Since the website is having difficulty uploading a standard sized map, I've uploaded a section of the map for your approval.
The map is set in 1960. Here's a couple of things to set the stage:
Any comments or suggestions are welcome.
The map is set in 1960. Here's a couple of things to set the stage:
- The PoD is that Dr. Carl Weiss, the alleged assassin of Huey Long, has to make an emergency house call, and thus can't make it to the capitol building in Baton Rouge. Long continues to rise in popularity, mounts a third party run in 1936 to derail FDR, and then is elected as president in 1940 as a Democrat. He serves three terms as president, and succeeds in passing most aspects of his Share Our Wealth agenda. Long also maintains a largely isolationist policy, outside of normalizing relations with Japan and its satellite states.
- Results on the continent are largely the same, with Germany invading Poland and initiating World War II. Some early missteps lead to the BEF being utterly annihilated in France, forcing Britain seek for peace. Most of Germany's colonies are returned and put under the administration of the SS. More on that later.
- Germany's war against the Soviet Union is far more successful, with Hitler being able to devote more resources. Hitler's outreach extends to the Ural Mountains as a rump USSR is squeezed between the Nazis and Japanese. However, the Third Reich does not last long after Hitler's death in the mid-fifties due to a civil war caused by the power vacuum. The largely conservative/reactionary military forces succeed in defeating the SS, which is forced to retreat to their last remaining stronghold: German Southwest Africa. The resulting state Neu Deutschland remains as a Nazi, North Korea-esque successor state. Not the nicest place in the world.
- The reactionary junta ruling Germany retreats to Germany-proper with successor states in Poland the Netherlands, Baltics, Russia, and Ukraine struggle to reestablish themselves, with most of them being effective dictatorships.
- Most of Europe is ruled either by outright Fascists (Italy, Croatia, Romania) or reactionaries (Spain, France, Germany), with few democracies still being in place (Scandinavia, England, Scotland, Ireland).
- The end of the war between Britain and Germany gives incentive to anti-colonialist movements, resulting in a far quicker, uglier decline of the British Empire. At the low point, England ends the monarchy and Scotland secedes. The white dominions are all republics.
- During the 1930's, Japan shifts its focus from the Pacific to Russia and Northern China. Japan invades the Soviet Union shortly after Hitler does, accelerating the USSR's decline. Japan is the premier power in Asia, ruling over an effective Pax Iaponica.
- China is divided between the Reorganized Republic of China (North China) and the Republic of China (South China). Both are effective military dictatorships, with the North having a far more glittering facade of prosperity due to greater Japanese "investment."
- The Philippines are independent, thanks to the efforts of President Long.
- The rapid decline of the British Empire leads to the creation of a Jewish state thanks to increased activity from Irgun and others. The regime is more authoritarian than OTL, being more paranoid concerning the dual threats of Arab nationalism and Nazi fanaticism in Neu Deutschland.
- White minority regimes are far more common in Africa. Portugal has integrated its colonies into the nation proper. South Africa is predominately Afrikaner, with anglophone Natal forming its own republic. The Federation of Rhodesia (not shown here) is still ruled by whites. Bechuanaland is an independent kingdom, though closely allied with white dominated nations.
Any comments or suggestions are welcome.
