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The premise of this is that Arthur Scargill learns from some of the mistakes of the miners strike and as a result the socialist labour party is a lot less sectarian and more inviting to lefties who have been alienated from the Labour party. As a result the socialist labour party manage to poll...

How possible is a united states of south america consisting all of South america except for Brazil this assuming that colonization of South america goes as per OTL and Spain loses it's colonies in a similar time period as per OTL or is this an impossible thing?

What is without being ASB the harshest treaty that the allies can force Germany to accept

1801 William H Seward stillborn 1867 The U.S senate declines buying Alaska on the basis that it’s worthless Britain decides the same thing Russia instead decides to expand into Alaska to look for things to make it worth holding on to Alaska like gold causing conflict with Britain as Canada...

The great eastern war which happened from 1878-1900 was not a war in the conventional sense but rather a limited form of colonial war between Russia and Great Britain. The fact that at the time Russia was seen as a great, potentially undefeatable enemy was in the press due to numerous reasons...

If someone could tell me how to do tables on this forum it would be appreciated

Winston Churchill was a boor, a thug a womaniser, a member of the old guard, someone who if he and the national Conservatives had succeeded in their coup would have attempted to destroy the working class by his attempted coup in 1930. In short we owe the fact that we live in a, while imperfect...

Commercial rivalry between Britain/ Russia spread to Alaska/Canada when Russia went looking into Alaska and the U.S started to move closer to Russia and joined the alliance along with France partly to discourage British aggression into Alaska.

No its my ( apparently bad) attempt at a timeline with the POD being that William Seward is stillborn and thus Russia does not manage to sell Alaska and instead decides to explore it to try and find gold etc. As a result the great game goes hot with a low intensity war between Britain and Russia...

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The fact that France was forced to accept the blame for the First World War could be seen as unfair and almost amnesiac on Britain’s part given the effect on Britain of the great eastern war with Russia However this was not a decisive war where all the countries on one side had lost but rather a...

this is a really good start I like it... maybe see an earlier war between spain and the U.S

think of chilie under pinochet

Whats the harshest possible treaty of versailles without going into ASB territory

Soviet union and Japan both are interested but neither wants to hieghten tensions between the 2 so they leave well alone and it goes socialist somewhere when it looks like the socialists will win