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The formation of the United States of America, as a nation state of a self-liberated citizenry, was the Empire's first major defeat. Still, the Empire regained its possessions in the end. After a 100 year battle on the economic front against the United States of America, a devastating civil war, and a string of assassinations of its finest leaders, the U.S.A. literally surrendered to the Empire with the passing of the Specie Resumption Act. This act opened the nation's doors to the British financial system, by which the English oligarchy took over America.
In Europe, the Empire's fight against the self-development of humanity continued. The takeover wasn't as easily won, there. In fact, the greatest economic development scheme that has ever been imagined up this point was in the early stages of becoming a reality. If completed, it would have obsoleted the British Empire's sea-based power. The European nations were united on a project that would create a rail link across Asia from Paris to Japan. As far as the Empire was concerned, this had to be stopped. And it was stopped. The very dream of such a project was turned to ashes by the Empire's diplomacy that managed to set the nations involved at war with each other. The Eurasian rail link, thus, became the casualty of an instigated war in which 10 million people paid the price with their life for saving the Empire. But the spirit of the renaissance had not died even in this holocaust. Postwar Germany became a great scientific and cultural center, and a great industrial power in the postwar years. Hitler, then, who came onto the scene around this time, was recognized by the Empire as a man who had the potential to undo all the reemerging economic, cultural and scientific rebuilding that was going on in Europe. For this potential, and no other reason, Hitler was financed into power by the British Empire from both sides of the Atlantic. Out of this background, World War II promptly erupted.
The British Empire, itself, was spared from being wiped out by destructive genie of its own creation. It was spared through the selfless intervention of the American people in that war. For the purposes for fighting this war, that the British oligarchy needed to win, the deeply hated renaissance spirit was allowed to flourish in the world, for a season, even on the American shores. In the brief space of those few years, and under the guidance of F. D. Roosevelt, who was committed to the renaissance ideals, the American nation was able to rouse itself from its deepest depression that had lingered on for more than a decade, into becoming the most prosperous and most powerful industrial nation on the planet. The renewal of the spirit of the renaissance was so explosive that it nearly wiped the British Empire off the map, which hadn't been planned for. But once the war was won, the tables were quickly turned.
The postwar years were once again dominated by the British game. Actually, at the 'diplomatic' levels this domination had continued to some degree right through the war years. On the basis of British advise and falsified intelligence, the USA became coerced into developing the Atom bomb. The long cherished dream of the Empire's elite, such as Bertrand Russell, was to create a one world government (under the control of the Empire, of course) which would rule all nations with the threat of a super-weapon that no government on earth would be able to withstand.
One man stood in the way of those dreams, the U.S. President F. D. Roosevelt. Once he was out of the way, as Roosevelt died at near the end of the war, at the most crucial juncture in history, the road was cleared for the Empire's dreams to fully unfold. Japan's offer of conditional surrender was quickly rejected, and continued to be rejected until the atom bombs were at last ready to be dropped. Once this was done, Japan's surrender was accepted under essentially the same terms that were originally offered.
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