Although von Lettow-Vorbeck had achieved the near miraculous, Smuts' forces were getting more efficient and Smuts' strategy of starving the Germans out by cutting them off from supplies was working. If the war had gone on and von Lettow-Vorbeck wanted to keep fighting from Portuguese Mozambique...
Depends what you mean by "frenchified"? French owned and controlled, garrisoned by gendarmes and with the tricolore flying in every town square regardless of the demographics still seems French to me. And that would be in 1920, give it another 80 years of French control and population movements...
"It really depends on the neighborhood though"
Of course, every such rating system is based on an average. But going through every county and local school board in the US would make for an incredibly long and boring post.
It wouldn't have to be a one-for-one replacement. The French wouldn't even have to kick all the locals out, they could just declare ownership of whatever land,businesses and mines they liked, or appoint their own administrators. It could end up with a large German minority on the west bank of...
At least it's not Kansas.
The American school system covers a huge range of performance from the very good (mainly in New England) to the absolutely woeful. The school system in California has the worst performance in the US, down near the bottom of the OECD.
I don't think it's as impossible as some other posters claim. Have an even more belligerent France tell Wilson to back off at Versailles, have a similarly more belligerent Britain so determined to crush the German menace that they would back Paris on almost any demand, and have France claim...
Most, if not all, textbooks contain errors, just as any human activity is error prone. When publishers commission a book they do ask individual experts to review it but it doesn't pay much and there's no glory in doing it so they are basically relying upon the goodwill of a few individuals, who...
How is AC/DC synthpop?
Any soundtrack would be influenced by the progress and outcome, just as for the Vietnam War. If it becomes a really big war then the definitive soundtrack might be the percussive rhythm of two rocks being clunked together in a post nuclear wasteland.
Iraq/Afghanistan...
"1) There is a LOT of coastal trade by shipping off the shores of the UK, plus there are the convoy arrival routes, so a load more submarines is going to have a big impact here. It doesn't matter that they can't get into the mid Atlantic"
Sorry but I disagree. I found this from...
"It might have actually stopped all convoys to britain, with the u-boats as well."
I strongly doubt that. Soviet subs in WWII seldom ventured far from the coastline and would be far, far less effective in the Atlantic than Germany's U-boats. And that's even IF Stalin sent 300 subs in...
Textbooks are generally written and proofread by experts, who do you think does it?
Longer school hours would probably help, but you would also need a change in educational culture in American society. Increased funding would be required, more discipline-trained teachers (and to encourage...
True, but I was just trying to think a little outside the standard massed navy response. I'll try again.
To dominate the waves now a superpower needs to be able to
a) protect its own shipping, freedom of movement and trade
b) destroy any enemy fleet and trade and deny the enemy's...
The Soviet Union was indisputably a super power so while USN-type aircraft carriers might be nice they aren't the must have that the POD mentioned. Is China a superpower? If so, you don't need that much of a navy at all.