I quite agree about French Communists. I remain convinced that people just assume the French Socialists were far more powerful in politics than they were because they like the name 'French Commune'. I'm dubious about it strengthening the doves though, France has shown itself to be a very sore loser since the Franco-Prussian war and a second humiliation to the Germans (and on French soil
again, no less!) will have a not insignificant portion of the population in a frothing rage. Oh sure, they'll get over it, but probably not for another decade and I worry about French reactionaries gaining ground in Paris.
This one I have my doubts about, mostly because of the shorter war and how British banks were still collecting French loans. The great shift of capital across the Atlantic to New York has been severely curtailed in this timeline, so I wouldn't say America would be richer
or more inward looking, since they haven't gained or lost anything in the war (although I'm sure France has taken out loans from New York banks as well as from London). America can remain happy as 'the great neutral' without having had to invest anything and without having lost anything either.
It just dawned on me that the war in the Pacific will have gone entirely differently TTL, with the German East Asia Squadron conducting merchant raiding against French Indochina and Polynesia since neither Britain, Australia, and perhaps most significantly, Japan, aren't in the war at all.
I suspect the colours on the map won't change much after the war, although maybe a few islands in French Polynesia would be part of the settlement to the Germans for use as coaling stations.
@Helmuth48 I don't suppose you have a map of the post-war situation in Africa handy?