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  1. More Ideologically (or other alignment) Divided Countries

    Interesting. I had to look it up. So the split was colonial but South Yemen became an officially communist state. North Yemen has a civil war in which republican forces won over a monarchy. Though the republican forces were supported by the Soviets against the Egyptians and UK in a proxy...

  2. More Ideologically (or other alignment) Divided Countries

    Perhaps the VietMinh in this timeline could not necessarily need Communism to get support but rely on an in-general anti-colonialist movement. To not piss off the ROC, the US could turn a blind eye or at least officially condemn support without doing anything about it, though that could cause...

  3. More Ideologically (or other alignment) Divided Countries

    One of the interesting things about the Cold War was the various ideologically split countries that occurred then such as West/East Germany, North/South Korea, North/South Vietnam, Communist China and Taiwan, and to a relatively not as well known extent of North/South Yemen. Both claimed to...

  4. Guatemala retains Chiapas

    Your comment belies your intent of wanting a Mayan state with Zapatista ideology. That wouldn't exist in this timeline. This new Chiapas-Guatemala would most likely not be richer per capita unless it's ATL gives it long term stability with no coups/civil wars and rule of law that will allow...

  5. Guatemala retains Chiapas

    Chiapas was never part of Guatemala, except for the Los Altos region you mentioned above. It was a separate part of the Captaincy General of Guatemala upon independence from Spain. When Central America decided to become independence from Mexico and try their brief federal experiement, Chiapas...

  6. AHC: Soviet Union creates a new religion

    They tried to take over Orthodoxy from within by a movement known as the Living Church. Whether it was to try to weaken the church in general by promoting a schism or to try to make a communist church is still unknown for sure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Church Interestingly, as an...

  7. TL-191: What Should Blaine Have Done?

    If we accept the premise that Blaine would not have anticipated that the French and British would intervene in the war, and that he assumed that the US advantage in men and material would eventually prevail over a steep learning curve against the CSA, what could he have done differently during...

  8. TL-191: What Should Blaine Have Done?

    If I remember correctly, upon the start of hostilities the CSA started shelling Washington DC. The German attache notes that it looked like DC was completely unprepared for it despite the US starting the war. He sees the CSA artillery hit the War Department building and wryly wonders if the...

  9. TL-191: What Should Blaine Have Done?

    It has been a while since I read the book, but I remember most of the characters in the book early on saying that it was incredibly foolish for the US to declare war and chalked it up to hubris on Blaine's part. Blaine may not have anticipated that the French and British would do more than...

  10. TL-191: What Should Blaine Have Done?

    It seemed to me that in order to get a decent series of books out, Turtledove had to force Blaine to be so foolish as to provoke the Second Mexican War without being prepared for it. The book kind of handwaves it as it is an example of Blaine being rash and foolhardy. What would a smarter...

  11. Is there any way to save the Federal Republic of Central America?

    It is really hard to find any detailed history of Central America anywhere. I got interested in this because my wife is from Honduras. The problem is that it always has been essentially a backwater and relatively ignored except for bananas, stopping Communism, and the Panama Canal (and Panama...

  12. AHC: Keep the UPCA from collapsing

    Brief History of Federation and Collapse To get the UPCA to survive much longer is very challenging indeed, but not quite impossible. There are several promising PODs that could have happened that could have increased the chances of it surviving longer, but nothing is guaranteed. The lack...
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