
** President Taft proclaims "peace and prosperity in our time" during the 1914 State of the Union address only to have a world war break out soon after, making his declaration an analogue to [[UsefulNotes/NevilleChamberlain British Prime Minister Chamberlain's]] in OTL.
** The US Marines are given their nickname by their enemies during WWI, but instead of being named "devil dogs" by the Germans like in OTL they are called "western wolves" by the Ottomans, being deployed in the Middle East rather than on the Western Front.
** Henry Wallace becomes People's Secretary of Agriculture in the UASR, just like he became Secretary of Agriculture in OTL USA.
** The American ''Biennio Rosso'' is analogous to the Italian ''[[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biennio_rosso Biennio Rosso]]'' of 1919-1920, the latter happening in both OTL and Reds!TL.
** The Southern Strategy makes an appearance as a political project, but rather it being the Republican party trying to get disenchanted Dixiecrats to vote for them after the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, it is instead the Workers' Party of America trying to bridge the gap between poor whites and blacks in the South and motivate them to become joint revolutionaries against the "Bourbon class".
** The term "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boom Baby Boom]]" is coined to designate the major increase in birth rates attributed to the return of millions of soldiers and the end of wartime conditions, but in the post-WWI era instead of the post-WWII era.
** The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Commune is an organization focused on supporting the Asian American community in the United States and one word away from a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_East_Asia_Co-Prosperity_Sphere much less benevolent organization]].
** The Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act of 1925 are analogous to the OTL [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964]] and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965 Voting Rights Act of 1965]].
** US senator Hamilton Fish III goes on a witch hunt for communists in the army and the government and has a list of supposed communist sympathizers. [[UsefulNotes/JosephMcCarthy Does this reminds you of anyone?]]
** The Breen Code is a direct analogue to MediaNotes/TheHaysCode.
** African National Congress is the name of both an African-American political organization affiliated to the Workers' Party and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_National_Congress the OTL South African political party]].
** The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study Tuskegee Experiment]] is proposed but never happens thanks to the opposition of socialists within the Public Health Service.
** The right-wing of the Workers' Communist Party supporting the appointment of [=MacArthur=] as Secretary of War after Norman Thomas' Presidential election mirrors Salvador Allende, socialist president of Chile, appointing Pinochet as Chief of Staff of the Army. Both [=MacArthur=] and Pinochet went on to overthrow the democratically elected socialist government.
** The central command of the Provisional Government's military, the All-American Central Committee for Anti-Fascist Militias and Red Guards, is nicknamed [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States) Antifa]].
** There are numerous allusions to the exile of the Nationalists to the island of Formosa (Taiwan) after their defeat in the Chinese Civil War:
*** The United States government's exile to the island of Cuba is the first and most blatant one, with Macarthur serving as Generalissimo and PresidentForLife for the United States of America-in-Exile up until his death and Americuba's subsequent transition to Liberal Democracy
*** The Greek Anti-Communists lose the Greek Civil War and flee to Crete, what is left of the now-partially-recognized Kingdom of Greece after revolution claimed the mainland
*** Interestingly, the exiled Spanish Free Soviet Republic[[note]]Spanish Republic's rename in the aftermath of the Civil War's first phase when the PCE consolidated power within the Popular Front[[/note]], based in the Canaries after the government fled the Nationalist-Petainist invasion in WWII, is a communist allusion.
** The discussion on in-universe AH.com about the possibility of an obsolete aircraft carrier air group like the ''Kitty Hawk'''s sinking a modern British battleship alludes to the OTL sinking of the Bismarck, where the battleship was disabled by ''Swordfish'' torpedo bombers and subsequently destroyed by the Royal Navy ships.
** Upton Sinclair says in a speech "It is not the beginning of the end; rather the end of a beginning", which was said by UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill in OTL.
** Elements of Communist Mexico are nods to Mao's Communist China: Both countries are considered still semi-feudal by Communists when they take power. Zapata develops an ideology named after himself in which agrarianism and rural guerilla warfare are central tenets analogous to Maoism. The army is known as the Mexican People's Liberation Army.
** The armed forces of this timeline's Communist China are known as the People's ''Revolutionary'' Army, a nod to the alliance-turned-merger of the CPC and its armed wing (which becomes the PLA in our timeline) with the KMT and the National Revolutionary Army.
** After the 1940 coup and revolution, Iran's military rebrands itself as the National Liberation Army, which was the name of the People's Mojahedin Organization's paramilitary in OTL.
** Right after the Second Civil War the UASR enacts policies reminiscent of the OTL Franklin D. Roosevelt presidency, such as the National Industrial Recovery Act to restructure the economy and the Tennessee Valley Industrial Project analogous to the great works undertaken in OTL under the Tennessee Valley Authority.
** The True Democrats' status as an honeypot for dissidents filled with StateSec informants is based on the OTL Communist Party USA, which is nicknamed "the fed party" in leftist circles because of the perception that it has been thoroughly compromised by FBI infiltration and their tendency to support the Democratic Party no matter what. A similar allusion exists to some extent with the Australasian Section of the Communist International, with many leftists in-universe accusing their authoritarian and ideologically sectarian attitudes to be due to "Fed" infiltration into their ranks to make Communism as unpalatable as possible to Australasians.
** The term "people's democracy" was used in OTL to designate Communist bloc regimes that were ostensibly multi-class and multi-party, but in reality were controlled by their communist parties with little independence for their supposedly allied parties. In ''Reds!'', people's democracies are social democratic regimes led by a leftist popular front including communists and allied to the Comintern without establishing a dictatorship of the proletariat.
** The "Two Ocean Navy Act" signed in 1936 has a similar purpose of strengthening the American Navy as the one signed in OTL 1940.
** The slogan "Communism is Twentieth Century Americanism" used by the DFLP for its political platform is directly taken from OTL Earl Browder's platform during his tenure as leader of the Communist Party USA.
** In the film ''Aelita'' (1937) the Earth scenes are [[DeliberatelyMonochrome shot in black-and-white]], while Mars is shown in Technicolor, alluding to the OTL Film/TheWizardOfOz where Kansas is in black-and-white and the world of Oz in Technicolor, with the reveal of Mars in color becoming an iconic scene just like the reveal of the World of Oz is in OTL.
** Howard Rushmore's most famous article is an eviscerating critic of the film ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'' in the ''Los Angeles Times''. In OTL, Rushmore was fired from his job at ''The Daily Worker'' because the editorial board [[{{Irony}} found his critic of the movie insufficiently negative]].
** The split of the True Democrats between a mainline "Official" Democratic Party and a "Provisional" Democratic Party in the 1930s mirrors an OTL split within the Irish Republican Army in 1969.
** The Red Trinitarian Ecumene espouses a doctrine known as liberation theology, invented thirty years in advance and much more communistic than OTL.
** A fundamentalist splinter of the Mormon Church founded after the Second Civil War is named "The Third Convention" after the OTL splinter group in Mexico.
** Operation Ajax, an American-sponsored political coup against the Pahlavi Shah in Iran to establish a Comintern-friendly regime, follows the same patterns as the historical one in 1952 (including the orchestral role of a person named Kermit Roosevelt), except that ITTL it takes place in 1940 and it is a Communist regime that's established afterwards.
** The Communist bloc refers to World War II as the World Revolutionary War (WRW) or Great Revolutionary War (GWR), similar to how the Soviet Union/Russia (both OTL and ITTL) calls it the Great Patriotic War.
** UsefulNotes/HarrySTruman becomes Deputy Premier during the World Revolutionary War (WWII), the equivalent to US Vice-President, the position he held in OTL 1945 (However, like both OTL Roosevelts Presidents he never becomes the leader of America).
** The paramilitary arm of the Free American State, led by Virgil Effinger, is named the Schwarz Legion, a translation of the name of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Legion_(political_movement) terrorist organization]] Effinger founded IOTL.
** The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ware_Group "Ware Group"]] becomes the name of a group of diplomats led by Harold Ware coordinating with some diplomats and contacts in capitalist Europe, instead of a covert organization of Communist Party USA operatives within the United States government in the 1930s.
** Operation Valkyrie is the name of a German offensive aiming to capture Moscow, instead of an emergency continuity of government operations plan.
** Japanese Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku takes inspiration of an Allied raid on an Axis fleet to conceive a similar attack on the American fleet, the American attack on the Brazilian fleet at Natal inspiring the Japanese attack on Aleutian Islands. IOTL he took inspiration of the British raid of Taranto for the attack on Pearl Harbor.
** Nazi Germany establishes the ''SS-Kommissariat Salfrank'' as a personal fiefdom for Heinrich Himmler, alluding to the Ordensstaat Burgund proposed IOTL.
** The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]] is created by the Palestine Communist Party in Jordan and recruiting from refugees across ethnic lines to liberate their homeland from Axis occupation.
** The Portsmouth Incident is the "Battle" of Los Angeles transposed to Great Britain.
** Anti-Spanish State groups named the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETA_(separatist_group) Euskadi ta Askatasuna]]'' and the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Antifascist_Patriotic_Front Frente Revolucionario Antifascista y Patriota]]'' are founded shortly after the Falangist invasion of Soviet Spain.
** The end of WWII sees the rise of a two blocs, one Communist and one Capitalist, engaged in a ColdWar against each other.
** The Philippines are divided between a capitalist South and a communist North after WWII, just like OTL Korea.
** After the World Revolutionary War, the UASR organizes the Truman Aid/Plan to help rebuild Europe as an analogue to the OTL Marshall Plan.
** The acronym JDPON is lifted from OTL Maoism-Third Worldism and given a different meaning, the "Joint Dictatorship of the Proletariat of Occupying Nations" designates the VOSCOM administration of occupied countries after WWII (including North-East Italy, East Germany, Romania, Turkey and Japan).
** Howard Hughes' Hughes-Welch Broadcasting Corporation is one to OTL Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation (the owners of Fox) as a conservative media empire.
** The FBU operates a radio station aimed at Comintern nations named the Voice of Europe, analogous to Radio Free Europe IOTL.
*** Americuba does the same with its Radio Free America, an analogue to Radio Martí broadcasting anti-communist messages to Cuba from Miami, broadcasting anti-communist messages from [[{{Irony}} Cuba to Miami]] and up to New Afrika.
** One forum poster thinks it would've been unlikely for Georgy Zhukov to rise to prominence in place of Frunze had the latter been purged. [[{{Irony}} Yet this is exactly what happened IOTL]], Zhukov becoming the most famous Soviet commander of WWII.
** Arthur [=MacArthur's=] defection from Americuba to the UASR parallels Svetlana Alliluyeva (Stalin's daughter) defecting from the USSR to the United States IOTL.
** The infamous film-producer Harry Cohn's death from a heart attack in 1958, while corresponding to his OTL death, also is an allusion to the death of [[Creator/WarnerBros Harry Warner]] that same year. Both caused by the great personal defeat of having their film company (Columbia in Cohn's case, Warner Bros in Warner's case) bought out from under them by Jack Warner (Cohn's rival and Harry's fellow "Warner Brother").
** Barry Goldwater attempts to run for political office in Americuba's 5th District in 1964 but is beaten, alluding to his OTL defeat in the 1964 US presidential election.
** A war still erupts over the Falklands between Argentina and Great Britain (actually the Franco-British Union ITTL), but due to both sides being part of the rival blocs the war takes much greater proportions, coming close to provoking WWIII.
** Following Canada's turn to Communism in the 1980s, the late 1980s see the growth of a local cultural movement called "Canuck Kitsch", revolving around nostalgia for pre-Red Canada, especially products available in Canada before the Red Turn. This is meant invoke a similar cultural phenomenon from OTL in the East Germany areas after the fall of the wall, called "Ostalgie", which is similarly about [[WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell nostalgia for the old East German state]].
** Elon Musk, still a rich businessman ITTL, invests some of his money in starting a VideoReviewShow with himself as the host, which proves quite popular, leading him to build up an entire company, called [=NerdWorks=], around his reviews, which ends up picking up several similar internet shows, much in the vein of ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' and Website/ChannelAwesome of OTL. To strengthen the parallel, Musk and [=NerdWorks=] land in hot water in the late 2010s when a scandal involving allegations of widespread mistreatment and toxic workplace environment amongst his fellow content creators rocks the company, very much similar to the [=#ChangeTheChannel=] controversy of OTL.
** The history of Maggie Pie, a meat pie chain that's the largest fast food enterprise in the AFS, mixes elements of the corporate histories of different fast food chains. Like KFC, its founder designed a way to cook a labor intensive food faster: Colonel Sanders invented the pressure fryer, which greatly reduced the time needed to maked fried chicken, Maggie Pie's founder Alistair [=MacDuff=] invented a machine to cook a meat pie faster than anyone else and opened his shop to demonstrate. Also like KFC, it's founder also serves as it's mascot, but gradually drifts away from the company and begins feuding with the new owners.[[note]]The part in the Maggie Pie story where Alistair goes to restaraunts, asks to sample the food, and then chews the workers out if he didn't like it? [[TruthInTelevision That was something Colonel Sanders did in real life.]][[/note]] Like UsefulNotes/McDonalds, it was formed by a wealthy outsider who visited the shop and liked what he saw, and then gradually took over the business: Ray Kroc liked what his milkshake-mixer clients the [=McDonald=] brothers were doing with their original California restaraunts and bought the company out, Richrd Finlay did the same. Mickey D's has the Happy Meal, Maggie Pie has the Fun Meal, and Maggie Pie has another mascot named Mr. Magpie who serves as the [[Advertising/McDonaldland Ronald McDonald equivalent]]. But it also incorporates other stories of giant, faceless corporations: the studio buying and mismanaging Eastman Pictures parallels how the Coca-Cola company owned Columbia Pictures IOTL, and Finlay's large, politically connected family reflects Wal-Mart owners the Walton family.
** While Albert Speer is primarily a non-factor in this story with his role in the Nazi War effort being taken over by Henry Ford, and Henry Ford himself would be eventually executed for his crimes rather than be allowed to escape justice, Speer's role as a postwar figure associated with the Axis that both escaped justice and created a myth using their memoirs whitewashing their war-time conduct and their own commitment to Fascist ideology would be filled by UsefulNotes/FranciscoFranco, whom writes multiple memoirs painting himself as a moderate and apolitical officer appalled by the conduct of Jose Sanjurjo and Emilio Mola and whitewashing his support of Sanjurjo's coup and his own participation in Falangist atrocities.
* AltarDiplomacy: [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethII Princess Elizabeth Windsor]] marries Henri of Orleans, the Orleanist pretender to the throne of France, in order create permanent links between France and Great Britain after the creation of the FBU and avoid the royal family appearing as wholly foreign to the French by having a French prince consort and half-French heirs.
* AlternateHistory: What if America had a Communist Revolution in 1933 (leading to a Communist democracy)? Complete with excerpts of the universe's Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom speculating about alternate history scenarios from their own history.
* AlternateHistoryWank: Multiple ideologies and nations are subject to this:
** The United Republics cause a wank for the communist movement, being an already industrialized nation with sophisticated infrastructure and a large scientific community. A series of revolutions in Central and Latin America inspired by the American revolution expanded the Comintern membership to dozens. The United Republics also successfully creates a democratic state and leads the USSR and the wider communist movement away from authoritarianism.
** The Axis is also wanked, Nazi Germany and Italy avoid most of their EasyLogistics problems and gain access to Libyan oil, along with initial financial support from Britain and France, while Brazil, Turkey, Sweden and Iraq are taken over by fascist governments, resulting in the former two outright joining the Axis powers as an equal partner, and the latter two forming a strategic alliance with Nazi Germany. This happens because otherwise the Axis would be [[CurbStompBattle curb stomped]] by the combined American and Soviet forces which [[AntiClimax would not make for a very interesting story]].
** Inverted with neoliberalism, which is mostly a fringe ideology only taken seriously in Dutch politics. The Capitalist Bloc by TheNewTens have vast welfare states which in most cases are more expansive than what existed in real life, as a way for capitalists to prevent the working class from joining communist movements.
* AlternateTechline: Downplayed. Television in the Comintern takes a different direction from OTL, being based on projection television using CRT projectors, while AFS television is much more familiar.
* AmazonBrigade: A very literal example. The all-female combat units of the Red Army during the 30s and 40s are often called "the Amazon Regiments" colloquially.
** In the beginning they are used as [[ReassignedToAntarctica a dumping ground]] for incompetent and politically unreliable male [=NCOs=] and officers, leading them to regard their task to train women soldiers as a punishment and to treat the women under them badly with a large dose of mysogyny.
* AmbiguouslyGay: The relationship between Jiang Jieshi and Zhou Enlai.
* AmericaTakesOverTheWorld: Downplayed. Thanks to its more developed industrial and technological base and being the only other powerful communist state, the UASR quickly matches the USSR's level of influence over the Comintern and eclipses it after Stalin's death. In fact some would accuse the UASR of "social imperialism" and of controlling the global communist movement in its entirety, but while they would prove very influential they do not control everything, secretly or otherwise.
* AmoralAfrikaner: The South African National Republic, a splinter of the old Union of South Africa which formed during the Azanian Revolution, is a white supremacist settler state oppressing its native African population. It is also the only fascist state in existence as of the present, which has made it a pariah in the international community.
** Somewhat downplayed in Rhodesia's case. While it is still very much ruled by a racist, colonialist regime, it has managed to maintain membership in the AFS and normalize relations with other members, even the native-governed and democratic East African Federation next door. This is largely due to the concessions it has made towards native Africans within its borders to win their compliance as well as policies [[DivideAndConquer elevating certain black ethnic groups deemed "civilized" above others within Rhodesian hierarchy]].
* AnachronismStew: There is a class of American cruisers serving during WWII named after the song ''Fields of Athenry'', which is actually a case of modern artist pretending their original composition was a traditional folk song to borrow the gravitas. When Spartakrod (who wrote the entry) found out, fae decided to keep the name because fae liked the song and its subject, instead deciding this timeline's version of the song was created in the 1930s.
* AnimalThemeNaming: As IOTL, the tanks of the German Reich are well-known for being given names of animals, particularly big cats: [=PzKpfw=] IV Nashorn ("Rhinoceros", TTL [=PzKpfw=] VI Tiger), [=PzKpfw=] 50 Jaguar (TTL E-50), Jagdpanther[[note]]The Jaguar is chosen over the Panther for development and all existing materials is recycled to create a heavy assault gun/tank destroyer, the Jagdpanther[[/note]], [=PzKpfw=] 25 Guepard.
* AntiMutiny: [[spoiler:Patton]] mutinies with his loyal men and successfully rallies the Bonus Army against [=MacArthur=].
* ArgentinaIsNaziLand: As IOTL, several Nazis, Fascists and collaborators manage to escape the collapse of the Axis.
** Harry Bennett, who followed his employer Henry Ford to Germany and was involved in his crimes, flees to Brazil as Germany is about to fall, living under an assumed name. He is captured by the Palestinian intelligence agency and deported to East Germany in 1966, where he is sentenced to life imprisonment.
** Richard Heinz, an American POW turned Nazi camp guard, escapes to England then Canada, where he lives under an assumed name until his arrest in 1993.
** Heidi Glockner, another Free American State collaborator, is found living in the London suburbs, arrested and put on trial in 1961.
* ArmchairMilitary: Salgado and the integralists expected Argentina to collapse as soon as the Brazilian army would reach the capital. It didn't, they vastly underestimated the resolve of their enemies.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In order to prevent a Socialist Labor Party victory at the 1916 midterm elections the Wilson government arrests without trial dozens of SLP candidates, attempts to suppress voting, and, the most incredible, makes an agreement for Democrats and Republicans to not stand for election against each other.
* AscendedExtra:
** IOTL [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_De_Leon Daniel De Leon]] and his ideology of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Leonism De Leonism]] are only a minor part of the history of American socialism and are largely forgotten. In Reds!TL he is the founder of one of the most important political parties in American history and his ideas become part of the foundations of the UASR.
** Leonard Wood takes the place of Theodore Roosevelt as one of the most influential American presidents known for their progressive reforms, even being remembered in Communist America as one of the better ones.
** Pretty much every prominent American socialist mentioned in the timeline is subject to this as a result of their party and ideology gaining much more prominence than IOTL and eventually power as well.
** Since there is no biographical information about Solon De Leon, the son of Daniel De Leon, and he was presumably apolitical IOTL, he is used as a sort of a literary blank slate by the authors for the purpose of the timeline.
** Georges Catroux takes Charles de Gaulle's place as a French WWII military leader who becomes an important politician and leader of his country later on, becoming Prime Minister of the FBU in 1960 (around the time de Gaulle became president IOTL).
* AssassinationAttempt:
** One major point of divergence in the timeline is the absence of one: Leon Czolgosz is arrested for vagrancy by a [[BigotWithABadge racist cop]], before he can make his assassination attempt on President [=McKinley=].
** Venustiano Carranza's plan to assassinate Zapata fails and instead Carranza himself is assassinated in an internal coup in 1920.
** In 1927, [[spoiler:a successful one happens on Independence Day against the popular reformist-Republican President Leonard Wood at the hands of [[AngryWhiteMan a KKK member, who was angry at his broad reforms helping to enfranchise black people in the South]]. Wood is gravely wounded by two shots to the chest in the attempt, and succumbs to his injuries seven days later, leading to his Vice-President, UsefulNotes/HerbertHoover ascending to the presidency.]]
** Puniša Račić attempts to kill Stjepan Radić, leader of the Croatian People's Peasant League, but unlike OTL his attempt fails.
** The 1932 assassination attempt against Japanese Emperor Hirohito by a Korean independence activist, known as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakuradamon_Incident_(1932) the Sakuradamon Incident]], still takes place. [[spoiler:What is changed though, is that the attack is slightly more successful as Hirohito is seriously wounded in the attempt and never fully recovers from his injuries, and is ultimately left partially incapacitated, allowing his younger brother, Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu, to assume the position of Kanpaku, the Emperor's chief advisor, thereby becoming the ''de facto'' head of the Japanese state.]]
** William "Big Bill" Haywood is assassinated by the Whites during the Second American Civil War.
** Óscar Benavides narrowly misses an assassination attempt during an inspection of the soldiers assigned to his guard during the Peruvian Revolutionary/Civil War. The experience intensifies his paranoia dramatically and he starts refusing to come out of secured locations in anything less than an armoured car.
** ''Undzer Shtik'' enforcer Arthur Flegenheimer, aka Dutch Schultz, makes a botched attempt to assassinate Metropolis Attorney General Joseph Brodsky, prompting J. Edgar Hoover to focus his efforts on the "National Crime Syndicate" alliance of Italian and Jewish organized crime.
** On 28th April 1940, John Birch attempts to assassinate Premier William Z. Foster, as he speaks at Emma Goldman's funeral in Chicago. Birch is unsuccessful as a Red Guard spots him in the crowd trying to pull out a gun, and tackles him to the ground, causing the shot meant for Foster to hit another funeral guest, H.L. Mencken, non-fatally in the arm instead. Foster is still left deeply shaken by the event, and eventually it becomes a decisive factor in his decision to retire from his office and public life shortly thereafter.
** Dai Li orchestrates an attempted assassination of Wang Jingwei during which the latter is shot in the groin. He survives but has to take a 'temporary' leave to recover, in spite of his protests, and Zhou Enlai takes over Wang's duties effective immediately.
** On 1st September 1940, Secretary of the Treasury Bernard Baruch is victim of an attempted car bombing outside his office killing his chauffeur. A young German-Americuban Nazi sympathizer named Herman Stuhl is eventually arrested, claiming that Baruch was an agent of the "International Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy".
** A National Socialist and Fascist League sympathizer attempts to stab Commonwealth Workers' MP Willie Gallacher as he is giving a pro-interventionist speech. Gallacher survives, but notably, King Edward blames Gallacher's "fiery rhetoric" for the incident.
** In 1966, the white supremacist Robert B. Patterson carries out an attack against Premier Richard Nixon with a handgun. Though Patterson manages to hit and wound his target before he is stopped, Nixon survives and eventually makes a full recovery.
** Claire L. Summers attempts but fails to assassinate Premier Harry Haywood out of devotion to the ideas of Jaime Grump, a former Fantastik writer turned deranged cult leader in the 60s.
** Mark John Johansson attempts to assassinate Premier Fred Hampton on an helicopter attack, but due to his inexperience he crashes and kills himself rather than his target.
** Americuban President Jay Rockfeller is assassinated by Neo-Integralists in 1988.
** Revmira Malekov unsuccessfully attempts to assassinate politician Harry Belafonte in 1989.
* AssassinOutclassin: A member of the German-American Bund attempts to plant a bomb at the ''Chicagoer Arbeiter-Zeitung'' but ends up losing the bomb in the sewers and having to be rescued.
* AssholeVictim:
** While the persecution of political rivals in the beginning of the United Republics is clearly inexcusable both in and out of universe, many of the victims of the old {{Kangaroo Court}}s and summary liquidations were indeed people who tried to stifle American democracy, like the KKK.
** Trofim Lysenko, a pseudo-scientist who contributed to famines that killed millions of people IOTL, is arrested by the GUGB for complicating Soviet-American relations and sentenced to hard labor before he can commit the same in ''Reds!''.
* AuthorAppeal: Aside from the expected negative portrayal of capitalism, the Troika will gladly admit to these:
** All three members are queer[[note]]Aelita is a non-binary lesbian, Spartakrod is pansexual, non-binary and uses fae/faer pronouns, Miss Teri is a transgender lesbian[[/note]], so several characters in TL are queer. Aelita herself once noted that in her TTL rewrites of OTL American pop culture, she has a tendency to [[Rule63 change the heterosexual male main characters into queer women]].
** In general, it's become a bit of a running joke among contributors that anything Spartakrod likes would probably be a part of the TL anyways, including but not limited to Franchise/{{Godzilla}}, heavy metal music, and Franchise/{{Metroid}}. When fae began writing the lore for Commander Columbia and the Rubyverse, many people thought it was a self-indulgent exercise in this, but it's really more of the culmination of a very different global animation scene that arises from the Second American Revolution, [[TropesAreTools and it still works because the narration points out how unprecedented the whole thing was in-universe]].
** Miss Teri loves superhero comics[[note]]MediaNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks being her favorite[[/note]] and classic sci-fi, so her pop culture contributions commonly explore how those genres have evolved.
** Both Aelita and Spartakrod are Jewish, so many parts of the timeline delve into forgotten parts of Jewish history. Aelita focuses on the cultural and political aspects, while Spartakrod imbued the Rubyverse with themes reflecting UsefulNotes/{{Kabbalah}}. Neither of them are big fans of the modern State of Israel, so ITTL Palestine is a secular, multinational socialist state for Jews and Arabs.
** As for the individual contributors themselves: Hawkatana is a fan of Main/{{Toku}}, Asami is the self-proclaimed "loremistress of baseball", Rise Comics writes about car culture and motorsports.
* [[invoked]]BackedByThePentagon: The WFRA makes the same sort of agreement with filmmakers as the US Armed Forces do IOTL for the use of their equipment and the help of experts, including denying such services if the movie depicts its servcemen in a light it doesn't appreciate, in which case filmmakers usually can rely on the Mexican Army as it uses the same equipment.
* BadassBoast: When Nicolas Repetto, the President of Argentina, asks aloud who will support them against Brazilian invasion, the arriving Mexican delegate reassures him.
--->'''The Mexican delegate''': "Comrade, no member of INTREV stands alone."
* BalkanizeMe:
** The Ottoman Empire/Turkey suffers a worst balkanization after WWI than IOTL, closer to the one envisioned in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_S%C3%A8vres Treaty of Sèvres]].
** Spain is divided after the Spanish Civil War results in a stalemate, but only for two years as the Spanish State invades the Spanish Free Soviet Republic after joining the Axis.
** Occupied Germany (which includes Austria) and Italy are subject to a division between two sides, one communist and another capitalist, after WWII.
** The Greek Civil War divides the country between a communist mainland and a capitalist island of Crete.
** The Philippines are divided between the capitalist Commonwealth of the Philippines in the south and the communist Free Philippine Republic in the north after WWII.
** The South African Revolution results in the division of the country between the socialist People's Union of Azania and the fascist and white supremacist South African National Republic.
** Indonesia is partially dismembered during a war, with parts of it annexed by Malaya and Australasia, leaving the rump Socialist Union of Nusantara to remain independent.
* BandOfBrothels: The Red Garters trade union is founded to organize sex workers, burlesque performers, the workers of public bathhouses, and the support staff, and their defense against pimps and government suppression. As a result sex workers become reliable spies and saboteurs for the Reds during the Second American Civil War.
* BavarianFireDrill: Essentially describes Longworth and [=MacArthur=]'s suspension of the Constitution and attempted power grab. It doesn't work.
* BetterTheDevilYouKnow: Jiang Jieshi invokes this when he decides to join the Japanese rather than possibly have China under Soviet-American influence.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled:
** Nicholas Longworth, the disgraced political leader of the National Salvation Front coup, attempts suicide by hanging in his prison cell, rather than face official prosecution by the Socialist government. His attempt fails when he is discovered in the act.
** The Green Guard's most fanatical units decide that rather than face the justice of war crime trials in the days following Brazil's official surrender to the United Nations and the restoration of the Empire they may as well die on their feet. This results in Salgado's most die-hard fanatics gathering for one last charge, announcing their intention to attack the troops that were meant to accept their surrender with a final broadcast of "Death before Dishonor" and being killed to a man after a spectacular but unwinnable fight. It would almost be poetic if they weren't a StateSec fond of terror tactics, war crimes, and raping female [=POWs=].
* [[BigBadDuumvirate Big Bad Quadrumvirate]]: The main powers of the Axis: Germany, Italy, Japan and Brazil.
* BlatantLies: After the establishment of the UASR, their diplomats speak with those of the United Kingdom of peaceful coexistence, which both sides know to be a bald faced lie, but one useful to them right now as it gives the UASR the international recognition it desires and the UK can suspend its foreign debt obligations both public and private to the United States government or to American financial institutions. The French are quick to follow the British on it.
* BloodOnTheDebateFloor:
** A fistfight erupts between Workers' Party and Democratic Party representatives over racist remarks made by the latters.
** In the early days of the UASR, some Anarchist delegates would several times get into fistfights with non-Anarchist delegates during heated constitutional and legislative debates.
** In France, a fistfight erupts in the National Assembly on new year's day 1939 over siding with the Comintern to contain the Axis or staying the course with the United Kingdom.
* BombThrowingAnarchists: Played with and subverted. The Workers' Party defended anarchist terrorists in court of law before the Revolution, while the General Union of Anarchists take a moderate view of the new socialist state due to the strong influence of syndicalism in the Workers' Party, even having famous anarchist Emma Goldman serving as Secretary of Labor to enforce strong workplace regulations and mandatory union membership.
* {{Bookends}}: The Prologue and the last entry of Part I, ''The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized'', both feature the character of Marius Gracchus thinking/talking about the new world birthed by the Red May Revolution in which he firmly believes.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The brainwashing of WFRA soldier Richard Heinz by the Free American State, being [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil steadily broken through torture]], shown of anti-communist propaganda, and [[ReforgedIntoAMinion groomed into a fanatical Nazi by Pelley himself]] turns the young POW into an [[FaceMonsterTurn extremely brutal Nazi camp guard]] who tortures prisoners for his own amusement.
* BreakingTheGlassCeiling:
** Crystal Eastman becomes the first female Attorney General, Emma Goldman the first female Labor Secretary and Louise Bryant the first female Culture Secretary in 1933, making them also the first female cabinet ministers in America.
** UsefulNotes/AmeliaEarhart becomes the first woman to complete a round-the-world flight.
** Haim Kantorovitch becomes the first Jewish head of state of America as Secretary-General of the Presidium after the retirement of Upton Sinclair.
** Creator/AnnaMayWong becomes the first woman of color to win the Oscar for Best Actress for her role as O-Lan in ''The Good Earth''.
** Damir Maksudi, a Volga Tatar (and fictional character), becomes the first non-Slav to hold the position of Commander-in-chief of the Soviet Ground Forces.
* BurgerFool: A twist on the trope at any rate. UsefulNotes/McDonalds, the real life TropeCodifier, is butterflied away ITTL, so burgers and fries never becomes the stable of fast-food, but the concept of fast-food in and of itself, and with it fast-food chains, still eventually comes into being, with the largest franchise being Maggie Pie, a Scottish themed company which specializes in serving cheap and quickly-made meat pies.
* BurnBabyBurn:
** In occupied Barcelona, amid the White Terror, works by authors and artists deemed "subversive" or "degenerate" are burned in front of the Catedral de la Santa Creu i Santa Eulàlia. Among those burned are works by Picasso, Dali, Ernst, Hirsfield, Kafka, and Miro.
** When the Western Allies declare war on the Axis, Salgado has the French and British consulate set on fire.
* BTeamSequel: Thanks to the end of intellectual property after the Revolution, different studios and creative teams can make their own sequels, such as ''King Kong Returns'', a sequel to ''King Kong'' where the giant ape battles against a giant two headed eagle named Aquillon.
* CainAndAbel: Martin Heinz participated in the hunt for his own brother, American Nazi camp gua Richard Heinz, to bring him to justice despite being just a postman.
* CallARabbitASmeerp:
** Roger Nash Baldwin and Crystal Eastman still found an organization to defend the rights of Americans and free speech in 1917 but call it the Civil Rights Bureau instead of the National Civil Liberties Bureau. In 1920 it merges with the Socialist Labor Party's General Defense Committee, set up to defend the right to strike and protest to create the International Labor Defense Committee, which serves as TTL's American Civil Liberties Union.
** Similarly, the American Civil Liberties Union is instead known as the National Civil Liberties Union.
** The Disney brothers found Hyperion Animation Studios instead of Disney Brothers Studios like IOTL, becoming the Hyperion Animation Collective after the Revolution.
*** WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse is known in Reds!TL by the name Walt Disney originally wanted for the character: Mortimer Mouse, nicknamed "Morty" subsequently.
** The American federal law enforcement agency is named NBI, National Bureau of Investigation, instead of FBI like IOTL.
** The terms "Uranian" and "Sapphic" are used to designate gays and lesbians respectively.
** The Hoover Dam is instead known as the Boulder Canyon Dam.
** Molotov cocktails are instead known as Sanjurjo cocktails from their use by Spanish Republicans.
** Tofu is known as doufu in America, borrowing from Mandarin instead of Japanese.
** ''Fantastik'' is used as an umbrella term for fantasy and science-fiction in this timeline.
** "UsefulNotes/TheBechdelTest" is instead known as "Eastman's Law".
** The German Reich authority covering the Baltic states and Belarus is called ''Reichskommissariat Baltenland'' instead of OTL ''Ostland''.
** The Panzer VI Tiger is instead known as the Panzer IV Nashorn (IOTL, the Nashorn was a German tank destroyer).
** Several OTL American planes exist with slight differences and different names[[labelnote:List]]B-17 Flying Fortress becomes B-19, C-47 Skytrain/Dakota becomes C-39 Dakota, A-20 Havoc becomes A-14 Shillelagh, P-39 Airacobra becomes F-34 Belladonna, P-47 Thunderbolt becomes FA-35 Yeoman and P-51 Mustang becomes F-41 Guardian[[/labelnote]].
** Project Manhattan is known ITTL as Daisy Bell instead.
** Korea is better known as Chosun and Japan as Nippon after World War II.
** The Communist bloc refers to World War II as the World Revolutionary War (or the Great Revolutionary War sometimes).
** The European Union is instead called the European Continental Federation.
** The UASR's Nasa is known as the AeroSpace Exploration and Development Administration (ASEDA).
** Rap music is instead known as Toast music.
* CapitalOffensive: During WWII, Brazil aims to defeat Argentina by taking their capital and directs most of its army to do so. The ensuing siege and battle is one of the most important of the South American Theater but ultimately fails to take the city or force the Argentinians to capitulate.
* CassandraTruth: When Alice Paul tries to get published accounts of sexual predation targeting women she interviewed to expose their abusers most newspapers refuse to print them and she is fired from her job. Downplayed as the socialist press proved more receptive, and she began a long partnership with Max Eastman's journal ''Masses'', although she was also victim of infantilization within the movement that frustrated her.
* TheChainOfCommand: Confusions over who has authority over who when the president is incapacitated are what cause the July Crisis to happen.
* ChildSoldiers: The desperate Axis powers on the brink of defeat remedy to their lack of able bodies by using children as soldiers.
* ChummyCommies: The United Republics and communists in general are pretty clearly the heroes, in spite of moral complexities. They do include some individual DirtyCommunists, like Stalin and Beria.
* {{Cincinnatus}}: The Marxist interpretation of the "dictatorship of the proletariat" is this, as enacted more-or-less successfully by the Workers' Communist Party of America. The principle was that during the revolution, the whole of the working class, organized by the party, would take complete control of the state in order to enact its transformative program. In-universe, how well they fit this ideal is less clear.
* CivilWar:
** The SecondAmericanCivilWar is fought in 1933 between the National Salvation Front of Nicholas Longworth and Douglas [=MacArthur=], who took power by murdering the socialist President-Elect Norman Thomas before he could take office, and initiating a mass arrest of the leaders of the Communist-dominated Popular Front. This only ends up provoking the revolution Longworth and [=MacArthur=] [[NiceJobFixingItVillain claimed to want to prevent]]. The war ends with a Red victory, leading to the establishment of the Union of American Socialist Republics, the foremost Communist power along with the Soviet Union.
** The Central Plains War (1930-1931) opposes the Republic of China under the KMT-CPC United Front and supported by the Soviet Union to anti-United Front warlords and ends thanks to a deal brokered by the Japanese government. Hostilities would resume a few years later and merge into the Second Sino-Japanese War.
** Peru goes through a civil war in 1935-1936 between the leftist Mariateguistas and the Benavidistas, supporters of the government. The Mariateguistas win and establish the Socialist Union of Peru.
** The Brazilian Communist Party launches an uprising against the Vargas government but it fails like IOTL.
** The UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar, opposing the Republicans to the Nationalists led by José Sanjurjo, lasts from 1936 to 1938 and ends in a stalemate dividing Spain in two between the Axis-aligned Spanish State and the Comintern-aligned Spanish Free Soviet Republic.
** The Austrian Civil War errupts between the leftist Republicans and pro-unification Fascists. The intervention of Nazi Germany decisively gives victory to the latter, leading to the Anschluss.
** As the French government had just declared war on the Axis, pro-Axis forces within the army attempt to despose the government, starting a civil war. It ends with the pro-Axis side in control of the country and the pro-Allied forces forced to go into exile.
*** The pro-Allied forces eventually return, now part of the Franco-British Union, to defeat the French State.
** The Tibetan Civil War begins after a failed coup by Tibetan reactionaries forming a pro-Japanese government in Nagqu to continue their revolt against the Tibetan government, which sides with China and the United Nations in turn.
* CoincidentalDodge:
** Vice President-Elect Upton Sinclair escapes arrest or execution by the Putschists only because he was attending to party business in Chicago, and not in Washington to prepare for the inauguration.
** Antonio Aranda barely escapes the Falangists' purge on ''Dia de Reyes'' by virtue of spending a late night in the government offices, and was able to flee into France over the next few days.
* LesCollaborateurs:
** ITTL Polish right-wing nationalists work with the Third Reich's General Government.
** The Republics of Daehan and Insulindia are led by right-wing nationalists serving as proxies for the Japanese Empire.
** Since the French State is a member of the Axis instead of a German puppet state governing from Vichy, the TropeNamers actually don't work as collaborators to the Nazis but as their allies.
* CommieNazis: American white supremacists economically pivot to socialism during the Cold War as the restoration of capitalism becomes unrealistic and no longer attracts much supporters even among reactionaries, and they reinterpret their racism as a defense of the economic interests of white Americans.
* {{Conlang}}: The Green Guard speaks a secretive conlang called Uzumrik.
* ConspiracyTheorist:
** William Burke, the [[spoiler:assassin of the President]], left behind a manifesto accusing President Wood of being in an adulterous relationship with a black woman, a secret agent of the international communist movement, a Jew, and a Freemason, conspiring to "negroize" the white race.
** Due to a miscommunication about [[spoiler:President Wood's death]], Hoover is accidently sworn in almost a full hour before the time. Due to this, and other unsightly coincidences in the affair, conspiracy theories begin to form [[spoiler:around the assassination]] in later years.
*** One of them states it is the doing of a cabal of business and political leaders including William Randolph Hearst, who becomes Hoover's Vice-President.
** The National Salvation Front during the Civil War and the Nazis during WWII believe their opposition has been duped by "foreign agitators", Jews and leftists, and will take little effort to convince them to join their war against communism. They are wrong.
** Robert W. Welch becomes a popular voice amongst the in-exile American government on Cuba, eventually getting his own radio talk show, ''Private Opinion'', where he preaches anti-Communism, his own brand of pro-Capitalist Christianity, and support for [=MacArthur=]'s regime. However, in the early 1960s, around the same time [=MacArthur=]'s health starts waning, Welch's radio show takes an increasingly bizarre and erratic bent, as his radio sermons start turning into unhinged rants, speaking of communism as an "ancient, satanic conspiracy" in league with the Illuminati, which he believes is run by the British Royal Family. Welch's superiors at first quietly edit out some of his weirder outbursts from the broadcast, but following [=MacArthur=]'s death, it gets harder to ignore the fact that Welch is slowly, but surely going insane, as he publicly accuses [=MacArthur=]'s successor, Robert Kennedy, of being a high ranking MDSS agent codenamed "Raven", controlled by J. Edgar Hoover to assassinate [=MacArthur=] and assimilate Cuba into the UASR. ''Private Opinion'' is then eventually taken off-air in 1964 for inflammatory rhetoric against the President ([[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and for promoting dubious health products]]). This doesn't sit well with Howard Hughes, who gets in touch with Welch and gives him a platform on his private radio station, over protests from his business advisors that Welch is too unstable and erratic to be trusted, allowing Welch to bring back ''Private Opinion'' in 1966. At first, Welch is given great editorial freedom by Hughes, allowing his publicly broadcasted ramblings to get even weirder and crazier, culminating in in the early 1970s where he repeatedly accuses the government of the French-British Union of being in on the Communist-Illuminati conspiracy; this results in trouble and embarrassment for Hughes, as he has been commissioned to work on governmental projects for the FBU and makes him realize that he has to rein Welch in to some degree, so he has him gradually KickedUpstairs, having more and more of ''Private Opinion'''s airtime devoted to guest spots, while Welch is made director of programming and production, effectively taking him and his opinions off the air. Welch doesn't get any less crazier, however, and instead start obsessively wasting company resources on sending lower-ranking staff reporters out all over the world to find evidence for his insane theories (unsurprisingly, these expeditions all prove fruitless). Welch finally manages to burn his last bridges in 1980, as he causes a major incident when he breaks onto the set of the live talk show ''The Red Hour with Lord Richard Cecil'' during broadcast, pushes the host out of his seat and angrily yells about the FBU being in cahoots with the Illuminati and conspiring to ensure the "Satanic World Order", before the show is cut off. Hughes, having died in 1976, is not around to protect Welch this time, and he is immediately fired and effectively blacklisted from all media business.
** The circumstances of Stalin's death remain uncertain to present day and are subject to a notably abundant number of conspiracy theories from some of his supporters, some claiming the UASR assassinated him (with means ranging from a landmine to direct artillery fire and often involving [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy Sean Cinnéide]]) so they could turn the USSR into their PuppetState after also getting rid of Beria and his other loyalists, while others credit a "revisionist clique" seeking to "institute weak leadership that would be unable to adequately combat global capitalism". Some even claim Stalin faked his death and covertly emigrated to America, taking the name "Joseph Steele". In reality the death of Stalin was most likely due to [[spoiler:German]] artillery schrapnel, despite some reasonable doubts preventing a definitive conclusion, and not an assassination but simply an unexpected opportunity for Frunze and his BenevolentConspiracy to rid the Soviet Union of its authoritarian leadership.
** The assassination attempt on Richard Nixon spurs a number of conspiracy theories casting doubt on the report of the Commission led by Sean Cinnéide which investigated it.
* ContinuitySnarl: One entry mentioning Jacques Doriot describes him as the general secretary of the SFIC, implying he was never expelled from the party like OTL and thus remained a Communist. However, a later entry explains he followed a fate similar to OTL, becoming a fascist leader after being expelled from the SFIC.
* CoolPlane: The Soviets largely use the same planes they did in our timeline, while the British use some different aircraft such as the Avro London heavy bomber. The Germans start the war with the usual Bf-109s, Stukas, and Ju-88s, but move onto more advanced TA-190s and unlike OTL; make use of a four-engine strategic bomber known as the He-277 well regarded by all sides in the war. The American lineup is perhaps the most changed with aircraft like the F-35 Belladonna and the B-23 Superfortress (roughly equivalent to the B-29). The Italians and Japanese make their own entrees into the cool plane contest of course.
* CoolShip: The Enterprise, America's most decorated warship ever, also appears in this timeline, albeit with some alterations. In terms of battleships, the Yamato, Fate, Il Duce, and Lion class battleships are probably the most grandiose expressions of this trope as the world's navies race to build the biggest and meanest ship they can.
** Deconstructed somewhat with the Bismarck, where its OTL design flaws that lead it to being several thousand tons heavier than the USS North Carolina class battleship while having less firepower and being less well defended from long ranged plunging fire are called to attention in an in-universe thread. More specifically, the German battleships are built around a "banded armor, turtleback" scheme where armour is generally spread across the ship while the Citadel (the most heavily armoured part of the ship meant to protect the vital components) was quite small and only guarded absolute essentials. America, Britain, and Japan however use "all or nothing", where the ship focuses on protecting the most vital areas (the belt, the citadel, and the deck) and only leaves the minimum for everything else to save weight. This means that shells striking nonvital parts of the ship will simply pass through, whereas the Bismarck had just enough armour to let shells arm and detonate after penetrating non-vital components. The Bismarck's armour scheme is excellent in close ranged naval combat like the kind seen in the First World War, but because of the thin deck armour in particular and the small citadel not protecting a number of secondary components, is not well suited to protecting from long ranged, radar directed "plunging fire" where shells come in from a steep angle onto the top of the ship.
*** The effects of these are seen in the battle of Iceland between the American and German fleets where despite the Germans having a significant advantage in the number of capital ships, are crushed by the Americans in the gun battle. Bad design choices with regards to German aircraft carrier design also mean that despite having two carriers to America's three at the battle, the Americans had a three to one numerical advantage in number of planes.
* CorruptChurch: One major criticism of American Communists against religious institutions like the Salvation Army is that they are more concerned by the spiritual salvation of the poor than taking care of them, a sentiment sometimes echoed by pro-socialist priests who feel abandoned by their leadership.
** The Free American State practices Silver Christianity, combining Nazi Positive Christianity with Pelley's own spiritual beliefs, drawn from theosophy, spiritualism, Rosicrucianism, and pyramidism.
* TheCoup:
** Victoriano Huerta's, Bernardo Reyes' and Félix Díaz's coup overthrows the Mexican government of Francisco Madero and happens a year earlier than OTL and with German instead of American support.
** In 1920 another coup takes place, resulting in the assassination of president Carranza and the takeover of Adolfo de la Huerta, Álvaro Obregón, and Plutarco Elias Calles.
** Field Marshal Józef Piłsudski's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Coup_(Poland) May Coup]] fails in this timeline but he is acquitted in his trial for treason.
** General [=MacArthur=] and First Secretary Longworth attempt to make a coup to prevent the Workers' Communist Party from assuming power after winning the 1932 elections because they fear they will transform the USA into a communist state. The coup is not entirely successful, leading to the Second American Civil War and ironically kickstarting the Communist revolution they sought to kill in the crib.
** The Bolivian military coups the government with the help of nationalist paramilitary groups, claiming the Bolivian left to sell the country out to the Comintern.
** The Integralists led by Plinio Salgado take advantage of the communist uprising to successfully overthrow Getúlio Vargas (unlike OTL where the attempt failed), founding the fascist ''Estado Novo''.
** The Charleston Putsch (or Uprising) is an attempt by the South Carolina Sons of the Confederacy, a subdivision of the Sons of Liberty, to seize Charleston, the capital of the African National Federal Republic and inspire an uprising to restore the United States and white supremacy in the South on the fourth of July 1935. However, the legislature manages to escape and the terrorists find themselves besieged in the Marion Square Capitol complex by the Red Guards, who storm the building ten days later, putting an end to the insurrection.
** The French far-right leagues' [[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crise_du_6_f%C3%A9vrier_1934 attempt to take the Palais Bourbon and install a new government]] is thwarted before the OTL demonstration can even take place as the plot is discovered, leading to the arrest of key members of the Action Française by the Gendarmerie.
** The Second American Revolution encourages some left-wing groups across the American continent to take power by force in their own countries (others do so through elections), sometimes with direct American involvement (but since they are independent rebels movements allied to America rather than its puppets, they avert RegimeChange situations).
*** In Nicaragua, following the conclusion of a pact with rebel leader Augusto Sandino, UASR Marines conduct an amphibious landing near the capital of Managua, forcing the surrender of government forces with minimal bloodshed to the rebels.
*** In Panama, junior military officers, supported by American forces in the canal zone, overthrow the government of Augusto Samuel Boyd, allowing the formation of a socialist republic.
*** The Socialist Republic of Chile is declared after a coup by junior military officers with the support of the trade unions and the Communist Party of Chile.
*** In Haiti, an alliance of left-wing groups, led by the Communist Party, takes power in a bloodless coup.
*** The Dominican Revolution erupts with American pressure fanning the existing flames and preventing Trujillo's government from suppressing them. A coalition of Dominican leftists take power, forming the Dominican People's Republic, and Trujillo is arrested.
*** In Argentina a popular revolt forces President Hipólito Yrigoyen into exile and his replacement by a short-lived military regime is in turn overthrown and replaced by a new "people's democracy" regime led by a leftist popular front.
*** In Liberia the government almost goes through a RegimeChange but avoids it by caving in to UASR demands, only to be overthrown within two years by a popular revolt.
** The Kōdōha seizes control of the Imperial Japanese government in a relatively bloodless coup in 1936.
** Italian former major general Emilio de Bono attempts to gather support from the military old guard for a coup because they felt threatened by the young officers and their new theories of warfare Mussolini seemed to favor, but the plot is discovered and arrested by the secret police before it can be executed. Afterwards Mussolini sidelines the old officers completely in favor of the more politically reliable young officers.
** The Spanish Civil War starts with the same attempted military coup as IOTL.
** Codreanu's Iron Guard seizes control of Romania in 1938.
** Czechoslovak President Edvard Beneš is deposed after he signals a willingness to capitulate to German demands on the Sudetenland. A provisional government is formed with the participation of political parties opposed to Nazi aggression.
** Soong Qingling and her faction conduct a soft coup of the Republic of China government, definitively ousting Wang Jingwei and aligning China with America.
** Incensed by growing ties between the "Red Monks" in the Kashag and the United Front, a coalition of landowners and reactionary clergy in Tibet attempt to abduct the Dalai Lama and remove the current government but fail and are forced to flee to Nagqu, where they form a rival government.
** A part of the French military led by Field Marshal Pétain attempts a MilitaryCoup to prevent the country from joining WWII on the same side as the Comintern, seeing Nazi Germany as the lesser evil. The partial failure of the coup leads to a CivilWar between Loyalists of the French Republic and the Pétaintists of the newly formed French State.
* {{Crossover}}: The half-film ''Libertas Invicta'' is a crossover featuring Captain America and Commander Columbia.
* CurbStompBattle:
** It takes about three months for America, Mexico and Nicaragua to defeat Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador during the Central American Revolutionary War. In particular the American Marines and paratroopers defeat the enemy troops with little effort.
** It takes a month for the German Reich to invade and conquer Poland with the Soviet Union also attacking from the east.
** The invasion of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia by the coalition of Italy, Bulgaria and Hungary crushes the country in less than a month.
** The Axis invasion of Norway forces the country to capitulate after 15 days.
* CurbstompCushion:
** Nazi Germany and Hungary force Czechoslovakia to capitulate in less than two months. However what shoud've been a much shorter war was prolonged by the Czechoslovaks' tenacious resistance and issues plaguing the German ''Wehrmacht''.
** Operation Teutonic, [[spoiler:the Nazi invasion of the USSR which kick-starts TTL's World War II. The Soviets lose across the board but they do put up a decent fight all things considered and do manage to score several small victories that prevents the invasion from being an outright curb stomp. Operation Mercury, the Soviet counteroffensive in Northern Ukraine, manages to encircle and capture an entire Panzer division, slightly making up for the much larger encirclement and capture of Soviet troops in Byelorussia]].
* DarkHorseVictory:
** When the Second American Civil War begins, [=MacArthur=] and the National Salvation Front appeared to have the upper hand and were expected to easily crush the WCPA-led Provisional Government thanks to a superiority in numbers and equipment. However, the illusion is shattered by defeats, munities and numerous defections within their own ranks, the situation becomes reversed in a couple of months and the war ends with the NSF fleeing to Cuba while the United States are dissolved and replaced by the Union of American Socialist Republics.
** Emilio Mola and the Spanish Falange emerge victorious from the power struggle among the Nationalists despite their leader having recently been disgraced by efficiently reorganizing the Falange and biding their time for the right moment to strike and take power.
* DayOfTheJackboot:
** On Wednesday, 1 February 1933, President Hoover signed, under duress, an executive order that declared the United States to be under threat of unlawful insurrection, declaring a state of emergency and martial law, and suspending Habeas corpus indefinitely. Furthermore, Lieutenant General [=MacArthur=] would [[EmergencyAuthority exercise the president's commander-in-chief authority for the duration of this crisis]], marking the beginning of [=MacArthur=] Putsch.
** On March 30th 1936, the Kōdōha install a new Japanese government espousing a totalitarian, militaristic and expansionist doctrine.
** On February 24th 1938, Codreanu's Guarda Fiera takes over Romania.
** On January 6th 1942, the Spanish Falange took power and their leader Emilio Mola imposed himself as Prime Minister. The Falange took control of police stations and radio towers, then kidnapped and murdered the prominent members of the rival Carlist and Alfonsite factions. They finally marched on the Palace of El Pardo to lay out their exigencies, Mola would be made PM and the Falange the sole legal party and the incapacitated Caudillo Sanjurjo was forced to accept.
** On January 8th 1942, William Joyce and his National Socialist and Fascist League attempts to re-enact Mussolini's March on Rome by leading 6000 supporters to march on London and the 10th Downing Street to oppose the looming British declaration of war on the Axis, counting on royal support to carry them in power. However the march is defeated by counter-protesters and the police breaking up the riot and arresting Joyce, while Edward VIII's declaration of support is published too late thanks to some (intentional) mishaps from the Royal staff, ensuring the complete failure of the pro-Axis camp to take power in the United Kingdom.
* DeathByAdaptation:
** Pyotr Krasnov is captured and executed by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War because he tried to escape later than in OTL. This results in HistoricalVillainDowngrade for him as it means he never goes on to collaborate with the Nazis during WWII.
** Micheal Collins is killed earlier, on 24 May 1920 by the British instead of on 22 August 1922 by Anti-Treaty Irish forces.
** First Secretary James Mann dies a year earlier than in OTL. President Wood seizes the opportunity to strengthen his hold on the Republican Party by reshuffling the Cabinet.
** Eugene Talmadge dies on 9 August 1925, two decades earlier, in an arson attack by the Georgia Red Army.
** The Emperor Taishō passes away three months earlier than in OTL.
** Charles Lindbergh dies during his transatlantic flight, presumably due to choosing London as his goal instead of Paris, and it's presumed he crashed somewhere over the Atlantic as he never arrives.
** Richard E. Byrd and his crew disappear during their Antarctic expedition in 1929 and are presumed dead.
** Walter Chrysler dies during the Civil War of wounds from the battle between his striking workers and the Pinkerton scabs he hired.
** William Faulkner dies from a hit by an errant shell during the Civil War.
** Mob boss Johnny Torrio is killed in a shootout with MDSS agents in 1934 and his successor Al Capone is killed a year later in a failed bank robbery by the Chicago Militia, marking the end of the Chicago Outfit.
** Peruvian dictator Óscar Benavides dies ten years earlier in 1935 to Peruvian revolutionaries.
** Ruth Harkness, Quentin Young, and Gerald Russell disappear on their expedition searching for Giant Pandas and are presumed victims of fighting in Sichuan province between the rival Chinese governments.
** Charles Luciano is executed in 1937 by the UASR.
** John E. Rankin dies 21 years earlier than OTL, executed by the UASR for being the Imperial Wizard of the KKK.
** Emma Goldman dies almost a month earlier than OTL.
** Fritz Julius Kuhn dies 11 years earlier, killed as he is attempting to resist arrest in a San Francisco boarding home.
** Laura Ingalls Wilder is executed in 1940 for counter-revolutionary activity and treason.
** Joseph Stalin [[spoiler:is killed by stray artillery fire during the Battle of Moscow in 1941]].
** Santo Trafficante Jr. dies 11 years earlier under mysterious circumstances.
* DeathMarch: Turanist Turkey subjects the Armenian and Greek populations of the Straits to one stretching from Constantinople to the Pontus Mountains.
* DecisiveBattle: The Battle of Chicago marks the turning point of the Second American Civil War in favor of the Reds. The White forces bleed defectors and fail to break the defense of the Reds and are eventually counter-attacked and encircled, shattering the Army of the Mississippi and forcing its commander, General Marshall, to surrender to the Reds.
* DecoyConvoy: Paul Matthews and his squad use this tactic to successfully draw the Germans away from the real convoy of artworks they were planning to attack.
* DefectorFromDecadence:
** JFK in this timeline. At first his exiled family think he died in the revolutionary violence and hold him up as a martyr only to learn later he actually joined the Revolution, changed his name to Sean Cinnéide and went to study at West Point.
*** And he is not the only "turncoat bourgeois son", merely one of the most prominent examples.
** Charles Sorensen, who works for Nazi collaborator Henry Ford, resigns following the occupation of his native Denmark by the German Reich. He moves to Canada to work for Edsel Ford's Ford Motor Company in exile.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Not all members of the Workers' Party share the more progressive members' support for greater women's and sexual minorities' rights. Notably, Alice Paul recounts being treated in a patronizing manner by some of her fellow socialists after joining the party.
** As a whole, life in the TCI might be ''better''...but it's also highly militarized compared to OTL. The UASR and other red nations still have the draft, and high schoolers are [[AxesAtSchool taught how to use guns.]] The doctrine of mutually assured destruction doesn't exist, and there has been more than one nuclear bombing.
* DemotedToExtra: Several important figures, namely US presidents of OTL, never arise to the same positions of power and influence.
** UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt never becomes a US President, instead remaining the Vice-President of [=McKinley=] and [[VicePresidentWho becoming for the most part forgotten]]. He continues to have a minor role in US politics as an "Independent Republican", becoming Secretary of the Navy in President Marshall's first cabinet and Secretary of State in the third but he never becomes as influential as he was IOTL (being replaced in the role of the progressive reformist-Republican president by Leonard Wood). After WWI he becomes part of the Major League Baseball Commission and after the Red May Revolution becomes a latter-day communist as he finds in the Workers' Communist Party an audience for his conservationist proposals.
** Downplayed for Woodrow Wilson, who never becomes president but still becomes an influential figure of American politics as First Secretary.
** Warren G. Harding never becomes president but remains an important conservative Republican senator.
** Likewise, UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt never becomes president, he serves as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in the 1910s like he did IOTL, serves as Party Chairman/Secretary-General of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party from 1936 to 1946 and People's Secretary for Foreign Trade from 1938.
** Same for UsefulNotes/HarrySTruman, who first gains fame for defecting from the White Army at the start of the Putsch and forming the Minutemen, a paramilitary wing for the DFLP, fighting with distinction alongside the Red Army during the Second American Civil War. After the war he enters politics and becomes Party Leader of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party in 1937, successfully modernizing the party and keeping it relevant, Deputy Premier during WWII and General-Secretary after it.
** In the older versions, Herbert Hoover played an ([[ShameIfSomethingHappened unwilling]]) role in the start of [=MacArthur's=] attempted coup. But in the newer canon, it's First Secretary Nicholas Longworth that conspires with the military to overthrow the government and Hoover was simply forced to rubber stamp the destruction of American democracy.
** UsefulNotes/FranciscoFranco never becomes the leader of the Spanish State as José Sanjurjo and Emilio Mola never die in plane crashes. After fighting on the losing side of WWII he becomes a successful writer, with several of his books receiving film adaptations, and an advisor to the formation of the European Continental Federation. He also becomes the subject of a myth he helped craft with his memoirs whitewashing him as a moderate and apolitical officer appaled by the radicalism of Sanjurjo and Mola. In truth he was only a moderate by opposing Spanish involvement in WWII, was a staunch anti-communist and a supporter of Sanjurjo's military coup, and participated in the atrocities of the Spanish State in places like Irun. The Franco Myth also exaggerates Sanjurjo's own radicalism, being actually an average Alfonsite monarchist believed to be more radical than he was because he was associated with Emilio Mola.
** UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill doesn't become Prime Minister of the UK during WWII, but does become the leader of the pro-war Conservatives.
** UsefulNotes/CharlesDeGaulle never become the leader of Free France, remaining a general of some importance and never developing an important post-war political career.
* TheDictatorship: The timeline features multiple examples of dictatorships.
** The USSR under Stalin is an hybrid of Types 2 and 3, it stops being one after his death and the reforms of Frunze's Internationalists.
** Americuba under [=MacArthur=] is an hybrid of all three types, being led by a [[TheGeneralissimo general]] with a CultofPersonality around him and power is concentrated in the hands of the single party, the National Salvation Front. After [=MacArthur=]'s death and the assumption of the presidency by RFK, it becomes a flawed liberal democracy, having not shed all of its authoritarian legacy.
** Fascist states are an obvious example, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Integralist Brazil mixing Types 2 and 3, while Imperial Japan under Prince Chichibu is a Type 1.
* DidYouActuallyBelieve: In the historical miniseries ''Vanguard'', Theodore Roosevelt Junior, Robert Taft and Orland Loomis go to confront Earl Browder over the Communists' decision to scrap the US constitution and form a new socialist republic instead of keeping to the agreement that they would be fighting to restore the Constitution and nothing more. In response Floyd Olson points out their profession is politics and therefore lies while Browder expresses surprise it took them this long to realize they would do it and presents the order as a simple recognition of the political reality of the situation.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: General Dmitry Pavlov is still killed by his own side in the early stage of the German invasion of the USSR (which happens a year earlier than OTL), but as a mercy kill after being mortally wounded instead of executed for "incompetence".
* DifferentStatesOfAmerica: Most of the United States became the Union of American Socialist Republics, a communist state, after the Red May Revolution.
** The foundation of the UASR sees the addition of Chicagoland and Metropolis (formerly New York City and Long Island) as separate republics, and Hawai'i, several Native American territories based on reservation territories[[note]]Apachean Autonomous Federal Republic (covering the Apache, Navajo and Hopi reservations), Great Sioux Autonomous Republic (a restoration of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sioux_Reservation Great Sioux Reservation]]), Sequoyah Autonomous Republic (covering the former [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Territory Indian Territory]])[[/note]] and an African-American-majority territory covering the Black Belt[[note]]First called the Negro Soviet Republic, then the African National Federal Republic. It is created from the states of Mississippi and South Carolina and most of the states of Alabama and Georgia.[[/note]] as Autonomous Socialist Republics. The District of Columbia (renamed to Debs Commune) is expanded with lands from both Virginia and Maryland.
*** Cuba was annexed as a US state during the Second American Civil War by the [=MacArthur=] regime, but the annexation is not recognized by the UASR.
** By TheRoaringTwenties the United States are much more culturally, religiously and linguistically diverse than they were IOTL and moreso under the UASR as it doesn't share the [[TheAssimilator assimilationist]] ambitions of the old USA.
*** Notably, article VII of the Basic Law of the UASR provides for all laws, decrees and public documents of the government to be made available in German, Yiddish, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Chinese and Russian.
*** American food is much more diverse. By the 1920s and 30s, Americans are already much more familiar with staples of the East Asian diaspora like tofu and the UASR actively promotes a diversity of ethnic food traditions as part of Langston Hughes' "nation of nations" program.
** Housing becomes centered around superblocks designed to avoid excessive separation between living and working spaces, is designed to be much more communal as the traditional family unit is overturned, and benefits from a much more developed public transportation network, especially railways.
** Post-Civil War architecture sees modernism and constructivism become greatly influential, DFLP-dominated areas prefer the Vienna Secession style while the [=ASRs=] are mostly influenced by neoclassicism and classicism.
* DifferentWorldDifferentMovies:
** [[Franchise/UniversalHorror The Universal Monsters franchise]] (OTL 1923-1960) are known as The Lankershim Monsters (ITTL 1921-1968) since the Universal studios are renamed to Lankershirm Collective after the revolution. The list is much different from OTL, some being never made or original to TTL and some non-Universal Monsters films being part of it, but a few are essentially the same as OTL.
*** ''[[Film/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame1923 The Hunchback Of Notre Dame]]'' is the same except it is made two years earlier than OTL.
*** ''[[Film/Dracula1931 Dracula]]'' is initially shelved due to Breen Code censorship regarding its content and eventually released two years later than OTL.
*** ''Film/Frankenstein1931'' is subjected to extensive cuts and reshoots done by Universal in the wake of the ''Dracula'' controversy. This earns the ire of Director Creator/JamesWhale, who fortunately saved the original cut, allowing its release after the revolution and the lift of the Breen Code.
*** ''[[Film/TheMummy1932 The Mummy]]'' is made two years later than OTL but otherwise is unchanged.
*** ''[[Film/TheInvisibleMan1933 The Invisible Man]]'' is made two years later than OTL and is directed by Tod Browning (instead of James Whale) and starring Creator/BelaLugosi (rather than Creator/ClaudeRains).
*** ''Film/DraculasDaughter'' is directed by Edgar G. Ulmer (instead of Lambert Hillyer IOTL).
*** [[Film/BrideOfFrankenstein The sequel]] to ''Frankenstein'' is made a year later than OTL and as ''Frankenstein Rises'', directed by Robert Florey (rather than James Whale).
*** ''Film/MurdersInTheRueMorgue'' is made four years later than OTL due to being stalled and eventually halted by Universal, with Lambert Hillyer (instead of Robert Florey) as the director and Creator/LonChaney (instead of Bela Lugosi) in the leading role.
*** Instead of ''Film/WerewolfOfLondon'' (which is mentioned as an unmade project), an adaptation of Guy Endore's 1933 novel ''Werewolf of Paris'' is made with Endore writing the screenplay himself, directed by Creator/EdwardDmytryk (instead of Stuart Walker) and starring Lon Chaney alongside his son [[Creator/LonChaneyJr Creighton Chaney]].
*** ''The Mummy Walks'' is a sequel to ''The Mummy'' (consequently ''Film/TheMummysHand'', being a semi-reboot of the first one, and its sequel are never made), though centered on an Incan mummy this time, played by Creator/JohnCarradine and Creator/LupeVelez as the (eventual) love interest. Also starring Jon Hall and directed by Rowland V. Lee.
*** ''[[Film/SonOfFrankenstein Frankenstein]]'''s second sequel, ''Frankenstein's Journey'' stars Creator/PeterLorre as "Manfred Frankenstein" and is directed by Erle C. Kenton (instead of Rowland V. Lee).
*** ''Film/SonOfDracula'' is made three years earlier than OTL and is directed by Victor Halperin (instead of Creator/RobertSiodmak).
*** ''Invisible Agent'' is made a year earlier than OTL as ''Invisible Man in Baghdad'', set in the wartime Middle East. Starring Vincent Price and Turhan Bey, and directed by Ford Beebe (instead of Edwin L. Marin). The monster movie sequels mostly take on a more B movie tone from this point on.
*** ''The Mummy Lives!'', is made in 1942 and set in wartime China as the second sequel to ''The Mummy''. Starring Jon Hall (opposite a Chinese American cast) and directed by Harold Young and Esther Eng.
*** ''Film/PhantomOfTheOpera1943'' is the same as OTL except for Music/FranzLiszt being played by Lon Chaney (instead of Creator/FritzLeiber) as a cameo.
*** ''The Bride of Frankenstein'' is ''Frankenstein'''s [[Film/TheGhostOfFrankenstein third sequel]] instead of [[Film/BrideOfFrankenstein the first]] and made a year later than OTL. Ramsay Ames replaces Elsa Lanchester as the titular Bride. The film stars Elyse Knox, and Creator/LionelAtwill, and is directed by Dorothy Arzner (instead of Erle C. Kenton), none of which were associated to the OTL film.
*** [[Film/TheMasqueOfTheRedDeath An adaptation of]] ''TheMasqueOfTheRedDeath'' is made 19 years earlier than OTL, with Bela Lugosi as Prince Prospero and Boris Karloff as the titular Red Death, and directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.
*** ''Dracula Meets Frankenstein'' replaces OTL ''Film/FrankensteinMeetsTheWolfMan'' as the first Universal/Lankershirm MonsterMash, with Creator/VincentPrice as Dracula, Creighton Chaney (instead of Bela Lugosi) as Frankenstein's Monster, and John Carradine as a mad scientist and directed by Reginald Le Borg.
*** ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon'' takes place in the Colombian, instead of OTL Brazilian, jungle and has Creator/RayBradbury as a co-screenwriter.
*** ''Film/EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers'' is known ITTL as ''Attack of the Flying Saucers!'' ans is directed by Nathan Juran (instead of Fred Sears).
*** The [[Film/RevengeOfTheCreature sequel]] to ''Creature from the Black Lagoon'' is known ITTL as ''The Creature Returns!'' and is made two years later than OTL. The story is also different, being about another Gil-Man caught and held in a Bogota zoo, eventually gaining the sympathies of two zoologists.
*** ''[[Film/TheThingFromAnotherWorld The Thing]]'' is made six years later than OTL, starring Boris Karloff as a scientist involved in early manned space exploration dealing with an astronaut infected by an alien disease.
*** ''[[Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds1953 War of the Worlds]]'' is made seven years later than OTL.
** Creator/DWGriffith's project to make [[Film/TheBirthOfANation1915 an epic adaptation]] of ''The Clansman'' novel flounders, becoming a victim of the drive towards wartime propaganda. Instead he makes an epic adaptation of ''Literature/BenHur'' in 1922 (with Creator/RudolphValentino in the titular role), helping usher in a new age of epics to capitalize on its success.
** ''WesternAnimation/SinkinInTheBathtub'', the first of the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes series, features the character of Foxy instead of Bosko.
** TTL's equivalent of ''Literature/ItCantHappenHere'' is the film ''Gabriel Over the White House'', "The Last Film of White America", which inadvertedly predicted in 1932 elements of General [=MacArthur=]'s coup, its plot revolving around the General-turned-President Buzz Windrip receiving a religious vision that he must save America after the newly-elected President Judd Hammond is incapacitated in a car accident, becoming a dictator who violently crushes dissent until Hammond wakes up from his illiness and returns to power. The film is largely funded by William Randolph Hearst and predicated on the idea of Hoover winning re-election in November. The socialists encouraged its boycott and with the eruption of the Second Civil War copies were destroyed by Red forces. The film is considered "lost" with no remaining complete copies and actively researched by lost media enthusiasts.
** ''ComicStrip/FlashGordon'' is first published in 1934, as in our world, but due to the Second Civil War, not to mention the much greater acceptance of communism even before that, combined with fascism losing much of its support in the U.S, the ArchEnemy of Flash Gordon isn't [[YellowPeril Ming The Merciless]], but rather [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Adolph The Abominable]].
*** Creator/SergioLeone directs a ''[[Film/FlashGordon1980 Flash Gordon]]'' movie adaptation in 1979, adopting numerous elements of the "Emperor Adolf" and "Tropica" storylines from the comic strip. Its sequel, ''Adolf's Return'' is made without Sergio Leone but with some of the original cast.
** Creator/AgathaChristie's Literature/MurderOnTheOrientExpress is the same except for the inclusion of a White American emigre as a character.
** ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRobinHood'' becomes a sequel to ''The Legend of Robin Hood'' made in 1934. Both are a proletarian reinterpretation of the folk tale presenting Robin Hood as a proto-socialist hero. The first movie becomes a classic and also propels the lead [[Creator/JohnWayne Marion Morrison]] to stardom, instead of being known for playing in Westerns.
** Some volumes of the {{Franchise/Tintin}} comic book series are much more different from OTL.
*** ''[[Recap/TintinTintinInAmerica Tintin in America]]'' becomes the fourth, instead of third, volume of the comic series. The plot combines a pre-Revolution draft for an American-set adventure (which would've been the OTL version) with plot elements lifted directly from ''[[Recap/TintinTintinInTheLandOfTheSoviets Tintin in the Land of the Soviets]]'' because of ExecutiveMeddling mandating an explicitely anti-communist message. When Hergé later redraws the story, he alters it to be slightly more neutral towards the Americans.
*** ''[[Recap/TintinTheBrokenEar The Broken Ear]]'' features Tintin fighting quasi-Integralist forces in San Theodoros, beginning to ramp up their oppression against native peoples and stealing their artifacts.
*** ''The Land of Black and Gold'', based on OTL [[Recap/TintinLandOfBlackGold Land of Black Gold]], is the eighth volume (rather than fifteenth) and takes on fascist Italy and the tensions in Palestine.
** ''[[Film/KingKong1933 King Kong]]'' is released with significant reshoots and re-editing in 1934 because of the Civil War and the death of director Merian Cooper during it.
** A different ''Film/AFarewellToArms'' is made in 1936 instead of 1932. The film is the first major feature to utilize the three-strip Technicolor technique, while the OTL movie was black-and-white, and stars Creator/HenryFonda and Creator/LucilleBall in the leading roles, instead of Creator/GaryCooper and Helen Hayes.
** The 1937 adaptation of ''Literature/TheGoodEarth'' stars Creator/AnnaMayWong instead of Luise Rainer in {{Yellowface}}.
** Picasso's ''Art/Guernica'' is instead known as ''Bilbao'' as the Condor Legion bombed the latter instead of the former.
** Several Creator/Disney (Hyperion in this timeline) creations are quite different from OTL.
*** Hyperion still creates [[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse the world's most famous mouse]], but he is known by the name Walt Disney originally wanted for the character: Mortimer Mouse, nicknamed "Morty" subsequently.
*** This timeline's version of WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck's debut cartoon "The Wise Little Hen", is instead a tale of how Donald and other wetland creatures work together to overthrow a stereotypical fairy tale style hen encroaching on their land as a capitalist.
*** ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' is the first major feature length animated film like IOTL but also a subversion and a social realist retelling of the traditional fairy tale.
*** ''[[WesternAnimation/SaludosAmigos Saludos Camaradas]]'' is a live-action/animated anthology, highlighting the socialist nations of Latin America, their unique cultures, their burgeoning socialism, and their struggle against the Integralist threat.
*** ''[[WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'' is released in 1941 and has notably more psychedelic style in a stark contrast with ''Snow White'', leading to it receiveing mixed reviews at the time.
** ''Film/BringingUpBaby'' is made as a 13-episodes TV series/subscription film rather than a single movie. The plot is slightly changed to [[Creator/KatharineHepburn Hepburn]]'s character having lost her wealth in the revolution and falling in love with both Creator/CaryGrant's and Virginia Walker's characters rather than just the former and they all get together in the end.
** Creator/BobClampett gets to make the animated adaptation of Literature/JohnCarterOfMars he couldn't IOTL, named ''Warlord of Mars'' and released in 1938.
** Some adventures of {{Franchise/Superman}} become different.
*** The cover of ''ComicBook/ActionComicsNumber1'' shows {{ComicBook/Superman}} attempting to stop an execution by a pair of counterrevolutionaries.
*** A full length adaptation of the [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheatricalCartoons shorts by Fleischer]] is made in 1945, where Superman fights an assortment of villains, robots and monsters, [[PropagandaPiece unleashed by Japanese and Nazi scientists]].
** ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'' comes into being as an Americuban production, becoming a smash hit in Cuba and Europe and sweeping the Americuban Oscars, while American critics decry it as "racist" and "neo-Confederate" for its Lost Cause ideology. The main differences are that the film is released in 1938 rather than 1939, and stars Creator/ErrolFlynn as Rhett, rather than Creator/ClarkGable.
** The Fleischer Studios' animated adaptation of ''Literature/GulliversTravels'' is quite different from [[WesternAnimation/GulliversTravels OTL]], featuring Franchise/Popeye (who did went to Liliput in the episode ''Popeye's Travels'' in OTL 1960) as the protagonist of ''Popeye the Sailor in Gulliver's Travels''. A majority of the film is in a realistic style, including rotoscoping, which contrasts with its cartoony protagonist.
** Willis O'Brien's unfinished film project ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_(unfinished_film) Creation]]'' gets made as an American-Soviet production in 1938 with reworked elements from Edgar Rice Burrough's ''Literature/TheLandThatTimeForgot''. The film centers on a WFRN submarine (with Soviet crew members) stranded on an island of dinosaurs.
** Creator/SergeiEisenstein's ''Film/AlexanderNevsky'' is partially filmed in the Melrose soundstage in Hollywood and the character of Gavrilo Oleksich is played by [[Creator/JohnWayne Marion Morrison]].
** ''Film/AChristmasCarol1938'' is made by Culver City (formerly MGM/RKO) as a socialist reinterpretation of the classic Charles Dickens story, with Scrooge giving away his fortune and closing the shop at the end.
** ''Literature/TheGrapesOfWrath'' takes place during the Red May Revolution rather than the Dust Bowl.
** ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'''s character evolves much more differently after the Revolution, originally re-imagined as a former bourgeois turned party apparatchik after siding with the Revolution, he is revamped during the Silver Age by taking on elements from Golden Age ComicBook/{{GreenArrow}}, including the name Oliver Queen and his backstory as a rich heir becoming a superhero after developing his skills surviving stranded on a desert island.
*** His first story in ComicBook/DetectiveComicsNumber27 features him investigating the "Clan of the Cross" instead of fighting a "Chemical Syndicate".
*** Creator/BillFinger never goes uncredited for co-creating and writing Batman.
*** {{ComicBook/Robin}} first appears in Detective Comics #37 rather than #38.
** ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' features animated characters and sequences from Hyperion Animation and presumably not the division between a black-and-white Kansas and a technicolor World of Oz. The film wins the Oscar for Best Picture for 1939.
*** A rival adaptation is made in Americuba by Creator/WarnerBros and Creator/ColumbiaPictures, taking elements from later books and having a more straight-forward approach.
** The movie adaptation of ''{{Literature/Kim}}'' is made eleven years earlier, starring Creator/ErrolFlynn like IOTL but right after achieving success instead of being his last great adventure movie.
** One update on 1930s film serials mentions a series about the dysfunctional family of a real estate mogul who left the UASR after the revolution called ''[[Series/ArrestedDevelopment The Bluth Family]]''.
** Creator/FrankCapra still makes a version of ''Film/MrSmithGoesToWashington'', still starring Creator/JimmyStewart. This version is simply called ''Comrade Smith'', and it overtly references the "Revolt of the Cadres" incident.
** Film/Rebecca1940 becomes Creator/AlfredHitchcock's first Americuban rather than American film.
** With William Randolph Hearst's media empire sundered by the Revolution, and Hearst himself living in exile in England, Creator/OrsonWelles redevelops his ''Film/CitizenKane'' project to be much more frank about its subject matter, noticing "we could just take down the man himself. There's nothing he can do to us now." The film, now simply titled ''Hearst'', is released on December 20, 1940 (opposed to ''Citizen Kane'''s May 1, 1941 release of OTL), and would be a critical success, go on to sweep the Oscars, and, yes, ends up being regarded as one of the greatest films ever made.
** ''Series/WhyWeFight'' is made by Creator/JohnFord instead of Creator/FrankCapra. One of the episodes, ''Why We Fight: Hitler's Plans'' made in 1941, attracts the most controversy for featuring leaked documents that showed Germany's postwar plans for the USSR (the Generalplan Ost) and the UASR, stirring outrage at the Nazis in these countries and provoking a diplomatic incident in then-neutral United Kingdom when Germany's ambassador gave a statement condemning the film in a way that confirmed the authenticity of the documents.
** In ''Film/MrsMiniver'', Creator/GreerGarson's character deals with the political chaos and the eventual formation of the Franco-British Union and declaration of war rather than the war being already ongoing.
** ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon1941'' stars Creator/BarbaraStanwyck as a gender swapped Sam Spade.
** ''{{ComicBook/WonderWoman}}'' is known as ''Suprema'' ITTL.
** ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_North_Star_(1943_film) The North Star]]'' becomes a Soviet-American production starring Creator/AnneBaxter as an American journalist instead of an Ukrainian villager, and Ukrainian actors Dmitri Milyutenko and Viktor Dobrovolsky as partisans instead of having a [[FakeNationality non-native cast]].
** ''Sherlock Holmes in Debs'' features a different plot from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_in_Washington the OTL version]] where Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson attempt to foil a Nazi plot to disrupt the wartime alliance between Comintern and the newly formed Franco-British Union.
** An episode of WesternAnimation/PrivateSnafu is made to illustrate the dangers of unprotected sex within the ranks and educate the viewer on various sexually transmitted diseases, no such episode exists IOTL.
** ''The Imperial Menace'', this timeline's version of ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Your_Enemy:_Japan Know Your Enemy: Japan]]'', made by Creator/GeorgeStevens, is a documentary targeted at Japanese Americans, focusing on the terror of the regime of Hirohito (through his surrogate Yasuhito) and the imperial machinery that allows it to plunder other nations, and it ends with a guide as to how to identify spies within the community. The film is considered outdated and its targeting of spies within the Japanese American community inaccurate and insensitive, alluding to ''Know Your Enemy: Japan'''s own racist content.
** Creator/JohnHuston makes a documentary about ''The Battle of São Paulo'' instead of ''Film/TheBattleOfSanPietro'', depicting it from the perspective of Argentinian soldiers.
** Inspired by his cautious optimism towards Red America, Creator/GeorgeOrwell's stories are less soul-crushingly depressing. ''The Last Man in Europe'', this timeline's version of ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', becomes less of a ShootTheShaggyDog story as Winston Smith escapes to America and witnesses a debate in Times Square.
** While the ''Franchise/JamesBond'' series still takes off as a popular book and film franchise, there are several differences: The first ''Bond'' film is an adaptation of ''Literature/CasinoRoyale'', which is released in 1954, and stars Creator/DavidNiven as Bond and Creator/LeslieNielsen as Felix Leiter, and with Creator/AlfredHitchcock as director and uncredited co-writer. The plot is the same, albeit with the Americans replacing the Soviets, and Leiter, instead of Bond's friend, becoming a secondary villain and TheRival. Leiter and the American spy organization he belongs to, [=DITR8R=] (an attempt to Americanize the Soviet SMERSH) would become Bond's main enemies for the most of the other films (culminating in a final duel between Leiter and Bond in TTL's ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun''), with [[NebulousEvilOrganisation SPECTRE]] largely relegated to common enemy or "villain for peacetime" status.
** Creator/JRRTolkien's seminal works, ''Literature/TheHobbit'' and ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', still exist in the form they had in OTL (largely as in exercise in exploring the limitations of historical materialism), and both become literary breakouts that come to define the modern Fantasy genre, as well as being a huge influence on {{Tabletop RPG}}s, even gaining a sizeable fanbase in Red America. The main difference is that ''Lord of the Rings'' is published as a sextology (using the internal divisions of each of the three OTL books, which was one of the proposed publishing methods before going with the trilogy). While Creator/RalphBakshi and Creator/PeterJackson both still adapt ''The Lord of the Rings'' into film, the adaptations are slightly different. [[WesternAnimation/TheLordOfTheRings Bakshi's adaptation]] is of all six books, instead of just the first two OTL, and he manages to complete it. [[Film/LordoftheRings Jackson's adaptation]] is an international co-production, involving film crews from both capitalist and communist nations, and also a sextology, rather than a trilogy, which he and his collaborators put together for the better part of a decade, winning numerous awards in the process, and eventually capping off their work with ''The Return of the King'' in 2009, which goes on to be the highest grossing international film of all time. Creator/GuillermoDelToro makes [[Film/TheHobbit a follow-up adaptation]] of ''The Hobbit'' released in 2015.
** Pierre Boulle writes a WWII novel named ''Mekong'' (instead of ''Bridge on the River Kwai'' IOTL), which receives a film adaptation by Eastman Kodak Pictures (a subsidiary of Kodak) in 1958. His most famous novel ''Literature/PlanetOfTheApes'' exists as OTL and receives [[Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968 a film adaptation]] a year later than OTL directed by Creator/FrancoisTruffaut and produced by Kodak and Pathé.
** ''Bridge over the River Ganga'', this timeline's ''Film/TheBridgeOnTheRiverKwai'', is the first big international Bollywood film, along with ''Film/PatherPanchali'', and defines Bollywood filmmaking for the next generations. The film, directed by Mehboob Khan, follows Indian [=POWs=] forced by the collaborationist Azad Bharat to work building a railroad over the Ganges. The character played by Creator/RajKapoor, a light skinned Hindu, is given preferential treatment, while the one played by I. S. Johar, a Muslim, is forced into very hard labor. Kapoor seems to be converted, but ends up sabotaging the railroad at the very end.
** ''Series/HaveGunWillTravel'' is known as ''Paladin'' ITTL.
** ''Film/TheGunsOfNavarone'' becomes a cross-bloc co-production about a group of British, American, and Soviet soldiers lead by Creator/DavidNiven attempting to make a last stand against a Turkish offensive on the fictional island of Navarone.
** ''[[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 The Twilight Zone]]'' is known ITTL as ''Beyond The Horizon'' but otherwise keeps the same concept.
*** ''[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E18TheLastFlight The Last Flight]]'' becomes ''The Last Revolutionary'' and displaces the action from WWI to the Red May Revolution.
*** The series receives an anthology adaptation movie in 1988 with different segments being adapted compared to [[Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie OTL]], including ''The Last Revolutionary''.
** A film adaptation of Creator/RobertBloch's 1959 novel, ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', is still released in 1960. The differences are that Creator/RobertAltman acts as the director and co-screenwriter on the project, rather than Alfred Hitchcock, while Creator/RogerCorman is the producer. The adaptation's plot is also a bit TruerToTheText than the OTL version, following Norman Bates' perspective from the beginning, and Mary Crane keeping the name of her book counterpart, rather than it being changed to Marion Crane. The cast is also markedly different, starring Creator/RobertRidgely as Norman Bates, rather than Creator/AnthonyPerkins, and Barboura Morris as Mary Crane, rather than Creator/JanetLeigh. Like its OTL counterpart, the movie becomes both quite controversial for playing loose with film regulations, but also very successful and influential, playing an instrumental role in kicking off TTL's version of the New Hollywood era.
** ''Film/JudgmentAtNuremberg'' becomes based loosely off the "Scientists Trial", where von Braun, Heisenberg, and other scientists were put on trial for their role in the Nazi death machine, instead of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judges%27_Trial "Judges' Trial"]].
** ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia'' gets an unofficial sequel named ''Intifada'', a British-Palestinian movie where Creator/PeterOToole reprises his role. The films is based partially on T.E. Lawrence advising the Palestinian resistance to the Italian occupation, and is a deconstruction of the myth the real man projected to the end of his life. Creator/RogerEbert called it ''"Lawrence of Jerusalem"''.
** ''Camp Cherokee'' is a 1963-1968 TV sitcom mixing OTL series ''Series/HogansHeroes'' and ''Series/DadsArmy'', centered on the titular POW camp in Oklahoma and the local Proletarian Guardsmen in charge of running it.
** Creator/GeneRoddenberry still creates and manages to turn ''Franchise/StarTrek'' into a lasting multi-media franchise. The main differences being that Gene is already able to get ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries The Original Series]]'' off the ground in the autumn of 1964 (resulting in the show lasting for four seasons and a total of 81 episodes), that the character of Captain Kirk is a bisexual woman (being Gillian T. Kirk rather than James T. Kirk) and is played by none other than ''Creator/MarilynMonroe'' (though in this timeline she still goes under her old name of Norma Jeane Baker), and that Bones is a Russian rather than an American (this also results in the character of Scotty not being invented until the second season, working as an analogue for Chekov in that he represents a European nationality). But in the end, even with the changes in timelines, Gene is still Gene, with WartsAndAll, and some of his more infamous and ill-advised story ideas and views on women and sexuality still ultimately makes it onto screen, with roughly the same results as in OTL; being seen as somewhat problematic elements of an otherwise beloved and famously progressive show.
** TTL's ''Film/TheDirtyDozen'' is ''Fugitives'', made in 1966, a true story of a group of prisoners freed and recruited by the Reds as an elite squad during the Red May Revolution. Starring Creator/PeterFonda, Creator/WarrenBeatty, and Creator/SharonTate among the leads.
** ''Film/TheManWhoWouldBeKing'' is made more than 5 years earlier than OTL, directed by Creator/JohnBoorman (instead of Creator/JohnHuston) and produced by Eastman Kodak Pictures.
** ''Anime/MazingerZ'' is created in Australasia under the title ''Super Energer Z''. The story and premise are overall the same as IOTL, with the main differences being the characters' names (Kouji Kabuto to Lance Hyatt, Sayaka Yumi to Jessica Wells, Dr. Hell to [[LouisCypher Dr. Cypher]], etc.) and the fact that the Pilder is a motorcycle like in Go Nagai's original plans for the series. Its sequel, ''Iron Energer'' is similarly identical to Anime/GreatMazinger, minus a few more name changes as well as other minor details like Jun's counterpart, Jenny Hastings, being half-Indian instead of half-black.
*** The changes to Mazinger would also end up affecting ''Manga/GetterRobo'', as Creator/KenIshikawa, who was still born in Nippon and thus [[PointOfDivergence never met Go Nagai]] ended up becoming close to Creator/OsamuTezuka and Creator/ShotaroIshinomori instead. Ken eventually read ''Energer'' and [[{{Irony}} hated it]], and so created [[StartMyOwn his own mecha series]] to stick it to Nagai. The resulting Getter Robo series would end up largely identical to OTL except for the ending, where Ryoma Nagare dies instead of Musashi Tomoe. This change would end up reverberating into ''Getter Robo G'', where Michiru Saotome takes over as the main character. Getter would end up becoming even more successful than in OTL, filling the cultural niche in Nippon that was left by the absence of Mazinger. This also lead to CombiningMecha displacing traditional [[SuperRobotGenre Super Robots]] in Nippon.
** ''Series/TheWorldAtWar'' is made as an [[Creator/TheBBC EBC]] rather than {{Creator/ITV}} documentary series and is composed of 39 episodes instead of 26 IOTL. It becomes a landmark documentary series thanks to the period of relatively warm relations in the 70s allowing for unprecedented access to Red Bloc information.
** ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' by Creator/StevenSpielberg still comes into being, being at first a surprise hit in the UASR and USSR. Talks about distributing it in the capitalist countries stall for a bit, due to the distributor (Franco-British leftist film collective Vertov, a riff on an OTL group run by Creator/JeanLucGodard) finding the film too commercial (having distributed documentaries and social realist films prior to that) and that a part of the plotline about a corrupt nomenklatura covering up shark attacks for political gain is contrary to their goals of promoting communism. But a deal is eventually made, and, much to everyone's surprise the film becomes a hit on the capitalist market too, defining the idea of the summer blockbuster. (It is also implied that rather than making ''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}'', ITTL Spielberg instead chooses to finish developing the SciFiHorror film ''Watch the Skies!'', a project he never finished IOTL, but inspired him to make ''Poltergeist'' in the first place.)
** Creator/GeorgeLucas still creates the ''Franchise/StarWars'' saga but it begins with ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' as the first film made instead of ''Film/ANewHope'' with a significantly different cast (some original cast members remain in different roles, such as Creator/MarkHamill as R2D2 and Creator/CarrieFisher as [[GenderFlip C3PO]]) and directed by Creator/AkiraKurosawa.
** Creator/JohnCarpenter directs ''The Star Beast'' with a screenplay by Dan O'Bannon and starring Creator/SigourneyWeaver as part of a spaceship crew terrorized by an alien and existential dread. The film is essentially TTL's ''Film/Alien'' with ''Film/DarkStar'''s themes.
** Creator/DouglasAdams still creates [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy his famous science-fiction work]] but it is known as ''The Nifty Galactic Handbook''. A film adaptation is made by Kodak Pictures in the 1980s.
** ''Series/Taxi'' exists as ''Taxi Drivers''.
** Sergei Bondarchuk takes advantage of the 1978 Military History Symposium to shoot the principal photography of ''Film/Waterloo'', using the surplus of soldiers and benefiting from the official cooperation of multiple governments.
** ''1942'', based on OTL ''[[Film/NineteenFortyOne1979 1941]]'', is a Franco-British film centered on the Nazi bomb scare in Portsmouth, instead of the panic experienced by Californians after Pearl Harbor. The film is also one of the last Franco-British films directed by a Canadian, Creator/NormanJewison, before the Red Turn.
** [[invoked]] Creator/YoshiyukiTomino's long-running ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' franchise also comes into being with its first installment, ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'', being released in 1979. The most immediate and notable difference being that the series is entirely in Esperanto, as it is partially financed by a grant from the Nipponese central government as a part of an effort to promote the Ŝin Esperanto auxiliary language. The series' plot remains by and large the same as in OTL, which some minor differences, such as the Principality of Zeon instead being the Zeonic Commonwealth and the Earth Federation being explicitly communistic. Like its OTL counterpart, ''Gundam'' also faces a difficult beginning, struggling with low ratings during its initial broadcast, but eventually becoming a bona fide SleeperHit, thanks to positive word of mouth, and a rebroadcast in Chosun, [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff where it quickly becomes even more popular than in its home country]].
** While JRPG's still become popular like in OTL, they are still quite niche outside the Comintern until the creation of the internet. This leads to the rise of "[[EasternRPG ARPG's]] (Australasian Role-Playing Games)" in the AFS. Chief among them is the long-running franchise ''Star Legacy'': a series that in many ways resembles the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series in its tone and cultural impact.
** ''Film/CaptainAmerica1990'' is made by the Vertov Collective and United Artists and includes the appearance of [[ComicBook/BlackWidow Natasha Romanov]] and "her" [[ComicBook/SgtFuryAndHisHowlingCommandos Howling Commandos]].
** ''Film/SpiderMan1'' doesn't experience the same DevelopmentHell as OTL and is released in 1987, made by Creator/AlainResnais with the Vertov and Olive Street Collectives producing. Filmed in Metropolis, the film focuses on the webhead's origin and his battle with the Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus, becoming a hit in the detente era, causing Vertov to commission a few more comic properties (including ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' and ''The New Gods'').
** The Franco-British project for an adaptation of ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' becomes ''Annihilator'', TTL's equivalent to ''Film/RoboCop1987'' (directed by Creator/PaulVerhoeven and with anti-capitalist themes adapted to the corporatist FBU) mixed with ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' (notably the time travel plot). ''Annihilator'' would spawn [[Film/RoboCop2 2]] [[Film/RoboCop3 sequels]] (to less than positive reception), an animated television series, and reboots in 2009 and [[Film/RoboCop2014 2014]].
** A version of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' also comes into being with the title ''Reactor 420-69''. As said title implies, this version is less of a DomCom and a bit more of a WorkCom, focusing mainly on the antics of Homer Simpson, who is the incompetent commissar and inspector of a local nuclear power plant. The show ends up running for 12 seasons, the final season ending with Homer getting involved in politics, first as a local representative, before finally gradually rising to the office of the Premier of the United Republics. The series finale becomes (in)famous, as Premier Homer accidentally nukes London, and the show ends on [[SuddenDownerEnding a surprisingly dark note]] as WorldWarIII is imminent.
** TTL ''Literature/Fatherland'' features the same plot except for replacing the United States with the British Empire, becoming a commentary on pre-WWII British appeasement policies.
** ''TableTopGame/YuGiOh'' is created two years earlier and instead of becoming the CollectibleCardGame it is OTL, it becomes a Tabletop RPG inspired by the TTL game ''Warband'' and based on chapters 50-59 of the manga ([[BigBad Bakura's]] introductory arc), using a d100 as its engine with the anime ([[Anime/YuGiOhFirstAnimeSeries still done by]] ''Creator/{{Toei}}'') and manga. It would spawn three spin-offs: ''Yu-Gi-Oh! V2'', ''Yu-Gi-Oh! [[Anime/CardfightVanguard Vanguard]]'' and ''Yu-Gi-Oh! Chronicle'', with Creator/KazukiTakahashi handing over control of the series to [[TabletopGame/SwordWorldRPG Ryo Mizuno]] and [[Anime/CardfightVanguard Akira Ito]] by the game's third edition.
** Creator/WestwoodStudios' epochal RealTimeStrategy series ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'' comes into being as the Westwood Collective's ''Rise & Revolt'' series.
*** As a further consequence, the spinoff series ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert'', instead becomes ''Rise & Revolt: Blue Alert''. The plot of the first game also begins in the aftermath of World War II, where UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein uses time travel to remove Adolf Hitler from existence in a bid to prevent the horrors of the war (of course, he does this in 1947, rather than 1946, seeing how WWII went on somewhat longer in the ''Reds!'' verse). But instead of preventing the war, this change causes a Fascist and anti-American movement headed by J.F.C. Fuller to come to power in the United Kingdom and take control over the British Empire. By empowering other far-right movements in Europa and East Asia, Fascist Britain becomes the leader of a new and powerful anti-Communist alliance, and in 1950, they make their move against the United Republics and the Soviet Union, leading to an even more devastating version of World War II.
** Creator/AaronSorkin has a similar set of shows and movies as OTL, but remixed slightly:
*** It still starts with ''Film/AFewGoodMen'' starring Creator/JackNicholson and Creator/DemiMoore, with Creator/RobLowe replacing Creator/TomCruise as Daniel Kaffee, and the central murder plot taking place in Puerto Rico, rather than Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and ''Film/{{Malice}}'', with Creator/NicoleKidman replaced by Creator/NatalyaNegoda.
*** TTL's ''Series/TheWestWing'' is still a popular TV show on the American government starring Creator/MartinSheen, though it is called ''Capitol Hill'', and Sheen plays the Leo [=McGarry=] role to Creator/JohnAmos' Premier Will Bailey. Amusingly, the criticism it receives by the press in-universe is much like its real life counterpart; quite lauded back at its launch, but later remembered somewhat less fondly in hindsight for what is seen as overly idealized politics and at times ham-fisted and preachy writing. It actually receives a spin-off TTL called ''Stavka'', starring Creator/DuleHill as the Premier's son working at the titular military headquarters.
*** Several other Sorkin projects, like ''Series/TheNewsroom'', ''Series/SportsNight'', ''Film/TheAmericanPresident'' and ''Series/Studio60OnTheSunsetStrip'' are reimagined and done at different times.
** ''{{Theatre/Assassins}}'' is expectedly different from OTL but otherwise has the same premise of a musical about assassins from American history.
** ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Very_Merry_Unauthorized_Children%27s_Scientology_Pageant A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant]]'' is made ITTL as a British production (L. Ron Hubbard having fled Red America, he founded his church in England) named ''An Unauthorized Dianetics Children's Musical Nativity''.
** ''The Revolution Revealed'' is a documentary focusing on intimate interviews with veterans and survivors of the Second Civil War and shows animated reenactments for their stories. [[Film/SavingPrivateRyan It is noted for its brutal, honest depiction of the war and was made in 1998]].
** Creator/StevenSpielberg still makes an epic historical war film, but seven years later than [[Film/SavingPrivateRyan OTL]]. ''Rise'' centers on a group of workers that answered the call to Revolution upon hearing of the coup. It is noted for merging more modern style realism with previous idealistic depictions of the revolution.
** ''Series/TheKennedys'' becomes an American-British co-production and as different as the lives of the family it depicts is, detailing their history from the 1930 Stock Market Crash, purportedly to Ted Kennedy's retirement as head of the Kennedy Group in 2005. In addition to the three prominent Kennedy brothers (Robert, Ted, and Sean Cinneide (formerly John)), the show also focuses on Joe Sr., Rose, Joe Jr, Maros Cinneide (formely Rosemary Kennedy), and Patricia Kennedy-Burton. The show has garnered praise from both sides of the Atlantic, but also criticism from surviving Kennedy family members and Ted Kennedy's media conglomerate the Kennedy Group.
** ''Film/PublicEnemies'' is still centered on UsefulNotes/JohnDillinger but follows his life as a member of the State Sec fighting against organized crime and reactionaries. Melvin Purvis is played by Creator/AdamSandler instead of Creator/ChristianBale.
** ''The Revolution in Color'' is a critically acclaimed British documentary by Creator/KenLoach using both footage from previous documentaries and [[Film/TheyShallNotGrowOld previously undiscovered footage and colorizes them with modern technology to give a more real feeling to the footage and display the war as the soldiers themselves saw it]].
** ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' still comes into existence, though it is named ''Kaguya: Love is War'' ITTL, but is re-contextualized by Japan having become the Nippon Socialist Republic after WWII while an anti-communist diaspora fled to AFS countries, changing the characters' backgrounds. Kaguya, who comes from an aristocratic diaspora family installed in Australasia but came back to Nippon with her divorced mother, experiences a culture shock from which the series gets many comedic moments but reflects real-life struggles of repatriated Nipponese diaspora, while the stark contrast with Miyuki's upbringing shaped by the socialist society he grew up in provides the story's main conflict.
** This timeline's equivalent of ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'' is a biographical musical about Emma Goldman named '' Red Emma: The Musical'', with several of the same actors from OTL's ''Hamilton'', written by [[GenderFlip Lenina]] [[Creator/LinManuelMiranda Miranda]].
** Instead of ''Film/TheDeathOfStalin'', this timeline instead sees the ''Death of [=MacArthur=]'', a BlackComedy about the scramble for political power amongst the top-members of the Americuban government in the wake of the death of Douglas [=MacArthur=], also released in 2017.
* DirtyCommunists:
** Stalin and most of the USSR, but especially the leaders of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (the NKVD) and ''especially'' Lavrentiy Beria. Following Stalin's violent death in the Battle of Moscow in 1941, some of the Russian military leaders who have remain loyal to the ideals of the revolution reach out to their American counterparts and hatch a BenevolentConspiracy to clean the Soviet house of authoritarians, especially the NKVD leadership who had been mainly responsible for enabling Stalin and his numerous purges. This changes the culture of the USSR for the better, though some of Stalin's cronies, most prominently Vyacheslav Molotov, are able to get away with their involvement in Stalin's crimes for political reasons.
*** A report [[spoiler:from a post-war truth commission]] revealed that Stalin and his supporters killed nearly 600,000 people in ThePurge. This is equivalent to the most conservative estimates of the victims in the RealLife Great Purge and does not includes people who died in the Gulags, famines and attacks on peasants as they had not yet completed the counting of all victims of the early Soviet government.
*** While most leftists in the present day are willing to acknowledge Stalin's flaws, a small minority continues to insist that everything he did was righteous. The in-universe poster Cheka is one such person.
** Gil Green and the WCPA members who oppose the Revolt of the Cadres see it as a political deviation and a threat to be contained and neutralized by force.
* DisasterDemocracy:
** The UASR is born from the ashes of the USA during the Second American Civil War.
** Despite becoming a dominant-party democracy after 1950, the Franco-British Union started as a liberal democracy created as both France and Great Britain were severely hammered by the Axis armies and mainland France fell to Pétaintist tyranny.
* DisasterDominoes: A small scuffle between a student in the Shanghai Commune and a Japanese legation guard ends in 8 people dead and 20 more injured.
* DisownedSibling: When Jiang Jieshi tells his "brother" (what they affectively call each other, their wives being sisters) H.H. Kung that he plans to defect to the Japanese and wants offers him to join, Kung answers by declaring to Jiang he is dead to him and no longer the brother to anyone in China, least of all him. He does offer Jiang a last courtesy by not informing the government of their conversation.
* TheDissenterIsAlwaysRight:
** When the New York Commune is formed, Vice-President Charles E. Hughes strongly protests against violently suppressing the revolt and urges President Marshall and First Secretary Wilson to open a dialog with the leaders of the revolt but is ultimately overruled. Attempts to suppress the revolt and the SLP only manage to worsen the situation and spread revolutionary discontent until the Supreme Court intervenes and the government must reluctantly enter negotiations which successfully end the revolt peacefully.
** The left- and centre-wings of the WCPA unsuccessfully argue against the many concessions made by the right-wing for its accession to power, such as their support for [=MacArthur=]'s ascension to Secretary of War, William Foster calling it "Letting a rabid dog into the house". They are proven right by [=MacArthur=]'s Putsch.
** Much of the British military staff were in agreement that the German invasion of the Soviet Union would lead to the latter's capitulation within some months. A few disagreed with this assessment, including Major General T.E. Lawrence, who correctly asserted that the USSR and the UASR would fight to the bitter end.
* DividedStatesOfAmerica: The aftermath of the Second American Civil War sees the United States nominally divided between the UASR, controlling most of the former US territory, and American Havana, still claiming to be the legitimate government of the entire country but controlling only Cuba and [[FallenStatesOfAmerica surviving on British (later Franco-British) protection]].
* DoubleBlindWhatIf: Several are hypothesized by the users of Reds!TL's Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom, such as "What if [=McKinley=] had been assassinated by Leon Czolgosz?"
* DraftDodging: Socialist Labor Party activists and politicians encourage Americans to dodge the draft during World War I and get arrested by the government for it.
* DrivenToSuicide: Polish President Władysław Raczkiewicz commits suicide after having to surrender his country to the German Reich.
* DueToTheDead: The National Salvation Front buried the people they murdured in the early days of the coup in unmarked graves, including Norman Thomas. The Provisional Government exhumed the bodies and creamted them, then brought the ashes for a funeral service at the Capitol, where Premier Foster gives a funeral oration for the martyred president-elect.
** The night after Marinus van der Lubbe, the presumed culprit for the Reichstag fire, is executed, a candlelight vigil is held at the Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. and Provisional President Sinclair delivers a eulogy that becomes a stirring call to action to fight fascism.
** State funerals are organized for the beloved former Mayor of New York Morris Hilquit.
** State funerals are organized for Emma Goldman where Premier Foster gives a funeral oration.
* {{Eagleland}}:
** The United Republics, despite some questionable actions early on in the revolution and in the early years of their existence, ends up as a very rare socialist version of type 1, being a socialist state preserving many democratic and social freedoms for their populace and using their influence to support democratic change in authoritarian socialist states.
** The National Salvation Government/Americuba starts out as a full on type 2, being a Fascist dictatorship allied with the most reactionary aspects of American society established via a coup against an elected socialist president. After their defeat and escape to Cuba, they remain as type 2 for some time under [=MacArthur=]'s dictatorship, but post-[=MacArthur=]'s death they slowly democratize and they are somewhat closer to type 3 than type 2 by the 21st century.
** The Free American State embodies the worst of type 2, being a genocidal Nazi puppet government extolling the worst aspects of pre-revolutionary America and even going as far as to recreate the conditions of the Antebellum South with Slavs and captured prisoners of war as their slaves.
** Pre-Revolutionary America itself is mainly perceived in a type 1 light by Americuba, with Americuba touting itself as the continuation of the pre-revolutionary government, Interestingly enough, Pre-Revolutionary America is seen to some extent in a type 3 light rather than a fully type 2 light by the United Republics, with some presidents (particularly UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln as per Old Leftist/Orthodox Marxist thought and Leonard Wood) seen as historically progressive or well-intentioned. This is because many of the OTL systemic issues and imperialism that causes the total revulsion and extreme critical reevaluations of American history on the modern American left, alongsides the concept of American exceptionalism (which also contributed to said revulsion), do not manifest in this timeline or are resolved via sociopolitical reforms before they can become fully systemic issues, resulting in more willingness for socialist historians within the UASR to look back at the pre-revolutionary history in a more neutral light while focusing their ire more towards the imperialistic actions of European Empires.
* EagleSquadron:
** The International Brigades, first formed during the Second American Civil War and later reorganized as the International Volunteer Army, are made up of communists and fellow travelers from all over the world united in the fight against fascism and capitalism.
*** The American Reds can count on International Brigades and a Soviet expeditionary force to help them during the Second American Civil War.
*** An IVA contingent briefly serves in Czechoslovakia during the German invasion.
** The Peruvian revolutionaries receive the help of Brazilian exiles after the failure of their own uprising in their homeland while the Benavides government receives token volunteers from Salgado's Brazil.
** Both sides of the Spanish Civil War receive extensive support in the form of expeditionary forces disguised as foreign volunteers from Axis and Comintern nations.
** Like IOTL, the Third Reich's ''Waffen-SS'' includes foreign volunteers.
*** The 5th SS Panzer Division ''Silberne Legion'' is composed of American emigres volunteers from Americuba and other emigres communities.
** The UASR dispatches the "Medusa Regiment" to assist Mongolia and the USSR during the Soviet–Japanese border conflicts in Mongolia.
** The 3rd Australasian Division gains the nickname "Meatgrinder" from the action it saw in Malaya.
* EasyEvangelism: Subverted. The National Salvation Front, the Nazis, the far-right in general and some capitalist powers operate under the mistaken assumption that their opposition has been duped into supporting communism by foreign agitators, and that they could be easily swayed to their cause once communist perfidy has been revealed. It never works, because they fundamentally do not understand why anyone would become a communist.
* EasyLogistics: Averted. During the Red offensives of May-June during the Second Civil War the advance was subject to the limitations of the logistical train's ability to provide food, fuel and munitions. Logistical problems would reduce the soldiers to foraging and not eating for several days, prompting reorganizations to be made after the war to answer them.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Heavily deconstructed, noting that most of the Waffen SS and the Green Guard do not actually live up to their reputations of being fearless badass storm troopers with only a handful of units actually being formidable enough to be considered "elites" instead of politically reliable paramilitary forces. The Green Guard, in particular, is rapidly wiped out in the final stage of the South American theatre, with the whole corps being annihilated one after the other and most of its soldiers being noted to be "starved and beaten children and psychopaths".
* EmergencyAuthority: The Franco-British government under Prime Minister François Mitterand declares a "temporary state of national emergency" in 1979 lasting more than a year.
* TheEmpire: Quite a few in fact. The Franco-British Union is also known as the Franco-British Empire in less polite circles and is quite simply the largest formal empire to ever exist in human history by every metric besides percentage of the human population living inside of it; combining the British and the French Empires at their peak size. In the sense of Empires of being states with an Emperor as the head of state, Japan's two and a half thousand year old monarchy has been dismantled following the end of World War II, while the Brazilian and German Emperors have both returned to lead Brazil and West Germany, subverted in that the Brazilian and West German Empires are much more pleasant than the dictatorships that preceded them (although that's not saying much).
* EnemiesList: During the Red Terror, the Secretariat of Public Safety publishes the Enemies of the People list, a list of 700 names, consisting of suspected counterrevolutionary political leaders, paramilitaries, organized crime bosses, and other counterrevolutionaries considered dangerous.
* EnemyMine:
** After Huerta's coup, the Constitutionalists and Zapatists sign a truce until they get rid of him then go back to fighting each other.
** Witnessing the invasion and occupation of Poland pushes the Baltic states to seek closer relations with the USSR, prefering them to the Nazis and their racial animus against Balts and Estonians.
** The Comintern and the Western Allies really do not like each other, with the most right-leaning politicians of the latter even arguing for joining the Axis to help them destroy the former, but they eventually band together to defeat Fascism. After the end of World War II, they go back to being bitter rivals.
** Within Mandatory Palestine in particular and other Levantine mandates governed by the Entente in general, Jews and Arabs of all ideological leanings (from pro-Comintern revolutionary socialists on the Left to hardline nationalists and royalists on the Right) fight side-by-side against the Axis forces invading the Levant. When the Axis is completely expelled from the region and the war ends, they immediately resume hostilities which eventually culminate in a three-sided civil war.
*** This excludes the Right-Zionist terrorist group Lehi AKA the "Stern Gang" (pejoratively named for its leader, Avraham Stern), who instead choose to collaborate with the invading Axis against the UN, in the hopes of wiping out Palestinian Arabs and [[CategoryTraitor Jewish "traitors"]] and being granted an independent fascist state. [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves They are all rewarded for their services by being sent to a death camp in German-occupied Europe]] once their [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness utility as pawns expires]].
* EtTuBrute:
** Joe Kennedy Jr. learning his brother John joined the Reds is the last straw making him decide to join Nazis.
** Like IOTL, Josef Stalin decides to make a deal with Hitler and Nazi Germany for the division of Poland in the prelude to World War II. The move sends shockwaves through the other communist nations in the Comintern, especially the UASR, who are outraged that one of their largest, most powerful allies would willingly make a deal with the main fascist power in the world. However, the different communist governments realize that they cannot afford to engage in in-fighting with the fascists on the rise on the world stage, and so turning their back on the USSR and Stalin is not really an option, so instead they settle for just publicly expressing that they are not mad, just really disappointed with the Russians. The move does, however, mark the beginning of the end for William Z. Foster's political career, as he as Premier had been especially staunch supporter of strong diplomatic ties between the UASR and USSR, and even to him Stalin's decision came completely out of left field.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Douglas [=MacArthur=] might be the tin-pot dictator of the mostly right-wing American government in exile, but he absolutely abhors antisemitism, finding it personally offensive.
** Theodore Bilbo and Barry Goldwater, both supporters of the [=MacArthur=] coup, are appaled by Nazism and willing to work with the United Republics to rally the support of Whites emigres to their cause (In exchange of which, both would have favorable hearings at their parole).
* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex: Downplayed. The two Cultural Revolutions in America led to the liberalization of sexual mores and a greater openness in the discussion of sex-related subjects well in advance compared the rest of the world, particularly the Capitalist bloc, and remains much more open than the latter in the present day. However this led to the development of wildly exaggerating stereotypes on American sexual mores outside of it, depicting Americans as regularly engaging in sex and orgies and being very "easy" to have sex with, particularly during the Cultural Revolutions themselves, sometimes for the purpose of propaganda depicting the country as the "Modern Sodom and Gomorrah" and sometimes for exploitation pornography; an in-universe discussion commenter castigates the in-universe version of ''Film/PublicEnemies'' for depicting so many threesomes, saying he can see "that sort of thing happening in the fifties, but not the thirties." The liberalization of sexual mores is also not entirely without controversy; indeed, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party in the mid-thirties gains a fair amount of converts thanks to its more socially conservative position. There is also a internal divide in America, with places like New York and California tending to be ''very'' socially liberal (and thus closer to this trope) whereas places in the Midwest, the South and Red Canada, while perhaps more liberal in these ways, still tend to be more conservative.
* EvilChancellor:
** In Japan, [[spoiler: Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu, assumes the position of Kanpaku, chief advisor for the Emperor, after the latter is partially incapacitated by an assassination attempt, becoming Japan's ''de facto'' head of state and leading his country down an even more oppressive and imperialistic path than in OTL.]]
** Emilio Mola becomes the true ruler of Spain after imposing himself as Prime Minister to the incapacitated Caudillo José Sanjurjo. Officially ruling [[BlatantLies until "the Caudillo has made his recovery."]]
* EvilColonialist:
** As IOTL, the Third Reich is absolutely horrific in its treatment of native populations of Eastern Europe as they plan to colonize their land.
** Turanist Turkey creates the Turanization Commissions, modeled after the Nazi Reichskommissariats, to administrate the parts of Syria and Kurdistan they occupy and prepare them for colonization and the extermination or forced assimilation of natives. They receive assistance in their efforts from German ''Einsatzgruppen'' and Italian ''Squadristi''.
* EvilReactionary:
** Integralist Brazil is especially hateful towards LGBT peoples, its "deviancy laws" sentencing to at least to three decades of hard labour and up to outright death for acts of "sexual deviancy" such as homosexuality, transgender expression, or even advocacy of LGBT rights. The Green Guard itself is even more extreme and believes the only "cure" for them is death, which they emphasize in their propaganda reels.
** The Iron Guard seeks to impose an ultrareactionary path for Romania away from all the degeneracies of modernity that it perceives, [[EvilLuddite planning to drag the country back to the middle ages by removing industry]] except those necessary to the armed forces.
* ExecutiveMeddling: This timeline's version of ''[[Recap/TintinTintinInAmerica Tintin in America]]'' falls victim to an in-universe version. Following the American Revolution, Creator/{{Herge}} is asked by his editors to include an explicitly anti-communist message in the story. Hergé, though personally skeptical towards communism, is not a fan of the decision, as it means the story essentially becomes a retread of ''[[Recap/TintinTintinInTheLandOfTheSoviets Tintin in the Land of the Soviets]]''. When Hergé later redraws the story, he alters it to be slightly more neutral towards the Americans.
* TheExile:
** After the February Revolution, the Romanov family goes into exile in Sweden. They are later joined by Alexander Kolchak and Wilhelm II (after initially staying in the Netherlands like IOTL).
** The UASR becomes a refuge for various socialists fleeing state persecution, such as Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky and Nestor Makhno. This policy is later expanded into offering asylum to anyone fleeing fascist persecution, particularly Jewish populations but also Africans fleeing Italian colonialism.
** After the Second American Civil War, those who do not follow [=MacArthur=] to Cuba flee to other countries, many, like former President Herbert Hoover, to the United Kingdom and Canada while those considered too extreme for Americuba, like Henry Ford and later William Pelley and Joe Kennedy Jr., leave for Nazi Germany.
** Bolivian leftists flee to Peru or Chile after the military coup in their homeland.
** KMT politician H.H. Kung leaves China because he opposes the governments on both sides of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
* ExpandedStatesOfAmerica: After Canada goes through a communist revolution, the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia all vote to become republics of the UASR.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:President-Elect Norman Thomas]] does not flinch in the face of [[spoiler:the detachment of the [=MacArthur=]-lead coup coming to summarily execute him]]. Instead, he correctly assumes that the men has come to kill him and calmly tells them that he is NotAfraidToDie, while just as calmly pleading for them to stop what they are doing [[spoiler:as it would surely doom the American nation to destruction]]. He then finally tells them if their minds is set on killing him, they should just stop wasting his time and GetItOverWith already.
* FaceHeelTurn: Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) betrays the Republic of China and becomes the leader of a Japanese puppet regime [[WellIntentionedExtremist because he believes China is becoming enthralled to Soviet and American social imperialism]].
* TheFaceless: No one knows what the face of "O diabo verde" looks like as he always conceals it with a gas mask.
* [[invoked]]FakeNationality: Robert Downey Jr. plays Lieutenant Ivan Alexeiovich Matskewicz, a Soviet volunteer, in the movie ''Vanguard''.
* FatalForcedMarch: The March of Sorrow, Loyalist French troops of the northern First Army receive the order to retreat to Brittany. Over the next month, they will mount a desperate defense while evacuating with British assistance. Meanwhile, Loyalists in the southern Third Army will cross the Pyrenees into the Spanish Free Soviet Republic.
* FictionalCurrency: {{PlayedWith}}. The UASR continues to use the dollar but prints and mints new designs for the coins and banknotes called "Workers' Currency" to protect itself from Americuban conterfeiting operations. This new dollar is used until the UASR transitions to a labor voucher system under lower-stage communism.
* FictionalFlag: As a work of alternate history, several countries end up using different flags from any existing OTL design.
** The most notable is obviously the [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/3969b5eadef6966230a9bf8623136398/tumblr_pmo4u11fML1s0bld4o1_1280.png flag of the Union of American Socialist Republics]], featured on the cover at the top of this article. The flag's symbology is ostensibly Marxist, and the positioning of the hammer and gear reflects the Soviet hammer and sickle, but also includes black to honor the efforts of the anarchist cause during the Second Revolution.
** The [[https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/n9jZoCKio_jNplEgrX8rJWiihE1jQBEqvQ2xS1mltGjp2cJs9sZOraXGpwhwZ10egh8Ecfw5FfC7_vlgcJjiI3x3CKt6biTvYkWDxRMxseFAmX1z_kGJ2Ew0ND79hBnSwna3vdS3SviXlIoq3OUYK7Q flag of the Union of Socialist Republics of Mexico]] adopted in 1936 but no longer used by present day. The flag is a compromise between those wanting a simple red flag and those wanting to keep the Mexican nationalist symbols.
* FictionalPoliticalParty: Played with; new political parties form, but usually out of existing political parties. And the parties that have the same name tend to have diverged in radically different ways to become InNameOnly versions of their real life counterparts.
** In the present day, the American major parties, from the political right to left, are:
*** ''True Democrats'': The designated traitor party. The drain trap that catches everything that won't accommodate to the revolution, becoming the mirror image of Western communist parties in our world (particularly the CPUSA) and being similarly weak on the national level. Their politics were initially about [[EvilReactionary reversing the Red May Revolution and restoring the old capitalist order]] but after decades being a JokeCharacter of American politics they mellowed out. By the 2010s their policies would be equivalent to the progressive wing of the real-life Democratic Party.
*** ''Democratic-Republican Party'': The resident mainstream right-wing party, although still certainly very radical by real life standards and considered centre-left by the Capitalist world. It's a catchall for the progressive political center- they approach socialism from a mutualist[[note]]an anarchist school of thought which advocates a market-based alternative to capitalism based around workers' associations (cooperatives)[[/note]] perspective. They favour markets and limited property relations. Think a communist American version of IRL libertarians. As far as foreign policy is concerned, they're one of the most pacifistic parties.
*** ''Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party'': The former left-wing of the Democratic Party, they approach socialism from a Christian perspective, and are largely left-wing nationalists. They embrace a leftist version of American exceptionalism and fit in between the CLP and the LCP with regards to their approach to how centralised economic planning should be and between those two and the DRP with regards to the approach to the market. In terms of foreign policy the DFLP is a somewhat militant party, advocating for a confrontation with the Capitalist world and supporting America's allies.
*** ''Communist Labor Party'': The former center- and right-wing of the Workers' Communist Party, they place a greater emphasis on Marxism, support a more centrally planned economy and are largely centrist on social issues. They generally advocate for the most state presence and involvement out of any of the parties in the Union of American Socialist Republics and have the strongest "authoritarian" streak, though certainly less so than the CPSU or CPC in our timeline. Their foreign policy is based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containment containment]]. Out of the two largest parties in American politics, they're the most comparable to the Republican party in our timeline and "neoconservatism" is even used to refer to their policies. They are essentially, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordigism Bordigists]] to Liberation's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_communism Councilists]].
*** ''Liberation Communist Party'': The left-wing splinter from the Workers' Communist Party and most often just called Liberation. They're Left Communists[[note]]a term referring to communists that hold views to the left of Bolsheviks, most often referring to Council Communists and Bordigists, with Liberation leaning strongly towards Council Communism[[/note]] who want to [[WarHawk push the world revolution forward]] by "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollback rolling back]]" hostile regimes and have a strong libertine streak. They favour a decentralised, democratic structure for planning the economy and abolishing wage labour and commodity value and are in favour of more localised structures of government and administration.
*** ''Social Ecological Union'': Greens, with libertarian Marxist and social anarchist wings. The champions of environmental diversity and stability, the SEU qualifies as far-left by any standard and generally supports full worker control over the economy. In terms of foreign policy, they are perhaps the most pacifistic of any of the major parties, advocating for a reduction in armaments and the seeking of detente with the Capitalist bloc to let its problems bring about their end on their own. They are noted to have some issues with an abnormally high acceptance of pseudoscientific woo among their ranks and lax party discipline.
** In the present day, the major parties of the Franco-British Union, from the political right to left, are:
*** ''Normanist Movement/Mouvement Normaniste'': The junior partner of the FBU's right-opposition, and the biggest [[ANaziByAnyOtherName fascist]] group in the union. Attempting to consolidate the cultures of Britain and France under a united "Normanist" identity based on the Duchy of Normandy and the Angevin Empire of the 10th-13th centuries, the Normanists push for a white ethnostate in a so-called "Greater Norman Empire" to fight for "western civilisation" against communists, the LGBT community and whatever else they consider "degeneracy". Known for hating the UASR and the USSR due to seeing it as attempting to "cannibalize their own parent". Also in favor of returning the Americuba regime to the American mainland.
*** ''Liberty/Liberté'': The predominant right-wing opposition in the FBU, it does not style itself as a political party [[DistinctionWithoutADifference in spite of electing representatives to local and national government]]. It's mostly composed of [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic an armed paramilitary wing]] and [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Venture Capitalists]], Liberty styles itself as an ideologically liberal organization but is willing to support authoritarian measures to battle communism and opposes identity politics and the LGBT movement.
*** ''People's Alliance/Alliance Populaire'': The party of perpetual government in the post-WWII era, formed in 1949 from the ad hoc alliance between the British Conservative Party and the French Rally of Popular Republicans among other conservative and/or pro-capitalist British and French Parties. The People's Alliance has constructed the economy along corporatist lines, establishing pro-business "patriotic unions" and doling out patronage through a sophisticated system of state capitalism to ensure social stability. On social issues, they've held back women, minority and LGBT movements and only make reforms when it benefits them.
*** ''Labour Party/Parti Ouvrier'': The merger between the UK's Labour Party and the French Section to the Workers' International (SFIO), it is a big tent left-wing party that suffered from the flight of the right-wing to the People's Alliance, after which the party leadership was taken over by Marxists and the center dwindled. It's under constant attack from the corporate media and the StateSec.
*** ''Communist Party'': Officially known as [[Main/OverlyLongName Entente Section of the Communist International]], has remained unified under a general program of revolutionary socialism. Since the seventies, the Communists are the hotbed of identity politics including feminist, LGBT liberation and multicultural thought.
** The modern-day parties of Americuba, from right to left, are:
*** ''Liberty Party USA'': the merger of the nationalist America First and the objectivist party Liberty America and the party furthest to the right in Americuban politics. They are more conservative then other objectivist parties around the world, arguing that their ideology was intended by the founding fathers from the signing of the Declaration of Independence, [[WarHawk and seek open conflict with the United Republics]]. They have recently fallen in popularity following [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump Donald Trump's]] outing as a Rhodesian mole, with many calling for the LPUSA to be banned from congress.
*** ''National Party/Partido Nacional'': The biggest conservative party in Americuba and the ideological remnants of [=MacArthur=]'s National Salvation Front. They're the biggest force [[GovernmentInExile declaring Americuba as the legitimate American government]] and seek to contain communism wherever it rises. However, the party has become more moderate in recent years and finally accepted Cubans as an important part of the nation.
*** ''Christian Democracy/Democracia Christiana'': A union of Christians that reject both capitalism and the atheistic model of communism in favour of a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism distributist]] economy and promoting "Christian values" in Americuba. While mostly Catholic, the party also accepts like-minded Protestant and Orthodox Christians.
*** ''Democratic-Republican Party/Partido democrático-republicano'': Not to be confused with the American party of the same name. The Democratic-Republicans, formed from exiles from both the Republicans and the Democrats are liberal centrists who hold true to their vision of pre-revolution American democracy and seek to maintain it in Americuba.
*** ''Progressive Party of Cuba/Partido Progresista de Cuba'': The currently-reigning party in Americuban congress and a centrist party that, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as the name suggests]], promotes socially progressive policies. They practice "binationalism", treating both the native Cubans and the American exiles as equally part of the same nation, with the eventual goal of renouncing all claims of being the true America.
*** ''Cuban Party/Partido Cubana'': A Cuban nationalist party that, much like the Progressives, seeks to renounce claims of being the United States [[OccupiersOutOfOurCountry on account of viewing the American exiles as illegally occupying the island and the Cuban people]]. Due to their ambivalence towards the ideological conflict between the TCI and AFS, the government has threatened to dissolve them by force several times, though they survived every time due to being infested with NBI members ([[DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent who may have come to]] [[BecomingTheMask legitimately believe the party's ideology]].) [[OddFriendship They also get along surprisingly well with the Christian Democrats]].
*** ''Cuban Section of the Communist International/Sección Cubana de la Internacional Comunista'': formerly known as the Cuban Communist Party. The CSCI are the biggest communist organisation in Americuba and the official arm of the Comintern in the country. Despite having been banned in the country almost as soon as the exiles arrived, they have only grown in popularity, gaining support from younger Cubans. However, they have also allied themselves with elements of Americuba's criminal underworld, though refrain from violent acts themselves in most cases.
** In the present day, the Australasian major parties, from the political right to left, are:
*** ''Oceania Forever!'': the biggest [[EvilReactionary far-right]] party in Australasia, formed in 1980 following the outbreak of the Indonesian War. [=OF=] are a party of xenophobic [[WarHawk war hawks]] who are [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic a little too eager]] [[NukeEm to use nuclear bombs]] at best and [[ANaziByAnyOtherName fascist terrorists]] allowed to sit in parliament at worst. They constantly push for increases in military spending way beyond what's economically feasible for the country. Perhaps their most horrifying proposal is the Red-Cleanser Bill that would would allow the state to execute every Anarchist and Communist for treason without trial.
*** ''Australasian Liberty League'': a cadet branch of Liberty created in 1995, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive and just as Objectivist as the main branch]]. What sets the Liberty League apart from its main [=FBU=] branch is its [[HollywoodAtheist radical secularist]] policy toward religion (while also [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain targeting Aboriginal and Māori culture in the process]]), their promotion of [[PrivateMilitaryContractor PMCs]] as an alternative to both the police and military and the League's rise being predicated on [[InternetIncorporated broadband companies]] in the mid-90's.
*** ''National Solidarity Party'': the biggest and oldest right-wing party in Australasia, as well as the reigning party in parliament, formed in 1950 from the merger of the Country Party, the right-wing of the Labor Party and conservative refugees from China, Nippon and Chosun creating a party styled much like [[UsefulNotes/NoMoreEmperors the right-wing of the Kuomintang]]. They promote state-capitalist economic policies alongside socially conservative mores in an attempt to portray themselves as "[[NoTrueScotsman the true working class]]" much like the People's Alliance.
*** ''Australasian Liberal Party'': the main opposition party and the centrists of Australasian politics. The Liberal Party are... well, ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin liberals]]''. They promote market policies with a limited welfare state as well as mild socially-progressive politics.
*** ''Green-Progressive Party of Oceania'': a coalition of the ''Australasian Greens'' and the ''Australasian Progressive Party'', both of whom split from the right wing of the [=ASCI=] following its banning at the beginning of the Indonesian War based on the issue of climate change and not being unable to make any significant change. They are the 3rd and 4th biggest parties in Australasia (respectively), and make up the largest left-wing bloc in the country.
*** ''Revolutionary Democratic Party'': another splinter of the [=ASCI=] after their spiral into [[DirtyCommies Bolshevik-Leninism]]. The Revolutionary Democrats have taken on a more Austromarxist position, believing that nationalism and class-consciousness can coexist. While affiliated with the Comintern, they wish to remain their own movement.
*** ''Australasian Section of the Communist International'': the official wing of the Comintern in Australasia. Following their ban in 1979 after supporting Nusantara in the Indonesian War, the party bled most of its membership from a combination of the ban and other factors. [[DespairEventHorizon This caused the ASCI to spiral into a borderline-reactionary stance of]] [[DirtyCommies Bolshevik-Leninism]], claiming to be "[[NoTrueScotsman the only real communists]]" and begin fading into obscurity.
** In the Republic of Palestine, the nation is dominated by the Democratic Liberation Front (DLF), which is a coalition of six parties that are [[WeAREStrugglingTogether largely similar except for minor points]], with the only legal opposition being the Palestine Communist Party which believes that the DLF is [[NoTrueScotsman not radical enough]] and moderate parties like the Islamic Democrats and General Zionists. You can see the greater detail of the parties [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/list-political-parties-of-alternate-countries.249963/page-2#post-6539681 here]].
* FictionalUnitedNations: Two examples. In lieu of a singular global United Nations, the Third Communist International and the Alliance of Free States serve as equivalents in the communist and capitalist bloc respectively after the post-WWII split between the two of the United Nations alliance.
** The Comintern zig-zags this trope due to having UN-style agencies like a culture organization, a labor organization, a health organization etc. but also having its scope being expanded by the Treaty of Leningrad, being a military alliance between socialist states as a large trade pact.
* FinalBattle: The Battle of Washington D.C. is not the last battle of the Second American Civil War but the liberation of the city by the Reds marks the end for any hope of victory for [=MacArthur=] and the Whites, who decide to evacuate to Cuba as they are realize they will lose the city.
* FinalSolution: The Nazis go even further than OTL with their genocidal plans with the Holocaust being extended to countries like Spain and Sweden due to them joining the Axis. The expansion of the Holocaust also inspires other genocides being carried out by regimes aligned with the Axis:
** Integralist Brazil has its own extermination program inspired by the Nazis.
** Turanist Turkey plans to remove Greeks and Armenians akin to the OTL Armenian genocide. The Turkish leadership explicitely talks of an "Armenian Question".
* FirstPersonSmartass: Jane Schafer tells her own story this way.
* FlashForward: Each parts of ''Reds!'' begins with a flash forward.
** The Prologue centers on [[CourtroomEpisode the testimony of Marius Gracchus during the trial of General George Marshall]] after the Red May Revolution in 1933 while the timeline itself starts in 1897.
* FlockOfWolves: In the attempt to monitor and disrupt the True Democrat party back when it was still a party of {{Evil Reactionar|y}}ies, the UASR government initiated a large scale infiltration of the organisation with undercover agents and recruitment of informants amongst its members. As a result, this happened quite a lot, even to the point of farce. In one particularly infamous example, it turned out that the True Democrats' local chapter in Monroe, Louisiana was made up entirely of a combination of undercover agents and paid informants from respectively [=StateSec=], the Louisiana Red Guards, and the local parish militia.
* {{Foil}}:
** The UASR's democratic character contrasts sharply with the Soviet Union under Stalin.
** Also counts as an AllohistoricalAllusion, Barry Goldwater becomes this to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Both act like prisoner dissidents in communist countries who became prominent figures in exile, known for their literary work and uncompromising attitude against socialist regimes, but while Solzhenitsyn [[EvilReactionary criticized the West for moral decay and turning away from Christian values during his later years]], Goldwater becomes opposed to the socially regressive politics of the Alliance of Free States.
* FourStarBadass: Many. Among them George Patton, Smedley Butler, Harry Haywood, Mikhail Frunze, Georgy Zhukov, Bernard Montgomery and George Catroux.
* FrameUp: José Antonio Primo de Rivera was assassinated in 1937 in his home in Madrid. The Spanish State claimed a CNT militant was responsible, however it is much more likely he was killed by members of his own party (the ''Falange Española'') since he had become alienated from it and was killed just after the Nationalists took Madrid.
* FramingDevice: The timeline is generally told through in-universe documents, but also through glimpses of discussion by board members of the alternate world's AH.com.
* FullCircleRevolution: ''Reds!'' is one of the first major alternate history work to present a communist revolution averting this trope and successfully creating a democratic state.
** Played straight with the USSR until Stalin's death and Frunze's BenevolentConspiracy bring the country closer to the original vision of the October Revolution and the UASR model.
* TheFundamentalist: The Integralists, with the Boaventura siblings and the Green Guard as even more extreme examples, are ultracatholic extremists who believe leftists, Homosexuals, Jews and Atheists deserve to be put to death and are more than willing to act on their beliefs once in power (and possibly even before that).
* GasMaskMooks: The troops of the Brazilian Green Guard often wore gas mask for psychological effect and to protect themselves from the smoke of their flamethrowers.
* GenderIsNoObject: The UASR actively promotes greater gender equality in the workplace and jobs, including the military.
* GeneralFailure: Stalin's meddling in military operations early in WWII proves multiple times disastrous for the Soviet Red Army.
* TheGeneralissimo:
** José Sanjurjo uses this exact title as the military dictator of Spain.
** Jiang Jieshi holds this military title after the death of Sun Yat-sen and fully embodies this trope after he defects to Japan and becomes the leader of its Chinese puppet state.
** The ''Maréchal'' Pétain as leader of the French State.
* GoingNative: Downplayed. During WWI the United States Armed Forces drastically change their doctrines to adapt themselves to modern warfare and the terrains they fight on by taking inspiration from both allies and enemies. The Marines and their commander Smedley Butler are the most notable example, learning from both Turkish foes and Arab allies as they fight in the Middle East.
--->'''Ernest Hemingway''': "The Army is Franco-German, the Navy is British, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and the Marines are all Turks]]."
* GoneHorriblyRight: For the United Kingdom and France the prospect of the German Reich destroying the Soviet Union instead of attacking them is seen as wholly beneficial and is why they didn't stop the Reich when it invaded Czechoslovakia and Poland and even traded with it. However, after the initial success of the German invasion of the USSR they begin to panic when they realize that it would pave the way for German domination of Europe and that they would be their next victim.
* GoodIsNotSoft: The United Republics are a nation of people devoted to social equality and individual liberty. But their early history is marked by political repression, including [[KangarooCourt kangaroo courts]] and ''summary executions'' against a junta that tried to destroy American democracy, and government surveillance and suppression against those sympathetic to the pre-Civil War regime. World War II is described as having been even bloodier, and even though how much of the carnage was produced by the army of the UASR has not been specified, it's clear that they put up one hell of a fight.
** It is evident that the parts of the United Republics government view themselves as such, with some of its founding members having witnessed events such as the domestic capitalist elite being willing to sacrifice American democracy on the pyre of profit and then afterwards cynically collaborate with the very same fascists who staged some of the worst atrocities in human history, means that Captalism, in any its forms, will always be inherently abhorrent, and as such the desire to fight it by spreading the World Revolution is in turn inherently morally justified, and that sometimes [[DirtyBusiness dirty means must used in this fight]]. This worldview, and the consequence that stem from it, is often examined and even criticized in-universe.
* GoodShepherd: Norman Thomas is a Presbyterian minister and a genuine reformer who seeks to unite the disparate factions of his political side behind a common program.
* GovernmentInExile:
** After losing the civil war, Douglas [=MacArthur=] establishes one in Cuba with himself as PresidentForLife.
** Bolivian leftists create a government in exile in Comintern-aligned South America after fleeing their country.
** A group of dissident parties of the Second Polish Republic (composed of the Polish Socialist Party, the Polish Communist Party, the German Socialist Labour Party of Poland, and the General Jewish Labor Bund) forms a government in exile in America named the National Liberation Front after the conquest of Poland by Germany.
** V.D. Savarkar, A.K. Mukherji and Savitri Devi create the Japanese-aligned Provisional Government of Free India (Arzi Hakumat-e-Azad Bharat) in Tokyo.
** The government of the Spanish Free Soviet Republic is forced into exile in the Canary Islands after the conquest of their territory by the Franco-Spanish Axis forces.
** The government of the Kingdom of Greece is exiled to the island of Crete after the victory of the communists on the mainland in the Greek Civil War.
* GovernmentProcedural: The story focuses on the American government, first on both the United States government dealing with a radicalized labor movement and the often futile attempts by progressives to implement necessary reforms, and the rise to power of the American socialist movement. After the SecondAmericanCivilWar, it focuses on the United Republics' government attempts to implement socialism and the war against the Axis Powers and later the Cold War with the Alliance of Free States.
** One of the most notable aspects is that progressives pass a constitutional amendment granting women's suffrage earlier and transform America into a semi-presidential system similar to those in the United Kingdom and other European nations. The head of government is the First Secretary elected by the House of Representatives who is given authority over the Executive Cabinet while the President sees his power reduced but keeping a primacy on foreign affairs.
** Several entries in the timeline are dedicated to explaining how the institutions of the UASR are organized and function[[note]][[https://66.media.tumblr.com/6867bdd73b6e6a34c829b793d4be6c06/tumblr_pn0cm1Y9qj1y73yeco1_1280.png even making a flowchart]][[/note]], and presenting its constitutional documents.
* GreyAndGreyMorality:
** Before the Revolution there was a revolving door between America's criminal underclass and the revolutionary Workers' Party as a result of government suppression targeting both and the lack of political inclination from organized crime beyond their cashflows. This partnership would end with the Revolution but would provide an avenue for many former criminals to "go legit" while organized crime pivoted to working with reactionary groups and suffered the might of the workers' state for it.
** Implied to be the situation between the powers in the modern day, although the Communist side remains [[ALighterShadeOfGrey portrayed as the better one]]; the former colonial powers remain imperialistic and ruthlessly capitalistic, but are suggested to have had to liberalise how they treat their colonial subjects in order to avoid mass socialist uprisings, and are not nearly as fascistic as the Cold War propaganda of the Comintern would depict them. The United Republics is in many ways a socialist workers' paradise and the other Communist states like the Soviet Union have successfully democratized but they are suggested to have done nasty things during the Cold War.
* GroinAttack:
** Theodore G. Bilbo, former governor of Mississippi, enthusiastic Ku Klux Klan member, and supporter of the National Salvation Front's coup, gets shot in the groin in 1933 when a group of red partisans ambushes a political rally where he is holding a speech. Bilbo is then captured and imprisoned, but his injury leads to him being confined to the prison infirmary at Alcatraz rather than a cell.
** Wang Jingwei, Premier of the Republic of China prior to and during the early stages of World War II, gets shot in the groin in 1940 during an AssassinationAttempt against him orchestrated by Dai Li. The injury forces Jingwei to go on medical leave, leaving his position to get usurped by Zhou Enlai.
* GunboatDiplomacy: The recently-founded UASR employs this against Liberia to keep its supply of rubber.
* HateSink:
** The in universe posters [=RitterStahl=], Cheka, [=RuleBritannia=] and [=CyberDoctor=] are generally thoroughly dislikable people, being a dyed in the wool West German Wehrmacht apologist, a Stalin-apologizing Tankie, a hardliner Franco-British conservative, and an Ayn Rand worshipping objectivist respectively. While not outright evil, they tend to be rude, abrasive, and hostile to those they disagree with.
** In the timeline itself, the [[EvilerThanThou elements]] of the National Salvation Front that went on to collaborate with Nazi Germany rather than settle in Americuba such as Henry Ford and the entirety of the leadership (William Dudley Pelley, Virgil Effinger) of what would become the Free American State. They form SS volunteer divisions and openly participate in the Holocaust, with Henry Ford using captured slave labor to build armaments for the Nazi war effort and the Free American State subjecting both Slavs and captured prisoners of war to horrific slave labor. After the war, their depravity is seen to draw the disgust of both anti-Communist elements in the FBU and the [=MacArthur=] regime in Cuba, with the former refusing Henry Ford's request to defect and the latter refusing similar requests by Pelley, leading to their eventual arrests and subsequent executions.
* HeelFaceTurn:
** Paul Matthews is first introduced as a young adult part of the Sons of Liberty alongside his family. After his capture he accepts to join the army instead of going to prison, at first believing he could use the skills he learns to fight against the Reds and bring back the Old Republic but he completely abandons the reactionary cause when he learns from his brother, who fled the group because his homosexuality would get him executed, that their father refused to mount a rescue operation, declaring Paul lost to communist brainwashing. Paul would serve in WWII fighting the Axis on the Eastern Front.
** Reginald Cox, [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal after he was forced to resign from the chairmanship of the Detroit Central Committee]], decides to give the leaders of the Revolt of the Cadres incriminating documents to ensure the downfall of Gil Green and his faction, [[TakingYouWithMe even if they also implicate him]], [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis because he had come to betray the revolution through his actions]].
** Oswald Mosley abandons fascism and aligns himself with Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee against the Wood government and the Axis Powers. His lover Diana Mitford, who's also an MP for his ''New Party'', does the same.
** After the MilitaryCoup in Brazil, the Axis countries in South America switch sides to join the Allies and Comintern against Germany, Italy, and Japan.
* HellholePrison: Barry Goldwater describes Alcatraz, which he was held in for 25 years, along with other political prisoners and organised crime members, as such, saying he was forced to perform hard, backbreaking labor for most of the day, regularly risking his life to smuggle in paper so he secretly could write anti-communist essays in the middle of the night which he would smuggle out again, and was constantly bullied by several of the gangsters he was imprisoned alongside, with the prison guards being mosty apathetic to his plights. Pretty much every other former prisoner and employee at the prison disputes this account, noting that there was a hard limit on how much work a prisoner could do in a week, leaving them with plenty of free time and allowing them to form prisoner clubs for various activities, with Goldwater being noted to be the head of a rugby team and a debate club. Goldwater's so-called smuggled paper for his essays and the pencils he wrote them with was bought openly over the counter at the official prison store for the money he was given as compensation for his work. About the only part of Goldwater's story anyone is willing to corroborate is that he would smuggle out his essays as letters.
* HereditaryRepublic: [=Douglas MacArthur=] attempts to invoke this after being made PresidentForLife over Americuba, by grooming his son, Arthur [=MacArthur=] IV, to be his successor. His plans don't come to pass, and eventually Robert F. Kennedy rises as his eventual official successor and proceeds to reform the dictatorial Americuban government into a proper democratic one while Arthur defects to the UASR.
* HeroicSacrifice: Huey Long, among others. Long had good reason to suspect that standing up for the Constitution would have dangerous consequences; he chose to do so anyway.
* HiredToHuntYourself: [[spoiler:George Patton]], himself an undercover spy for the Socialist movement within the US Army, is put in charge of the part of the Army intelligence apparatus that is meant to sniff out any subversives and communist sympathizers in the military. Though many of the conservative hardliners in the military do suspect a mole somewhere high up in the organisation, they all fail to realize that it is the seemingly loyal and very trustworthy [[spoiler:Patton]].
* HistoricalBadassUpgrade:
** Many OTL figures with no military experience become war veterans in this timeline, especially of the Second American Civil War.
** Paul Mattick is first mentioned in the timeline as a street fighting veteran who successfully chased down and apprehended the man who bombed the newspaper office where he worked, killing three and injuring seven of his coworkers.
** Harry Truman was a veteran of World War I in OTL, but in ''Reds!'' he also becomes a renown [[WarHero war hero]] by leading his Minutemen militia against the National Salvation Front regime during the Second American Civil War.
** Harry Haywood is chiefly remembered as the liberator from white supremacist terror by Southern African-Americans, being one of the architects of the Southern Strategy before the Second American Civil War and the leader of the Midwest Army Group, better known as the Nat Turner Column, during it. He goes on to become one of the most important generals on the Eastern Front during WWII.
** Amedeo Bordiga becomes an undercover agent in Operation Othello, a Comintern plan to foment a communist revolution in Somalia.
** [[Creator/IsaacAsimov Isaak Ozimov]] (who never changes his name) serves on the Eastern Front during WWII.
** Lau Sing Kee, an OTL WWI veteran, becomes [[BreakingTheGlassCeiling one of the first Asian-American to reach the rank of Field Marshal]] during WWII.
** Jessica Mitford becomes a British IVA volunteer with the WFRA.
** The OTL Axis Powers, Germany, Italy and Japan, are much more powerful and fearsome than IOTL thanks to France and the United Kingdom turning a blind eye to and even helping their military buildup through trade as a result of America turning communist.
*** Notably Italy develops a powerful fleet which jointly with the French State dominates the Mediterranean Sea early in the war. It also doesn't develop the same reputation as TheLoad it is sometimes attributed OTL in popular consciousness.
*** The French State becomes a full member of the Stahlpakt/Axis instead of a disarmed German puppet state.
** Léon Blum and Clement Attlee become the wartime leaders of the Franco-British Union.
** Creator/HunterSThompson becomes a WFRA officer.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Most characters in ''Reds!'' are historical but there are also fictional characters (indicated in the timeline by an asterisk after their name the first time they are mentioned).
** UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla appears in a sidestory named ''Lightning in a Bottle'' where two Red Army soldiers find him in the New York hotel where he resides during the Second Civil War (and learn to not mention [[UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison Thomas]] [[BerserkButton Edison]] in his presence). Tesla proposes to help the Reds win the war using his newest invention, the Teleforce, but it turns out to be based of faulty research and thus of no use.
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade:
** IOTL, George Patton was the one to lead the suppression of the Bonus Army, in ''Reds!'' he isn't, and once the Civil War starts he goes to them and successfully convinces them to take up arms and join him against the Putschist forces.
** George Lincoln Rockwell (OTL founder of the American Nazi Party) and Jesse Helms (OTL opponent of Civil Rights), are initially arrested for reactionary activities (trying to bomb the local WCPA headquarters and attempting to burn a black-owned store to intimidate African-Americans respectively) and accept to join the military instead of going to prison, they are subsequently reformed and go on to serve on the Eastern Front during WWII.
*** However, as a deputy of the Congress of Soviets after the war, Jesse Helms opposed the payment of reparations to uranium miners given inadequate protection and information about their work, leading to many to develop cancers, and offering any apology from the government.
*** Jeff Cooper never develops his OTL far-right opinions, becoming instead a WFRA commissar and taking charge of their squadron.
** Downplayed. In Reds!TL, Wang Jingwei stays loyal to the Republic of China but remains the same OpportunisticBastard he was in OTL.
** Subhas Chandra Bose never collaborates with the Japanese in this timeline, instead supporting the Comintern.
* HistoricalInJoke:
** The two sides of the Second American Civil War are referred to as "Reds" and "Whites", like the two sides of the Russian Civil War.
** During the same civil war, the Reds enact a policy of War Syndicalism, in reference to the policy of War Communism practiced by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War.
** The ship [=MacArthur=] leaves on after his defeat in the civil war is called ''Brumaire'', alluding to Napoleon's Coup of 18 Brumaire.
** T.E. Lawrence asserts about the Soviet-American forces fighting the Axis that "having spilled blood together to forge their International, they will not let it be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it." This quote is almost verbatim one said by [[UsefulNotes/WilliamTecumsehSherman General Sherman]] about the Union upon the secession of South Carolina.
* HistoricalVillainDowngrade: Stalin is portrayed as very authoritarian, but not to the degree he was in our timeline. A lot of this comes from the conditions that prompted it never arising due to the Soviet Union no longer being isolated and having a more powerful Socialist country than itself to account for in its actions. [[spoiler:Subverted when after the war it's revealed that Stalin killed 600,000 people in ThePurge, which is the most conservative estimate in RealLife for the Great Purge.]]
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade:
** George Marshall and the other generals who support [=MacArthur=]'s putsch are subject to this.
** John E. Rankin, already an outspoken racist and antisemitic politician IOTL, becomes Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan ITTL.
** Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter Rose Wilder Lane become supporters of the [=MacArthur=] regime.
** Barry Goldwater takes up the White cause by delivering Mexican weapons and supplies to White militias and letting them use his store to plan attacks, including several massacres of civilians, although the post-war prosecution failed to directly link Goldwater to the planning of the massacres, sparing him execution (evidence of his involvement would surface after he leaves prison). Goldwater also exaggerates in his publications about his conditions as a prisoner, depicting them as a totalitarian nightmare. He would also express admiration in his writings for the dictatorships of [=MacArthur=], Mussolini and Salgado, calling them "benign authoritarianism", although he would repudiate this position in latter years.
** Joseph Kennedy Jr. becomes a Nazi and joins the Waffen-SS after the Second American Civil War.
** Henry Ford, already an antisemite in OTL, is radicalized towards Nazism by the Communists' victory in America and becomes an important contributor to Nazi Germany's war effort and an accomplice to the Holocaust, for which he is given the death penalty after the war.
** [[UsefulNotes/ChiangKaiShek Jiang Jieshi]] takes Wang Jingwei's place as [[TheQuisling China's Quisling]], becoming the "Chief Protector" of the Provisional Republic of the Chinese Nation, a Japanese puppet state.
** James Buckley becomes a member of the Young Sons of New England, part of the Sons of Liberty terrorist group, in his youth but is reformed through military service after his capture by UASR authorities.
** IOTL white supremacist Bull Connor becomes Grand Wizard of the Sons of the Confederacy.
*** Shelby Foote becomes Connor's messenger to transmit his terrorist plots and his confidant in the process..
* HistoryRepeats: In Reds!TL, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissar_Order Commissar Order]] issued by Nazi Germany during its invasion of the Soviet Union is an echo to [=MacArthur=]'s Enemy Agents Order tasking the 'liquidation of communist political agents'. Ironic considering that in real life it is the other way around, the Commissar Order is the inspiration for the Enemy Agents Order.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
** Faced with stiff opposition to American involvement in the Great War from the pacifist Socialist Labor Party, the government decides the best way to get rid of them is to draft the agitators into the armed forces to "beat the communist out of [them]" but they end up converting many of the soldiers to communism as they become exposed to the horrors of war.
--->'''James P. Cannon''': "America would enter the war with a professional bourgeois army and navy. When the armistice was signed, America had a communist army and a syndicalist navy. It rather came back to haunt them in thirteen years' time."
** The decision to disregard the results of the 1917 New York mayoral election giving the SLP candidate victorious and install the government-backed candidate is the catalyst for the beginning of the ''Biennio Rosso'' and provokes an uprising leading to the creation of the New York Commune and soon spreading across the country. After a full-blown revolution is averted, the government ends up deposed by a motion of no-confidence.
** [=MacArthur=]'s coup, intended to crush a potential socialist insurgency before it started, ended up creating such a storm of popular and political outrage amongst the military, politicians and the general public that it led to the revolution he was afraid of in the first place, which in turn ended up with him and the other remnants of the former United States finding themselves in exile to Cuba.
** Henry Ford, [[spoiler:after fleeing to the US, joins up with Hitler and becomes an armament minister. His arrogance and belief in Nazi superiority led him to put his marque on everything he's built, including weapons he built with slave labor. When Germany is defeated [[ImplausibleDeniability he is unable to deny his highly visible role in Nazi atrocities]], and gets about much mercy as you would expect at the hands of the UASR]].
** In a ShoutOut to Red Alert 1's Soviet ending, Salgado meets his end not at the hands of partisans but his own trusted ([[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal and much abused]]) female aide. The aide takes part in a plot to launch a coup to restore the Brazilian Monarchy and end the Integralist's war effort by poisoning his tea as he prepares to make a speech at a news reel. As he lays choking and dying from the poison, she [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech angrily lets out her frustrations on him]] and shoots him three times before [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness being shot herself by another coup agent to close off all loose ends]].
* HoldTheLine: At the Battle (or Miracle) of El Alamein, the British Eighth Army repulsed the Italians until the Egyptian government could evacuate, after which they retreated too.
* HomeByChristmas: As expected of a timeline including UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. The British officers prior to the Gallipoli Campaign believe the Ottoman Empire to be a rotting structure waiting to collapse and their solders to be "oriental barbarians and ignoramuses", and their soldiers would endure eight long months of disappointment because of it and the Ottomans' tenacity.
* HopeSpringsEternal: Samantha Waver never gives up on her draft for ''Commander Columbia'', even after several refusals because considered too ambitious and [[StayInTheKitchen scepticism about a woman leading the project]], and proposes it again after every refusals. She is eventually rewarded for her tenacity when her script is approved thanks to the endorsement of the influential Charlie Chaplin and the now Secretary-General Upton Sinclair.
* AHouseDivided: In the build-up to World War II, the community of White exiles from Russia in Europe are split on their stance towards the brewing war. A slight majority argues for fighting alongside the Nazis as volunteers, believing that it presents their best chance to overthrow the Soviet Union and reinstate the Russian Empire of old, but many of them, including their nominal leader Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, know that Nazi Germany desires nothing less that the eradication of their culture, their country, and most of their people. Some in the latter camp even go as far as to pull an EnemyMine with Pavlovich's blessing, offering their support to the Soviet Union to help stop the German onslaught. When the war breaks out, and news of Nazi atrocities against the Slavic population become prevalent, the first camp ends up losing face, and most of the men who had been willing to collaborate with the Germans previously now either quietly refuse, some end up switching sides to the latter camp, and those who joined the war effort on German side are shunned as traitors. But that is not to say that internal tensions in the White exiles community completely dies down with the outbreak of the war; many in the White movement remain furious with Pavlovich for what they see as selling out Russia to the Bolsheviks and the atheist Soviet state, and for a time rumors circulated about an assassination plot against him.
* IHaveYourWife: Post-revolution, Herbert Hoover, now living in exile in the UK, ''claims'' that he enabled Longworth and [=MacArthur=]'s coup under duress, saying that the conspirators threatened his family.
* ImproperlyParanoid: The beginning of World War II and the then-separate Japanese invasion of China causes a strong paranoia directed at Japanese-Americans on the West Coast and resulting in multiple violent incidents.
** A notable incident involves a 17-year old Chinese-American murdering a Japanese immigrant because he believed she was running a "spy ring" from her restaurant, the MDSS investigations don't find any evidence to support this claim.
* InspirationalMartyr:
** According to William Z. Foster, Norman Thomas understood that accepting the role as the WCPA nominee, more-so winning the 1932 election, would paint a target on his back. Regardless, he accepted the role of martyr willingly.
--->"I think some part of him always knew that his life was forfeit the moment his name appeared upon the ballot. But someone would have to bear that cross, and consecrate the Revolution with innocent blood. It was a duty he could not shirk, no matter how hopeless or foolish it may seem. It was how he chose to live his life, to be the best he could be. So he bore the weight of the world on his frail shoulders."
---->-- '''William Z. Foster's Funeral Oration for Norman Thomas'''
** [[PlayingWithAtrope Played with]] in Stalin's case. His refusal to evacuate Moscow during Operation Valkyrie, which ultimately results in his death, paints him as this in-universe, which further complicates [[HistoricalVillainDowngrade his]] [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade legacy]] within the Comintern.
* InSpiteOfANail: Despite the changes to the timeline, especially through the presence of a prominent Socialist party in the US congress throughout the 1910s and 1920s, surprisingly much of history in those years happens much like it would in OTL, with only some subtle changes. Pop culture, for the most part, develops quite a bit like it would in our world, though this also drastically changes when the Revolution sweeps in.
** Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich still becomes the in-exile heir apparent to the Russian throne following Nicholas II's abdication as Tsar and the death of the Tsarevich in an accident.
** Even if D. W. Griffith's [[Film/TheBirthOfANation1915 infamous blockbuster]] never comes to be, the Second incarnation of the Ku Klux Klan still arises and gains nationwide prominence but now in response to the desegregation of the US Armed Forces during the Great War, the passing of civil rights legislation in 1925 and the more successful American Communist movement. [[HistoricalDowngrade However, it is smaller than its OTL counterpart and largely localized to the American South]], whereas other organizations like the Silver Legion fill in the vacuum for the American far-right in the North and West.
** UsefulNotes/HerbertHoover still becomes the US president in the late 1920s. [[spoiler:The main difference being that he actually becomes president ''earlier'' than in OTL. He first ascends to the presidency in 1927 from being vice-president, when President Leonard Wood dies from his injuries following an AssassinationAttempt.]]
** Fascist Italy still rises under UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini and Nazi Germany still rises under UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, and UsefulNotes/WorldWarII still takes place as a showdown between Fascist nations on one side and Communist and Capitalist allies on the other, with the battle for Moscow marking the beginning of the former's defeat. The war is, however, somewhat longer and much bloodier.
** The 1930s are still ushed with the international stock marked undergoing a serious meltdown. The difference being that instead of September 1929, the crash happens in February 1930.
** The film ''Film/GabrielOverTheWhiteHouse'' is notable for still being more-or-less similar to its OTL counterpart, still starring the same actors and still being backed by William Randolph Hearst, with a only few details being changed, such as the film getting released in December 1932, rather than March 1933, and the names of some characters being slightly different. Unlike OTL however, the film is considered a [[invoked]][[MissingEpisode lost film]] with no known surviving copies.
** Brothers Creator/{{Walt| Disney}} and Roy Disney still rise as stars in the animated film business of the 1930s. Though instead of OTL's Creator/{{Disney}} Company, their studio is instead a collective cooperative named "Hyperion" after its street address. WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse is also partially hit by the Butterfly Effect, retaining the name Walt Disney had originally considered for him; Mortimer "Morty" Mouse.
** George "Old Blood and Guts" Patton still becomes an important American military leader despite becoming a convert to Communism, serving in the American Red Army.
** Henry Wallace thinks he would've remained a "simple farmer" without the influence of communism; he became Secretary of Agriculture in spite of the radically changed political landscape.
** Joseph Breen, the infamous enforcer of MediaNotes/TheHaysCode, is one of the many conservatives who relocates to Cuba, where he takes up his old job as a leading film censor in the Americuban film industry. He is eventually removed from his position by order of [=MacArthur=] himself following World War II, when film producers Harry Cohn and Jack Warner, both members of [=MacArthur=]'s inner circle, complain to the president that Breen's constant objections to violent content hinders the production of patriotic films.
** The Turkish state still carries out a version of the Armenian genocide, the difference being that the genocide first begins in 1940, during World War II, rather than in 1915.
** A war still takes place in Palestine by 1948. However, there is now a third side that is the socialist-led, multiethnic People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which ultimately triumphs over Zionist and Arab nationalist forces [[MeleeATrois who are themselves preoccupied with each other]]. The resulting socialist Palestinian federation, however, still has a tense relationship with its (AFS-aligned) Arab neighbors who intervened on behalf of the Palestinian Arab Whites, even if war hasn't broken out between them since.
** Edward Bernays still codifies the idea of Public Relations and thereby becomes a prominent funding figure in the fields of advertisement and propaganda, and he also still assists the United Fruit Company with a campaign that more or less lets them get away with heaping abuse after abuse upon their local labor force in South America. One of the main differences is that he becomes slightly more involved with politics than in OTL; one of the greatest feathers in his cap becomes helping the conservative parties of France and England repair their tattered reputation following World War II and even win in a landslide in the FBU 1950 elections.
** UsefulNotes/RobertFKennedy still becomes US Attorney General, but for the exiled government in Cuba.
** Creator/AynRand still becomes an influential writer in the Capitalist bloc but became much more extremist in her beliefs after she fled her adopted country while her work has become decidedly more dystopian. This world is 100 percent guaranteed to make her squirm.
** Creator/IshiroHonda still becomes a influential figure in the {{Kaiju}} film genre in the 1950s and beyond, directing several entries in the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' franchise like he did in OTL.
** Ed Gein still becomes an infamous SerialKiller, whose lurid crimes shocks the UASR when he is captured in the late 1950s, and goes on to inspire many pieces of fiction, amongst them Creator/RobertBloch's ''Literature/{{Psycho}}''.
** Another serial killer, Albert Fish AKA the "Brooklyn Vampire", is still charged with the murders of multiple children, some of which happened just after the revolution. As in real life, he is interned and executed at Sing Sing.
** Music/TheBeatles still rise as a band that changes both music and the world music industry forever. The difference being that they continue using and become famous under their original band name of "The Quarrymen" (resulting in "Quarrymania", rather than Beatlemania), and [[invoked]][[ThePeteBest Pete Best]] remains in the band line-up as drummer, rather than being replaced by Music/RingoStarr. A more subtle difference is that the band's sound is ultimately more Skiffle influenced than in OTL.
*** By extension, a version of UsefulNotes/TheBritishInvasion, still occurs in the mid to late 1960s, the main difference being that this period is known as "The Franco-British Invasion" in hindsight, and that this timeline's versions of Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} goes by the name "Hoochie Coochie" and Music/TheWho goes by "The Group".
** Creator/LRonHubbard still funds a financially successful religious movement, that manages to go big by drawing in famous actors into movement to help promote it (amongst others Creator/ErrolFlynn), and also draws a lot of controversy and concern, both legal and otherwise. The difference being that Hubbard doesn't move on from the name of Dianetics in this timeline, so his movement ends up being called the Church of Dianetics.
** Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. still suffers a stroke in the early 1960s that renders him unable to speak, and thereby influence the political career of one his sons at a critical time. He also ultimately dies from a second stroke in 1969.
** UsefulNotes/RichardNixon becomes Premier of the UASR in the 1960s.
** William Luther Pierce is still an infamous white supremacist in this timeline. The difference is that he ties his racism and anti-Semitism to leftist language, and rather than founding the far-right National Alliance of OTL, his organisation is instead called the Socialist Action Front, which is effectively a Strasserist movement with a heavy white supremacist bend (yes, Pierce and his ilk effectively become ''actual'' CommieNazis).
** Ron Paul still becomes a politician, but is the Secretary-General of the Democratic-Republican Party (a social-democratic party on the center of the UASR political spectrum) in 2009.
** Sean Hannity is still a pundit and writer in the same style as in real life, except he is also a hardcore Marxist.
** Creator/GeorgeCScott still ends up playing the role of George Patton on film, but it's in a {{Docudrama}} miniseries about the Revolution called ''Vanguard''.
** Some historically significant video game studios such as [[Creator/WestwoodStudios Westwood]] and Creator/{{Valve}} still come into being, albeit as video game development collectives rather than companies.
** Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio still ends up playing Creator/HowardHughes. The difference being that he plays him in the film ''Death of [=MacArthur=]'', the timeline's version of ''Film/TheDeathOfStalin''.
** Creator/IainMBanks still succumbs to cancer.
** No matter the differences in the timeline, people still try to imagine years and decades later how Germany could've won World War II. As an SV poster wrote:
--->"No matter the timeline, people will spend hours of their lives working out ways the nazis could've won a war they could not have won."
* InterruptedSuicide: Robert [=LaFollette=] Jr., who spent years struggling with chronic depression, was caught one day by an aide with a pistol in his hand, requiring his brother Phillip to be flown in from Wisconsin to talk him down, after what he stepped down from DFLP leadership to seek treatment.
* InThePastEveryoneWillBeFamous:
** Jane Schafer meets UsefulNotes/RichardNixon at the army recruitment office.
** Paul Matthews meets at the 1939 World's Fair a group of science-fiction enthusiasts composed of [[Creator/IsaacAsimov Isaak Ozimov]], [[Creator/FrederikPohl Fred Pohl]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_A._Wollheim Don Woldheim]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Merril Judith Merril]], who give him a card of their club, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurians The Futurians]].
* InadequateInheritor: Douglas [=MacArthur=] attempts to turn Americuba into a HereditaryRepublic by setting his son, Arthur [=MacArthur=] IV, up to being his successor after his death. It is, however, clear to everybody that the rather hapless Arthur has inherited none of his father's brains and guts, and once old [=MacArthur=] bites it, Arthur is in short order politically outmanoeuvred by Robert F. Kennedy, who quickly secures his position as the new President, which he uses to reform the government and reinstate a proper democracy.
* InsigniaRipOffRitual: Major General George C. Marshall is subject to a cashiering ceremony before his execution by firing squad.
* InternationalShowdownByProxy: As IOTL, Olympic Games are used as an avenue by great powers and political blocs to demonstrate their superiority to their ideological opponents.
* InterServiceRivalry: The army of Reorganized China is internally divided between officers coming from the old Beiyang government and those from the Right-Kuomintang (including Jiang Jieshi himself), they have fought against each other in the past and the former sees the latter as usurpers and bandits.
* IRejectYourReality: Many times capitalists dismiss any support, even mass support, for socialism and a revolution as the work of "foreign agitators", a thesis that continues to guide Franco-British Union policy in the present day.
** Many delegates of the 1932 Republican National Convention still expressed doubt and dumbfoundedness that the ongoing Great Depression was as bad as the reports claimed. They blamed immigrants, foreign agitators, communist fifth columnists, anything but the system itself.
* {{Irony}}: Also used liberally. Bank robber John Dillinger becoming a national security agent is one of the most obvious examples, as is William F. Buckley, Jr. (one of America's foremost conservative thinkers) becoming a Marxist and J. Edgar Hoover (the commie-busting head of the UsefulNotes/{{FBI}}) switching allegiances to the new communist government in order to preserve and expand his power. And apparently in this world, it's nearly impossible to think of actor [[Creator/JohnWayne Marion Morrison]] being in a western.
** Not to mention Cuba becoming the seat of the capitalist US government in exile.
** Or Wang Jingwei leading the United Front against Japan while Chiang Kai-Shek turns into a Japanese puppet.
** Mao Zedong is expelled from the Communist Party for "rightist deviation", a charge that was used by Mao to purge all his critics in the party.
** IOTL the children's play ''Revolt of the Beavers'' was accused of promoting Marxism to children, ITTL it is praised for introducing Marxism and class consciousness to children.
** During World War I, the leftists actively campaign against American involvement and the American government pushing for it. When World War II begins the leftists are the government pushing for American involvement, which is not lost on anyone.
** For much of World War II on the Eastern Front, American soldiers have on occasion to restrain their Soviet comrades from committing atrocities on the Axis forces because of what they did to their people and land. When the Americans discover the extent of the atrocities committed by the Free American State in Maly Trostenets, the Soviets are the ones who have to prevent them from committing war crimes out of fury.
** To remain competitive with the Vladivostok Compact, the ruling parties of the Alliance of Free States have embraced a large degree of state intervention in the economy, to the point where they'd be considered center-left at the very least by RealLife standards.
* ItHasOnlyJustBegun:
** Murray Bookchin notes that the end of the Second American Civil War did not signify the end of the Revolution, but rather its beginning as it still had to deal with the legacy of capitalism, chauvinism, racism, sexism and queerphobia, which would not magically disappear with the installation of a communist regime, noting the [[FullCircleRevolution "revolution itself can become a smokescreen for counterrevolution"]] as it did in the Soviet Union.
** Invoked by Upton Sinclair in his "What is to be Done?" speech in the early days of the UASR.
* JurisdictionFriction: The early years of the UASR see tensions and overlap between its law enforcement and intelligence agencies as their respective jurisdictions are defined and because of problems of communication, leading to instances of FlockOfWolves.
* JustLikeRobinHood: During the Great Depression, unsold food would very often disappear on its way to disposal, only to miraculously wind up in volxküchen (people's kitchens in North American German dialect) to feed the poor while stockpiles of unused coal were routinely pilfered during the winter and find their way to tenant unions to be distributed. The workers and sometimes the police itself turned a blind eye to these thefts.
* {{ Kaiju}}: King Kong becomes closer to the Japanese image of the kaiju with the addition of a power of electric blasts and attacks introduced in the BTeamSequel ''King Kong Returns''.
* KangarooCourt:
** The [=MacNamara=] brothers, union members accused of being responsible for the bombing of the Los Angeles Times office, become subject of a show trial attempting to suppress the city's burgeoning labor movement. Even before the trial they are arrested and taken from Indianapolis to California without getting to see a lawyer. The trial ends with a [[PleaBargain plea bargain]], the brothers pleading guilty in exchange for being spared the death penalty.
** Despite assurances of a fair trial, Sacco and Vanzetti still get convicted on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to death just like in OTL.
** Some of the counter-revolutionaries captured by the United Republics during the Second American Civil War are given quick show trials and executed. Granted, large percentages of them are probably guilty, but that doesn't make it any less unfair. That said, most, who aren't executed but still imprisoned without trial, get fair trials after the war.
** A twenty year old Brazilian bisexual named Jose Ribeiro and his lover Joao Peres are subject to a transparently rigged trial before being executed by firing squad under the Integralists' "deviancy laws".
** Stalin's purges include the same rigged show trials as OTL but with slightly different dates and some of its victims, such as Tukhachevsky, are spared death in this timeline.
** The last Senussi independence activists are subject to one after their capture by Italy then executed.
* KarmaHoudini:
** The Green Guard's most infamous general, known only as "O diabo verde" (The Green Devil), a man behind numerous war crimes and atrocities, is by all appearances not amongst the numerous men killed in their infamous last stand, and is generally believed to have slipped away into the thick South American jungle during the chaos of the battle. Though ultimately it is hard to tell for certain, as he was known to wear a face-concealing gasmask at all times and pretty much all of his public records were destroyed, most likely deliberately, to the point where his real name managed to remain unknown to history, [[AmbiguousSituation so it is not entirely out of the question that he could have been killed in the battle either]]. What further muddies the waters is the fact that diabo verde had been proven to use {{Body Double}}s, and some historians have suggested that he was not just one man, but that the name might in fact have been a CollectiveIdentity shared by the leaders of the Green Guard. Whatever the case is, O diabo verde has become infamous as a symbol in post-war South America as a symbol of how some of the worst people of the war managed to completely escape justice, and urban legends about who he was and where he ended up are still circulating in the region.
** Averted for Wernher von Braun compared to OTL. He is arrested and given the death penalty at his trial for his use of slave labor from concentration camps.
* KarmicDeath: Lavrentiy Beria, one the greatest enablers of Stalin's purges and a depraved monster in his own right (even amongst the other already pretty cruel leaders of the NKVD), who's orders has had several thousands Soviet citizens summarily executed, is himself taken down by a American and Russian soldier-commissar team, who has him secretly arrested and killed without a trial, before leaving his corpse to rot in a shallow grave.
* KickTheDog: The execution of a bisexual man and his lover by firing squad after a blatantly rigged trial under Integralist Brazil's "deviancy laws".
* KingOnHisDeathBed: Riza Nur, the authoritarian Prime Minister of Turkey at the onset of World War II, starts getting increasingly ill from what turns out to be stomach cancer in the summer of 1941, and as 1942 rolls around, his health continues to deteriorate and it becomes obvious to everyone in his inner circle that he will likely succumb to his illness within the next six months. This starts a simmering power struggle between Nur's two most trusted political lieutenants, the ultranationalist Nihâl Atsız, who wants Turkey to strenghten their relationship with Nazi Germany, and the slightly more progressive Zeki Velidi Togan, who argues for stronger ties to Imperial Japan.
* TheKlan: The Ku Klux Klan is present and very active in attempts to maintain white supremacy in America, clashing very often with the Spartacus League during TheRoaringTwenties. One member [[spoiler:is the assassin of President Wood]], resulting in the group being declared public enemy number one and the beginning of a crackdown on their activities. During the Second Civil War and after it the KKK is very involved in reactionary violence, answered by the brutal crackdown of the UASR.
* LandslideElection:
** Leonard Wood wins his reelection as president in 1924 by almost 20% above his second place opponent, while Herbert Hoover actually wins by more than 20% above his second place opponent in 1928.
** Norman Thomas and the Workers' Communist Party of America win the 1932 general elections in a landslide both presidential and legislative thanks to the devastating effects of the Great Depression making many receptive to socialism, Hoover's terrible handling of the Depression, the Democratic Party's fall to a regional status and a fusion ticket with the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.
** The 1934 elections right after the Second Civil War and the Red May Revolution give the WCPA an absolute majority of the seats. The party even increases its majority in the 1936 elections.
** In the FBU, the People's Alliance wins a landslide victory in 1950.
* LastStand:
** With the Red Army closing in on Washington DC, [=MacArthur=] orders the 29th National Guard to delay the invasion force for as long as possible, while he rearranges for a large scale evacuation to Cuba.
** British forces protecting Malta hold on for two weeks against the Italian marines and paratroopers taking the island.
* LawEnforcementInc: United States companies regularly make use of them as scabs to break-up strikes and union activity, particularly the infamous Pinkertons. This sometimes results in battles with the Solidarity Federation's Spartacus League paramilitary.
* LeaveNoSurvivors: As the battle on the Eastern Front in World War II gets increasingly ugly and brutal, the American Red Army starts summarily executing Waffen SS members, civilian collaborators, suspected spies, or deserters whenever they come across them, rather than taking them prisoner. Opinions -- be it from historians, military leaders, politicians, or the rank-and-file soldiers who had to handle the DirtyBusiness -- differ greatly on whether this was just a NecessarilyEvil part of an extremely bloody and terrible war or a major WhatTheHellHero moment.
* ALessonInDefeat: Historians like Alistair Buchanan believe the Czechoslovak War was this for the ''Wehrmacht''. While they won the war it was not the easy victory they expected or proclaimed and it exposed a lot of issues within the German military and war economy the Nazis would fix, making them a much more fearsome opponent during the World Revolutionary War.
* LetNoCrisisGoToWaste:
** Santo Trafficante, Sr. used the Red May Revolution to wipe out his Tampa rivals and seize control of the rackets left vacant by other families in Florida, becoming the ''de facto'' boss of Florida and one of the most powerful bosses in the decimated mainland mob.
** The ''Ação Integralista Brasileira'' gains important influence for its participation in the suppression of the communist uprising, its leader Plinio Salgado is even named Vice-President, setting the stage for their own eventual coup against Vargas.
** The DRP and DFLP find a more receptive audience to their message during the Revolt of the Cadres and make important gains in rural Machigan in the snap election concluding it.
** Like in OTL, Poland takes advantage of Czechoslovakia's dismemberment to snatch some territories it claimed but did not own.
** Wang Jingwei uses his position to rid himself of troops and officers loyal to the KMT leftists and the Communist Party by placing them in dangerous positions to be destroyed by the invading Japanese forces.
* LetsYouAndHimFight:
** Hitler is fond of seeing his subordinates squabble with each other. When the Diehl Brothers approach the Führer with offers of building a German animation industry he agrees but also offers similar deals to two other teams of German animators, informing them that whoever best pleases the herrenvolk will receive the greatest favour.
** Both the UK and the USSR try to encourage Nazi Germany to attack the other one, standing only to gain from having two rivals fight each others. In the end Germany attacks the USSR first and but the UK eventually declares war on them, being threatened by the prospect of the German Reich becoming a continental power.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Americuba under [=MacArthur=] is an oppressive dictatorship but appears tame compared to the totalitarianism of the Axis powers.
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The Part 3 of ''Reds!'' is entitled "The Great Crusade" after a quote from UsefulNotes/DwightDEisenhower's speech to the Allied soldiers on D-Day in OTL. A different version of this speech is pronounced by Eisenhower in ''Reds!''.
* LongGame: The Communist Labor Party's strategy to win the Cold War is to contain the AFS and wait for capitalism to collapse on itself.
* LowerDeckEpisode: The short stories about ordinary people's lives, contrasting with the big picture narrative focused on nations and governments.
* LoweredRecruitingStandards: As the Brazilian Green Guard is progressive worn down by the engagements with the UASR army and local South American forces, the previously elite organisation eventually starts press-ganging random teenagers with no combat training into their ranks under the threat of violence.
* LyingByOmission: When the reason for Jesse Helms' arrest is discussed by his comrades, trying to burn down a grocery store in Monroe, he first [[BlatantLies denies it, then says he didn't meant to, then that he was going to start a small fire that got out of hand]] as a warning to the local officials. What he leaves out is that the grocery store was [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain operated by African-Americans, and that he wanted to intimidate the African-American authorities]].
* MeaningfulRename:
** Marius Victor Gracchus chose his surname after the Gracchi brothers, Roman advocates for social reform who were both killed by a reactionary political system.
** The Socialist Labor Party renames itself to Workers' Party of America after it joins the (Third) Communist International, and again to Workers' Communist Party of America after the beginning of the Third Period of the Comintern marks the end of conciliatory politics with capitalism.
** Spartak Leonovych Kolisnyk chose his own first name as part of his parents' protest at the "[[TheAssimilator Americanization]]" process that stripped them of their original names.
** Following the Second American Civil War of 1933, the First Civil War of 1861–1865 becomes popularly known as "The Slavers' War" to better distinguish the two wars.
** Similar to the above, UASR historiography gives new names to different periods of American history[[note]]The USA under the Articles of Confederation is called the First Confederation while the Confederated States of America are the Second Confederation. The USA before the Slavers' War is known as the First Republic and after it as the Second Republic, lasting until the Red May Revolution of 1933, making the UASR the Third Republic.[[/note]].
** Following the Revolution, UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy decides to distance himself from the exiled Kennedy Family by shedding his birthname and going by the Gaelic version, Sean Cinnéide, instead.
*** Similarly Henry Ford II, grandson of Henry Ford, legally changes his last name to O'Hearn to avoid association with his now Nazi grandfather.
** Many organizations and institutions are given a new name after the Revolution turns America communist to match the change.
*** All of the government bureaus and branches are given new names after the creation of the UASR. A US Department is generally renamed to a corresponding "People's Secretariat".
*** The National Guard becomes the Red Guards.
*** Similarly, several private automobile companies seized by their workers have their names changed.
*** The Ford Motor Company is renamed the Detroit Arsenal to humiliate Ford, in exile in Nazi Germany, and because the company is reorganized into the primary supplier of tanks and other ground combat vehicles of the UASR.
*** General Motors becomes the Dynamo Collective by vote of its workers and its General Aviation division is split to form North American Aviation.
*** The Chrysler Corporation becomes the Chrysler Technology Group to reflect its reorganization as an automobile research and development corporation.
*** Other companies completely change of industry sector, like Hudson Motors transitioning to a marine-diesel company as Kenosha Marine and Brewster & Co. becoming Long Island Aeronautics.
*** The same happens to the Hollywood lots of movie studios, for the most part renamed after the name of the street the studio is on[[labelnote:List]]MGM/RKO becomes Culver City Collective, Fox Films becomes Pico Boulevard Collective, Terrytoons becomes North Avenue Animation, Warner Bros becomes Olive Avenue Collective and its animation division becomes Termite Terrace Collective, Universal becomes Lankershim Collective, Paramount Pictures becomes Melrose Avenue Collective, the Mack Sennett studios become Radford Avenue Collective and Eastman Kodak Pictures becomes the Burbank Film Collective[[/labelnote]] while some executives restart them in exile under the same names.
*** Many sports teams get new names too[[labelnote:Ice Hockey]]Chicago Blackhawks become Ravens[[/labelnote]] [[labelnote:Baseball]]Washington Senators become Debs Defenders, Boston Braves become Boston Bees, Cleveland Indians become Cleveland Combrigs, Chicago White Sox become Chicago Spartacists, Detroit Tigers become Detroit Tankers[[/labelnote]].
*** The National Geographic Society is renamed to People's Geographic Society a year after the end of the Civil War but is otherwise unaffected.
** The Humble Knights of God rename themselves to the Green Guard to commemorate their first year of being merged with the Brazilian Integralist Action party as its StateSec.
** The South African Revolutionaries choose "Azania" as the name of their nation as a clear break from colonial South Africa.
* MegaCorp: The monopolistic companies of the United States and the Zaibatsus of the Empire of Japan dominate the economy of their respective countries until their switch to communism.
** In the United States industries from steel and coal to radios and cinema are controlled either by a single monopoly or by several big companies working together to maintain their hegemony on their industry of choice.
* MercyKill: General Dmitry Pavlov receives this from his chief of staff after being mortally wounded by a strafing German fighter.
* MistakenForSpies: Morris Rubenstein writes a science-fiction story in 1943 about a world socialist government creating nuclear weapons to scare into submission an hostile alien empire but resulting in the destruction of the universe from how many they used. The story caused an investigation by the Public Safety, who put Rubenstein in detention, because of the accuracy with which he noted the production of the weapon and the parallels between it and the ongoing effort to create a nuclear bomb. After ascertaining that he had gotten the information from publicly available sources written before the war, the State Sec released Morris, and got assurances from the editor that no stories involving nuclear technology would be published for the remainder of the World Revolutionary War.
* MotiveMisidentification: The Revolt of the Cadres is initially mistaken by White emigrees and the British as the beginning of a liberal restoration, particularly due to the former interpreting the events through their own wishful thinking, with newspaper like ''The Daily Mail'' championing the revolt until they realized that they'd hitched their wagon to a devoutly anti-liberal left communist movement.
* MultinationalTeam: Joe Simon and Jack Kirby's ''Boy Commandos'' is an international group of "street kids" composed of American "Brooklyn", Soviet Fyodor "Freddy" Cherenko, Chinese Song Ling, and Mexican Pedro Salvador.
* MurphysBullet: Zig-Zagged. Some of the assassination attempts result in stray bullets hitting other people, but not always and not necessarily fatally.
* TheMutiny:
** Mutinies and defections are common within the White forces during the Second American Civil War. In particular, the sailors of the US Pacific Fleet in San Francisco and later the Atlantic Fleet and US Marines in Norfolk under their old commander, General Smedley Butler, mutiny against the National Salvation Front and switch side to the Workers' Communist Party-led Provisional Government.
** The crew of the HNLMS ''De Zeven Provincien'' mutinies in 1936, three years later than OTL, in reaction to the announcement of pay cuts and discontent among native crews. The mutineers surrender six days later after being bombed by Dutch planes. The discovery of the participation of communist cells greatly boosts the profile of the Anti-Revolutionary Party and the previously obscure National Socialist Movement at the expense of the centre-right in Dutch politics.
** During the Spanish Civil War, the junior officers and enlisted of the battleship ''España'' successfully mutiny against the Nationalists, unlike OTL, and its escort vessels follow suit.
** Pétaintist-sympathetic French troops rise up French sub-saharan Africa against the Loyalists with support from Italian Cameroon, taking much of Gabon and French Congo and Djibouti while the other revolts are put down.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Some Russian and American White emigres pledge their support to the UASR and the Soviet Union against the Axis despite their opposition to communism because they want to defend their homeland from fascism, even if it is under a government they despise and fought against not so long ago. Among them are heir to the Russian throne and unofficial leader of the Russian Whites Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, and General Pyotr Wrangel. The White Americans Adlai Stevenson, Dean Acheson and Nelson Rockefeller form the Patriae Society to organize this support, and are later joined by Theodore Bilbo (KKK member and former governor of Mississippi) and Barry Goldwater.
* NationalAnthem:
** ''Hail Colombia'' is voted by Congress to be the United States national anthem, to the dismay of the DFLP, which preferred ''America, the Beautiful''.
** The UASR adopts ''The Internationale'' and a modified version of ''Solidarity Forever'' as its co-official anthems.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous:
** Marius Victor Gracchus chose his surname after the Gracchi brothers, who were Roman social reformers assassinated by their political enemies.
** Norman Thomas Washington is named after two American presidents, the martyr Norman Thomas and the first president George Washington.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast:
** The Putschists name their political organization "National Salvation Front", inadvertently showcasing their sinister self-righteousness.
** The Green Guard had its infamous [[KillItWithFire "Firebreather brigades"]], known for making [[Pyromaniac heavy use of flamethrowers]], including [[ManOnFire against civilians]].
** Richard Heinz becomes known as The Blonde Devil because of his sadistic and brutal treatment of prisoners at Maly Trostenets. ''The Yanks Are Coming'' also popularized the name Richard The Black.
* {{Nepotism}}: Sort of. Patton keeps his socialist views secret from his superiors and surrounds himself with sympathetic officers, presumably assuming that he can use a cadre of loyal officers to his advantage. When he receives orders to enforce the suspension of the Constitution, he leads a rebellion. This is unusual in that it's one of the rare occasions in which nepotism is presented as having led to a positive outcome, and also unusual in that the officers he surrounds himself with are ''not'' depicted as incompetent.
* NeutralNoLonger:
** Park Rangers who initially remained neutral during the Second Civil War ended up siding with the Reds when the Whites began to create forest fires and plant mines in the national parks they are meant to protect.
** France and Great Britain are neutral in the beginning of the war between the Axis and the Comintern, hesitating on which side is the greater threat to fight against. They eventually opt to side with the Comintern against the Axis.
* NeverSuicide: Reza Shah is "found" dead by suicide during the American-backed coup, though the sketchy details point to an assassination.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Wang Jingwei's meddling in the Battle of Changsha is directly responsible for allowing parts of the encircled Japanese troops, including their commander, to escape the cauldron before they can be destroyed.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain:
** The Mexican left-revolutionaries received coincidental help from the opposed Cristero movement weakening the military capacity of the Callista Army, allowing them to eventually triumph.
** Longworth and [=McArthur=]'s coup, intended to head off a Communist revolution, pretty much ensured it would happen. Sure the Workers' Communist Party had won the 1932 election but having gained power legally it gave full assurances to rule within the Constitution and was trying to take a moderate road. The most likely outcome would've been something like the UK's labour government after 1945, nationalisation and massive reform but within the existing legal framework and with the option to vote them out in 1936 and [[invoked]][[WordOfGod Aelita]] says this would've resulted in the split of the Left and Ultra-Left factions from the Workers' Communist Party. Instead, by attempting to take power, the National Salvation Front ensured the party had to trigger a revolution for its own survival and discredited capitalism within the entire country. The end result saw Longworth incarcerated by the revolutionaries and [=MacArthur=] in exile while the new Communist America was here to stay.
*** On top of the above, [=McArthur=]'s National Salvation Front's decision to arrest every leading member of the Workers' Communist Party they could get theirs hands on only ultimately served to further radicalize the party, as the leadership was mostly made up of more moderate leftists who represented the party's right and center and skewed towards social-democracy as their predominant ideology. Had these people been standing as the victors of the Socialist side after the Civil War, they would likely have chosen a more moderate, reconstructionary approach to the aftermath, going for the option of attempting to preserve the old United States and its constitution and institutions for the most part, though with some egalitarian and left-wing modifications and overhauls. Instead, the more left and even far-left parts of the party stepped up to fill the vacuum from the arrest of most of the leadership, and these people were mostly hardcore revolutionaries, preferring the approach of smashing and sweeping what they saw as the old, hopelessly corrupt, inefficient and unequal American state completely away, and start over from a clean slate with a new constitution, and in the end it meant their voices were the ones that won out.
** A similar situation happens in Peru in early January of 1935, when the ruling autocrat Óscar R. Benavides attempts a pre-emptive strike against a possible revolution by attempt to crack down on the local socialist parties and trade unions. But American and Chilean intelligence manages to catch wind of his plans and warns said parties and unions of the incoming attack. Prepared for his attack, the Peruvian left is able to counterattack Benavides' forces when they make their move, starting the revolution Benavides thought he could prevent.
* NomDeGuerre:
** During the Second American War, many of the Communist revolutionaries choose to operate under one, most commonly to avoid reprisals against their families. Following the war, many of these men and women choose to fully adopt their ''nom de guerre'' as their legal name, to symbolise the new beginning the revolution has brought with it. Recurring characters Marius Victor Gracchus and Sean Cinnéide (neé John F. Kennedy) are both prominent examples.
** More infamously, one of World War II's most infamous war criminals, the general of the Brazilian Green Guard, operated under the name "O diabo verde" ("The Green Devil"). Since no one ever was ever able to track him down or even discern his true identity following the war, many conspiracy theories sprung up about his true nature, including the idea that "he" had actually been a shared CollectiveIdentity by the leaders of the Green Guard.
*** It is implied and later outright stated in the ''World At War'' episode transcript that his true identity is Cristiano Boaventura, who used "The Green Devil" as a pseudonym and was molysmophobic, insisting on concealing his face with a gas mask and his hands when meeting other people.
* NoPartyGiven:
** Theodore Roosevelt becomes a self-styled 'Independent Republican' after leaving the Republican Party.
** Eugene O'Neill, member of the Central Committee as Chairman of the Academy of Arts and Sciences is the only 'nonpartisan' of the two first Foster Governments (1934-1938).
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: During WWI, the US government claims their violent suppression of the anti-war SLP is justified for being seditious and presenting a clear danger to the state, the US Constitution and "Liberty" while their actions show a significant disregard for the rights and protections granted to the people they persecute by the very constitution and laws they claim to defend, going as far as disregarding the results of an election to install their candidate as mayor of New York instead of the SLP candidate who rightfully won.
* NoSuchAgency: The Sections 1 and 9 of the MDSS, foreign intelligence and counterintelligence of the UASR respectively, do not officially exist but become known by reputation.
* NuclearOption: The first deployment of a nuclear bomb in this timeline also happens under an American government against Imperial Japan. The difference is where the USA detonated it over a populated city IOTL, the UASR instead deploys a smaller version with a Japanese navy fleet in the Korean Straits as its target in a place where there's no risk of collateral damage.
* OccupiersOutOfOurCountry:
** The February Uprising, essentially the Filipino front of the Second American Civil War, is an attempt by the Sakdalistas independentists to liberate their country from American rule. The revolts fails due to Anglo-Japanese intervention.
** The July Uprising of 1936 in Indonesia is a failed attempt by the Indonesian Communist Party to end Dutch colonial rule.
* OldShame: The common practice of employees of the Institute for Sexual Science using public funds to liason with sex workers ostensibly for research purposes and generally the Institute's reliance on their labor to supplement their data in the thirties became the subject of retrospective criticism and a black mark on its history, especially as it was in a period where sex workers were fighting for basic recognition and to assert their basic human dignity.
* OneFederationLimit: Defied. In the post-WWII world, the three superpowers are the Franco-British Union, the Union of American Socialist Republics, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. And that's just the three top dogs.
* OneNationUnderCopyright: Downplayed. In America, several very powerful rich men hold monopolies on entire industries and wield large amounts of influence over governments, notably calling upon the National Guard to disperse particularly resistant workers on strike, and which doesn't end in ''Reds!'', as anti-trust reforms fail to be passed unlike OTL, until the dissolution of the United States.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted.
** J. Edgar Hoover and Herbert Hoover share the same surname despite not being related.
** Same with the generals Leonard Wood and Robert E. Wood.
** There are two socialists with the surname Haywood, the unionist William "Big Bill" Haywood and the politician and general Harry Haywood.
** To avoid the confusion between the American and Soviet Red Armies, they are sometimes referred by the acronyms WFRA and RKKA respectively.
* OperationBlank: The pre-WWII operations of the Comintern's International Liaison Department are mostly named after important historical or cultural figures related to the country where it takes place, but sometimes not that much[[labelnote:List]]"[[Literature/SinbadTheSailor Sinbad]]" (who's actually from Iraq) for Algeria, "[[UsefulNotes/RamsesII Ozymandias]]" for Egypt, "Gunga Din" (after Creator/RudyardKipling's poem) for India, "Komodo" (either after the island or the lizard) for Indonesia, "[[Literature/ArabianNights Scheherazade]]" for Iran, "Bernardo" for the Philippines, "{{Theatre/Othello}}" for Somalia and "Cagn" (the trickster god of the San people of Southern Africa) for South Africa[[/labelnote]].
* OpportunisticBastard:
** Many people who were famously anti-Communist IOTL are quick to profess their loyalty to the new Socialist post-revolution government, simply because it is a convenient way for them to keep at least some of their status and power.
*** Most notable is J. Edgar Hoover, who -- as the American Red Army is about to invade Washington DC -- offers [=MacArthur=] to have his men from the NBI help with the evacuation effort. As such Hoover and his men are able to gather together a sizeable group of high-ranking businessmen and politicians looking to escape the advancing Socialist army, but instead of evacuating them, Hoover orders them placed under arrest, and then later surrenders them to the Socialist government for legal persecution, thereby successfully currying a lot of favor with the new leaders and escaping any persecution himself. He ends up being appointed to the first People's Secretary of Public Safety following the Revolution, and takes up the task with much zeal, successfully cracking down upon both TheMafia and the KosherNostra, as well as several EvilReactionary groupings during his time in office.
*** Another notable example is Vice Admiral William H. Standley, who bypasses many men his senior to lead a delegation of senior US Navy officers to negotiate the US Navy's transformation into the Workers' and Farmers' Revolutionary Navy. He also presents the deposed commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Admiral Luke [=McNamee=], as a sweetener. He fakes being a communist sympathizer, has no love for the Reds but simply hates [=MacArthur=] more, hoping the former might preserve the democratic spirit of America contrary to the latter.
** Following Stalin's death in 1941, many of the high-ranking supporters of his totalitarian policies (most prominently the exceedingly cruel and corrupt Lavrentiy Beria) are covertly purged in the confusion of the on-going World War II by a BenevolentConspiracy between Russian and American military intelligentsias who wants to push the USSR in a less authoritarian direction. Vyacheslav Molotov, despite his own status as a loyal Stalin supporter, is a notable exception, as he quickly realizes which the way the wind is blowing when he succeeds Stalin as General Secretary, and chooses to give the conspiracy his full support, and the conspirators in turn accept his help as his approval and collaboration makes it easier to achieve their goals. As a result, when the USSR decides to examine and hold public hearings on the extend of Stalin and his regime's crimes after the war, Molotov's substantial part in said crimes is conveniently severely downplayed and even overlooked entirely.
* OppressiveStatesOfAmerica: Played with. The United States does develop very authoritarian tendencies, which also existed IOTL but are maximized by the failure of progressive economic reforms allowing monopolies to thrive.
** The suppression of dissidents that occurs during our World War I is much more severe and violent than in OTL, the government invokes the state of exception and assumes extraordinary and extralegal powers, it suspends ''Habeas Corpus'' and uses the military to violently put down strikes (in violation of the ''Posse Comitatus'' Act) and arrests socialist politicians, even respected statesmen like "Robert La Follette" and elected officials benefitting from legal immunity.
** On the other hand the US implements a variety of political reforms, including moving towards a parliamentarian form of government, weakening of presidential power, woman suffrage in 1913, national healthcare, overpaid leave, ban on child labor, dismantling of racial segregation-including Texas passing a law abolishing Jim Crow.
** When the Workers' Communist Party's candidate, Norman Thomas, wins the 1932 US Presidential election in a landslide, Nicholas Longworth and Douglas [=MacArthur=] successfully pressure Herbert Hoover to suspend the Constitution. Longworth and [=MacArthur=] use this as an pretext to have Thomas summarily executed by members of the military and arrest all leading Worker's Party members. The White Army, National Guard and a host of far-right paramilitaries attempt to put down any opposition, notably massacring Huey Long and disloyal members of the Louisiana State Legislature, because they condemned Longworth and [=MacArthur=]'s violent seizure of power and refused to swear fealty to them. This is the final straw that sets the stage for the Revolution and the formation of the United Republics.
** The remnants of the US government and their supporters flee to Cuba and establish a new government, with Douglas [=MacArthur=] as PresidentForLife, that ruthlessly suppresses dissent and favors American exiles over native Cubans. After he dies, the "Americuba" government abandons his authoritarian policies and successfully transitions to democracy, though it continues to proclaim itself the legitimate government of the USA and the National Salvation Front (renamed National Party) continues to be a dominant political force.
** The early years of the United Republics are a downplayed version of this trope. A Red Terror is enacted but it is a targeted rather than universal form of violence, some people are dealt with by [[KangarooCourt kangaroo courts]], firing squads and "justice by revolver", but it is nowhere near the scale of the Soviet Union, many of the sentenced were responsible for suppressing American democracy, and it did stop with the end of the war. These actions are seen in-universe as a black spot on the history of the UASR, but none of the UASR leaders are portrayed as evil for them.
* OptOut: In the prelude to the Second World War, as it becomes increasingly clear that a violent confrontation with the fascist Axis Powers is going to be inevitable, most of the {{Actual Pacifist}}s in the UASR government -- and there are quite a few -- decide to quietly step back, out of general principle.
* OurFounder: The headquarters of the Hughes-Welch Broadcasting Corporation in London has a massive golden statue of Howard Hughes, the founder of this media empire, in a pilot suit standing outside its front doors, pointing to the Thames.
* OverlyLongName:
** Communist America's official name is the North American Union of Socialist Council Republics, generally shortened to the Union of American Socialist Republics, the UASR or the United Republics (the last one is typically used in the FBU and the AFS).
** The merger of the fascist parties of Jacques Doriot and Pierre Clémenti creates the ''Parti Populaire National Collectiviste Français'', incorporating the elements from both names but leading it to be quite long.
** The Franco-British Union is officially called The Entente Cordiale of Great Britain and France.
* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny:
** Subverted with the Democratic Republic of Iran, which is formed in a RegimeChange by military coup but actually becomes a democracy.
** Played straight with the Free American State, a Nazi state with the trappings of a federalist constitutional republic and claiming to be the rightful successor to the defunct USA. Their citizens called themselves "Free Americans", their radio station is called "Free America Radio" and their newspaper ''The New Liberator''.
** The "Sovereign Philippine State" is a Japanese puppet state.
* ThePlague: The Spanish Flu appears but is not as severe in America as in OTL because it is deadlier to people in good health.
* PleaBargain: During the trial of the True Democrat Ten, Carl Curtis accepts to testify against the other accused in exchange for a lighter sentence.
* PleaseSelectNewCityName:
** A bunch of cities get renamed after the Revolution [[{{Egopolis}} after deceased figures of the communist and labor movement]][[labelnote:List]]Most notably Washington D.C. becomes [=DeLeon=] D.C. while the District of Columbia becomes the Debs Commune. Salt Lake City becomes Haywood City[[/labelnote]].
** The Dominican People's Republic gets quickly renamed to the People's Republic of Quisqueya, after the name given to Hispaniola by the native Taino people.
* PointOfDivergence: Originally the timeline diverged entirely because a racist cop in Buffalo happened to pick on a certain Polish immigrant. While this remains probably the biggest inciting event for the divergence from our timeline, it is not the point of departure in the rewrite. The new point of divergence is a slightly different outcome of the interaction between two minor socialist groups at the end of the 19th century, which ends up averting a split that weakened the movement in the long term.
** Another point of divergence is that the [[EvilReactionary Supreme Court]] rules against anti-trust legislation in various RealLife cases that were won by progressives. With a government that is pro-big business and the progressive movement appearing increasingly impotent, radical ideologies become more popular among the American people.
** America enters World War I from the beginning, leading to a much more harsh experience that profoundly shakes the traditional structures of American society, in particular the moral authority of religious institutions.
*** The American participation in World War I from the beginning causes a radical politicization of military officers as well as making the German offensive against Russia less effective, which strengthens the nascent Soviet Union. It results in the radicalization of African-Americans as they end up experiencing life outside of Jim Crow and also ending racial segregation in the military twenty years earlier and racial segregation in general forty years earlier as this becomes the catalyst for an early Civil Rights movement in the 1920s[[note]]In Real Life, African-American participation in WWII served as a way to radicalize black veterans and thus served as an impulse for the Civil Rights movement[[/note]].
*** The collapse of the two-party system the TheRoaringTwenties is also an important factor as it reduces the Democratic Party to a regional party in the DeepSouth with the progressive wing splitting into the Democratic-Farmer-Labor-Party which works in coalition with the Republican Party. This allows the Workers' Party maneuvering room to grow politically due to [[LoopholeAbuse split voting]].
** Continued British support for the Hashemites allows the Kingdom of Hejaz to triumph over the Sultanate of Nejd in the 1920s, leading to an Hashemite, instead of Saudi, kingdom to be formed in the Arabic peninsula.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero:
** The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party at first denounces the growing liberalization of society and the upheaval of widely accepted norms brought on by the First Cultural Revolution as "moral degradation". The same sort of sentiments are also shared by the more conservative members of the Workers' Communist Party of America but both eventually grow to accept the new status quo lest they lose any relevance in politics.
** During WWII, the Americuban regime is firmly on the side of the Allies, but they're still a dictatorship that gives the native Cuban population no voice and their propaganda against Integralist Brazil includes some very apparent racist undertones.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The enemies of the Workers' Party of America and later the UASR are generally bigoted to varying degrees, such as [[TheKlan the Ku Klux Klan]] and segregationists, the Axis and especially the Nazis during WWII, and the colonialist Franco-British Union.
** Adrien Arcand pushes francophobic policies in his capacity as Premier of Quebec and is also a vocal antisemite.
** Edward VIII causes a controversy after he declares during a speech that the opinion to intervene in World War II against the Axis is "influenced by wealthy Jews of Central and Eastern European extraction, who own the means of communication". He is forced to retract that statement but makes another similar one later that he is forced to apologize for as well, but still completely believes, telling a friend "It is not antisemitic to state the fact Jews make up a large portion of the communist, war-profiteering, and anti-war circles, nor does it diminish to imply they have a vested interest in war with Germany, for any number of reasons."
** Turanist Turkey holds revanchist hatred for Greeks and Armenians (and Arabs for Nihâl Atsız's faction) and generally mistreats non-Turkish peoples. Their policies to deal with conquered people are at best slow cultural genocide and at worst outright extermination.
* ThePoliticalOfficer: Starting with the Second Civil War, the American Red Army employs Commissars in their units. Their job is to ensure to their best of their abilities that the rank-and-file soldiers maintain combat morale and loyalty towards the revolution (later the state), and also rein in attempts at committing war crimes against civilians.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner:
** During the Gallipoli Campaign, just before their assault on the Ottomans holding the 400 Plateau, Smedley Butler declares to his marines "immortality is just beyond that bluff. It's ours for the taking. Huzzah!"
** When the Germans launch the ''Kaiserschlacht'', the American communist junior officers and [=NCOs=] rally their mutinous soldiers by shouting "Hold the line, comrades. Make it through this, and be sure to save a bullet for our own generals."
* PretextForWar:
** Nazi Germany cites violence against Sudeten Germans to invade Czechoslovakia.
*** It also uses the illegal aid given to the Soviet ship ''Stalnoy'' by Danish trade unions and allegations that parts of the Danish government were complicit as pretext to occupy Denmark as a "co-belligerent" of the Soviet Union.
** Fascist Sweden cites [[BlatantLies violations of neutrality, barbaric conduct by the communists and an imminent threat of Bolshevik uprising in Sweden supported by VOSCOM agents]] as justification to declare war on the Vladivostok Compact.
* PropagandaMachine: During WWI, the American government establishes the Committee for Public Information to instill a sense of enthusiasm for the war effort into the public, chaired by members of the government and media moguls, and becomes a permanent fixture of the American state.
* PropagandaPiece:
** ''Commander Columbia'' has explicitely communist propagandistic intentions, portraying personifications of the Comintern nations as a pantheon of heroes fightings fascists and other reactionary villains.
*** In reaction to ''Commander Columbia'', Italy makes its own animated epic ''Glories to Come'', presenting a triumphant vision of Fascist Italy's ambitions and preaching the virtues of the regime, including an undercurrent of misogyny. The film is considered a pinnacle of futurist art.
*** This is later followed by ''Advance Italians!'', a nationalist film following the history of an unbroken family line from the founding of Rome to the newest son's meeting with Mussolini, who is portrayed as a benevolent and loving figure.
*** Later, Nazi Germany releases ''Knight of the West'', a Disney-esque style animated movie featuring the story of a brave Teutonic Knight who awakens from under the mountain to aid the German people in their time of need against [[GreedyJew the Jewish menace]].
** The British film ''A Brit in the Revolutionary Air Force'' has a blatant pro-intervention in WWII and communist sympathetic slant. It does little to dent its success, becoming the highest grossing film of 1941.
** ''Freedom Lost'', made in 1983, is a low budget Franco-British docudrama commemorating and lamenting the loss of "freedom and capitalism" in 1933. The film is very pro-[=MacArthur=], and posits that the Workers' Party victory was the result of "Soviet interference". It is widely derided, even among more sympathetic Tory circles, for its ahistorical and poorly researched stance, as well as its low budget and poorly made reenactments.
* ProxyWar:
** The Spanish Civil War (1936-1938) is one for the Comintern and the Axis.
** After WWII the Alliance of Free States and the Vladivostok Compact fight each other in many proxy conflicts in the ongoing Cold War.
*** The Horn War is the first major proxy war between the two blocs, with the AFS backing Ethiopia and the TCI/VOSCOM backing Socialist Somalia. The war is also notable for being one of the main reasons leading to the split of the Workers' Communist Party of America in two due to opposition between pro- and anti-interventionists in the Horn War. In the end the war is won by Somalia, realizing its territorial ambitions of Greater Somalia.
*** The Indochina War. The high amount of foreign involvement from both blocs makes it essentially an actual war between them rather than a proxy one. It ends similar to OTL with the expulsion of Capitalist forces from Indochina by the Communists, which form a socialist federation.
*** The Indonesian War (1979-1994). It ends with Indonesia suffering partial territorial losses to AFS states like Australasia while the country itself becomes socialist and adopts the name Nusantara.
*** The Congo War (1980s). Mostly waged between the socialist Congo and the capitalist Nigeria, with ample foreign intervention for both sides.
* PublicBathhouseScene: In the immediate aftermath of the revolution, the local government councils built up public bathing facilities to increase the hygiene of the population. This is a case of BoringButPractical as sanitation was non-existent outside of the very rich in the 1930s[[note]]large scale sanitation and concern with hygiene only became a thing with the rise of {{Suburbia}} and the middle class lifestyle in the 1950s[[/note]].
* PuppetKing:
** The Japanese Emperor Hirohito is severely injured in a 1932 assassination attempt by a Korean independence activist, and never manages to fully recovers from his wounds. Left too weak to effectively fulfill his duties as Emperor as a result of this, Hirohito is forced to cede most of his political power to his advisors, while he is reduced to more of a figurehead. [[spoiler:Chief amongst these are his younger brother Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu, who assumes the old position of Kanpaku, chief advisor for the Emperor, and leads Japan down an even more oppressive and imperialistic path than in OTL.]]
** [=MacArthur=] chooses Raymond Moley to be his puppet president after his putsch but assumes power directly after his flight to Cuba.
** Turkish President İsmet İnönü is turned into the Turanists' puppet, with any real power held by the Prime Minister, first Riza Nur then Nihâl Atsız.
** Jiang Jieshi, already the Japanese's [[TheQuisling Quisling]] in China, is further undermined by the presence of Japanese "advisors" superceding his administration and military commanders, effectively controlling them, and by implicitely forcing him to stay in Beijing, telling him he's free to move his government to the occupied capital of Nanjing but wouldn't receive any protection from the Japanese forces remaining in Beijing.
** José Sanjurjo becomes a puppet after suffering a debilitating aneurysm in 1941 rendering him incapable of ruling by himself.
* PuppetState:
** The Republic of Cuba was a puppet state of the USA since 1901 before being annexed as its last remnant by the [=MacArthur=] regime.
** Nicaragua, Panama and Haiti assume a quasi-protectorate status under American occupation until the Red May Revolution, after which they willingly become associated states of the UASR after their own revolutions.
** Assyria and Kurdistan are turned into French and British Mandates of the League of Nations respectively after WWI, alongside OTL Mandates of Syria, Lebanon and Palestine.
*** Assyrian, Syria and Lebanon are later turned into client republics by France.
** The establishment of the Dominion of Southern Ireland after the Irish War of Independence allows the United Kingdom to retain much influence over the region.
** Paraguay becomes a puppet state of Integralist Brazil after signing the Asunción agreement with it.
** The Provisional Republic of the Chinese Nation is established by Japan to be its puppet state as it conquers mainland China.
** The Empire of Japan creates the Republic of Daehan to keep control of Korea through right-wing nationalist proxies.
** Similar regimes are created upon Japan taking control of the Philippines and Indonesia, creating the Sovereign Philippine State and the Republic of Insulindia.
* ThePurge:
** In Mexico, Carranza conducts a massive purge campaign of potential Zapatists and their sympathizers in 1918 and 1919.
** During the Second American Civil War [=MacArthur=] promulgates the 'Enemy Agents Order' ordering the liquidation of 'communist political agents' but this quickly becomes an excuse for White militias to engage in ethnic cleansing against minorities.
** In Americuba he purges his inner circle in response to decreasing sugar harvests and riots in various Cuban cities in 1936.
** Played with in the United Republics, as William Foster decides to side with protestors during the Revolt of the Cadres and launch an investigation into political corruption, resulting in lots of {{Sleazy Politician}}s and government bureaucrats being arrested for accepting bribes or imposing rents in public housing. This in particular is considered a good thing, as it enshrines democratic accountability in post-revolutionary America.
** In a post-war report, written by a truth commission, it's revealed that up to ''half a million'' people died as a result of the persecution of kulaks[[note]]wealthy peasants, which was a significant number of actual peasants, and whose persecution served as justification for collectivization[[/note]] and union leaders as well as Stalin's own purges. And it should be reminded, that due to ButterflyOfDoom, Stalin was unable to enact the complete purges that he did in RealLife.
*** The NKVD under the order of Lavrentiy Beria liquidates all of the Lithuanian political prisoners to prevent them from joining an anti-Soviet collaboration government as the country is about to fall in Axis hands.These mass murders were ultimately useless as the Germans would impose their own rule and treat the Baltic states as colonies.
** Hitler uses the successful invasion of Czechoslovakia to silence or purge his detractors in the ''Wehrmacht'' and remove the incompetents.
** The Spanish State is fond of those throughout its short history.
*** The Nationalists enact a brutal White Terror against the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War.
*** After the Ruiz Affair, Emilio Mola brutally imposed discipline upon the dissident factions of his Spanish Falange, purging, killing, and brutalizing any who would not bend the knee to him.
*** Emilio Mola's seizure of power on the ''Dia de Reyes'' is accompanied by a purge of the other factions within the Nationalist camp.
** After conquering the Spanish Free Soviet Republic, the Spanish State launches a White Terror even more brutal than the previous one against leftists, Catalans and Basques in the newly-occupied territories.
** [=MacArthur=] removes from his administration pro-Axis and isolationist figures like Vice-President Coughlin and Joseph P. Kennedy as it becomes apparent his British benefactors will be fighting the Axis rather than the Comintern.
* PuttingOnTheReich: Integralist Brazil. Post-Second World War Britain and France get pretty close to this. Propaganda on all sides of the Cold War will feature this for enemies.
* PyrrhicVictory:
** The Battle of Springfield turns out to be one for General Marshall's Army of the Mississippi during the Second Civil War.
** The Siege of Gibraltar is one for the Axis, paying a high cost for their conquest of the Rock, with up to 70% losses for the main Spanish contingent while the British only sustain 10% losses.
* TheQuisling:
** The very name of Henry Ford becomes synonymous with betrayal in the UASR for his collaboration with Nazi Germany.
** Jiang Jieshi betrays the Republic of China and joins the Japanese, becoming the leader of the Provisional Republic of the Chinese Nation. He claims to be doing this because the Republic of China led by Wang Jingwei has itself become a Soviet-American puppet.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Jane Schafer is at first a bit hesitant to join the joint Russian-American BenevolentConspiracy aiming to clean out the remnants of Stalin's authoritarian cabinet following the infamous Soviet leader's death. After a short explanation of who Lavrentiy Beria is, and the fact that he has used the power of his office to get away with preying on young women for years, she is completely onboard with leading an assassination squad against him.
* {{Realpolitik}}: The UASR and the United Kingdom maintain trade links after the Red May Revolution despite mutual animosity and the former's fiery revolutionary rethoric because doing otherwise would greatly hurt both of their economies.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill gives one to the British government for burning bridges with America and cozying up with fascist regimes.
* ReassignedToAntarctica:
** Andrew Mellon was reassigned to become Ambassador to the United Kingdom because of his significant role in the Hoover administration's disastrous handling of the Depression.
** Edward VIII is made Governor-General of New Zeland after his abdication to keep him as far away from European affairs as possible.
* RecognitionFailure: A Soviet officer fails to recognize a tall man arriving at the port of Sevastopol, only for an old dockworker to do so for him.
--->'''Vanya''': "Do you really not recognize the [[RedBaron Black]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Wrangel Baron]]?"
* RedAndBlackTotalitarianism: Averted with the UASR. The flag of Communist America is dominated by black and red, the colors of anarchism and communism, but it is a democratic state.
* RedBaron:
** The Ottoman Turkish soldiers fighting the US Marines during WWI give them the nickname of ''batıkurtlar'', meaning "western wolves".
** General Smedley Butler is known as "Old Gimlet Eye" among the Marines, or as, related to the above, the "Old Wolf".
** President Leonard Wood is nicknamed the "People's General" by his supporters and the "American Bonaparte" by Jay Lovestone and the Communists.
** John P. Lucas, one of the leaders of the anarchist Black Brigades, is nicknamed "The Old Anarchist of Kearneysville".
** Liren Sun is known as "Australasia's Rommel".
** As IOTL, Emilio Mola is known as ''El Director'' from his work as the main planner for the ''Unión Militar Española'' before the Spanish Civil War.
* RedChina: Communist China in ''Reds!'' follows a UASR-inspired model of Communist democracy.
* RedScare:
** Hamilton Fish III attempts to start one with his investigations into communist espionnage but he is undermined in the eyes of the public by his own antisemitism.
** The victory of the Communists in the Second American Civil War naturally leads to significant panic among the remaining capitalist nations, to the point where they enter a tentative rapprochement with the fascist powers until the latter starts getting too aggressive.
** Franco-British MP Waldron Smithers becomes notorious for his claims that communists have infiltrated the state organs of the Franco-British Union.
* RegimeChange:
** The Japanese install Puyi as emperor of their Manchu protectorate.
** The Commonwealth of the Philippines is turned into an Anglo-Japanese protectorate and a ''de facto'' British dominion in which Japan has "parity rights".
*** When Great Britain and Japan find themselves on opposite sides of WWII, Japan does one again after conquering the entirety of the island, creating the Sovereign Philippine State.
** The Dutch East Indies progressively fall under Japanese rule as well after the failed communist July Uprising, culminating in becoming a ''de facto'' Japanese colony in 1938.
*** When the Western Allies enter the war the Japanese initiate a coup making it explicit, creating the Republic of Insulindia as another puppet state for their Sphere.
** The Spanish Republic becomes the Spanish Free Soviet Republic during the Spanish Civil War through the influence of its main backers, the Soviet Union and the United Republics.
** The International Liaison Department of the Communist International exists to spread world revolution by both supporting already existing communist movements and bringing in line other leftist ones, and by supporting the creations of new ones and their attempted revolutions and coups.
*** The Shah is overthrown in 1940 by an American-sponsored military coup in 1940, Operation Ajax, establishing a Comintern-friendly communist regime in Iran.
* ReignOfTerror: Downplayed. During the Second American Civil War, the Reds enact a Red Terror, a calculated program of terror targeting reactionaries. It does heavily hit religious institutions hostile to socialism, particularly the Catholic Church.
* RelationshipSalvagingDisaster: The cousins Wilhelm II and Nicholas II go on friendly hunts together during their exile in Sweden despite having been on opposite sides during WWI.
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: The divisions of the Green Guard are named after Christian orders of angels, with the first three being named Seraph, Cherub, and Archangel respectively.
* TheRemake: ''Aelita (1937)'' is an American remake of the Soviet film ''[[{{Film/Aelita}} Aelita (1924)]]'' but also serves as an adaptation of and sequel to the [[Literature/JohnCarterOfMars Barsoom series]] later [[AscendedFanon canonized]] by Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs himself. The movie becomes of staple of the ''fantastik'' genre.
* TheRemnant: Americuba, which becomes a refuge for American anti-communist exiles under [=MacArthur=] after the Revolution, claims to be the legitimate continuation of the old United States and acknowledges the UASR as an insurgent state.
* RenegadeSplinterFaction: The American Whites who work with Nazi Germany, such as Joseph Kennedy Jr., Henry Ford and William Dudley Pelley, are this to Americuba.
* ResignedInDisgrace:
** Hugo Black, [[DemotedToExtra an Alabama Democratic-Republican representative]], resigns after it is revealed he has been a member of the Klan.
** People's Secretary for Railways Robert Taft resigns after being disgraced by the Pineville Wreck and its aftermath, during which a coal train derailed, bisecting the city in two. The Pineville Wreck is merely the culminating point of a long list problems that went unadressed by the People's Secretariat for Railways.
* LaResistance:
** Following the [=MacArthur=] Putsch, the Workers' Communist Party forms a Provisional Government and transforms the electoral alliance that was the Popular Front into a military one, composed of all the forces opposing the National Salvation Front, including the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and their paramilitary Minutemen, anti-putschist Republicans and Democrats, and the anarchist paramilitary Black Brigades/Libertarian Fighters' League, although the WCPA remains indisputably dominant within the coalition.
*** In White-controlled territory, partisans form the Red Army Fractions and other ad-hoc groups to harass their troops. Black communist rebels, many Great War veterans, in particular are a constant thorn in the White Army's side.
** As IOTL, resistance and partisan groups are created to resist Axis occupation.
*** In Spain the resistance is composed of the communist ''Frente Revolucionario Antifascista y Patriota'' and the more liberal ''Maquis'' both formed by Spanish Red Army soldiers going underground, and the Basque ''Euskadi Ta Askatasuna'', engaging in terrorism in reaction to Falangist brutality specifically targeting their people.
* RevengeBeforeReason: After being expelled from the communist SFIC, Jacques Doriot vows revenge against the party, turning to fascism and founding the PPF with the aim to completely wipe his former side from France.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized[=/=]TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified: Employs both tropes to an extent; it's more like The Revolution Will Not Be Sunshine and Rainbows. The new government in America may be more democratic than the Soviet Union, but it is far from squeamish. Nonetheless, it pretty unambiguously has the moral high ground over the old U.S. government, which was willing to suspend the Constitution and declare war on its own populace when an election went in a manner it didn't like while the new communist America allows other parties to run in elections and doesn't suppress the electoral vote when an election goes awry. After the Revolt of the Cadres, most authoritarian tendencies were swept away and democratic values dominate.
** However, the UASR also had features of a party-state, such as an army loyal to the WCPA rather than the state, that would persist until the split of the perennial ruling party in the 1950s.
** A sidestory named ''The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized'' was written to show Red soldiers are also capable of committing atrocities.
* RewardingInactivity: The Communist Party of El Salvador decides to delay any attempted uprising until after the United States general election and are rewarded when the Red May Revolution successfully brings to power American Communists, who would eventually help them come to power by defeating the Salvadorean government during the Central American Revolutionary War, turning the country communist.
* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman:
** Creator/HumphreyBogart did some odd jobs and some acting in theater and short film, but eventually found his true calling in the Red Guards, fighting against the KKK in the South. As a result of that and his later Civil War service, he was inducted into [=StateSec=], and did several stints as a intelligence agent posted in France, Spain and other foreign countries.
** UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan sort of remains an actor in this time; that is to say, in the 1950s he is a newsreader and sports commentator on radio, and in the 1960s and 1970s, he has become a news anchor on TV.
** UsefulNotes/MaoZedong tries, but never really manages to make a breakthrough as a political leader in the Chinese Communist Party. In fact, some of his political views eventually result in his excommunication from the party's middle management. Instead, he becomes increasingly interested in the trade of writing, and becomes a famous and influential poet and playwright. By the time of his death in 1976, he has published over thirty books, including poetry, plays, and essays on socialism and politics, and his autobiography which numbered four volumes. He later gets readmitted into the party and achieves fame, not as a Chinese leader, but within the body of the Communist International following his election to the top office in the late 50s, serving as the Commissar Prime of the Executive Committee of the Comintern and thus the ''de jure'' leader of the Communist world until his retirement later in the sixties.
** Harland D. Sanders becomes an actual military colonel in the US Judge Advocate General's Corps during WWI. After his bussiness ventures go bankrupt during the Great Depression he puts his cooking skills and knowledge to good use in the volxkuchen. During the Civil War, Sanders' star rose in the Red Army as an indendant, keeping the troops fed. After the war he becomes instrumental, alongside John Kellogg, in reforming nutrition and gastronomic science far beyond the initial mission of military nutrition of the Subsistence Research Laboratory. He also creates the WFRA's new ration system.
** Creator/GretaGarbo never changes her name from Gustafsson and becomes the first lady of the UASR in the late 40s.
** Henry Ford flees America to join with Nazi Germany when he sees the writing on the wall in America, teaming up with Albert Speer to build up the economies of the Axis to be better suited for total war. Ends up executed following a guilty verdict at the Nuremberg trials.
** Barry Goldwater becomes a successful writer akin to OTL Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and a political commentator in the 1970s and 80s. He tried to run for an House seat in Cuba in 1964 but his close ties to [=MacArthur=] made him unfashionable.
** UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy changes his named to Sean Cinnéide after embracing the Red May Revolution and becomes a judge after his WWII service.
** UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher becomes a food tycoon instead of a politician.
** Creator/NewtGingrich attempts to go into politics in the UASR as a military internationalist, but is unsuccessful. Disappointed by his failure, he instead decides to focus on his writing career, becoming a prolific writer of political fiction and science fiction (the latter of which he writes under his full name of Newton Gingrich), but his true breakthrough as an author comes with a popular series of military techno-thrillers, which he starts writing when the Cold War heats up in the 1980s, effectively making him the Creator/TomClancy of this timeline, with his name becoming a brand in and of itself, just like Clancy's.
** Creator/IainMBanks becomes the leader of the FBU Labour Party [[InSpiteOfANail until his death from cancer]].
** Creator/PeterCapaldi, in turn, is the leader of the Entente Section of the Communist International by the ITTL Present Day.
** UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin pursues a successful career in acting rather than politics. Among his more notable roles is as Fyordor "Teddy" Kolchavsky AKA "Dr. Blood", an expy for [[Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Hannibal Lecter]].
* RiddleForTheAges:
** John Birch's fate after he managed to escape imprisonment for the AssassinationAttempt against Premier William Z. Foster is a historical mystery, with many conspiracy theories surrounding it. At most, the [=StateSec=] investigation of his disappearance confirmed that he managed to escape into Canada with help from right-wing militias, even though the details are very foggy. The closest the mystery ever got to be solved was in 1982, when a Baptist preacher and insurance salesman named John Morrison died in Calgary, Alberta at age 64. It was noted at the time that John Birch's full name was John ''Morrison'' Birch, and Morrison was noted to carry some physical resemblance to Birch and some overlap in his personal history (he was born in the same year and same area in India as Birch), but the investigation into his identity ultimately turned out inconclusively.
** The cause of Stalin's death [[spoiler:during the World Revolutionary War and who is responsible for it]].
** It is unknown wether General René Prioux attempted to march on Paris on his own, or on the orders of his army group commander, or on the personal orders of Field Marshal Pétain during their military coup, as those who knew either died or took the truth to their graves.
** The unsolved disappearance and death of Santo Trafficante Jr., the leader of the Tampa Mafia and one of the most powerful figures in the Mafia, becomes the subject of fascination among true crime enthusiasts and investigators.
* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: Along with TheKlan, these work as {{Black Shirt}}s for the National Salvation Front during the Second American Civil War, the Silver Legion being one of the most well-known. They infamously lacked the professionality of the regular army and the National Guard and committed atrocities against genuine and suspected communists devolving by design into massacres of minority populations. Following the Civil War, many new right-wing militias spring up, as many of the White forces who, for one reason or another, didn't evacuate to Cuba want to continue fighting the war they lost. The largest and most organised of these militias call themselves "The Sons of Liberty", and they manage to establish several semi-independent cells across several states (though mostly in the South and the Midwest) and they are behind a couple of infamous terrorist attacks and attempted insurrections in the years immediately following the founding of the UASR.
* RightfulKingReturns: The return of the Brazilian Emperors to Brazil is a surprisingly straight example of this as Dom Pedro Henrique's entrance to Brazil is used to finish off the Integralist regime by providing a figurehead for the country to rally around in the face of the Brazilian republican right-wing having faced disgrace and defeat under Salgado's insanity. By all accounts, Brazil is a prosperous and burgeoning country significantly more successful than its OTL counterpart and is generally either considered a superpower or a country on the verge of becoming one. The FBU re-installing the Hohenzollern Kaiser to Germany as well as the assorted lesser German nobility and royalty is portrayed like this in the Capitalist sphere, but the German Monarchy is a significantly more contentious institution than Brazil's.
** After over a decade as an Allied occupational mandate, [[UsefulNotes/TheKingdomOfSpain Spain is reformed as a constitutional monarchy under the reign of a young Juan Carlos I]], [[UsefulNotes/TheFrancoRegime around 20 years ahead of real life]]. This is met with much less fanfare as the devastation of the Civil War and Second World War is still very present, and the young kingdom's political institutions had to be rebuilt from scratch.
* RisingEmpire:
** UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany becomes an even more prominent example of this trope than OTL, since it also aggressively pursues imperialistic goals in Latin America, causing the old US to grow more vigilant towards the Kaiserreich and strengthen its alliance with the British Empire.
** The Greater Indian Commonwealth's rising political and economic power through the Cold War puts it on a course to eventually eclipse even the FBU in the Capitalist Bloc.
* RousingSpeech:
** William Z. Foster delivers several:
*** The "Red Dawn" speech, calling on his countrymen to rally behind the Provisional Government in the fight against the tyranny of capitalism and the National Salvation Front, and announcing the formation of the Union of American Socialist Republics.
*** His funeral oration for Norman Thomas, first speaking findly of the president-elect and his acceptation of his likely deadly fate, then encouraging the American people to fight in memory of those killed by the NSF regime and complete the revolution against capitalism.
*** The speech announcing the Axis invasion of the USSR and asking Congress to declare war on the Axis, and announcing his own resignation.
** Upton Sinclair gives the "What is to be Done?" speech, outlining the challenges facing the newly-founded UASR, and the necessity of bold action to fully realize the revolution.
** Jiang Jieshi gives one entitled "China Cannot Be Conquered" after [[{{Irony}} he has become a puppet leader for the Japanese invading China]].
** Plinio Salgado gives one as he begins the invasion of Argentina and the rest of INTREV-aligned South America, characterizing the war as a Christian crusade against Bolshevism.
** The French fascist leaders Doriot, Clémenti and Bucard make a common declaration the order of military mobilization in France in prevision of war against the Axis, sparking riots in the country.
* RunForTheBorder: Several Sons of Liberty terrorists escape the UASR by crossing the border, mostly into Canada, with the most notable example being John Birch.
* SaintlyChurch: The Red Trinitarian Ecumene evokes this. It was formed by pro-socialism parishes that espouse a radical interpretation of Catholic social doctrine and splits off from the Vatican after the Second American Civil War.
* TheScapegoat:
** The Republicans gladly leave the Democrats claim the presidency as part of their common National Unity ticket in the 1916 elections so they can blame the cost of the ongoing WWI on them despite the war starting under Republican President Taft because of the Treaty of Toronto he signed himself.
** As the Axis is incresingly losing the war and Soviet-American forces get ever closer to the Free American State, Virgil Effinger blames their decline on "Bolshevik intruders" and begins to execute their Slavic and Jewish forced laborers, then the brainwashed [=POWs=] they had created for "lingering redness".
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: James Buckley's father uses his connections as district attorney to ensure his son doesn't end in prison after he was caught directly planning an attack at a Young Sons of New England meeting.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: During WWI, the [[{{Nepotism}} scions]] of rich and [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections politically connected]] families receive draft deferments or posts at West Point guaranteeing they would miss the slaughter on the frontlines. The rich also benefit from exclusions from rationing while the rest of the population suffers through it.
* ScrewTheRulesTheyreNotReal: Nazi Germany completely disregards all laws of war impeding their war of extermination against the Soviet Union (just like OTL). While still legally bound by the [[UsefulNotes/TheLawsAndCustomsOfWar 1929 Geneva Convention]], which required signatories to abide by its dictates in any conflict with non-signatories, Germany very publicly used the fact that both the Soviet Union and UASR had rejected ratification over the requirement to racially segregate [=POWs=] to sanction German war crimes.
** Under the Hague Convention of 1907, warships of a belligerent power could only dock in the port of a neutral nation for 72 hours to make repairs and resupply with victuals and fuel to return to the nearest home port or else be interned for the remainder of the war. ''Graf Spee'''s extensive damage required much longer than 72 hours, and she would conduct repairs in then neutral São Paulo well beyond the limits of making her seaworthy thanks to Brazil's cooperation with Germany.
* SecretPolice:
** The Main Directorate of State Security is the UASR's secret police, tasked with domestic espionage, counterintelligence, as well as foreign espionage.
** The Free American State has the American State Security Bureau, effectively nothing more than a small subgroup of the Gestapo.
* SharedUniverse: The shared universe of ''Commander Columbia'' and the other works part of it is called the Rubyverse after their creators, the Ruby Orchestra collective.
* ShellShockedVeteran:
** ''George Patton''. No, really; in this timeline the US ends up entering the First World War two years earlier and fighting in some of the bloodiest battles, taking much heavier losses. And Old Blood and Guts himself was on the frontline for them. He may not have developed full-blown PTSD, but he came home a greatly changed man, and ''very'' bitter towards the politicians who'd sent a million of his comrades-in-arms to their deaths for no particularly good reason.
** Jane Schafer, one of the few direct POV characters and an officer who fought in World War II, is quite self-aware about the fact that she is struggling with some degree of SurvivorsGuilt and associated traumas after coming home from the Eastern front.
* ShockingDefeatLegacy:
** Though the much earlier American involvement in World War I fails to make much of an impact on the Western front, the Americans' presence ends up making a huge difference in the Mediterranean theater, where the Ottoman Empire eventually suffers a much more decisive and humiliating defeat than in OTL. As a result TTL's version of the partition of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of the war is a much larger affair. Amongst the most significant changes are the Ottomans being forced to also surrender the territory of Kurdistan to American control (taken over by the British at the start of their second civil war), Western Armenia to Armenia (which soon falls into Soviet hands), and even giving up Istanbul and its surrounding lands which is turned into the International Zone of Constantinople. At the end of it all, the end of the now significantly reduced Ottoman Empire and the birth of the Republic of Turkey is marked by the abdication of Sultan Mehmed VI on November 3, 1922. National anger at this humiliation eventually leads to widespread revanchism in the Republic of Turkey, and eventually sets the stage for the nation joining the Axis Powers as an ally in the Pact of Steel in the prelude to World War II.
** Much like the Battle of Stalingrad IOTL, the Battle of Moscow in 1941 becomes a defining moment of World War II as it ultimately ends in a humiliating defeat for the up-until-that-point advancing Wehrmacht. Despite mustering up a truly massive force to take the city, the combined American and Soviet forces not only manage to hold their ground, but even pull off a massive counterattack in the immediate aftermath, that sends the Axis forces into a mad dash retreat for hundreds of kilometers. It is the moment that [[NotSoInvincibleAfterAll completely breaks any illusion the Nazis, and by extension the Axis, might have had of invulnerability]], and marks the beginning of the end of their attempt to TakeOverTheWorld.
* ShoutOut:
** An in-universe TL was titled [[Literature/MaleRising Mande Rising]].
** The running mate for Huey Long during the 1932 election is Princeton University President [[Franchise/IndianaJones Henry Jones Sr]]. He later reappears as the Chairman of the Academy of Arts and Sciences from 1938 to 1942.
*** His son, Henry Jones Jr, is mentioned for being seen leaving the Foreign Secretariat building angry upon his return from Egypt, [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk mumbling something about a gold chest he had retrieved from German archeologists]].
** Meanwhile, the candidates from the Prohibition Party in the same elections are [[Literature/DonQuixote Don Keyhote and Sam Chopanzo]].
** The video game reviewer ''Gameunist Manifesto'' who makes a video about the game set during the Soviet invasion in Romania, is based on [[{{WebVideo/Jimquisition}} Jim Sterling]].
** The UASR's counterintelligence agency is called [[Franchise/GhostInTheShell Section 9]].
** Jake and Elwood Greyson are Trinitarian ministers [[Film/TheBluesBrothers "on a mission from God and the People"]].
** The first chief commissar of the Food Commissariat, in charge of food rationing during WWII, is named [[Creator/GordonRamsay Ramsay Gordon]].
** The entire entry ''The Fundamental Things Apply'' is one to Film/Casablanca, with Amedeo Bordiga being an undercover agent as a cafe owner, Dooley Wilson as his pianist and Creator/IngridBergman wishing to obtain safe passage. Is also mentioned a movie named ''I Was A German for Public Safety'' with Creator/PaulHenreid as "Victor Lazlo", Creator/ConradVeidt as Fritz Julius Kuhn and Creator/PeterLorre as his Nazi party contact.
** One to El Risitas. A Spanish-language propaganda reel showing a poster dismissing the Mexican expeditionary force in Europe as little more than "America's barking chihuahua" and clips from related German propaganda films while a pair of commentators poke fun at its expense while trying and failing to contain their distinctive wheezing laughter as they mock Hitler's mannerisms and racial theories and trade jokes about Mussolini and Salgado. The two are nicknamed "the Giggles" for their distinctive laugh and style of comedy.
** Several ministers in the first Reed government.
*** The Commissar of Oil is [[Film/ThereWillBeBlood H. W. Plainview]].
*** The Commissar for Armament then head of the Munitions Directorate is [[ComicBook/IronMan Howard Stark]].
*** The People's Secretary for Construction is [[Film/TheyLive John Nada]].
** The flag of the Free American State is the same as the flag of the [[Series/TheManInTheHighCastle American Reich]]
** The ''Reds!'' timeline possesses its own [[Music/TheMostMysteriousSongOnTheInternet most mysterious song on the internet]], except this one was eventually identified.
** The mod ''Tsarstvo - Legacy of the Great War'' is one to ''VideoGame/KaiserreichLegacyOfTheWeltkrieg'', being made for the exact same games with a similar alternate history premise "What if the Russian Empire won WWI?" (instead of the German Empire in ''Kaiserreich'') and enjoying a large popularity among ''Hearts of Iron'' mods. It also has an equivalent to the associated Kaiser Cat Cinema in the form of the Ocelot Productions film group.
* ShowWithinAShow: While a lot of these exist, the most prominent and frequently returned to example is Samantha Waver's ''Commander Columbia'', a constructed mythology/superhero setting for the new Red America, featuring Amanda Aaron; who becomes the eponymous character when she assumes the aspect of "the new, proletarian Jupiter" to fight with her friends against villains personifying imperialism and for the victory of communism.
* ShutUpKirk: [[spoiler:President-Elect Norman Thomas]] makes a valiant, but doomed attempt at convincing the men who has come to kill him as a part of the large-scale coup against the incoming Socialist government, that their actions are only going to have the opposite effect of what they are hoping to achieve. His assassins refuse to listen:
-->[[spoiler:'''Norman Thomas]]:''' Think very hard about what you are doing, son. Once you go down this road, there is no going back. This sets a precedent that will cast a pall over this country for a century. [[KirkSummation You think what you are doing is going to save the country, to save liberty, but you are the ones murdering them.]]\\
'''Lt. John C. Williams:''' ''([[TalkToTheFist pistol-whips]] [[spoiler:Thomas]])'' Shut up, you Red bastard!
* SiblingYinYang: A very dark version with JFK and his brother Joe Kennedy. One rejects his family and becomes a revolutionary hero, [[MeaningfulRename renaming himself Sean Cinnéide]], the other rejects his family and becomes an SS officer... And then there is [[CainAndAbelAndSeth Robert Kennedy]], who becomes the reformist President of Americuba after [=MacArthur=]'s death.
* TheSiege: The Siege of Gibraltar by the Spanish, French Pétaintist and German forces lasts almost a month, seeing the greatest artillery duel on the Iberian Peninsula since the Napoleonic Wars. In the end their victory over the British is a pyrrhic one.
* SlidingScaleOfAlternateHistoryPlausibility: Firmly in the Hard/Soft alternate history category. More specifically, every single [=PoD=] that could help the American socialist movement (no early splits, progressivism strangled in the crib, early participation in the First World War radicalizing the troops) occurs. Also, after the Russian Revolution, the Socialist Labor Party doesn't split between reformists and revolutionaries.
** The "hard" Alternate History is that progressives manage to achieve crucial reforms, but do ultimately not stop the United States from becoming OneNationUnderCopyright which results in corporations harshly cracking down on the moderate labor unions, leaving the [[HoistByHisOwnPetard radical unions as the only recourse left]].
** However there are events occurring outside of America that could not be affected by the [=PoDs=] such as the United Kingdom implementing the proposed Imperial Federation, a greater cooperation between the [=KMT=] and the Chinese Communist Party.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Honduran dictator Tiburcio Carías Andino publicly boasts that the Comintern will find only ruin and defeat in Central America. It takes them only three months to defeat him and his two allies, and Andino himself flees to Venezuela a week before the Nicaraguan troops reach the capital.
* SpaceColdWar: The aftermath of World War II sees the beginning of a Cold War between the Communist and Capitalist blocs, the Vladivostok Compact and the Alliance of Free States respectively, still ongoing to the present-day.
* SpaceFillingEmpire:
** The USSR becomes even larger than OTL after WWII with the annexation of Poland[[note]]Due to much of its population being killed by the Nazis and Polish nationalism being discredited among the surviving population (including the exiles) due to the collaboration of the Polish nationalist right with the Nazis[[/note]] and Mongolia[[note]]Unlike IOTL where the Soviets reject Mongolia's petition to join so as to not inflame tensions with China which still had land claims within "Outer Mongolia", they now accept when China officially drops those claims[[/note]] as new [=SSRs=].
** France and Britain are united into one Imperial Union, along with their remaining colonies.
** Instead of containing a myriad of newborn nations after widespread decolonization in our world, Africa is now host to numerous composite federations and unions, or simply countries that are signficantly larger their than OTL counterparts. These include the West African Federation[[note]]Nigeria, Cameroon, Benin, Togo, Ghana[[/note]], the Riverine Federation [[note]]Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, The Gambia, Burkina Faso, Southern Mali, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone[[/note]], the East African Federation[[note]]Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi[[/note]], the United Kingdom of Egypt and Sudan, and the Federal Socialist Republic of the Congo[[note]]Both the OTL Congolese Republic and Democratic Republic, Central African Republic[[/note]].
** Within Asia and Oceania, there are the Greater Indian Commonwealth[[note]]India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka[[/note]], the Indochinese Socialist Federation [[note]]Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia[[/note]], the United Arab Kingdoms[[note]]Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Iraq[[/note]], the Australasian Commonwealth[[note]]Australia, New Zealand, Indonesian Papau, Papau New Gineau[[/note]], and the United Kingdoms of Great Malaysia[[note]] Portions of Kalimantan, Sumatra[[/note]].
** The UASR, already comprised of the entirety of the former United States, annexes much of Canada after its collapse. This, in addition to it's union associate republics[[note]]Haiti, Ryukyu/Okinawa, Puerto Rico, Quebec, the Canaries[[/note]], makes America's size and reach substantially larger.
** The socialist republics of Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras unite to form Centroamérica.
** The Pan-American Union, a closely-bound confederation comprised of all Latin American republics aligned to the Comintern, could be considered this even if its member states are still independent.
* SparedByAdaptation:
** One of the main [[PointOfDivergence points of divergence]] of the timeline is the failure of the OTL successful assassination attempt on President [=McKinley=], who goes on to finish his second term.
** All the victims of the sinking of the RMS Titanic count, as the ship never strikes the infamous iceberg and thus reaches New York City in its fated maiden voyage. This also saves the White Star Line down the line and it eventually builds a thousand-foot long ocean liner in the late period of TheRoaringTwenties.
** [[WordOfGod According to the authors]], had Samantha Waver lived in OTL, she would've died of the Spanish Flu in 1918, but because of the earlier and larger involvement of America in World War I leading to worse living conditions for American civilians, she survived[[note]]The Spanish Flu is deadlier to people in good health due to how the pathogen affects the body[[/note]].
** Theodore Roosevelt never catches the illness that killed him in OTL. As of the 1940s he's still alive.
** Nicholas II's family and Admiral Alexander Kolchak went into exile in Sweden, avoiding their OTL fate.
*** The Tsarevich Alexei still dies, but 8 years later in 1926, from injuries sustained in a minor motor accident due to his hemophilia.
** Rosa Luxemburg escapes her OTL assassination and eventually takes refuge in the UASR, her comrade Karl Liebknecht isn't so lucky.
** The assassination of Emiliano in April 1919 is averted when Jesús Guajardo, the man who lead Zapata's assassins in OTL, instead goes through with defecting to Zapata's side. In the end, Venustiano Carranza, is instead assassinated in an internal coup, and the coup-makers opt to negotiate a peace settlement with Zapata and his revolutionary forces, ending the civil war in 1922. As a result, Zapata remains an influential player in Mexican left-revolutionary politics up through the 1920s and 1930s.
** John "Jack" Reed avoids his death from typhus in Moscow in 1920, eventually becoming a foreign secretary of UASR and even the Premier during [=WWII=].
** Downplayed for Vladimir Lenin, whose death is only delayed by five months.
** Downplayed for Sun Yet-sen, who lives on for just a couple more months than OTL to finish formulating his Third Principle of the People and publish his testament laying out his recommendations for the Kuomintang, most importantly regarding his succession.
** Movie producer Thomas H. Ince still tragically dies but 9 years later than OTL, during the Second American Civil War.
** Mikhail Frunze, a famed Bolshevik general, recovers from his illness and later plays a major role in [=WWII=]. After the war, he becomes the frontman of the leftist Internationalist opposition to Molotov.
** Pyotr Wrangel avoids his OTL death and goes on to serve the Soviet Union during WWII in order to help defend Russia from Nazi invasion.
** Downplayed. William "Big Bill" Haywood avoids his OTL death in 1928 only to be assassinated by the Whites during the Second American Civil War.
** Leon Trotsky is offered asylum in the United States and doesn't get assassinated.
** The leading Republican politician, Nicholas Longworth, doesn't suffer the bout of pneumonia that killed him in April 1931 OTL. Here Longworth, using his position as First Secretary, becomes a leading political figure in the National Salvation Front, and plays a large part in masterminding the [=MacArthur=] Putsch.
** The famous Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary and leader of the Black Army, Nestor "Bat'ko" Makhno, does not succumb to his OTL fate of dying of tuberculosis in 1934, and is last reported as still being alive as of 1939.
** Sergei Kirov is not assassinated in 1934.
** UsefulNotes/TELawrence doesn't suffer his fatal motorcycle accident from OTL.
** Floyd Olson avoids his OTL death by receiving a successful treatment for his stomach cancer.
** Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan complete their flight around the world instead of disappearing in the attempt.
** Ikki Kita fled to Hawaii, avoiding his OTL arrest and execution by the Kempeitai.
** José Sanjurjo and Emilio Mola do not die in plane crashes, the former continues to lead the Spanish State until he suffers a debilitating aneurysm in late 1941 and the latter succeeds him to lead Spain until they are defeated by the Allies.
** Mikhail Tukhachevsky is not killed during Stalin's purges like in OTL but simply removed from his post and deported, he is rehabilitated when the Nazis invade the Soviet Union.
** Gabriele D'Annunzio survives the health problems that killed him IOTL and makes a full recovery.
** Creator/FScottFitzgerald recovers from a heart attack that comes close to kill him.
** [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy Sean Cinnéide]] is never assassinated, having a very different career in the first place.
** Alan Bligh lives a few years longer thanks to a variety of butterflies.
* SquadNickname:
** Just like IOTL some American divisions gain nicknames, some being different from OTL while others have no equivalent[[note]]19th "Black Cat", 25th "Lightning" instead of "Tropic Lightning", 91st "Pine Tree" instead of "Wild West Division", 93rd "Black Devils", 101st "Nike" instead of "Screaming Eagles"[[/note]].
** The Soviet Naval Infantry are nicknamed the Black Devils like in OTL.
** The regiment sent by the UASR to participate in the Soviet - Japanese Border Wars is called the "Medusa Regiment".
** One of the most famous regiments of the Mexican Army of National Liberation is known as the "Magonista Regiment".
* StateSec:
** Played painfully straight with UASR's version of this, which is known under the formal name of Main Directorate for State Security (MDSS), but most people simply call them by [=StateSec=]. They are somewhat less sinister than most examples of the trope however. They control the paramilitary Proletarian Guard, an elite gendarmerie force and their public face.
** The Green Guard of Brazil is a terrifyingly insane one. Described as green-uniformed soldiers who wear metal cuirasses at the very least as well as dehumanizing face-concealing masks (which are often gas masks), the Green Guard is a borderline militarized cult of Brazil, Integralism, the Green Guard's leaders, and Salgado and is noted to be Ultracatholic. They speak their own internal constructed language to prevent outsiders from determining what they're saying and not only don't hesitate to commit atrocities but seem to revel in them. Though at first starting out as a loose cannon political elite, they do become an actual military elite known for fearlessness and skill in battle. Somewhat subverted though, as the war turns against Brazil and the Green Guard's ranks are continually expanded, the Guard is increasingly filled with scared and frightened children abused into committing atrocities as part of the Guard's hazing rituals and their skills slip back into cannon fodder levels while their habit of war crimes starts to backfire. Fights become one to the death as people recognize the futility of surrendering to them, and they've committed perfidy far too many times for people to feel like risking death in case they try to pull an ISurrenderSuckers and the Guard by the end of the war is a decrepit shell. Huge swathes of the guard desert when a fake intelligence leak is given that claims the Comintern will kill any Green Guardsman who doesn't desert or renounce the Integralist regime and its last diehards gather for a final suicide attack against Communist forces in Uruguay so that they can die on the battlefield rather than face war crime trials.
* StayInTheKitchen: Defied. Nothing makes Jane Schafer angrier than being told she can't do something because of what's between her legs. Being discouraged from joining the army in this way only solidified her desire to join.
* StoryBreakerPower: The United States undergoing a successful communist revolution is understood as being this both in and outside the story. Due to its vast resources, high rate of industrialization, advanced agriculture, and large scientific community, the United Republic has none of the economic disadvantages of real-life communist states.
* StraightForTheCommander: John Birch believed he was doing this with his AssassinationAttempt against Premier William Z. Foster in May 1940, stating in a letter that "the socialist serpent will wither and die" if he was to "cut off its head". Scholars with the power of hindsight notice that Birch had greatly mischaracterized the nature of the democratic socialist system the UASR was founded on. Foster was never the head of any serpent, but merely one part of a greater political apparatus, and, as a head of a democratic government, replaceable. The broad agreement amongst historians is a successful assassination of Foster would at most have led to a temporary government under Ben Gitlow before John Reed would have assumed the premiership, and maybe the UASR adopting an even stricter and hasher security policy regarding potential threats from right-wingers during World War II.
* StrawmanNewsMedia:
** The ''Los Angeles Times'' before the Red May Revolution is the mouthpiece of its owner, self-proclaimed General Harrison Gray Otis, and his vehement anti-trade unionist views. In the aftermath of the bombing targeting them on October 1st, 1910, Otis starts a relentless propaganda campaign to blame the [=MacNamara=] brothers and the labor movement for the bombing and everything wrong in the city.
** The British conservative newspapers like ''The Daily Telegraph'' and ''The Daily Mail'' cover the Second American Civil War from an unabashedly pro-[=MacArthur=] position and publish the most unfavorable narratives about the Reds without regard for their lack of truthfulness. ''The Daily Mail'' would publish whatever gossip and rumor would catch the headlines.
*** A scandal erupts when several articles uncritically paroting White propaganda concerning "Negro rape gangs" were retracted following further investigation, including one in ''The Times'', the most esteemed newspaper in the UK.
** The Hughes-Welch Broadcasting Corporation has an unabashed free market conservative, anti-union, anti-communist and sensationalistic bent in the reporting of its news network, which includes names like ''The Daily Mail'' and ''Le Figaro'' in both newspaper and news channel forms, attracting an audience of Cold Warriors and strongly anti-communist viewers and also a mass criticisms for its biased and sometimes outright manipulative journalism, and for "degrading the political discourse".
* SuccessionCrisis:
** The failing health of Riza Nur in mid-1941 leads to a power struggle between his two junior triumvirs, [[ALighterShadeOfBlack the more moderate]] Zeki Velidi Togan and the hardliner Nihâl Atsız, for his succession as leader of Turkey. Atsız eventually wins and Togan falls in.
** The incapacitation of José Sanjurjo by a debilitating aneurysm leads to a power struggle, called the Christmas Struggle, between the Nationalist factions for the domination of the Spanish State. Emilio Mola comes out on top after making a purge called the ''Dia de Reyes'' and aligns the country with Germany.
** The death of Americuban President [[=MacArthur=]] leads to a power struggle alluding to the one after Stalin's OTL death, with Reformists led by Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Conservatives led by Secretary of War Edwin Walker and NBI Director Allen Dulles all making a bid to control the presidency. The Reformists manage to come out on top with Kennedy becoming president.
* SuffrageAndPoliticalLiberation:
** American women campaign for and obtain the right to vote in 1913.
** The Roaring Twenties see an analogue to the Civil Rights Movement take place and successfully ending ''de jure'' segregation. ''De facto'' segregation and systemic racism remain a significant issue until the Red May Revolution and even a bit still afterwards.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: One of the biggest changes to urban life is the development of public bathing facilities to promote hygiene as a way of curbing disease and other effects of unsanitary living conditions. Part of this is trying to desexualize nudity among a largely Protestant public, which turns out to be an issue for the proponents themselves, who know perfectly well intellectually that platonic nudity is a thing, but have a hard time engaging in it personally once the bath houses are a reality. Most people grow accustomed to it in time.
* SWATTeam: The UASR has an equivalent known as the Special Applications Cadre, a rapid-response group trained for hostage-rescue operations.
* TakeAThirdOption: H.H. Kung and many others who do not support either KMT governements, pro-communist or pro-concordist, choose exile and emigrate to Australasia.
* TakeThat: While this wasn't the original intention, over time the lore surrounding Rhodesia became one to the substantial fandom the short-lived country has among right-leaning fans of alt-history: not only is it [[DystopiaIsHard a repressive pariah state]], [[PragmaticVillainy it's actually had to make some concessions to non-white immigrants and the black majority in order to survive]]. It could also be seen as a {{Deconstruction}} of ''Literature/TheDraka'', showing in real life, a society like the Draka would be [[Main/FascistButInefficient nowhere near the world-conquering empire it was in those books]]
* TankGoodness: To be found in abundance in the timeline! Thanks to the lessons of the Second American Civil War and an earlier end to the Great Depression and earlier re-armament, tank design takes some divergences from our timeline and the vehicles used in Reds! are generally a bit farther "ahead" than our timeline in terms of design. Reforms to the production systems of the Axis powers and Western European investment into any possible allies against a Red America as well as Soviet-American cooperation and investment into Red Latin America and China also mean that rather more tanks are produced in this timeline than in ours. Germany's notoriously inefficient flexible line production systems are replaced with modern Ford-style assembly lines able to roll out tanks by the tens of thousands to fight the more militarised British Empire and its allies to the west and the Comintern to the East while Italian, Swedish, British, Japanese, and French tank programs make more progress than in our timeline. Perhaps the most grandiose statements of this revealed so far are the German Panzer 100 Smilodon, the United Republics TD-21 Spartacus, the Soviet Vladimir Lenin 3, and the British Chamberlain Heavy Tank.
** In the Cold War, by the mid-2010s the Franco-British Union unveils its newest "advanced" battle tank, the Champion; a tank weighing over one hundred tons with a [[{{BFG}} seven-inch caliber gun]] and an engine with 3000 or so horsepower. Yikes!
* ThemeNaming: Post-revolution cruisers of the WFRN are named after [[MusicalThemeNaming songs]] or literature of struggle. With the Field of Athenry-class being named after Irish Rebel songs.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Finland is the only country participating in the invasion of the USSR to be considered democratic in any sense. [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] as, regardless of their internal political system, they are still participating in a genocidal war of aggression with revanchist aims.
** Bulgaria is another downplayed example. Though it still joins the Axis as in real life, it is under an "apolitical" absolute monarchy rather than a fascist regime. As in OTL, the Tsardom still refuses to join the invasion of the USSR and instead focuses on reclaiming Bulgarian land lost to Yugoslavia and Greece in the Second Balkan War.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Janey and Anna, respectively, from the alternate history timeline equivalent of a LowerDeckEpisode.
* TormentByAnnoyance: After becoming Prime Minister of Turkey, Riza Nur would demand the return of Western Armenia from the Soviets every three months from his ascension to the premiership in 1938 to the Turkish declaration of war in 1942, receiving a total of 16 deflections and rejections Turkey would use for propaganda.
* TradingBarsForStripes: Reactionaries captured and deemed reformable are proposed to join the army instead of going to prison. This mostly concerns young people.
* TranslationConvention: Paul Matthews translates in English in his autobiography a conversation he had with a German prisoner. The parts in Russian are by comparison untranslated.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: [=MacArthur=] and Longworth's coup against President-Elect Norman Thomas.
* UndignifiedDeath: Oscar Benavides, the president of Peru who waged a brutal war against leftist insurgents in his country, dies when he [[ShotInTheAss suffers a gunshot wound to his buttocks]] that becomes gangrenous due to a lack of medical supplies.
* UnfriendlyFire:
** During the Great War, it becomes common enough for American soldiers and [=NCOs=] to "frag" sadistic or incompetent officers to be on most field officers' minds.
** Several "friendly fire" incidents occur in Reorganized China's army between the old guard and the KMT officers, forcing Jiang Jieshi to place Japanese or otherwise neutral formations between the two to prevent them from shooting at each other.
* Unperson: Hitler declared ''damnatio memoriae'' on the Panzer Group 1 for their grave defeat in the Battle of Rivne. Every command from regiment on up was disbanded and their heraldry stricken. The shame was wiped so thoroughly that none of the offending unit numbers would be used again for the duration of the war. When the ''Panzergruppen'' were reorganized in January 1941, Panzer Group 2 would become the First Panzer Army, and so forth.
* UnreliableNarrator: Inherent with the framing devices. The presented sections of history books, journals, academic papers, tabloid articles, and armchair discussions by alternate history enthusiasts come from a very diverse variety of perspectives, and each presents an understandably biased picture.
** In the entry ''International Revolution in the 1930s'', the timeline authors make annotations directly pointing out the mistakes and biases of the fictional text presented.
** In the entry ''Tank vs Tank'' the text claims there were no confirmed losses of Panzer IV Nashorn (TTL Panzer VI Tiger) to Polish anti-tank fire throughout the entirety of the Polish war. An annotation points out this is not exactly true and discounts losses to anti-tank mines, artillery, and airpower.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: President Vargas' decision to give the Integralists near ''carte blanche'' to defeat the communist uprising empowers them to conduct a successful coup against his own government, turning Brazil into a fascist dictatorship that would kickstart the South American Theater of WWII, leading to the death of millions.
* UpperClassTwit: Richard Finlay, the corporate founder of Maggie Pie (this timeline's version of UsefulNotes/McDonalds), despite running a successful fast-food company, had some traces of it. Some of his children relate in a biography that they, much to their disquiet, realized that their father, despite his interest in films, and even buying a film company, actually didn't know the difference between film making and film distribution (in fact, he got extremely angry and argumentative when his new employees from said film company tried to explain the difference to him).
** In-universe, the scion of a wealthy family who gets cut from their family fortune and has to adjust to post-capitalist life is a popular character archetype in American television prior to WWII.
* {{Utopia}}: Deconstructed. Is life in the United Republics better? Perhaps. Is it very different? Absolutely. The authors seem to take a subjective approach. While Communism is often seen as a utopian ideology, and the UASR has many of the facets of utopia (free love, classless society, great freedoms), this comes at a cost that people socialized to live in a capitalist democratic republic might find quite uncomfortable, such as very great social pressures to participate in political and social life and other duties that don't gel well with an individualistic society. The cultural and social values that developed over a century of tremendous divergence, revolution, and the like are very much alien.
* VideoNasties: The Video Nasties scare happens like in OTL, but touches the Franco-British Union and intersects with the ongoing Cold War due to many of the films coming from the Communist bloc and America more specifically in a time of heightened tensions between the two sides.
* VillainousBreakdown: Salgado goes bonkers as the tide turns against him. At one point, he strangles one of his Marshals to death ''in front of his staff'' [[YouHaveFailedMe for withholding important information]]. [[spoiler:He goes into another unhinged rant when he realizes one of his [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal abused aides poisoned him]]]].
* VillainDecay:
** Legendary mob boss Arthur Flegenheimer AKA Dutch Schultz is hit with this thanks to a failed assassination attempt against the Attorney General of Metropolis as half-assed revenge against the Red government, virtually gutting his power base. He's unceremoniously gunned down afterwards. Ironically, he lived a few months longer than he did in the real world, where he was killed by Murder Inc at the behest of the other crime families in '35.
** This eventually ends up applying to virtually ''all'' of American organized crime, as the failed attempt means the Red Government stomps down even harder on organized crime, and many mob leaders are either imprisoned or killed, including Al Capone, Bugsy Siegel, Vincent Magnano, Johnny Torrio, and culminating in the arrest of Charles "Lucky" Luciano, with his execution by firing squad effectively meaning the end of organized crime on the American mainland. The surviving remnants end up fleeing to Canada, Cuba or the deep swamps of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida to regroup. Though said remnants eventually manage to reform into a loose organisation called the "New Commission", and reestablish new cells in several larger American cities during the late 1940s and early 1950 (with quite a bit of support from [=MacArthur=]'s regime in Americuba), they are only a lingering shadow of their former selves, since greatly improved living standards amongst even the poorest UASR citizens have wiped out much of the human misery that formed the basis for the "classic" mafia trades of drugs and prostitution. Instead, they mostly focus on underground high gambling, with side ventures like dog- and cockfighting, bribing public officials and forging documents, something which causes the few surviving old-time gangsters to complain that this new mob more resembles a "sideshow bureaucracy" than a proper criminal enterprise. American organized crime is eventually hit by another anti-mafia wave in the late 1960s and early 1970s when the UASR starts another round of crackdowns, which is exacerbated by Douglas [=MacArthur=]'s death, as his reformist successor, Robert F. Kennedy, turns on the Cuban mafia and has them purged from government influence. Weakened by these developments, the mob gradually falls apart into several small fractions who increasingly turn on each in a fight for survival, either through assassinations or by ratting competitors out to the UASR government, which just contributes to hastening their downfall. By the late 1980s and early 1990s, the American mafia is considered all but completely extinct.
* VillainousLegacy: After the fall of Integralist Brazil, Neo-Integralism was born, becoming a significant source of terrorism and political assassinations in the Americas.
* VirginShaming: Alice Paul gains a reputation of being "Sapphist, frigid, a tease, or 'barren'" [[DeliberateValuesDissonance because she rebuffed all attempts to court her]] and took her actual inclinations to the grave.
* VoluntaryVassal:
** Fengtian Clique warlord Zhang Zuolin accepts to transform his holdings into a Japanese protectorate, Manchukuo (Manchu State).
** The surviving Chinese warlords who rule the Beiyang government to the North and are opposed by the rival KMT- and CPC-led government in the South accept Japan's patronage after the Imperial Japanese Army intervenes against the Northern Expedition and expels the NRA from Beijing.
** The Associated Union Republics[[labelnote:Including]]Puerto Rico, Haiti, Quisqueya/ex-Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Panama[[/labelnote]] of the UASR keep this status willingly and could opt out if they wanted to. Those on the American continent originally opted for this status because the UASR was at first envisioned as a large Pan-American union but Mexico and Chile declining to join more or less killed the momentum for this project.
* WarHero:
** Smedley Butler's fame among the marines reach almost mythical proportions, especially from his service during WWI.
** George S. Patton serves through World War I, the Second American Civil War and World War II with distinction.
** UsefulNotes/HarrySTruman served in WWI like in OTL but is most well-known for founding and leading the Minutemen militia after defecting from the Whites to fight against them alongside the Reds during the Second American Civil War. After the war he uses his status as a celebrated veteran to enter politics.
* WarRefugees: During the Second Sino-Japanese War, many Chinese war refugees fled to Australasia thanks to T.V. Soong organizing their immigration to Australia and New Zealand. Many of them were politically active, mostly former KMT members or sympathisers who were firmly part of the party's anti-communist Right but opposed Japan and their Chinese puppet regime.
* WartimeCartoon: Many are produced as IOTL by America, with ''Commander Columbia'' beginning as one (which is also how it became so popular at first).
* WeAreStrugglingTogether:
** Subverted; both during the Civil War and the Cultural Revolution, the American socialist system's greater flexibility in dealing with ideological differences (both within the socialist parties themselves and in allowing the inclusion of right-leaning Democrats and Republicans who opposed the Junta into the political process) ultimately proves more durable than the Soviet system's rigid ideological inflexibility.
** Invoked by the name of the entry ''We Are Struggling Together: Viewpoints of the Left and Right Oppositions''.
** The ''Workers' Party of National Liberation'' (POLN) was a party built from compromise and suffered from infighting between its anarchist, communist and left-nationalist factions throughout its history until its collapse and transformation into the ''Socialist Workers' Party of Mexico'' (PSOM).
** The ''Movimiento Nacional'' of the Spanish Nationalists is an extremely haphazard coalition between the Alfonsites, Carlists, and Falangists only united by their opposition to the Spanish Republic and Communism. When José Sanjurjo becomes incapacitated all three factions turn on each other until only Mola's Falangists are left standing.
* WeInterruptThisProgram:
** During the beginning of Part II the broadcast of an episode of Star Trek is interrupted by the announcement of the outbreak of the Falklands War.
** The Argentinian radio interrupts its coverage of the war in Europe to announce the invasion of the country by the South American forces of the Axis led by Brazil.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Practically the whole cast is made up of this. It's also generally an audience reaction since most of those individuals are not considered extremists in-universe.
** Carranza belived that in order to achieve his goal of a liberal, institutionalized and democratic Mexico, it was necessary to eliminate the factions that opposed him.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: In-universe, the film ''King Kong Returns''' battle between a giant ape and a giant two headed eagle is believed to be symbolic of Ethiopia fighting against the then ongoing Italian invasion of their country, but the timing of the movie makes this unlikely.
* WhatTheHellHero: To avoid any strikes in the uranium mines during wartime the UASR government classified any knowledge of the health effects of uranium and worked with native leaders to conceal the information. The miners were issued inadequate protections against radioctivity, leading to a high number of cancers among them and radioactive wastes were dumped into the river, affecting the whole region of the Dinétah Federation. It was only in the 1960s that researches conducted to discover the cause of the higher rate of cancers would begin to reveal the scale of the damages.
* WitchHunt: Hamilton Fish III launches himself into a hunt for [[RedScare suspected communists in the army and government]]. While [[TheExtremistWasRight he is right about the existence of spying communists]], [[RightForTheWrongReasons he focuses much more on the Jewish identity and foreign origins of the accused]] due to [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain his own antisemitism and xenophobia]] which end up discrediting him in the eyes of the public.
* WorldWarIII: Much like the Cold War of OTL, this becomes a much feared possibility in the Post-WWII world, and indeed it comes close to happening several times. The 1980s, which was a period marked by tensions between the Communist and Capitalist blocs being at their highest, starting with the Crisis of 1979, have been referred to in-universe as the "Long Eighties" and even "World War III".
* WorkInfoTitle: ''Reds! A Revolutionary Timeline'' is a work presenting an alternate timeline about a socialist revolution.
* WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: The Guarda Verde's concentration camps where they work to death enslaved queer people, atheists, leftists, and many other non-Christians are called "Disposal facilities".
* [[invoked]]WriteWhatYouKnow: Joe Goldberg creates ''Vladivostok AFB'', a sitcom about a group of employees of the WFRA's radio broadcasting during WWII based on his own experience running the Santo Domingo AFB station during the Congo War.
* YourAnswerToEverything: [=RitterStahl=]'s answer to every question relating to making the Axis win something in WWII seems to be "kill Hermann Göring".
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Samatha Waver's innovations in animation to make it appear more fluid earns her the admiration of European futurists, which she abhorres for their proximity to and support for fascism, writing a scathing critique of their belief system after they drew inspiration from the Ruby Orchestra's work for their own fascistic designs.
* YouShallNotPass:
** During Case Typhoon, the 101st Airborne holds the city of Pskov against the German army for eight days until it is finally forced to retreat as it effectively ceased to exist as a fighting force, at a high cost for the Germans and giving time to the Soviet-American forces to make an orderly retreat.
** During the invasion of Red Spain by the Axis, its Red Army and the IVA, joined by retreating French loyalists, focus their efforts on holding back the Axis to allow the evacuation of as much men as possible despite knowing they would eventually be overrun.
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** The Franco-British project for an adaptation of ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' becomes ''Annihilator'', directed by Creator/PaulVerhoeven (of the ''Film/FleshAndBlood1985'' fame) and TTL's equivalent to ''Film/RoboCop1987'' (with its anti-capitalist themes adapted to the corporatist FBU) mixed with ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' (notably the time travel plot). ''Annihilator'' would spawn [[Film/RoboCop2 2]] [[Film/RoboCop3 sequels]] (to less than positive reception), an animated television series, and reboots in 2009 and [[Film/RoboCop2014 2014]].

** After over a decade as an Allied occupational mandate, [[UsefulNotes/TheKingdomOfSpain Spain is reformed as a constitutional monarchy under the reign of a young Juan Carlos I]], [[UsefulNotes/TheFrancoRegime around 20 years ahead of real life]]. This is met with much less fanfare as the scars of the Civil War and Second World War are still very present, and the young kingdom's political institutions had to be rebuilt from scratch.

** After over a decade as an Allied occupational mandate, [[TheKingdomOfSpain Spain is reformed as a constitutional monarchy under the reign of a young Juan Carlos I]], [[TheFrancoRegime around 20 years ahead of real life]]. This is met with much less fanfare as the scars of the Civil War and Second World War are still very present, and the young kingdom's political institutions had to be rebuilt from scratch.

*** Within Mandatory Palestine in particular and other Levantine mandates governed by the Entente in general, Jews and Arabs of all ideological leanings (from pro-Comintern revolutionary socialists on the Left to hardline nationalists and royalists on the Right) fight side-by-side against the Axis forces invading the Levant. When the Axis is completely expelled from the region and the war ends, they immediately resume hostilities which eventually culminate in a three-sided civil war.

*** Jews and Arabs fight side by side against the Axis forces invading the Levant.

** [[PlayingWithAtrope Played with]] in Stalin's case. His refusal to evacuate Moscow during Operation Valkyrie, which ultimately to his death, paints him as this in-universe, which further complicates [[HistoricalVillainDowngrade his]] [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade legacy]] within the Comintern.

** The USSR becomes even larger than OTL after WWII with the annexation of Poland[[note]]Due to much of its population being killed by the Nazis and Polish nationalism being discredited due to the collaboration of the Polish nationalist right with the Nazis[[/note]] and Mongolia[[note]]Unlike IOTL where the Soviets reject Mongolia's petition to join so as to not inflame tensions with China which still had land claims within "Outer Mongolia", they now accept when China officially drops those claims[[/note]] as new [=SSRs=].

** The USSR becomes even larger than OTL after WWII with the annexation of Poland[[note]]Due to much of its population being killed by the Nazis and Polish nationalism being discredited due to the collaboration of the Polish nationalist right with the Nazis[[/note]] and Mongolia[[note]]Unlike IOTL where the Soviets reject Mongolia's petition to join so as to not inflame tensions with China which still had land claims within "Outer Mongolia", they now accept when China officially drops those claims[[/note]](due to much of its population being killed by the Nazis and Polish nationalism being discredited due to the collaboration of the Polish nationalist right with the Nazis)[[/note]] as new [=SSRs=].

** The USSR becomes even larger than OTL after WWII with the annexation of Poland (due to much of its population being killed by the Nazis and Polish nationalism being discredited due to the collaboration of the Polish nationalist right with the Nazis) and Mongolia as new [=SSRs=].

** Within Asia and Oceania, there are the Greater Indian Commonwealth[[note]]India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka[[/note]], the Indochinese Socialist Federation [[note]]Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia[[/note]], the United Arab Kingdoms[[note]]Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan[[/note]], the Australasian Commonwealth[[note]]Australia, New Zealand, Indonesian Papau, Papau New Gineau[[/note]], and the United Kingdoms of Great Malaysia[[note]] Portions of Kalimantan, Sumatra[[/note]].

** Instead of containing a myriad of newborn nations after widespread decolonization in our world, Africa is now host to numerous composite federations and unions, or simply countries that are signficantly larger their than OTL counterparts. These include the West African Federation, the Riverine Federation, the East African Federation, the United Kingdom of Egypt and Sudan, and the Federal Socialist Republic of the Congo.
** Within Asia and Oceania, there are the Greater Indian Commonwealth, the Indochinese Socialist Federation, the United Arab Kingdoms, the Australasian Commonwealth, and the United Kingdoms of Great Malaysia.

** A war still takes place in Palestine by 1948. However, there is a third side, the socialist-led, multiethnic People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which ultimately triumphs over Zionist and Arab nationalist forces, [[MeleeATrois who are themselves preoccupied with each other]]. The resulting socialist Palestinian federation, however, still has a tense relationship with its AFS-aligned neighbors who intervened on behalf of the Palestinian Arab Whites, even if war hasn't broken out between them since.

** The Breen Code is a direct analogue to UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode.

** Miss Teri loves superhero comics[[note]]UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks being her favorite[[/note]] and classic sci-fi, so her pop culture contributions commonly explore how those genres have evolved.

** Joseph Breen, the infamous enforcer of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode, is one of the many conservatives who relocates to Cuba, where he takes up his old job as a leading film censor in the Americuban film industry. He is eventually removed from his position by order of [=MacArthur=] himself following World War II, when film producers Harry Cohn and Jack Warner, both members of [=MacArthur=]'s inner circle, complain to the president that Breen's constant objections to violent content hinders the production of patriotic films.