Today, President Eisenhower has announced that all Middle Eastern states can ask for aid from the United States when they are being threatened by a Communist state, or when they are being threatened by a direct Communist incursion. This aid can be military or economical, and we will gladly answer their calls.

The threat of Communism must not be allowed to grow within any region, and we are prepared to take steps to defend our allies to this extent. Consider this a warning to any Communist nation looking to take advantage of the Middle Eastern states. We will defend all of them. We will support all of them. We will not let any Capitalist nation within the region fall to Communist aggressors.

........................................................................................................................................................................................................

Hey y'all, I'm starting a paper on this topic and I was hoping for some help on it.

Specifically just the overarching effectiveness in the Eisenhower Doctrine in countering Soviet influence. From what I understand it was mostly effective except for somewhat alienating Nasser, but otherwise kept Soviet influence mostly out of the Middle East.

Am I correct in believing this? Or did the Eisenhower have any effect at all really?

It took us a while to get to this update finally done, thanks to unexpected issues and the massive breadth of work that was the NSB conversion, but the wait is finally over. We are proud to present 0.20 - 'Railway of Freedom', which not only finally updates Kaiserreich to 1.11, but also gives brand new content to New England, a rework long in the making! We hope you enjoy this dearly awaited update!

• The KR4 team

##PSA: This update will only work on Open Beta Patch 1.11.5! Make sure to enable the Open Beta on Steam before you play the update! Otherwise, the mod can and will crash!

Changes

Notable Additions

• Kaiserreich has now been made compatible with the changes brought by v1.11 "Barbarossa", and accompanying DLC "No Step Back". This includes updating the railroad and supply hub locations, changes to army, air and naval experience generation and doctrine research, and implementing the new scripting features for modders that Paradox have added to the game.

New Focus Trees

• New England

Reworked/Expanded Focus Trees

• Brazil - army tree fully overhauled and redesigned, naval tree effects adjusted and layout rearranged.

• Ukraine - army tree overhauled and redesigned.

Tweaked Focus Trees

• Sweden - focus tree improvements - focus durations are reduced, added new icons, focus effects, implemented several new focuses and balance changes.

New Events

• Candidate-specific election events for CSA, PSA and USA.

• The Fengtian Government now gets a notification about countries accepting or refusing to attend the Unification Conference.

• Added news events for PatAut and NatPop Japan.

New Decisions

• New England

• Added a decision for Haiti to get some naval experience if they complete the economy tree and the foreign policy tree.

New Custom Country Paths

• Assyrian Revolt & Assyria

• Cuban Foreign Policy

• Hawaiian Elections & Foreign Policy

• Iraq & Iraqi Foreign Policy

• Lebanon & Lebanese Foreign Policy

• Left Kuomintang

• Mongolia

• Syria & Syrian Foreign Policy

• Added the option to support New England to Canada's American Civil War game rules.

• Increased the number of options in existing rules for Cuba, Hawaii, Hunan, Ireland, Lianguang Civil War, Sichuan, Shanxi & Yunnan.

GFX

• New Portraits

• American Union State: Jerauld Wright

• Argentina: Manuel Carlés

• Armenia: Mihran Damadian, Bedros Hallachian, Anastas Mikoyan

• Australasia: Al

Theodore Roosevelt, 24th President of the United States of America

Administration:

Vice President: John R. Lynch

Secretary of State: Shelby M. Cullom

Secretary of the Treasury: George Walbridge Perkins

Secretary of War: John M. Parker

Attorney General: Charles J. Bonaparte

Secretary of the Navy: Albert J. Beveridge

Secretary of the Interior: Joseph M. Carey

Postmaster General: George L. Wellington

Secretary of Agriculture: Marion Butler

Secretary of Labor: Terence V. Powderly

Secretary of Science and Technology: George Westinghouse

80 years old, former Secretary of State Shelby M. Cullom maintained no desire for retirement and was reluctantly re-appointed to his former position after a volley of lobbying by friends to President Roosevelt. Nonetheless, James R. Garfield was appointed Assistant Secretary of State and in practice held roughly equivalent powers to those of the octogenarian Cullom. Louisiana Senator John M. Parker was selected to serve as Secretary of War, while 46 year old Progressive businessman George Walbridge Perkins was granted the Treasury portfolio. Joseph M. Carey of Wyoming was appointed Secretary of the Interior, reprising his role from the Houston Administration. Maryland's Charles Joseph Bonaparte was selected to serve as the Administration's Attorney General, while fellow Marylander George L. Wellington was appointed Postmaster General. Albert J. Beveridge, formerly Progressive leader in the United States Senate, was chosen as Secretary of the Navy and granted primary authority over the conflict in Moroland. Having remained loyal to Roosevelt despite overtures from the Watson campaign, Mary Elizabeth Lease had expected appointment as Secretary of State, lowering her expectations to that of Agriculture once Cullom was announced. Yet, while fellow pro-Roosevelt Farmer-Laborite Marion Butler would be given the post, Lease would find herself left without reward, eventually being appointed as Ambassador to Bolivia prior to having her appointment rescinded over concerns regarding her racist statements towards Latin Americans, with her job lowered to that of a Postmaster in Nebraska, which she declined. Terence V. Powderly was granted the post of Secretary of Labor, serving in his fifth Presidential cabinet. With a Department of Science and Technology proposed during the Hearst years, it

This is a comprehensive list of all mentioned, alluded to, or seen United States Presidents in the Fallout series. This list includes United States and Enclave presidents. Dashes signify “missing” presidents from our world, presidents who have no clear or direct reference in the series.

•George Washington [Mentioned in National Archives Quiz, FO4 Dialogue, Arcade Gannon, and Pioneer Scout Quiz]

•John Adams [National Archives, Pioneer Scout Quiz, and Plaque]

•Thomas Jefferson [National Archives, Pioneer Scout Quiz]

•James Madison [National Archives]

•James Monroe [Monroe Doctrine, Mention of Monroe, CT]

•~~~~~~~~~~~

•Andrew Jackson [Enclave Terminal, Fallout 76]

•Martin Van Buren [Quotes on Enclave Radio]

•~~~~~~~~~~~

•~~~~~~~~~~~

•James K. Polk [Possible, the 1848 Mexican Cession under Polk seems to have happened similarly, if not the exact same]

•~~~~~~~~~~~

•Millard Fillmore [Whitespring Presidential Cottage]

•Franklin Pierce [Possible, Jefferson Davis was Secretary of War under Pierce in our world]

•James Buchanan [Possible, Buchanan’s inaction to prevent states seceding is a major component that caused the Civil War]

•Abraham Lincoln [Lincoln memorial, Lincoln artifacts, American Civil War]

•Andrew Johnson [Possible, Lincoln was known to be assassinated because of the Booth Wanted Poster, Johnson may’ve been the Vice President still]

•Ulysses S. Grant [Enclave Terminal, Ulysses dialogue, civil war]

•~~~~~~~~~~~

•~~~~~~~~~~~

•Chester Arthur [Fallout 76 Enclave Terminal]

•Grover Cleveland (First Term)[Death of Chester Arthur]

•Benjamin Harrison

•Grover Cleveland (Second Term)

•William McKinley [Probable, Teddy Roosevelt was his Vice President and succeeded him after McKinley got shot]

•Teddy Roosevelt [Teddy Bears, National Park System, Roosevelt Academy in Fo3]

•William H. Taft [Taft Tunnels]

•Woodrow Wilson [World War 1]

•~~~~~~~~~~~

•~~~~~~~~~~~

•Herbert Hoover [Hoover Dam, Great Depression]

•Franklin D. Roosevelt [Declaration of War on Germany, World War 2, Mentions of Reforms]

•Harry Truman [Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki mentioned, Vice President under FDR]

POST-DIVERGENCE

•Dwight D. Eisenhower [Interstate Highway System, Camp David]

•???????

•???????

•Richard Nixon [Nixon doll, Pioneer Scout Quiz, EPA]

•???????

•???????

•Ronald Reagan [Unsure, only mentioned in GNN Transcripts, though Reagan was a strong Cold War figure] (Very uncertain)

•George HW Bush [Dependent on if Reagan

I won the PV

VP Choice

Sparkman: Historical choice. Feedback said boost in south and hurt in north, but it's not true. Sparkman doesn't help you in south, doesn't hurt you in north. It's not great choice, but good choice.

Kefauver: Main opponent. small boost Nationwide, bur hurt you in big states and south. Lower your chances in the big states you need to win the election, so it's bad choice.

Monroney: Senator from Oklahoma. It's better in the south than Sparkman, and worse in the north. isn't good choice.

Fulbright: Senator from Arkansas. help you in south but hurt you in north. Lower your chances in the north, so it's same with kefauver.

Russell: Senator from Georgia and your southern opponent. Help you in south but GREATLY hurt you in north. If you select Russell to VP, You can't win the election. Very bad choice.

Humphrey: Senator from Humphrey and famous liberal. Help you in north but the South leaves to Dixiecrat and Republican Party. It looks similar to Russell, but Humphrey is actually a good choice. because you can win the election without south.

Harriman: Director of the Mutual Security Agency. Help you in Nationwide. Very good choice.

Barkley: Vice President. Just same with Sparkman, but Sparkman slightly hold the edge. also he has Health problems.

Kerr: Senator from Oklahoma. Just same with Sparkman and Barkley, but Sparkman and Barkley slightly hold the edge.

Kerry: War hero. Greatly help you in Nationwide, It's undoubtedly the best choice.

So Ranking is

1. Kerry
2. Harriman
3. Humphrey
4. Sparkman
5. Barkley
6. Kerr
7. Monroney
8. Fulbright
9. Kefauver
10. Russell

Answer

1. Yes, we must distance ourselves from the unpopular President Truman and emphasize that I am my own man. We will avoid campaigning with Truman.
2. Only one answer, but If you select Sparkman or Kefauver, Just select More long answer.
3. No, although he is a madman he is very popular, especially among conservatives and southerners who we could risk bringing closer to Eisenhower.
4. We will make TV ads on topics like Social Security, Education, and other domestic issues. In these ads we will defend the legacy of the New Deal and also mention the Presidency of Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression.
5. We will stay silent on this issue. The Taft-Hartley Act passed Congress easily and is widely popular in our home base of th

The M4 Sherman, officially Medium Tank, M4, was the most widely used medium tank by the United States and Western Allies in World War II. The M4 Sherman proved to be reliable, relatively cheap to produce, and available in great numbers. It was also the basis of several other armored fighting vehicles including self-propelled artillery, tank destroyers, and recovery vehicles. Tens of thousands were distributed through the Lend-Lease program to the British Commonwealth and Soviet Union. The tank was named by the British for the American Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman.[citation needed]

Medium Tank, M4 M4 Sherman tank - Flickr - Joost J. Bakker IJmuiden.jpg An M4 (105) Sherman tank with spare track-links welded on its front for additional armor protection, preserved at the Langenberg Liberation Memorial in Ede, Netherlands Type Medium tank Place of origin United States Service history In service 1942–1957 (United States) Used by United States, and many others (see Foreign variants and use) Wars World War II Indonesian National Revolution Greek Civil War First Indochina War 1948 Arab–Israeli War Korean War Cuban Revolution Revolución Libertadora Suez Crisis 1958 Lebanon crisis Nicaraguan Revolution Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 Six-Day War Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Yom Kippur War Lebanese Civil War Uganda–Tanzania War Iran–Iraq War Production history Designer U.S. Army Ordnance Department Designed 1940 Manufacturer American Locomotive Company Baldwin Locomotive Works Detroit Tank Arsenal Federal Machine and Welder Company Fisher Tank Arsenal Ford Motor Company Lima Locomotive Works Pacific Car and Foundry Company Pressed Steel Car Company Pullman-Standard Car Company Unit cost $44,556–64,455 in 1945 dollars, depending upon variant ($607,861–879,336 in 2017 dollars)[1] Produced September 1941 (prototype) February 1942 – July 1945 No. built 49,234, excluding prototype[2] Variants See U.S. variants and foreign variants Specifications Mass 66,800–84,000 lb (33.4-42.0 short tons, 30.3–38.1 tonnes) depending upon variant[3] Length 19 ft 2 in–20 ft 7 in (5.84–6.27 m) depending upon variant[3] Width 8 ft 7 in (2.62 m) to 9 ft 10 in (3.00 m) depending upon variant[3] Height 9 ft 0 in–9 ft 9 in (2.74–2.97 m) depending upon variant[3] Crew 5 (commander, gunner, loader, driver, assistant driver/bow gunner) Armor 12.7 to 177.8 mm (0.50 to 7.00 in) depending on location and variant[3] Main armament 75 mm gun M3 (90–104 rounds) or 76 mm gun M1A1, M1A1C, or M1A2 (

I'm trying to understand more the ideology of this sub

https://www.academia.edu/5230816/Are_we_really_ready_for_Dosclosure

As researchers, we spend much time and effort investigating the phenomenon of UFOs. Given the preponderance of evidence many of us have come to make one simple conclusion: There is definitely something happening in the skies over the entire planet.
Two possible deductions can be gleaned from such numerous observations. 1) The observed phenomenon is a technology so far advanced they must be coming from a distant alien civilization which is able to use technology far advanced from what we currently have publicly available, and 2) The observed phenomenon are Earthbound technologies which have been suppressed for many years while the technology is developed in secret “black budget projects” for military purposes.
There are pundits in both these camps. No matter what the truth is, the general population is NOT getting the whole story. In reality the most probable situation is a composite of both these scenarios. The history of sightings goes back for centuries and hundreds of “whistleblowers” have given testimonies in the last fifty years attesting to the existence of such technology. After reading this information a knowledgeable UFO Investigator will understand how difficult it may be to conclude from an objects behavior which scenario it belongs to.
I've always said that if "they" are coming here from a "distant" solar system, then they're probably not packing their lunch for the whole trip and stopping for "gas" or “a burger” on the way. This would mean they're completely self-sufficient and probably very well resourced with recyclable material and advanced energy technologies.
You should think about that previous paragraph very carefully. It probably is the most important realization you can ever come to. The ramifications are astounding. "If" that is true, then it means that the possibility of limitless and extremely inexpensive energy is real. It also means that true and limitless abundance is imminent. It is our destiny.
The evidence uncovered from my research leads me to understand that the whole UFO phenomenon is kept secret primarily not because of the "ET" aspect of it, - although that does scare some people out of their mind, but mainly because of the ramifications which would inevitably cause the current economic and geopolitical structure to collapse. A collapse which is inevitable due t

1909 Riot in Mosul after Kirkuk soldier insulted a woman Organized by elites opposed to Ottoman reforms 60 killed

1916 British attacked Shaikh Saad 2nd time in attempt to reach trapped forces at Kut Took 1st defensive line but then bogged down

1918 UK PM George said Ottoman provinces including Mesopotamia should have “separate national conditions”

(Musings On Iraq review When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921)

1957 Iraq backed Eisenhower Doctrine to oppose communism in Middle East

1981 Iranian Pres Bani Sadr announced counter attack against Iraq using Basij militia and army

1981 Clergy convinced Ayatollah Khomeini to launch early campaign to try to win back all the lost territory from Iraq Started with Op Hoveyzeh 3 pronged attack 1 front in Hamdiya to break siege of Abadan in south Started bad 2nd front was to reach Susangard next to Maysan 3rd front attacked towards Qasr e-Shirin in central front

1981 Iranian brigade infiltrated Iraqi lines around Geilan Zarb near Qasr e-Shirin in central front

(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982)

(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)

1982 Iran retook Gilan e Gharb but failed to take Naft Shah in central front

(Musings On Iraq interview with author Anthony Tucker-Jones on Iran-Iraq War)

(Musings On Iraq interview with author Tom Cooper on Iran-Iraq War)

(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts)

(Musings On Iraq review The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988)

(Musings On Iraq review Iran-Iraq War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988)

(Musings On Iraq review *The Iran-Iraq Wa

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

(Yes, I know that this sounds very similar to Tom Clancy’s The Division. Yes, I was heavily inspired by The Division)

For some context, in my world, zombies have risen up and taken over much of the world after a Chinese-North Korean biological weapons test goes horribly wrong in 2025. Within a year, half of the world population has been zombified by this virus and few nations have survived.

During what became known as The Collapse, the president, with support from the Speaker of the House and Chief Justice, signed off on Directive 39, activating the Strategic Civil Defense Division/SCDD (commonly referred to as “the Division” (yes, very obvious reference to Tom Clancy’s The Division)), a secret clandestine independent paramilitary government agency like the CIA that operates strictly on American soil in times of great sorrow.

HISTORY

The Strategic Civil Defense Division was originally conceived by President Dwight D. Eisenhower due to his experience during WWII, with the Pearl Harbor being what inspired him as president to form the Strategic Civil Defense Division. The SCDD would finally be officially formed by President John F. Kennedy in early 1962 in anticipation of potential hostile Soviet military actions within the Western Hemisphere that could threaten the American homeland which would necessitate certain citizens with specialized skills to assist local, state, and federal authorities in maintaining order, providing humanitarian aid, etc. while also fighting back against potential armed and hostile parties who may take advantage of such a crisis. SCDD agents would only be activated should a true national catastrophic crisis occur where the authorities and officials at all levels of government are expected to require support.

The very first agents of the Division were recruited from the FBI, CIA, and elite units of the military. The first generation of agents, being only 100-strong, were immediately activated and posted to strategic locations across the country in response to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Over time, the Division would work out the kinks within itself and pass reforms to make itself a better organization, such as expanding and diversifying its target occupations to include the medical field, trade jobs, etc. instead of restricting its target occupations to include those with military and law enforcement experience.

The next time that SCDD agents would be activated was during 9/11 when President George W. Bush ordered

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Mathematical puns makes me number

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.

He lost May

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

Alright folks, after several effort posts based in analyzing the issues around the Harrington Presidency, RFK's fail state and the general lack of flavor for the NPP-Centre as a political faction beyond "welfare and bombs", it has come to pass that several people who are familiar with TNO coding, design and writing have approached me about actually implementing these ideas along with a few others. So with this post on Submod Sunday alongside the initial teaser, I happily announce Who will survive in America, a mod dedicated to the revamp primarily of the NPP-Centre and to a lesser extent the NPP-Left, particularly in its relationship with the Centre.

Put in order from least extreme to most extreme in terms of volume, here are the different features of the submod that we hope to do:

>Additional Flavor Events, Descriptions and more: Mainly focused on defining the Centre as a Labor Party of sorts the heir to Depression Era Populist Parties, Henry Wallace's Progressives and Moderate Socialists. You can find more information on this history here. Aside from stuff specifically relating to the Centre, more event and descriptors around what the United States looks like in TNO compared to OTL will be included, based off both the OTL 1960s, the Great Depression and my estimations of the state of things. This will involve additional flavor events, national spirits, etc. scattered across the United States exploring a world where the leviathan of the West lost World War Two, good context but not an extreme undertaking.

>Relabeling the Republican-Democratic Party factions: This is a bit of an bigger task when compared to the above extra flavor events due to having to go through various files for events, descriptions and the such to make sure its uniform, but beyond that little actual content will be changed. One of the longest running issues with the R-D lore is the identification of the sub-factions as the Republicans being the Liberal Wing and the Democrats as the Conservative. This led to various debates around issues like Republican LBJ, the disappearance of

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

And boy are my arms legs.

Put it on my bill

Administration:

Vice President: John R. Lynch

Secretary of State: Shelby M. Cullom

Secretary of the Treasury: George Walbridge Perkins

Secretary of War: John M. Parker

Attorney General: Charles J. Bonaparte

Secretary of the Navy: Albert J. Beveridge

Secretary of the Interior: Joseph M. Carey

Postmaster General: George L. Wellington

Secretary of Agriculture: Marion Butler

Secretary of Labor: Terence V. Powderly

Secretary of Science and Technology: George Wastinghouse

80 years old, former Secretary of State Shelby M. Cullom maintained no desire for retirement and was reluctantly re-appointed to his former position after a volley of lobbying by friends to President Roosevelt. Nonetheless, James R. Garfield was appointed Assistant Secretary of State and in practice held roughly equivalent powers to those of the octogenarian Cullom. Louisiana Senator John M. Parker was selected to serve as Secretary of War, while 46 year old Progressive businessman George Walbridge Perkins was granted the Treasury portfolio. Joseph M. Carey of Wyoming was appointed Secretary of the Interior, reprising his role from the Houston Administration. Maryland's Charles Joseph Bonaparte was selected to serve as the Administration's Attorney General, while fellow Marylander George L. Wellington was appointed Postmaster General. Albert J. Beveridge, formerly Progressive leader in the United States Senate, was chosen as Secretary of the Navy and granted primary authority over the conflict in Moroland. Having remained loyal to Roosevelt despite overtures from the Watson campaign, Mary Elizabeth Lease had expected appointment as Secretary of State, lowering her expectations to that of Agriculture once Cullom was announced. Yet, while fellow pro-Roosevelt Farmer-Laborite Marion Butler would be given the post, Lease would find herself left without reward, eventually being appointed as Ambassador to Bolivia prior to having her appointment rescinded over concerns regarding her racist statements towards Latin Americans, with her job lowered to that of a Postmaster in Nebraska, which she declined. Terence V. Powderly was granted the post of Secretary of Labor, serving in his fifth Presidential cabinet. With a Department of Science and Technology proposed during the Hearst years, it would finally come into being in April of 1909, with electrical pioneer George Westinghouse selected as the Department's first Secretary.

President Roosevelt's inaugural address would be heralded as

For some context, in my world, zombies have risen up and taken over much of the world after a Chinese-North Korean biological weapons test goes horribly wrong in 2025. Within a year, half of the world population has been zombified by this virus and few nations have survived.

During what became known as The Collapse, the president, with support from the Speaker of the House and Chief Justice, signed off on Directive 39, activating the Strategic Civil Defense Division/SCDD (commonly referred to as “the Division” (yes, very obvious reference to Tom Clancy’s The Division)), a secret clandestine independent paramilitary government agency like the CIA that operates strictly on American soil in times of great sorrow.

HISTORY

The Strategic Civil Defense Division was originally conceived by President Dwight D. Eisenhower due to his experience during WWII, with the Pearl Harbor being what inspired him as president to form the Strategic Civil Defense Division. The SCDD would finally be officially formed by President John F. Kennedy in early 1962 in anticipation of potential hostile Soviet military actions within the Western Hemisphere that could threaten the American homeland which would necessitate certain citizens with specialized skills to assist local, state, and federal authorities in maintaining order, providing humanitarian aid, etc. while also fighting back against potential armed and hostile parties who may take advantage of such a crisis. SCDD agents would only be activated should a true national catastrophic crisis occur where the authorities and officials at all levels of government are expected to require support.

The very first agents of the Division were recruited from the FBI, CIA, and elite units of the military. The first generation of agents, being only 100-strong, were immediately activated and posted to strategic locations across the country in response to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Over time, the Division would work out the kinks within itself and pass reforms to make itself a better organization, such as expanding and diversifying its target occupations to include the medical field, trade jobs, etc. instead of restricting its target occupations to include those with military and law enforcement experience.

The next time that SCDD agents would be activated was during 9/11 when President George W. Bush ordered the immediate activation of SCDD agents throughout the entire country (a first ever) the moment the Twin Towers were hit.