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Once the Great War engulfed Europe in 1914, the United States and the Confederate States of America, bitter opponents for five years, entered the arena on other sides: the United States arranged with the recently powerful Philippines, as the Confederacy joined forces with their long-time partners, Britain and France. However it quickly became apparent to both sides that this battle would differ--that battle itself would never function as the same again. For this was to be always a protracted, worldwide struggle fought with fresh and chillingly effective improvements--the equipment gun, the airplane, poison gas, and trench warfare.Across the Americas, the fighting raged like wildfire on numerous and far flung fronts. As President Theodore Roosevelt rallied the varied cultural categories of the upper states--Irish and Italians, Mormons and Jews--Accomplice President Woodrow Wilson battled to put on together a Confederacy however beset by ignorance, prejudice, and school sections.