With the fighting having come to a conclusion, the various powers have to come to an accommodation with their situations.

Although the Central Powers should have had an easier time of it, after all they had won an historic victory, with the United States occupying Canada and parts of the Confederacy, the government in Philadelphia doesn't really know how to control the occupied territories.

In the South, defeat came hard after two successful wars, and there were ready made scapegoats in the Negroes whose rebellion was being blamed for knifing the Southern forces in the back...