History Main / SecondAmericanCivilWar

Subtrope of DividedStatesOfAmerica, PossibleWar and CivilWar and can easily lead to many DifferentStatesOfAmerica tropes. Can set the stage for examples of RussiaCalledTheyWantAlaskaBack and MexicoCalledTheyWantTexasBack. Maybe even CanadaCalled;TheyArePolitelyAskingForMinnesota.
May result from OppressiveStatesOfAmerica and may lead to FallenStatesOfAmerica.

Subtrope of DividedStatesOfAmerica, PossibleWar and CivilWar and can easily lead to many DifferentStatesOfAmerica tropes. Can set the stage for examples of RussiaCalledTheyWantAlaskaBack and MexicoCalledTheyWantTexasBack. Maybe even CanadaCalledTheyArePolitelyAskingForMinnesota.

Subtrope of DividedStatesOfAmerica, PossibleWar and CivilWar and can easily lead to many DifferentStatesOfAmerica tropes. Can set the stage for examples of RussiaCalledTheyWantAlaskaBack and MexicoCalledTheyWantTexasBack. May result from OppressiveStatesOfAmerica and may lead to FallenStatesOfAmerica.

* In the backstory of the ''VideoGame/{{Horizon|ZeroDawn}}'' games, GlobalWarming left Southern UsefulNotes/{{California}}, Nevada, and Arizona stricken by drought, leading to an evacuation of large areas of the affected states due to water shortages. Those who refused to leave rallied around Roberto Medina, a mining magnate who was already seeking greater control over his rare earth mines, and Edward de la Hoya, commander of Joint Task Force 10, as they revolted against the US government. The war, which saw JTF-10 hold out against the federal government's robot armies even as Washington eventually resorted to using a nuclear weapon, ended with a negotiated reunification secured by Anne Faraday, an Air Force colonel who sided with the rebels but had long advocated for a peaceful resolution. In ''VideoGame/HorizonForbiddenWest'', you visit the ruins of a museum in the Mojave dedicated to the rebellion that whitewashes the rebel side, a view that was very controversial; attempts to soften its stance (including emphasizing Medina's alleged CorruptCorporateExecutive tendencies) met furious backlash from Medina's daughter, by that point a Senator and one of the museum's key backers. Regardless, JTF-10's actions during the war, or at least how the museum depicted them, became a major source of inspiration for the Tenakth tribe when they discovered its ruins AfterTheEnd, causing them to embrace a CargoCult version of US military culture.

* In Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom's ''Literature/RedsARevolutionaryTimeline'', the Second American Civil War is triggered in 1933. The prelude is the socialist candiate, Norman Thomas, winning the 1932 Presidential election, and the Popular Front, a broad socialist electorial alliance between the Workers' Communist Party and the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party gaining a majority in both chambers of the US Congress. In response, American high society are whipped into a panic, and throw their support behind the Government of the National Salvation Front of First Secretary Nicholas Longworth and General UsefulNotes/DouglasMacArthur, who takes power by persuading/[[IHaveYourWife threatening]] outgoing President UsefulNotes/HerbertHoover into suspending the Constitution, enabling the overthrow of President-elect Thomas in a MilitaryCoup before he could take office. This barefaced assault on American democracy only ends up provoking the Communist revolution Longworth and [=MacArthur=] [[NiceJobFixingItVillain claimed to want to prevent]], as the Popular Front rises up in rebellion. The rebellion gets broad support from several prominent Democrats and Republicans who are appalled by the actions of National Salvation Front. The war ends with the Red victory, leading to the establishment of the Union of American Socialist Republics, the foremost Communist power along with the Soviet Union.

* In ''Literature/TheFireNeverDies'', the Second American Revolution is triggered shortly after the US declares war on Germany in 1917. As an ongoing dockworker's strike is impeding the flow of arms to Europe, President Wilson declares that all strikes will be suspended. The Industrial Workers of the World, which already opposed the war, declares a general strike in response. Wilson orders that the IWW be suppressed, and they take up arms (including the ones sitting on the docks as a result of the strike) in response. The story has not reached the end of the conflict, but it is a ForegoneConclusion that the IWW will emerge victorious.

* In the Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom timeline ''Literature/{{Reds}}'', the Second American Civil War is triggered in 1933. The prelude is the socialist candiate, Norman Thomas, winning the 1932 Presidential election, and the Popular Front, a broad socialist electorial alliance between the Workers' Communist Party and the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party gaining a majority in both chambers of the US Congress. In response, American high society are whipped into a panic, and throw their support behind the Government of the National Salvation Front of First Secretary Nicholas Longworth and General UsefulNotes/DouglasMacArthur, who takes power by persuading/[[IHaveYourWife threatening]] outgoing President UsefulNotes/HerbertHoover into suspending the Constitution, enabling the overthrow of President-elect Thomas in a MilitaryCoup before he could take office. This barefaced assault on American democracy only ends up provoking the Communist revolution Longworth and [=MacArthur=] [[NiceJobFixingItVillain claimed to want to prevent]], as the Popular Front rises up in rebellion. The rebellion gets broad support from several prominent Democrats and Republicans who are appalled by the actions of National Salvation Front. The war ends with the Red victory, leading to the establishment of the Union of American Socialist Republics, the foremost Communist power along with the Soviet Union.

* In the Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom timeline ''Literature/{{Reds}}'', the Second American Civil War is triggered in 1933. The prelude is the socialist candiate, Norman Thomas, winning the 1932 Presidential election, and the Popular Front, a broad socialist electorial alliance between Workers' Communist Party and the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party gain majority in both chambers of Congress. In response, American high society are whipped into a panic, and throw their support behind the Government of the National Salvation Front of First Secretary Nicholas Longworth and General UsefulNotes/DouglasMacArthur, who takes power by persuading/[[IHaveYourWife threatening]] outgoing President UsefulNotes/HerbertHoover into suspending the Constitution, enabling the overthrow of President-elect Thomas in a MilitaryCoup before he could take office. This barefaced assault on American democracy only ends up provoking the Communist revolution Longworth and [=MacArthur=] [[NiceJobFixingItVillain claimed to want to prevent]], as the Popular Front rises up in rebellion. The rebellion gets broad support from several prominent Democrats and Republicans who are appalled by the actions of National Salvation Front. The war ends with the Red victory, leading to the establishment of the Union of American Socialist Republics, the foremost Communist power along with the Soviet Union.

* The 1997 satire ''Film/TheSecondCivilWar'' is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, depicting the break-up of the USA, starting with a child refugee crisis that happens because the governor of Idaho closed his state's borders to them which these escalates to rumors that it's the first step to the ''secession'' of Idaho and things snowballing from there.

** If Douglas [=MacArthur=] seizes power from either of the most extreme presidents, Jack Reed or Huey Long, or any other president if they refuse to take action to deal with Reed and/or Long, the [[AntiMutiny Pacific States of America will secede, declaring themselves the only ones who still believe in America's founding values of liberal democracy and limited government]] AND both the Combined Syndicates and Union State rise up.

* The USA splitting into three countries is part of the history of both ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'' and ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'' but whether Imperial Americana and the [[TheGreatPoliticsMessUp Soviet]]-American Alliance were let go peacefully after [[WorldWarWhatever World War IV]] or there was a war seems to depend on the adaptation.

* In the ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'' universe there was a Second American Civil War when Washington D.C was destroyed by a villain known as ''ComicBook/TheMaker'' with the most liberal and conservative states starting to either fight each other or declare their independence from the Union.

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* In ''Literature/AnExaminationOfExtraUniversalSystemsOfGovernment''[='s=] Southron Popular Republic Timeline has two different Second American Civil Wars. The Confederacy wins the Civil War and secures its independence from the Union, only to later fall to a communist revolution, while the Union has a second civil war of its own in the 1930s, resulting in California's independence.

* ''Literature/TheFalconCannotHear: The Second American Civil War 1937-1944'' details a seven-year civil war between Douglas [=MacArthur=]'s military government, the American Soviet Republic, loyalists to UsefulNotes/HueyLong in the DeepSouth, the Provisional Government, and the Contiental Congress, the last two of which eventually team up, as well as various minor factions.
* In the Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom timeline ''Literature/{{Reds}}'', the Second American Civil War is triggered in 1933. The prelude is the socialist candiate, Norman Thomas, winning the 1932 Presidential election, and the Popular Front, a broad socialist electorial alliance between Workers' Communist Party and the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party gain majority in both chambers of Congress. In response, American high society are whipped into a panic, and throw their support behind the Government of the National Salvation Front of First Secretary Nicholas Longworth and General UsefulNotes/DouglasMacArthur, who takes power by persuading/[[IHaveYourWife threatening]] outgoing President UsefulNotes/HerbertHoover into suspending the Constitution, enabling the overthrow of President-elect Thomas in a MilitaryCoup before he could take office. This barefaced assault on American democracy only ends up provoking the Communist revolution Longworth and [=MacArthur=] [[NiceJobFixingItVillain claimed to want to prevent]], as the Popular Front rises up in rebellion. The rebellion gets broad support from several prominent Democrats and Republicans who are appalled by the actions of National Salvation Front. The war ends with the Red victory, leading to the establishment of the Union of American Socialist Republics, the foremost Communist power along with the Soviet Union.
* The ImageBoards, particularly the right-wing militia fanatics that frequent them, often refer to a hypothetical civil war as a [[InherentlyFunnyWords "Boogaloo"]], which has even entered the mainstream lexicon as media outlets picked up on the term. This is a reference to the movie ''Film/Breakin2ElectricBoogaloo'' and being an [[OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo Oddly Named Sequel]], since a Second American Civil War would be a "sequel" to the first.

* The ImageBoards, particularly the right-wing militia fanatics that frequent them, often refer to a hypothetical civil war as a [[InherentlyFunnyWords "Boogaloo"]], which has even entered the mainstream lexicon as media outlets picked up on the term. This is a reference to the movie ''Film/Breakin2ElectricBoogaloo'' and being an OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo, since a Second American Civil War would be a "sequel" to the first.

* ''Film/ChildrenOfMen'' takes place in a world where no human child has been born for eighteen years and humanity faces extinction. While the film's setting, Britain, has mostly held together in the face of this existential crisis because of its island nature and the government usurping more powers to heed the crisis, in the background America has become engulfed in internal conflict and militias have seized several cities.

* ''Film/ChildrenOfMen'' takes place in a world where no human child has been born for eighteen years and humanity faces extinction. While the film's setting, Britain, has mostly held together in the face of this existential crisis, in the background America has become engulfed in internal conflict and militias have seized several cities.

** If Douglas [=MacArthur=] seizes power from either of the most extreme presidents, Jack Reed or Huey Long, or any other president if they refuse to take action to take action to deal with Reed and/or Long, the [[AntiMutiny Pacific States of America will secede, declaring themselves the only ones who still believe in America's founding values of liberal democracy and limited government]] AND both the Combined Syndicates and Union State rise up.

* By the end of Season 2 of ''Series/{{Jericho}}'', Jake and Hawkins have exposed the Cheyenne government's conspiracy and treason, causing Texas to rejoin the United States under the legitimate government. It is then flat out said by Chavez and Jake that a Second American Civil War is about to begin. And sure enough, the six-issue comic SequelSeries starts with the war's beginning.

* Creator/Foobar137's ''Second American Civil War'' trilogy is about the aftermath of one, and ultimately its causes.

* In a case of WhatCouldHaveBeen, a [[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/bradley-whitford-courtney-b-vance-903104 pilot film for a proposed TV drama]], ''Civil'', about a disputed election that slides into civil unrest and eventually war, was optioned by Creator/{{TNT}} in 2016. However TNT [[https://deadline.com/2016/12/civil-pilot-dead-tnt-modern-day-civil-war-1201870231/ decided not to proceed]] as it was felt to be [[TooSoon too close to home]] for the 2016 United States presidential elections.

* In ''Literature/AfterTheRevolution'', the Second Civil War broke out in 2041. It lasted close to a decade and involved multiple factions all breaking apart and [[FallenStatesOfAmerica tearing America asunder]]. Twenty years after the war's end, the remnants of the federal government still control the north-eastern seaboard, the southern states (barring Florida) have created a theocratic state, Texas, the West Coast and Utah went independent but suffer from their own internal divisions, the Great Lakes region became a protectorate of Canada [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Albuquerque has become an independent kingdom]]. The story focuses on a flareup in the war in Texas between the Christian fundamentalist "Heavenly Kingdom" and a coalition of Canada-supported leftist militias.

* In ''Literature/AfterTheRevolution'', the Second Civil War broke out in 2041. It lasted close to a decade and involved multiple factions all breaking apart and [[FallenStatesOfAmerica tearing America asunder]]. Twenty years after the war's end, the remnants of the federal government still control the north-eastern seaboard, the southern states (barring Florida) have created a theocratic state, Texas, the West Coast and Utah went independent but suffer from their own internal divisions, the Great Lakes region became a protectorate of Canada [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Albuquerque has become an independent kingdom]].