A lot of social changes that happened in OTL would happen in that TTL anyway. Women getting the right to vote, coming no matter what, save perhaps a one-generation delay. If not in the first half of the 20th century, then certainly by time somebody developed "the pill". That more than anything lead to the "free love" of the 1960s - not to mention a whole plethora of other social changes.
The same goes for television, largely a civilian technology from the start, so that would make social changes of some sort by the 60s pretty much inevitable (of course WW2 interrupted TV's development, so "the 60s" as we know them might have been moved up by a decade.
Quantum physics? Some power-hungry or paranoid nation would develop nuclear bombs within 50 years at most once we found out enough about the atom.
Complete Decolonization. Probably inevitable by 2000 (largely finished by 1970, save a few Portuguese colonies and a few last chunks).
Computers, missiles/rockets, satellites. Also probably inevitable by certainly 1980, if not 1970. At the very most, a one-generation delay, although a new spirit of the times (undoubtedly more optimistic than our own) just might be enough to bring these about more or less on schedule. Similar story for the moon landing.
Computers as we think of them? ENIAC developed during WW2. Maybe a little bit of a delay, but not by much (again, especially in a spirit of optimism scenario).
As for geopolitics - I see Britain and France declining anyway due to loss of unsustainable colonial empires, with Germany, Russia, China, Japan, and the USA rising as the new "big kids". In the end, I have to say it would come down to three major rising players: Germany, Russian Empire, USA), with Japan in a secondary position, along with a declining Britain and France. Japan's plans for Asia pretty makes inevitable any war in the region. China, without Maoism, would still be a sleeping giant. Germany and Russia will probably see a cold war between them, centering on especially Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Meanwhile, the USA would definitely want to carve a sphere of influence for itself in the Pacific and especially Latin America (particularly anything from Columbia and Venezuela northward, and possibly Pacific South America too (to protect the Panama Canal). I don't see the USA getting involved in European Affairs though - unless German starts meddling around in Latin America (even if just the southern part of South America).
Within Europe, Eastern Europe explodes, although German and Russian power might be just sufficient to keep a tight lid on it all, for a relatively orderly transition to national independence for E. European nations, if nothing else. A few probably would be satellites of one or another power regardless.
Internal political developments. Without WW1, I can see Germany eventually adopting some form of democracy by the 1960s. Russia may be a generation or two later, although that assumes the Russian people and government have a drastically different mentality about "the rule of law, not the czar".
The same goes for television, largely a civilian technology from the start, so that would make social changes of some sort by the 60s pretty much inevitable (of course WW2 interrupted TV's development, so "the 60s" as we know them might have been moved up by a decade.
Quantum physics? Some power-hungry or paranoid nation would develop nuclear bombs within 50 years at most once we found out enough about the atom.
Complete Decolonization. Probably inevitable by 2000 (largely finished by 1970, save a few Portuguese colonies and a few last chunks).
Computers, missiles/rockets, satellites. Also probably inevitable by certainly 1980, if not 1970. At the very most, a one-generation delay, although a new spirit of the times (undoubtedly more optimistic than our own) just might be enough to bring these about more or less on schedule. Similar story for the moon landing.
Computers as we think of them? ENIAC developed during WW2. Maybe a little bit of a delay, but not by much (again, especially in a spirit of optimism scenario).
As for geopolitics - I see Britain and France declining anyway due to loss of unsustainable colonial empires, with Germany, Russia, China, Japan, and the USA rising as the new "big kids". In the end, I have to say it would come down to three major rising players: Germany, Russian Empire, USA), with Japan in a secondary position, along with a declining Britain and France. Japan's plans for Asia pretty makes inevitable any war in the region. China, without Maoism, would still be a sleeping giant. Germany and Russia will probably see a cold war between them, centering on especially Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Meanwhile, the USA would definitely want to carve a sphere of influence for itself in the Pacific and especially Latin America (particularly anything from Columbia and Venezuela northward, and possibly Pacific South America too (to protect the Panama Canal). I don't see the USA getting involved in European Affairs though - unless German starts meddling around in Latin America (even if just the southern part of South America).
Within Europe, Eastern Europe explodes, although German and Russian power might be just sufficient to keep a tight lid on it all, for a relatively orderly transition to national independence for E. European nations, if nothing else. A few probably would be satellites of one or another power regardless.
Internal political developments. Without WW1, I can see Germany eventually adopting some form of democracy by the 1960s. Russia may be a generation or two later, although that assumes the Russian people and government have a drastically different mentality about "the rule of law, not the czar".
