Recent content by Hawkeye

I think friendship might have been the wrong word to use. Nations don't have friends, they have interests. The USSR acting as a neutral arbiter was the best chance Japanese leadership had at salvaging something at peace negotiations, or at least in their minds. They were probably encouraged by...

Maybe a Syro-Hittite state with links to the old dynasty like Melid or Karkamish could conquer the Syrian region, and from there, the rest of Anatolia and form a new-new Hittite Kingdom?

Wikipedia - "Names of Australia"

PoD: In 1938 the Chilean Nacitas are successful in their coup and placed their preferred presidential candidate General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo in charge of the country and Chile joins the Axis Powers in WW2.

I still don't see Roosevelt entering the war before 1916 because a. it was unpopular, b. Unless the Bull Moose Progressives absolutely sweep in the House and Senate during the 1912 general or 1914 midterms then I don't see who will support pushing a declaration of war through Congress, c. I'm...

I guess that leaves us at an impasse.

I don't agree with this because progressives will just vote for the Democrats if conservative Republicans continue to favor business interests. And I don't see ecological issue as that big a factor that could push the pendulum. A collapse of the progressive wing of the Democratic party is the...

Yesterday I posted a map about the rise of a socialist party in the United States. After getting some feedback from there and other places I concluded that while I'm satisfied with my PoD and events that happen in the USA, I'm not so happy with how I handled the rest of the world. I guess I was...

I didn't say that the US entered WWI earlier. He did have an impact in that he didn't attempt to deny the Entente from issuing war bonds to American investors and never made an attempt at mediation after 1916. But much of the American public, congress, and his Progressive party were firmly...

William Jennings Bryan threatened to run as an independent if free silver wasn’t put into the Democratic platform. Free silver was put into the 1900 Democratic platform by a one-vote margin. In this timeline that vote changes and the Democratic party rifts into two factions. Bryan dies during a...

I've recently been entertaining the idea of a surviving British Empire that has a customs union with Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. I don't know any PoD that could cause this to happen but maybe if there was no Second Sino-Japanese War Churchill could focus everything in Europe and post-war...

I'd prefer to have the specifics of who, when, why, and how, but I'd say that Japan would be poorer than OTL as colonies were usually set up to benefit the metropole at the expense of the colony. Thus, any infrastructure the colonizer sets up will be to facilitate further profits and easier...

I was thinking that China and Iran have better 19th century than they did in OTL, so I don't think Russia expanded any further than it did in real life.

I suppose that's one way to look at it. But I think the same logic could apply to China with the combined strengths of the Yellow River, Mongolia, Tibet, and Manchuria and you could ask why didn't they colonize the world? The answer you'll get is that China already has all the resources it...

I don't have many ideas about anything beyond Europe which is why I abandoned doing a world map. I think the British Empire might be larger than OTL by being unopposed in Africa and might grab the Dutch East Indies. Or, as @Karl der Große mentioned, the UK could try investing in non European...