The aliens, now dying of some mysterious disease, sabotaged their equipment to prevent human use of their technology. Meanwhile, the humans continued to try and destroy each other. The Americans, quickly shifting resources to deal with the new Japanese threat, employed the new Bell Strikers, the first attack helicopter worthy of the name. The Strikers were able to stop the Japanese advance in Washington, Oregon and Idaho in its tracks, though poor weather conditions in Canada meant the invaders enjoyed safety from such aerial assaults for the time being.
In Europe, Hitler’s Kriegsmarine participated in a three-way battle between itself, the Royal Navy, and the Red Navy, ending in a decisive victory for the British. The US Navy defeated the Spanish Armada off Cuba and began shipping their soldiers onto the mainland. In desperation, Hitler turned to a rare piece of captured alien technology, which happened to be a time machine. Here we go again…
A group of SS soldiers was sent back to the 1860s, where they virtually annihilated the Army of the Potomac. The Army of Northern Virginia, its way open, smashed into Washington, D.C. and burned it to the ground, killing Lincoln in the process. Its capital and president thus martyred, the Union was forced to accept a British offer to negotiate a settlement to the war. The Confederates were able to secure West Virginia and Kentucky, the former by military conquest, the latter by the choice of its inhabitants.
Thus disrupted, the timeline unraveled back to about 1863. A large quantity of ruined alien technology was also transported back, in Africa, the main site of alien control, sparking the beginnings of semi-industrial countries. The CSA had succeeded in its attempt to leave the Union and the United States summarily withdrew its troops from the now-separate country. A rapidly industrializing Japan seized Hawaii as a farming colony. And thus the world entered the 1870s…
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