Now this has possibilities, especially in South Florida. We know that Lincoln favoured some form of Grand Apartheid for freedmen as the only viable way that Freedmen could retain their liberties. And we know that Lincoln knew by wars end that the British were unenthusiastic about resettling...
All of the above except that Belgium gets Lorraine instead of German reparations and Mulhausen is returned to Switzerland. In this way, Germany is protected in the West from Franceby a belt of neutral nations.
Why do we buy into the idea that China has to be "Ein Reich"?
There is no more reason why there has to be "one China" in the 1930s than there has to be "one Germany" in the 1930s. Or now. By the logic of One China, Austria and most of Switzerland and Alsace, the Sudetenland, Silesia, Pomerania...
It surprises me that Tonga, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands are not part of this federation as colonies. Also, Hawaii. Queen Liliokalani would have every reason to try to get Hawaii into the Australasian Federation to thwart the American planters that wanted to take over Hawaii and make a US...
The Ottomans can retain their Empire. But besides building railroads, they need to reach the same kind of reciprocal ethnic cleansing "deal" with Russia that they did IOTL in the 1920s with Greece.
To fully damp down the forces of Arab nationalism, the Ottomans need Turks to settle in Mosul...
Any UK intervention is either going to be extremely limited (to states adjacent to Canada that want to join the Canadian Confederation as Provinces) or will have to be massive in order to suppress the civil war. Massive enough to require not only conscription but the recruitment and deployment...
It would have taken
A. Kennedy deciding at the last minute to put down the bubble top on the Presidential limo on Nov. 22, 1963
and
B. The exposure, after Goldwater was nominated, that Kennedy was being kept going despite his Addison's Disease and other ailments, with Dr. Max Jacobson's...
What Japan really needs is what it finally got after 1945, and that is for the West, particularly the United States to realize that Western nations must play by the rules of free and fair trade and not raise tariffs against poorer nations simply because they think they can save the manufacturing...
What Japan NEEDS is unchallenged control over Manchuria and Inner Mongolia (and perhaps a free hand in Kansu and Sinkiang). Japan needs the resources OUTSIDE the Great Wall. Japan does not need the millions of Chinese that it cannot control INSIDE the Great Wall.
If anything, Hungary would federate with Austria, because of pre WWI affinity--and thereby draw Austria , already largely occupied by Russian troops into the Soviet bloc. We would be looking at a larger Soviet bloc anyway. Greco-Yugoslavia (which would include Bulgaria ) would likely be all...
Which is why it might be even more interesting if for this TL, LSD was discovered, say, in 1900 and in Europe. That way, LSD makes it into German culture in time for the Wandervogel (wandering youth) and the Italian youth movement at the end of WWI (which apparently at least looked just like...