American Caesar, A HOI4 Kaiserreich Playthrough Chapter One

At the dawn of the 20th Century, many Americans believed it would be their time in the sun. However, they were cruelly disillusioned. The German victory in the Great War (also known by its German name, the "Weltkrieg"), and the resulting Syndicalist revolutions in Britain and France, cut the United States off from Europe, resulting in a disastrous economic depression.

Inevitably, the resulting social chaos in the United States led to the rise of extremist parties on both the left and the right. On the left there was the Combined Syndicates of America, led by Jack Reed, a journalist who had covered the failed Bolshevik revolution in Russia, and now wanted to bring Syndicalism to American shores. 

On the right there was the America First Party, led by the Nationalist Populist governor of Louisiana, Huey Long, whose party was full of rather unsavory bigots. 

Caught in between these two extremes, the old Democratic and Republican Parties were losing more and more political support, to the point that President Herbert Hoover's administration was virtually unable to act, and with the 1936 Presidential Election pitting Long against Reed, many feared that the Republic as they knew it was doomed...

But one man refused to let that happen...