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Hrm it's Sister ship Britannic hit a u-boat laid mine. 'Everyone who died on Titanic died because they weren't in a lifeboat. Everyone who died on Britannic died because they were in a lifeboat (sucked into the still running propellers that were lifted by the ships list).'

Delivered an Ultimatum that was accepted. Technicalities..

No anti-French sympathies ha, just anti Fascist ones & trying to think what it would have taken to fulfill OP's Q.

Oh to see the propaganda posters recalling Trafalgar & Waterloo..

Romania? Hungary? They have their arguments for Poland, Baltic States, Finland. Prescient if barstardous ones.

The Soviets would delight in the irony of payback if they'd done the bleeding on the Eastern front to see the Second front open late & the W/Allies gain much of the European territory only for the W/Allies to do the bleeding in the Pacific leaving the Soviets to grab the goods.

That'd be great. Both are neck & neck, one side gets its Rocket ready, is secretly preparing to launch. The other side isn't quite ready but gets wind of this, launches a hail-mary pass..

There'd still be American invasions in the Middle East. They were negotiating with the Taliban over access to Natural Gas before 9-11. "(Give us the freaking gas, we can give you a) Carpet of Gold or Carpet of Bombs" comment etc. There'd been other events like the USS Cole, previous attempts at...

An argument over something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela_Crisis_of_1902%E2%80%9303 Leading to this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1Fij8xbjRQ Alongside Japanese expansion in the Pacific. Um Nobody? The two greatest democracies in the world clash right after WW1, leading...

British optimism in technology & progress is a little less shaken. Look at the passenger list, at the movers & shakers that went down with the ship. The millionaire business owners etc, try and see what they would have done with their lives if they'd not drowned in the Atlantic.