Really enjoying this! My only complaint is that it would be nice if the posts weren't in all-italics.
Really enjoying this! My only complaint is that it would be nice if the posts weren't in all-italics.
For me you were not, regardless, like the idea, but hate the spoiler. Would love if somehow the assasination of Roosevelt causes World War I or at least if his assasin would be a certain Leon Czolgosz.
I won't comment on whether Roosevelt dies from an assassin's bullet or from natural causes, or whether he dies in office or out of it.
I wonder what Sun Yat-Sen is doing right now.-Excerpt from Guangxu, Jiang Jieshi, Beijing Books, 1933.
I assume he and Bryan merge into an SI:2 transapient, the Silver Moose, and turn America into the interstellar hyper power it was always meant to be?
I wonder what Sun Yat-Sen is doing right now.
My automatic assumption is he'll survive office just fine then since again, most writers here wouldn't nut up to cutting TR down in his prime, just like how many can't help not make him president most of the time. I can happily buy him always being historically important as an adult, but not that.What I meant to say was that I thought people would immediately know the really important thing that happens. And I was surprised when that didn't happen. It's not the assassination of Roosevelt. I won't comment on whether Roosevelt dies from an assassin's bullet or from natural causes, or whether he dies in office or out of it.
My automatic assumption is he'll survive office just fine then since again, most writers here wouldn't nut up to cutting TR down in his prime, just like how many can't help not make him president most of the time. I can happily buy him always being historically important as an adult, but not that.
But to get out of my nitpicking, I'm very much expecting a lot of growing pain for China given that democracy on a serious level is fairly novel and it's dealing with a nation that's still pretty heavy with corruption. About the best thing out of this bloodbath that happened is that China likely cut a decent chunk of dead wood out of their army due to death toll and civil strife, and have slowly gained some skill in fighting partisans.
You have seemingly completely wrecked the normal timeline; Lenin dead and Russia jumping on the Ottomans (which might save the Turks long term, get them to libralize/modernize sooner and they keep Arabia). Though it sounds like Russia implodes anyways (unsurprising). Will there be a Great War?
With Lenin gone, I wonder how Stalin and Trotsky might develop, perhaps if the Russian Empire collapses or reforms significantly, Stalin or 'Koba' (considering if I remember correctly he never used Stalin until 1912) might join the post-imperial government since in OTL, Stalin supported the Provisional Government until Lenin told him not to.
So, Russia's better off right now, but you did say they'd still face revolution later on, so I can't wait to see what causes that, and what happens afterwards. Especially without Lenin around to guide things.
No Prohibition? Well, guess the mob isn't going to grow as strong ITTL.
Giving Japan a foothold in Central America is an interesting choice.
Er, "a town on China's island"? Which island? I'm pretty sure China has a lot of them.
an event occurred halfway across the world in a town on China’s Hainan island. And it was something the world was not prepared for.
Theodore Roosevelt entered his second term on March 4, 1913. He was only the third Republican to win a second term, the other two being Lincoln and Grant. There were a full four decades in between Grant’s second term and Roosevelt’s. To be fair, the Democratic Party was older yet only three Democrats had made the same achievement (Jackson, Cleveland, and Bryan). Many believed then, and many historians believe now, that Roosevelt was the only thing keeping the Republicans in power at this time in history. Republican leaders looked towards 1916 not with optimism, but anxiety. They knew that Leonard Wood didn’t have the same charisma that Roosevelt did. They began to suggest that he run for a third term.
A Chinese Sarajevo? I really couldn't see this coming.
Also, as I understand the Ottomans still managed to hold onto Macedonia and Albania, while Salonica was ceded to Greece per OTL, right?
Need Charles Evans Hughes.
He's the Attorney General right now, and he isn't going to die any time soon, so he definitely has a political future.