The main thing I'm wondering with this thought experiment, is what happens in Quebec during the French Revolutionary Wars, and what happens between Quebec, the USA, and France if the Quasi-War still occurs and turns into a formally declared war between the USA and France?
So for the sake of...
OK, if we're going with a Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that is everything OTL plus only the Baja and nothing more, then this area will have to be discussed in the Gadsden Purchase. Since the US controls most of the Colorado river at this point, what use is holding onto that small area of...
Why does there need to be a Gadsden Purchase? ITTL Baja is part of the treaty, so obviously the negotiator Polk sent down decided to take more than the OTL, but not as much as Polk wanted. Perhaps they asked that the new border is drawn slightly lower like on the 31st parallel from the Gulf to...
Why is it assumed the borders between California and the Baja are the same as OTL? Since the USA took both territories as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe in this new time line, why couldn't they just adjust the borders between these two new states north a little so that San Diedo is in the Baja...
Remember Democrats already had the Senate after Jeffords flipped, so they'd keep control there. I can see them holding on to Minnesota and Missouri, and flipping New Hampshire and maybe picking up Colorado too. The House should swing toward them as well since the gap was so slim, and Republicans...
Sterling hurting his neck was a shame. Imagine Favre having him for 5-6 more seasons, they definitely would have won back to back Super Bowls. If we're doing sports changes, then mine would either be Don Mattingly never hurting his back, or Len Bias not doing cocaine. Having Donnie Baseball...
I'm not sure if that was part of it. I know part of the program was taking "Aryan looking" Slavic children and placing them with German families so they would be Germanized. You may be right, I'll have to look into it.
That's horrifying, but not beyond what the Nazi's were willing to do. Even before getting the technology for harvesting eggs from "Aryan" women, they could engage in a program of using sperm donors from their best soldiers and artificially inseminating a select group Slavic women slaves. If they...
Look at the growth rate in the US during the baby boom. The population grew 18.5% between 1950 and 1960, and that's without mass immigration. Now take away equal rights for women in the decades after that, and ban abortion, and the pill when that becomes available. Then indoctrinate your...
Certain films were allowed if they didn't go against state propaganda. Are you saying there were movie theaters showing banned films, that the average Soviet citizen was able to watch on a regular basis?
Probably because of legalized polygamy. How many men are actually married, and how many...
Which will be heavily censored by the Nazi regime. Do you really think they'll get American movies and TV shows?
It makes it more expensive to have children. Plus most of Saudi Arabia gets welfare from the state. Guys who rely on government handouts aren't as attractive prospects for marriage...
Modern technology like the internet, movies, and TV gives women a clearer view of life in the rest of the world, as to what choices they should have in a modern society, like how many children they can have. Being dependent on oil exports will limit your economy and the types of jobs men can...
Again, women were considered equal in communist countries and were expected to work as well as have children. What would happen in a system where they couldn't do that, and were expected to marry and be a stay at home mother from a young age?
But that's as of 2017. We are talking about 1945-2017 here. Of course the fertility rate will still drop over time, but they'd be starting at a higher rate in the post-war period.