AH Challenge: One world government by 2009!

RealityX

Banned
With a POD in 1930, and culminating in a February 2009 newspaper article titled 'End of War; End of History?' that declares an end to the 'Tragedy of the Commons' and a new age peace for the citizens of the 'world government.' What are some of the more realistic possibilities of this happening (through the USSR, Third Reich, Japanese Empire, US, British Empire or some other unknown)? What would some of the policies of such a government be like? What would be the implications for the future?
 

TheSevenLeggedFallyDowner

Since small groups are easier to unite than large groups, the easiest way to do this would be to have most of humanity destroyed, and then the remnant unites to form a one-world government. How about at the height of the cold war, something happens to turn it hot. All the nations start taking sides, and before long we've got WW3. Then the Soviets and the Americans go crazy and start nuking everything. After every capital (and thus every government) in the world is gone, the people left (roughly half the population that there was before) unite to prevent something like this from ever happening again.
 

Faeelin

Wait, we don't have it?

Global efforts to coordinate economic policy; the likelihood of war within most of the world fairly small, etc. etc.
 

DTF955Baseballfan

RealityX said:
With a POD in 1930, and culminating in a February 2009 newspaper article titled 'End of War; End of History?' that declares an end to the 'Tragedy of the Commons' and a new age peace for the citizens of the 'world government.' What are some of the more realistic possibilities of this happening (through the USSR, Third Reich, Japanese Empire, US, British Empire or some other unknown)? What would some of the policies of such a government be like? What would be the implications for the future?
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Someone saves Edith Keeler's life. :D (I think they went back to 1930 in "City on the Edge of Forever." Of course, maybe that's where you got the year to begin with.)

Hmmm, who is a world leader who would be willing to give the League of Nations some teeth? Let's say they intervene agaisnt Mussolini in Italy and stop him in Ethiopia, Hitler is killed in 1938, and they also stop Stalin in Finland. The Japan/China war will still happen, but as the League becomes stronger, it's more of a mandate; then the U.S. finally joins in after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

By the '80s or so, you might see the German and Soviet governments topple, if not before for Germany, and they become the last holdouts, as the LoN has basically become the global policemean.

Of course, nations actually giving up sovergnty is a toughie, but maybe it can be sort of like a United States of Earth. So, each country can do things within their borders just like states can int he U.S..
 

Leistungsfähiger Amerikan

Nazis win WWII, conquer Europe, and Japan conquers much of East Asia. America joins the war. Does well against Japan, not so much against Fortress Europe. America gets bomb. German and Japanese cities go up in mushroom clouds. Japan and Germany surrender unconditionally to the Americans. Pax Americana pushes a more Federalized UN. By 2009, it is the de facto world government.
 

boredatwork

Banned
Give me an Evil Harry Truman POD, and I get you a world unified under American Rule by the later 1990's.

Though the nuclear fallout is going to do some odd things to weather (and sunsets, among other things) for quite some time.
 

Superftagn

Don"t go scifi/comicbooky post-apocalyptic with it, but NATO, the UN, and the Soviet Union's sphere of influence could of merged following a nuclear war - with the areas that would traditionally be less influential and rebel not doing so because they were spared the worst of the war.

Or if there had been a socialist revolution in the US in the 30's, after WWII with liberated Europe just a stone's throw from communism anyways it wouldn't be long until Britain fell into sway one way or another (it'd be ironic if the British later ended up being the spearhead of the world government, and not the USSA or the USSR).
 

HARRY

POD-the Smoot-Hawley Tariff act doesn't pass in 1930. A tit for tat tariff war on imported goods is avoided that would heighten the depression. This would let the richer countries work together to fix the financial problems with unified actions. This would be done through the only world wide organisation at the time the League of Nations.

With a stronger League Italy and Japan are forced to back down from their foreign adventures. This tips the balance against the Nazi in Germany and their chance to grab power is missed without the backing of Germany the Spanish Civil war is also avoided.

As the brief fling with fascism fades into the second half of the 20th century the democracies shift towards socialism and the Socialists become more democratic.
 
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