Re UK deals with India: the latter may have greater confidence in the UK because of the UK's stronger position in the Mediterranean (integration of Malta and Gibraltar) and in the western Indian Ocean (integration of the Seychelles with air and naval presence there).
I agree that integration of the South Atlantic islands into the UK would not have been on the cards in the 1950s, but today? Saint Helena has a commercial airport--a marvel of design and construction. The population of the Falklands is now ten percent from Saint Helena. For years, twice a week...
"Senator Bob Taft" as a possible candidate for Vice President in 1940? If you mean a "Bob Taft" who is an entirely different person from OTL's Bob Taft (and given the name Taft merely because of the timeline designer's penchant for satire), I'm OK with that. Ordinary people can have the same...
Here is how New Zealand currently handles matters with the Chatham Islands (current population 730), originally settled by the Moriori people who were later conquered and enslaved until 1863 by Maoris: "The Chatham Islands are within a single electorate which sends one member to Parliament...
In 1946, France gave French citizenship to the people of Martinique, Guadeloupe and French Guiana, with each becoming a department of France, and they are represented in the French Senate and National Assembly and vote in French elections. Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean is also a department...
Here's an earlier thread about whether Newfoundland could end up as part of the UK. Some of the comments are indirectly pertinent to this thread. https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/britain-retains-newfoundland.524396/
Re Mauritius: you're right. It would have taken an earlier POD that left Britain in much better shape financially after the war. It would also have taken a vision like the French later developed of offering isolated colonies a mixture of home rule, parliamentary representation and generous...
This story gets better and better. I know it's probably too late to think about Mauritius (its later success as a democracy with rising living standards and a relatively corruption free economy could not easily have been predicted), but I can't help thinking what a good long-range UK bomber base...
The most practical target for integration in the 1950s is the South Atlantic region (Falklands, Saint Helena, etc.), which could have been done with a much more lengthy time period for bringing about economic equality. Given the strategic importance of the South Atlantic in the Cold War and the...
Just read this over. I don't deny that there was a threat of fascism in the U.S. in the 1930s. But I don't see Ike going along with it. He would have gone with his friend Patton to the other side, not stayed with Mac. Becoming a general on the side of a fascist insurrection is completely our of...
To make this at all feasible there would have to be a POD that turns LaRouche into a very different person at a very early age and probably with different dna, and with parents who themselves would have different personalities, since they were both disturbed people to put it mildly. He was a...
22000 Kevin, you have here a Scandinavian military alliance (made possible if the British Navy and its carriers can crush the German invasion of Norway and later create a allied military front stretching from Norway to Finland). This depends of course on a weak reed--the French being better...
It's not like Sea Lion, but it would require a major POD, like the death of Stalin, followed by some very complicated follow-ons. It could probably be made plausible but my mind goes blank on that. I can actually see the Soviets under new leadership not attacking Finland at all, and then winning...
For the record, I think that your POD is carefully defined and that others posting here are treating the possibilities in a realistic way. No fantasy of magical "super victories" for either Allies or Axis.
Because of the naval blockade in World War One, and Germany's failure to conquer France, Germany had to adopt an extreme form of total mobilization in the last years of World War One while also avoiding mass starvation. I don't know enough to say if (or to what degree) the neglect of disabled...