| rdfs:comment | - Ever since the Great War, the Confederacy had longed for the return of Kentucky, Sequoyah, Houston, and pieces of Sonora, Arkansas, and Virginia. The United States had been dealing with rising violence from the populations of these lands, who wanted to rejoin their country. The Confederate States, which elected Jake Featherston as President in 1933, grew more insistent in their demands that the territories be returned from 1933 on.
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| abstract | - Ever since the Great War, the Confederacy had longed for the return of Kentucky, Sequoyah, Houston, and pieces of Sonora, Arkansas, and Virginia. The United States had been dealing with rising violence from the populations of these lands, who wanted to rejoin their country. The Confederate States, which elected Jake Featherston as President in 1933, grew more insistent in their demands that the territories be returned from 1933 on. In 1940, United States President Al Smith brokered an Richmond Agreement with Featherston to allow plebiscites to be held in Houston, Kentucky, and Sequoyah, under the conditions that Featherston would not ask for more territory and would not re-militarize any returned territory. The votes were held in early in 1941. Kentucky and Houston voted to rejoin the CSA, while Sequoyah chose to remain in the USA. Featherston quickly re-militarized Kentucky and demanded the return of all the captured territories (even Sequoyah, which had voted to remain with the US) Smith refused and decided the time to stop trying to appease Featherston had come. Tensions grew in Europe when German Kaiser Wilhelm II died in 1941. His son, Wilhelm III, refused to return captured territory to France. In response, France, Britain, and the CSA declared war on Germany. Featherston had hoped that the U.S. would immediately aid its ally, Germany, and declare war, but the U.S. demurred. Frustrated, Featherston made one last demand for the returned territory, then decided the time had come to bring the war to North America.
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