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Wouldn't the Brits have sold their Colonies before resorting to a default and then used the money to avoid said default?
 
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  • A Brush with Death: The Lisbon Regicide goes as OTL. This means King Carlos I and Prince Luis are dead, as the Queen and Manuel survived. Manuel becomes King as Manuel II just as OTL. The revolution is still crushed as always by the loyalists.
I'm wondering if I should change the story of Italy after WW1. On one hand, the nation had just lost a war and the prestige of the monarchy, but on the other hand, the King and the conservative establishment would look to the Fascists as their only hope left against the socialists & communists. So this leaves me wondering if I should keep the Italian monarchy around instead of making the country a republic.

What do you guys think? Would it be more plausible?
 
So, I've been reading another AH work recently and they went to quite the length to describe the situation in the Commonwealth nations post-war and into the 30s, right to the start of WW2.
It wasn't pretty. At all. Social unrest, economic hardship, defense budgets cut to the bone... and all this in the aftermath of victory.
This time, there is no victory. For all the losses, for all the suffering, all they have to show is bitter defeat.
How would that show in the days yet to come? What becomes of Canada, of South Africa, of Australia and New Zealand in a world where their proud boys in uniform return home with nothing gained but failure?
 
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So, I've been reading another AH work recently and they went to quite the length to describe the situation in the Commonwealth nations post-war and into the 30s, right to the start of WW2.
It wasn't pretty. At all. Social unrest, economic hardship, defense budgets cut to the bone... and all this in the aftermath of victory.
This time, there is no victory. For all the losses, for all the suffering, all they have to show is bitter defeat.
How would that show in the days yet to come? What becomes of Canada, of South Africa, of Australia and New Zealand in a world where their proud boys uniform return home with nothing gained but failure?
Thing about the UK is that they haven't seen the horrors of war, so they're more likely to double down and find some kind of scapegoat rather than remake the whole damn system like the Russians and French did here
 
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  • A Brush with Death: The Lisbon Regicide goes as OTL. This means King Carlos I and Prince Luis are dead, as the Queen and Manuel survived. Manuel becomes King as Manuel II just as OTL. The revolution is still crushed as always by the loyalists.
I'm wondering if I should change the story of Italy after WW1. On one hand, the nation had just lost a war and the prestige of the monarchy, but on the other hand, the King and the conservative establishment would look to the Fascists as their only hope left against the socialists & communists. So this leaves me wondering if I should keep the Italian monarchy around instead of making the country a republic.

What do you guys think? Would it be more plausible?

Or why not start Italian Civil War and perhaps Italy is divided to pro-CP Venice, Socialist North Italy and conservative/fascist South Italy?

So, I've been reading another AH work recently and they went to quite the length to describe the situation in the Commonwealth nations post-war and into the 30s, right to the start of WW2.
It wasn't pretty. At all. Social unrest, economic hardship, defense budgets cut to the bone... and all this in the aftermath of victory.
This time, there is no victory. For all the losses, for all the suffering, all they have to show is bitter defeat.
How would that show in the days yet to come? What becomes of Canada, of South Africa, of Australia and New Zealand in a world where their proud boys in uniform return home with nothing gained but failure?

In South Africa Afrikaaner nationalists might get power something like twenty years earlier. Boers must be really bittered with Brits ont his point. Brits defeated them on Boer Wars and on second one they used tactics which nowadays would are called as outright war crimes. And now they have fought for glory of British Empire and lost hundred of thousands men for nothing. Them must be really angry for Brits and South African politicians.
 

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So the timeline isn't too different from our world minus Wilhelm II being assassinated and Wilhelm III becoming Kaiser of Germany/German Empire and the Central Powers/Triple Alliance emerging victorious.

So here is what the world of The German Century looks like as of the 1920s:
* Communism is still a major ideology with France and Russia/Soviet Union (minus Belarus, Ukraine and the Baltic states) as the top dogs.
* Fascism still exists and Benito Mussolini is the ruler of Italy/Italian Social Republic who gains power through the exact same way he did in OTL. As far as Fascism in countries outside of Italy, I can see Romania, Greece, Serbia and possibly Britain embrace this ideology.
* Because Germany was victorious in the Great War/World War I, Nazism never exists and Adolf Hitler alongside the other Nazi Party members take entirely different career paths. Likewise, since there is no Nazi Party and thus no Nazi Germany it means the Holocaust will not happen and thus 6 million of 11 million European Jews are never killed.
* Anti-Semitism still exists but without a Nazi Germany and the stab-in-the-back myth it never escalates that much in Europe.
* As the Balfour Declaration and Sykes-Picot Treaty are never written down due to a Central Powers victory, Zionism/Jewish nationalism is hindered by this and thus Israel is unlikely to exist.
* The United States squashes Mexico and takes Baja California. They also gain control of Bahamas, the British Virgin Islands, Turk and Caicos and Bermuda from the United Kingdom.
* Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire survive thanks to the Central Powers victory but there is the possibility they might collapse into various nations given ethnic tensions even before World War I.
* Belgium is replaced by Flanders-Wallonia, a puppet state of Germany.
* Armenia receives an even worse genocide by the Ottoman Empire.
* Britain might be headed for a Weimar Germany-esque situation and potentially even a Nazi Germany-esque dictatorship given what happened in 1920 when a communist Scotland was briefly established and put down by Winston Churchill aka the Butcher of Glasgow similar to how Germany of OTL faced a communist revolution in 1919 which was squashed and later a nationalist revolution the exact same year.
* Germany is the superpower of the world right now behind only the United States. Britain has declined a bit though it is still prominent but not for long while France and Russia have become communist nations.
 
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I would say the US is #1, with the UK #2, and Germany #3 but all are pretty closely bunched together.
If there is even a World War II (if that ever remotely happens), it will be between France, Russia, Britain and a couple of other countries vs Germany and it's allies.
 
Japan word probably invade the countries that threaten its dominance of the Pacific which would be the United States,Great Britain, and France.
 
Japan word probably invade the countries that threaten its dominance of the Pacific which would be the United States,Great Britain, and France.
Depends on who they see is the most vulnerable.
If they didn't go after the French holdings in Indochina while it was under civil war then the Japanese military is incompetent
 
Or why not start Italian Civil War and perhaps Italy is divided to pro-CP Venice, Socialist North Italy and conservative/fascist South Italy?
Nah, that would be too close to Kaiserreich.

If they didn't go after the French holdings in Indochina while it was under civil war then the Japanese military is incompetent
Indochina was transferred to German control. Even if France was in a civil war, the Japanese were still their ally.
 
Algeria is the republic in exil, right? Given that's basically populated by a sizable amount of Frenchmen, I doubt they'd be completely weak
Since the colonies had no industry worth the name - no colony of any nation had at this time - they're going to be hard pressed to produce much of anything. External suppliers are not likely to line up and make offers, too busy with things closer to home.
 
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