When Worlds Collide(Man in the High Castle/Earth Crossover)

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1861-1869: Abraham Lincoln, 16th

1869-1877: Ulysses Grant, 17th

1877-1881 Rutherford Hayes, 18th

1881-1885 James Garfield, 19th

1885-1889 Grover Cleveland 20th

1889-1893 Benjamin Harrison, 21st

1893-1901 Grover Cleveland, 22nd

1901-1909 Teddy Roosevelt, 23rd

1909-1917 William Taft, 24th

1917-1921 Woodrow Wilson, 25th

1921-1923 Warren Harding 26th, died in office in 1923, replaced by Coolidge.

1923-1929 Calvin Coolidge, 27th

1929-1933 Herbert Hoover, 28th

1933-1945 Franklin Roosevelt, 29th, died in office in 1945, replaced by Truman.

1945-1953 Harry Truman, 30th

1953-1961 Dwight Eisenhower, 31st

1961-1969 John Kennedy, 32nd

1969-1977 Robert Kennedy, 33rd

1977-1981 Lyndon Johnson, 34th

1981-1989 Ronald Reagan, 35th

1989-1993 George H.W. Bush, 36th

1993-2001 Bill Clinton, 37th

2001-2009 Al Gore, 38th

2009-2017 Barrack Obama, 39th

2017-2021 Marco Rubio, 40th

2021-2025 Rand Paul, 41st

2025-2029 Tulsi Gabbard, 42nd

 

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With the defeat of communism in Asia and Europe, the United States found itself leading the world's two largest power blocs. The first and foremost being the Pacific Rim Defense Pact, created in the aftermath of the Korean War as a bulwark against the Soviet Union's interests in Asia. Today, it stands as the single strongest military and economic bloc on the planet, with China, the United States, Japan, India, and the Republic of Korea making up roughly 55% of the total global GDP. Said nations are also the largest economies in order from largest to smallest. The headquarters of the Pacific Rim Defense Pact is located in Honolulu, the Kingdom of Hawaii, where the Treaty of the Pacific was signed by its founding nations, the United States, China, Australia, the Philippine Republic, and Japan. Over the decades, the alliance would come to encompass the entire Pacific, with nations like the Republic of Vietnam, Republic of Korea, Thailand, New Zealand, India, Malaysia, and Indonesia, joining the Pact.

The second bloc being NATO, which was formed as a organization of collective defense, where an attack on one member nation, would be considered an attack on all. The Soviet Union responded to this with the creation of the Warsaw Pact in 1955, an opposing bloc that would later fire the first shots in 1988, starting World War Three. NATO's trial by fire came in the Korean War, where the United States led a UN coalition, alongside NATO members, beat back the North Korean and Chinese communist forces in 1950, and subsequently united the Peninsula from the communists, who fled into either the Soviet Union, or into northern China, and then into Mongolia. When Europe was once again ravaged by war in 1988 and 1989, the rebounded and strong economies of Western Europe took another hit, once again reducing the economic growth seen since World War Two. Despite this, the member states of the United States, Germany, France, and Great Britain boast powerful economies. With the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and the Soviet Union, NATO doubled in size, with membership of nearly all of Europe. Only traditionally neutral nations, as well as those in the Russian sphere of influence, remain outside of NATO.

Aside from the Russian Federation and its relations with what few allies allies they have around the world, the final power bloc is the South American Federation. Its the newest of the blocs, with its establishment in the aftermath of the Saudi Iran War, which saw oil prices skyrocket as the Straits of Hormuz became a war zone. Venezuela, Brazil, and Argentina founded it in 2020 as a means to grow stronger from its newfound position of power, with plentiful oil reserves, among other valuable resources. With the admission of Chile, Colombia, and Peru into the Federation, their grip over the continent, and the global resource market, continues to increase. Nations like Bolivia, Ecuador, and even Panama, have been pressured repeatedly to join, but have thus far refused every attempt. With the Federation trying to force their way across Latin America, concern has grown inside the United States and Europe regarding the peace and stability in the region.