History Literature / TheFalconCannotHear

** The Blues have their own separate alliance with several of the worker's soviets on the East Coast. Once they [[spoiler:split off and form the Worker's Collective]], the two groups form the Popular Front.

* AmazonBrigade: The Provisionary Government's 5th Wing, Women's Reserve. Trained by UsefulNotes/AmeliaEarhart herself, they earn a reputation as {{Ace Pilot}}s thanks to several feats of piloting.

* BigApplesauce: Is controlled by two separate governments. Fiorello La Guardia's pre-war administration, allied with the Blues, and a worker's soviet aligned with the ASR [[spoiler:and later the Worker's Collective.]] The two groups get along great, and their friendly relationship is the start of the Popular Front against the Whites.

* BlackAndGreyMorality: In a moral sense, the Whites are most certainly the worst faction of the Second Civil War: the government is run as a dictatorship by President Huey Long, who gives fascist militias and the Ku Klux Klan free reign over racial and ethnic minorities, leading to such predictably horrifying things as [[spoiler:Klan-run concentration camps for black civilians]]. This initially stands in sharp contrast to their main enemy, the Blue faction, which, as an alliance of liberal, progressive, and socialist groups, generally holds much more tolerant positions on race. That is, until [[spoiler:Japan invades the West Coast]]. [[spoiler:Though the invasion is eventually repulsed in 1941, the enraged Blues embark on a campaign of interning Japanese-American civilians that is ''even worse'' than that of OTL, because it also involves confiscating Japanese-Americans' property without compensation and attempting to expunge Japanese culture from the country]]. While it's mentioned that this policy is fueled mostly by antipathy toward the unsavory parts of Japanese culture and not by racial hatred, that doesn't change the fact that by 1941, in some ways the Blues are little better than their fascist enemies.

* CommieLand: The American Soviet Republic, who is openly Stalinist, and supported by the USSR.

** Happens to the Whites as well when [[spoiler: a group of generals, worried about the amount of control fascist paramilitaries have over the government, try to take control. It fails when one of the generals, George S. Patton, betrays the coup due to fears that it will weaken the Whites overall and embolden the Reds and Blues. All the generals are promptly executed, with the exception of Eisenhower, who Patton was able to protect. This causes Ike to defect to the Reds.]]

** Though the world is spared the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Japanese invasion and occupation of southeast Asia, it instead gets an American Civil War, [[spoiler: a Sino/Japanese-Soviet War, an Indian Civil War and a Nazi Germany whose tyranny lasts almost five years longer and with it a much longer and bloodier German-Soviet War that ends with Stalin as the effective master of Europe]].

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Imperial Japan in a ''big'' way. In an attempt to shore up their ally Long, they decide to [[spoiler: invade the Blue-controlled West Coast, thinking they'll receive support from the khaki warlords in the Rockies and give the Whites the chance to seize the Pacific coast. It backfires ''tremendously''. Americans of all factions are infuriated by Japanese troops on their soil, the warlords who Japan expected to help them join the Red Oak pact instead, Long is almost the victim of a coup, and Canada sends troops south of the border to help repel the invasion.]]

* TheEmpire: The Japanese Empire, just as much, if not more than in real life, at least from American perspective.

* FinalSolution: [[spoiler:In retaliation for B.R.O.W.N attacks on KKK-aligned figures, Huey Long's Whites set up concentration camps for black Americans in Aberdeen, Mississippi. The sight of people dying of sickness and neglect in these camps is the final straw that convinces Eisenhower to rebel: first by launching an unsuccessful coup, then defecting to the Reds.]]

** Downplayed after the war concludes. [[spoiler:By 1944, America has been stitched back together into the Third Republic, but the victorious factions retain political control over the areas they held at war's end, so that by the time the new Constitution is hammered out, social-democratic, conservative, and outright communist regional governments are coexisting with high degrees of autonomy within a single country. In addition, several regions that failed to clearly side with any faction during the War are incorporated as "constituent republics" rather than states, which are completely autonomous in all but a few ways. Naturally, the central government is considerably weaker to allow for this highly federalized model.]]
*** Interestingly enough, several of postwar America's [[spoiler:"constituent republics"]] also constitute downplayed forms of this trope's classic subtropes:

** Though the world is spared the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Japanese invasion and occupation of southeast Asia, it instead gets an American Civil War, [[spoiler: a Sino/Japanese-Soviet War, an Indian Civil War and a Nazi Germany whose tyranny lasts almost five years longer and with it a much longer and bloodier German-Soviet War]].

In February 1933, the new President-elect UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt was making a public appearance with Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak when an assassin's bullet, presumably aimed at Roosevelt, strikes the mayor instead. In this story, the assassin has better aim, and FDR is killed. Come Inaguration day, Roosevelt's VP John Nance Garner is sworn in instead. Garner, a southern conservative, has no interest in the New Deal, causing the Depression to last well into the 30's. As a result, communist and fascist groups gain more public support. Strikes become commonplace, minorities are frequent targets of attack, and tensions rise among the population. In 1937, Republican Alf Landon, promising to enact his own New Deal, is elected President. But by then the country is a powder keg, with one spark needed to create all-out war. In the wake of a massacre of striking workers in Chicago, that spark is provided when a new Bonus Army, hearing a rumour that the government is about to force them out of Washington, marches on the White House....

* FamousLastWords
** "[[spoiler:[[{{Foreshadowing}} I shouldn’t have picked John- now he’s all America has.]]]]" - [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt]], "Farmers and Bankers- 1932-1933"
** "[++[[spoiler:AIIEEEE!!]]++] [[spoiler:LONG LIVE COMRADES ACHERMAN, MILT, AND HOLMES! THE PRESIDENT IS DEAD! LONG LIVE THE GENERAL SECRETARY!]]" - [[spoiler:[[WebComic/{{Polandball}} The USA]]]], "[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=8845587&postcount=892 Comic Interlude]]"
** "[[spoiler:God bless America.]]" - [[spoiler:General George S. Patton]], "The True North Strong And Free- 1940"

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After [[spoiler:the death of MacArthur]], Admiral Fletcher, not wanting to join the Whites, takes the Atlantic Squadron and creates an American community at Guantanamo Bay with Admiral Bloch, the local commander there. They keep to themselves, not getting involved in the war at all, their goals being “to remain apart from whatever tyrannical regime, of whatever color, that may come to power on the mainland” and to “preserve a small fragment of American liberty.”

* DarkerAndEdgier: As horrible as they were in reality, this timeline's Great Depression and World War 2 are far worse than our own. Unemployment in the USA reaches around 40% before the Civil War begins. As for warfare, though the world is spared the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Japanese invasion and occupation of southeast Asia, it instead gets an American Civil War, [[spoiler: a Sino/Japanese-Soviet War, an Indian Civil War and a Nazi Germany whose tyranny lasts almost five years longer and with it a much longer and bloodier German-Soviet War]].

* DarkerandEdgier: As horrible as they were in reality, this timeline's Great Depression and World War 2 are far worse than our own. Unemployment in the USA reaches around 40% before the Civil War begins. As for warfare, though the world is spared the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Japanese invasion and occupation of southeast Asia, it instead gets an American Civil War, [[spoiler: a Sino/Japanese-Soviet War, an Indian Civil War and a Nazi Germany whose tyranny lasts almost five years longer and with it a much longer and bloodier German-Soviet War]].

* LaRésistance: Many examples, both internationally and according to Word of God, within the USA. Most notably there is the Banner Revolutionary Organisation of Willing Negroes and the Blue loyalists in the Appalachians, both fighting the Whites.

*** The B.R.O.W.N. (Banner Revolutionary Organisation of Willing Negroes), a guerrilla group operating in White territory. [[spoiler:This causes the Whites to begin putting blacks in concentration camps, where over a million of them die of disease and starvation. As the Whites fall apart, they align with the Red Oak Pact/Popular Front, and after the war, the former states of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina are merged into the autonomous black state of New Africa.]]

* FunwithAcronyms: the black Americans waging guerilla warfare against their facist government call themselves the Banner Revolutionary Organisation of Willing Negroes.

The Falcon Cannot Hear: The Second American Civil War 1937-1944 is an alternate history timeline written by Ephraim Ben Raphael which tells the story of a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin second American civil war which starts in 1937]].

You can read the story [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=302840 here]]. A chapter index (00-23) can be found [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?p=9452891#post9452891 here]].

* ShownTheirWork

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After [[spoiler:the death of Macarthur]], Admiral Fletcher, not wanting to join the Whites, takes the Atlantic Squadron and creates an American community at Guantanamo Bay with Admiral Bloch, the local commander there. They keep to themselves, not getting involved in the war at all, their goals being “to remain apart from whatever tyrannical regime, of whatever color, that may come to power on the mainland” and to “preserve a small fragment of American liberty.”

* RealityIsUnrealistic: Believe it or not, it takes ''several posts'' for the POD to actually occur[[note]][[spoiler:Giuseppe Zangara [[Literature/TheManInTheHighCastle managing to assassinate]] UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt]][[/note]]. All of the difficulties, horrors, and conflicts that were present prior to that ''actually happened'', and a number of the passages describing early Depression-era America before OTL's New Deal were in fact lifted straight from history books describing the conditions of the era, (This was, in fact, what briefly got the author into trouble for plagiarism.)