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As I've put my "other" TL on a hiatus, I've started more concrete planning for another TL I've had at the back of my mind for a while. Some questions I'd be interested in getting answers for though:

1) Frederick VIII of Denmark had 2 kids. The eldest went on to become Christian X of Denmark in 1912, but his second son (Carl) became King Haakon of Norway in 1905.

There was a roughly 7-10 days gap between the Norwegian Parliament (after the results of the plebiscite) offering Carl the Norwegian throne and Carl renouncing his rights to the Danish throne, as I understand it.

If the Danish King and his son's Christian's family are all killed (let's say in a palace fire or something), that would make Carl King of both (but separately) Norway and Denmark - or am I missing something? Both countries were running as parliamentary democracies by this point, so would Carl be accepted as King of both countries considering the countries' historically close relations and maybe Carl declaring that he would rule as King of both countries separately and respect each country's sovereignty?

2) The Soviets established a network of client states in eastern Europe which all joined the Warsaw Pact. Why did the Soviets not merge the client states into the Soviet Union? I understand that Stalin wanted a protective buffer against Europe, but I don't understand why such a buffer couldn't be within the Soviet Union which would surely strengthen the Commie power in eastern Europe?

3) What exactly is a DBWI? :) I can't work out an exact definition for it!

That's it for now until I think of some more.... :)
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