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The Oranienbaum Bridgehead would be eliminated. Tikhvin with its bauxite was one of Hitler's pet obsessions. I would see AGN giving it considerable attention in the spring.

Assume the Battle of Midway was delayed 3 days. What role would Saratoga have played in the battle?

In Operation Unicorn it was the Treaty of Copenhagen.

1918 is not a presidential election year

Epilogue The POD of this TL could easily go in different paths and if someone wants to do that be my guest. My gameplan was to start with medium level divergence fairly localized then ramp things up in the middle of the 12th Century. The big turning point is the conquest of Egypt at a point...

A long time ago I read that during the Spanish American War Spain came close to hammering out a deal with France to use St Pierre and Miquelon as a base from which to refuel Spanish cruisers for a raid off the American coast. This did not materialize. if it had and the US learned about it I...

@Xenophonte Thanks very much for your input and and support As for Showa I estimated that only about 35-40% of its territory that got annexed so it has not been reduced to insignificance. As for Gran Canaria Ngissitikol underestimated the natives. It was a mistake but one that was fairly...

Chernov would try to reunite his party but it would be difficult. In effect it would be a one party coalition government. I could see the Left SR's splitting with some siding with Chernov but others with Lenin.

The Sultan of Mogadishu had promised the king of the Nabhani, Muhammed al-Fallah that he would aid them in their struggle with the Fatimids once he had control of Muscat. He was sincere in his commitment but he was in no great hurry to carry it out much to the chagrin of Muhammed al-Fallah. It...

This is probably going to be the next to last segment of this project.

Yemen, Oman and Showa 1164-1166 Even though they had defeated the Fatimid Yemeni army at Tiwi in the summer of 1162, the leaders of the seaport of Sur remained very worried about the power of the Fatimids who at the time appeared to be running rampant throughout Oman. They were unaware of the...

Lets give this a try Relations between Germany and UK are a notch better than OTL in part because German dreadnought construction is a bit less Curzon is the British PM He is very worried about Russia largely because of recent Great Game Crisis. Relations with USA are considerably worse...

The annexation of New Brunswick is highly likely.

A really wild variant of this war would have the USA under President Hearst become an ally of France and Russia.

The largest copper mine in Europe was at Bor in Serbia not too far over the border. The Central Powers suffered from a shortage of copper. Germany would insist that Austria-Hungary take Bor. As for Montenegro there are good military reasons why Austria-Hungary would annex Mt. Lovcen.