Arkansas

From Turtledove

Arkansas is state of the United States. It is the 25th state admitted to the Union. It is situated in the Ozark Plateau.

[edit] Arkansas in Southern Victory

Arkansas seceded in 1861, becoming a state of the Confederacy. The northeastern sliver along the Mississippi River was annexed by the United States to Missouri after the Great War.

In 1942, during the Second Great War, a small column of U.S. forces invaded Arkansas from Missouri. The primary purpose was not to capture territory. Rather it was to tie up Confederate forces so they could not reinforce their Pittsburgh Army when General Irving Morrell launched his major flank attacks and encircled the city.

Infamous sailor Roger Kimball was born in Arkansas, as was Burton Mitchel, twelfth President of the Confederate States.

[edit] Arkansas in Worldwar

Arkansas developed into a center of resistance to the Race during the invasion their Conquest Fleet in 1942. The United States Army fired rockets designed by Robert Goddard into Lizard-held U.S.-territory from inside the state. The national capital was relocated to Little Rock, Arkansas after Washington, DC was destroyed by a Lizard atomic bomb.