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The effects of Marshall Aid are vastly overrated. Likely most of these countries would continue to stagnate under corrupt tinpot dictatorships and mountains of foreign debt. Brain drain would be a huge issue too. Obviously some countries would come out more harmed than others.

It would be significantly less developed.

I can't see America caring enough about Africa to send actual American troops into a Vietnam-style conflict there. More likely they'd just do what they did IOTL, prop up corrupt, sociopathic puppets and proxy armies.

Can you guys take the homophobia to Chat or something?

The occupation of Far-Eastern Russia was an huge economic investment, taking a massive % of Japan's postwar GDP. It simply wasn't economically feasible, for a nation with a lower GDP than Canada, to hold such a territory indefinitely. Also, for those proposing some sort of settler colonialism...

Great infoboxes. I think you forgot to change "Empire of Japan" to "Madagascar" in the second box though.

Yes. I mean every American party did exactly this, even Socialists. But I think it would be a less salient issue for whites if labor issues were solved earlier. About the same time as Japanese immigration to the mainland --- from the 1890s to the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924...

Larger, but not incredibly larger. Consider that Chinese immigrants were overwhelmingly male and the number of families over here was very low. In addition, many went back to China once they'd made enough money. Chinese were an outsized portion of the workforce, but very small % of the US...

Freedom for Western Sahara!

Little is known about East Germany following the construction of the Greater Anti-Fascist Protective Wall in 1992. Forty meters in height and guarded by armed NVA soldiers, The Wall surrounds the entirety of the country, forming a large ring around the smaller Anti-Fascist Protective Wall that...

Awarded to China by their American allies after the Second Sino-Japanese War, the renamed Liu Chiu Province (琉球省) had few Han Chinese living in it. And, distracted by their civil war on the mainland, the KMT initially treated the Ryukyuans with a light hand. But any hope that the starving...

Awesome work, I love it!

By the 2090s, Brazil's crime epidemic was simply getting out of hand. The death of the Maltese Ambassador during a city-wide shootout in Brasilia was the final straw. Traditional methods of law enforcement, such as smashing the skulls of random favela-dwellers, was no longer working. A...

That's way too many Senators sticking around. IRL there is much higher turnover.

That's fucking horrifying.

Uh....so what happened to California again?

The history of Diego Garcia is long and complex. Or at least that's what the English like to say. In reality, there's nothing complicated about the fact that island nation was home to one of the many acts of ethnic cleansing that occurred throughout the 20th century. The Chagos Islanders, the...

Philippines! <3 What exactly is going on in Papua New Guinea though?

The Italian Empire cobbled together a couple puppet states and pulled out their own forces in a desperate attempt to salvage the situation when it was obvious that they no longer had the support of the Italian public to carry on with the war. But the rest of the world wasn't buying it, aside...

It was one of the last nations to get colonized. And it took one hell of a fight for the Thai people to get their country back. A festering bloodbath in an otherwise quiet corner of the globe, the Italo-Siamese War continues to be one of the most studied conflicts of the 20th century, with...