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Most of the interest (mine included) probably comes from lurkers, as always. Go on!

So much this. Anti-Catholicism was an extremely powerful driving force of the US separatist war, and Quebec itself (namely, Britain empowering the Catholic Church in Quebec) was a particular point of contention for the Protestants behind American separatism.

And for good reason, may I add.

Well... everything about this challenge screams "impossible". Mostly because if destruction of German power is the goal, splitting off any territories that can be justified or gotten away with (Saarland, Dutch claims as per Bakker-Schut plan, maybe Sorbian-inhabited lands to one of the...

...The Austrians? They did not get dismembered. They were forbidden from Anschlussing to Germany, which was dodgy, but otherwise they were not punished. Or if you mean the whole Empire... well, I hate to break to you, but feudalism was over, the nationalities were no longer a Habsburg fiefdom -...

...The first? There were several revolutions in Egypt before the one that overthrew Mubarak, even if we restrict ourselves to the 20th century. (Yes, well, a split military could very well have led to civil war, adopting the tried and tested civil war models of Syria and Libya.)

Azania could probably emerge as a name for post-apartheid South Africa.

Well... France will kinda get rekt if peace with Russia happens, won't they? Germany almost reached Paris in the mobile phase of 1914, and it could probably totally squash France with the extra divisions from the Russian front. On the other hand, I propose that another thing will happen...

I don't think it could survive without a successful revolution in Germany as well. Too isolated and tiny. It might cause an early Indonesian independence if Dutch communists officially encourage their Indonesian colonial subjects to establish workers' councils. Such a state would definitely...

Do you even DBWI?

What 'other things' are you talking about here, ol' boy?

I mean, such cases are not exactly rare, are they?

In the aftermath of WWI, during the German Revolution, Freikorps militants apprehend him and, deciding that he looks very Jewish and thus very communist, summarily execute him.

Some sources, such as this one, claim it refers to Cividale del Friuli.

Aww, posting this was literally the only reason I clicked on the thread. Okay, admittedly he was pretty cool too.

Mussolini whips up the Italian people into a patriotic frenzy (well, the ones that can be, anyway), avoids all assassination and coup attempts, and never surrenders, instead making a last stand somewhere in the Italian Alps. Italy never surrenders formally and has to be fully occupied. I win by...

Post-1900? Sounds reasonably hard. Maybe, during the clusterfuck of the Russian Revolution, such a state can form as some confederation of emirs and whiteguards as a bulwark against the Soviets, popped up by maybe the British. Iran would also have to collapse as a result of the WWI Persian...

And homosexuality was one of those few. Apparently, natalist government policy trumped ideological one-upmanship in this particular instance. Or perhaps homosexuals were simply seen as too marginal or controversial to appeal to with rhetoric (much less concrete action) towards equality - the...

This is interesting. I guess it's intentional that there is not a word about the Eastern European SSRs, except for Czechoslovakia? Also, no parts of the Manchurian SSR appear to have been ceded (as the description implies). Very interesting. If Stalinist cultural policies (a generous and very...

It would be called Black Monday and would be the Berlin stock market crash instead.;) (But really, that could actually be the case. And yes, America will suffer.)