History AllohistoricalAllusion / Timeline191

** One of the sailors who takes part in the attack is Isaac Kidd, who was the highest ranking casualty in the OTL Pearl Harbor attack.

* As the CSA ramps up their "[[FinalSolution population reduction]]" on their black population, ''many'' characters make reference to what the public reaction might be if a different demographic, for example Jewish people, were the target of genocide. There are are also specific mentions that out of the countries with large Jewish populations it's possible that Russia could take similar actions against their Jewish citizens, but Germany is far too civilized.

* As the CSA ramps up their "[[FinalSolution population reduction]]" on their black population, ''many'' characters make reference to what the public reaction might be if a different demographic, for example Jewish people, were the target of genocide. There are are also specific mentions that out of the countries with large Jewish populations it's possible that Russia could take similar actions against their Jewish citizens, but Germany is far to civilized.

** On the other hand, there's the approximately 100 times that a character mentions that Russia could do to the Jews what the CSA does to blacks, but the Germans are too civilized to do something like that...

* Thomas Dewey's surprise election victory in 1944 is marked with the Chicago Tribune headline "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Defeats_Truman La Follette Beats Dewey]]".

---->'''"Dutch"''' ''(as a runner tears downfield)'': There he goes again!

* [[UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt Teddy Roosevelt]]'s surprise electoral defeat in 1920 to Socialist candidate, [[Literature/TheJungle Upton Sinclair]], is one to UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill's shocking defeat in the 1945 post-war election to the British Labour Party

* Doroteo Arango is the Radical Liberal candidate for president of the Confederacy in 1915. In RealLife, he became Pancho Villa.
* Irving Morrell meets a German Sergeant that has both won the Iron Cross, First Class, and expresses virulent hate towards Jews and Slavs. [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler This should remind you of someone]].
** [[WordOfGod It's not much of an allusion.]]
** On the other hand, there's the approximately 100 times that a character mentions that Russia could do to the Jews what the CSA does to blacks, but the Germans are too civilized to do something like that...
** For extra irony, this German NCO is an aide to Captain Heinz Guderian, who finds him rather annoying[[note]] While the WWII German military had no shortage of sycophants in its upper echelons, Guderian was definitely a top-five candidate for Hitler’s biggest ass-lick[[/note]].

* The Confederacy launches its blitzkrieg against the United States on June 22, 1941. It's called [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything "Operation Blackbeard"]].
* Also in the series after the US Navy devastates the British Pacific Fleet in a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor (as Hawaii became a British colony instead of an American territory), a British character calls the incident a "day that will live in infamy".
** The main British fort in Pearl Harbor is called Fort William Rufus, after a Medieval king of England. It is on the site where OTL Fort Shafter stands, named after US Army General William Rufus Shafter.
* The Battle of Midway (between the Union and Japan) takes place on December 7, 1941. The Union loses its only Pacific fleet carrier (the rest are being used in the Atlantic against the British and Confederate navies) in the battle, forcing them to rely on escort carriers for the rest of the war.
* In this Timeline, Japan is the only major power involved in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII that isn't the victim of a nuclear bombing.

* Creator/MarkTwain is a newspaper columnist in San Francisco using his real name of Samuel Clemens (see below) and scoffs at the idea of becoming an author, stating that the minimal pay would not be worth it.

* In this timeline, the Emancipation Proclamation sits in draft form on Lincoln's desk as he negotiates a ceasefire with the Confederates and their British and French allies during the prologue of ''American Front''.
* On one occasion when Flora Blackford is speaking to UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt, she thinks to herself that it's a shame his being wheelchair bound prevents him from ever being able to run for President.

* Football has supplanted baseball as the national sport for both the USA and CSA (although the CSA version more closely resembles rugby) and many prominent baseball players in Real Life (Lou Gehrig, Hank Greenberg, Jimmie Foxx) are known for football in this timeline. Baseball is stated to be a regional sport confined mainly to the northeast, not unlike hockey in our timeline during this period.
** This is also a reference to how baseball became a national sport largely due to the Civil War - once mainly a New York game, numerous soldiers brought the pastime home with them, drastically increasing its popularity. A shorter war in this timeline provided less opportunity.

* Custer wins a critical battle in the Second Mexican War with the use of a Gatling gun battery. Generals contemporary to Custer in reality noted that his failure to take along an available Gatling gun battery was a critical tactical error that may have led to his defeat and death at Little Bighorn.
* The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Battle of the Three Navies]]. It was the largest naval battle of the Great War, with the respective American, British and Japanese fleets utilizing hundreds of ships apiece and holding the most combined firepower in human history to that point. Whatever side lost that battle would inevitably lose the bulk of their naval forces and be forced to abdicate the war at sea. Or at least, that's what was supposed to happen; instead, the battle ended inconclusively, with neither side being able to thoroughly damage the other. All that said, guess what this battle was meant to represent[[note]]The Battle of Jutland[[/note]].
** In case it wasn't obvious, there's the battleship USS ''Dakota'' (in which Sam Carsen was serving at the time) and her actions during said battle. In the middle of maneuvering, the ''Dakota'''s steering would end up jammed, forcing the battleship to circle the British and Japanese fleets while enduring the brunt of their combined fire; regardless, the ''Dakota'' survived and inflicted damage on her attackers in turn. As the warship enthusiasts will recognize, the ''Dakota'' is pretty much a stand in for the HMS ''Warspite''.

* Two white Confederates attend a negro boxing league match in 1914. After watching one of the boxers absolutely destroy his opponent, one of the whites wonders for a second about how the victor would fare [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Johnson_%28boxer%29#The_.22Fight_of_the_Century.22 against a white boxer]], then reminds himself that a mixed boxing match would never be allowed in the CSA, nor in the USA.
* Cincinnatus Driver enjoys [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan "Dutch's"]] football broadcasts so much, he thinks the man could make reading a phone book sound interesting. "If anyone was a great communicator," the narrative states, "he was the man." In RL Reagan's nickname was "The Great Communicator."
---->'''"Dutch"''' ''(as a runner tears downfield)'': There he goes again!
* Thomas Dewey's surprise election victory in 1944 is marked with the Chicago Tribune headline "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Defeats_Truman La Follette Beats Dewey]]".
* Toward the end of the timeline's version of World War II, a straggling Confederate Army unit ends up being cornered by US troops in a certain Virginia town named Appomattox, where they are forced to surrender. One of the Confederate soldiers takes note of the town's courthouse as he's led away.
* In the final two books of the series, Morrell's invasion of the Confederacy sees him cross into Georgia and laying siege to Atlanta. When Atlanta falls, he goes even further into the interior of the Confederacy, he leads his army all the way to the coastline and then up into South Carolina. This is virtually the same strategy as William Sherman's campaigns in Georgia and South Carolina in 1864-65 that famously broke the back of the Confederacy.
* [[UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt Teddy Roosevelt]]'s surprise electoral defeat in 1920 to Socialist candidate, [[Literature/TheJungle Upton Sinclair]], is one to UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill's shocking defeat in the 1945 post-war election to the British Labour Party

* In the final two books of the series, Morrell's invasion of the Confederacy sees him cross into Georgia and laying siege to Atlanta. When Atlanta falls, he goes even further into the interior of the Confederacy, he leads his army all the way to the coastline and then up into South Carolina. This is virtually the same strategy as William Sherman's campaigns in Georgia and South Carolina in 1864-65 that famously broke the back of the Confederacy.

* Toward the end of the timeline's version of World War II, a straggling Confederate Army unit ends up being cornered by US troops in a certain Virginia town named Appomattox, where they are forced to surrender. One of the Confederate soldiers takes note of the town's courthouse as he's led away.

** For extra irony, this German NCO is an aide to Captain Heinz Guderian, who finds him rather annoying.

* The Battle of Pittsburgh is a very clear analog of Stalingrad, from the reason it was originally targeted (industrial capital) to being forced into attacking the city directly due to flank attacks preventing the city from being surrounded and cut off, and finally to the encirclement of the Confederate Army inside Pittsburgh.

* Thomas Dewey's surprise election victory in 1944 is marked with the Chicago Tribune headline "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Defeats_Truman La Follette Beats Dewey]]".

* In this timeline, the Emancipation Proclamation sits in draft form on Lincoln's desk as he negotiates a ceasefire with the Confederates and their British and French allies at the beginning of ''How Few Remain''.

** For extra irony, this German NCO is an aide to Captain Heinz Guderian, who finds him rather annoying. [[spoiler: The real Guderian was one of Hitler’s most shameless sycophants]].

---->'''"Dutch"''' ''(as a runner tears downfield)'': There he goes again!