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The concern was that hemispheric limitations might constitute 'racial' quotas (which they were in practice). Abortion will indeed be have a more solid legal foundation in the US, but I'll hit on it later when I talk about ATL's social conservative movement (which thus far has been marginalized...

Given the US did send small combat expeditionary forces to fight the Bolsheviks before they even concluded the Russian Civil War and experienced its first Red Scare from 1917-1920, it is very unlikely a communist movement in Mexico would be treated kindly (especially given fresh US memories...

1971-1976 Vice President George Romney seemed to have everything go wrong for him in his campaign against Henry “Scoop” Jackson for President. Firstly, Goldwater’s ‘laissez-faire’ tendencies had their inevitable outcome – the commodities market, fueled by increases in global demand and oil...

Don't worry, even if this TL does turn apocalyptic like some of my others it's generally localized to one or two areas. Public transportation is mostly going to be bus initially, since it doesn't require much infrastructure investment, but over time there's going to be things like light rail in...

Warfare and Technology Key to any understanding of the changes in tactics and technology in the Cold War is the events of the Iraqi Civil War and the subsequent Middle Eastern Wars. For the first time, the forces of each superpower clashed directly, using current technology, training, and...

Yes, the idea for De Gaulle was that Chirac is young enough so that the 'old guard' can still influence him behind the scenes. It'll cause some issues later.

If we're going to chalk the Middle Eastern states up as 'anarchy', I have a hard time believing much of Africa is in better condition politically.

1971: Europe’s Dark Year An aging De Gaulle had papered over increasing domestic divides with foreign policy triumphs. His domestic policies had failed to ward off economic stagnation or silence radical agitation. On March 17th, while his plane was returning from a military review...

I'm thinking we'll start to see a lot of isolationist/pacifist candidates running on 3rd party platforms, at least every time an issue with the USSR flares up. Speaking of the USSR, I'm wondering what's happening to the reformists and advocates of detente. Given that we've had two leaders...

Yeah, Indochina is going to turn out to be a bit different, I'll probably address that in the next update. As for American politics, the dynamic is going to be shifted. As you can already see its having some pretty interesting effects on the Democrats as well. Looks like neoconservatism (as we...

1968-1971 The price shocks to the European economy brought on political turmoil. High social and defense spending, combined with the effects of oil price increases, had caused severe inflation, leading to the 1968 election of Edward Heath’s conservative government. Heath promised to take on...

Partial update. It should be... Interesting. 1968-1969: The Mahabad "War" The Presidential elections of 1968 saw Goldwater maintain power. Sympathy votes for Rockefeller weren’t abundant, but VP George Romney helped maintain the faith that moderate Republicanism was not dead. The...

A few of your questions will probably be answered in the next update (which I've started typing up), but as for the rest... The Civil Rights movement is essentially ending up in the same place as it was in 1968 OTL, but its been done in a different way. The Dewey administration exerted more...

Again, events really aren't going to be that similar to OTL. The ATL Cuban government isn't going to be as oppressive, the ATL revolution will not be anywhere near as politically significant or romanticized as OTL's, and Castro won't be able to blame everything on the US, or have major political...

ATL supreme court is about the same on Civil Rights issues, between Dewey and Stevenson. Goldwater could make it REALLY interesting though. The OTL 22nd Amendment doesn't exist, the others do in a pretty similar form. MLK is prominent but with the gradualism of the Dewey and Stevenson...

Look at what I found... 1964-1968 In late 1964, the Soviet Army contingent in Kurdistan clashed with Iraqi conservative forces, and Soviet-trained pilots gave Iraqi socialists the cover they needed to take Baghdad, one of the last holdouts of the conservative factions. Meanwhile, tensions...

Historically, England was able to defeat Afghanistan and ensure it would serve as an effective buffer state against the Russians, helping to check their expansion. So, suppose things go rather worse for the English and they are unable to gain any concessions from the Afghan government. However...

Thanks for the support everyone. Unfortunately, I don't have a full update ready but here are a few trends I wanted to highlight... Though I will say the next update will really bring space into the focus of the TL. [Post-War Trends] [Monetary Unification and Privatization] This was not...

Zaire's actual warships (not counting patrol boats) were imaginary, so they can look however they want them to.

Warning: 56K users will experience immense suffering US of Europe troops on the outskirts of Cairo in 2042, during the Euro-Islamic War.