AH Challenge: "Peace On Earth"

I remembered this old cartoon from before WWII that talked of men fighting until they all where dead. So while we most likely couldn't with 1920's/30's technology make our self extinct, make the situation in 1940 similar to the one shown in cartoon (Not the happy furry talking animals, but the wars having killed of great amounts of people)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8OYvHPpGDY

Heres the cartoon
 

wormyguy

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I once bandied about doing a timeline, which would have included a World War II that extends well into 1946 (with the Axis getting nuked many times). The Soviet Union crumbles into a succession crisis and civil war when Stalin suffers a heart attack/is covertly assassinated after a Stalingrad-like defeat in Warsaw in 1944, while the victorious US, exhausted by the war, and finding it impossible to impose order, withdraws their troops from Europe and returns to isolationism. Without any means to stop it, Europe falls into another continent-wide civil war between communists and nationalists, armed with the leftovers from the last war, that totally destroys whatever is left of Europe's infrastructure. The war doesn't have a victor, it simply ceases because the means no longer exist to continue fighting. In the Pacific, Japan has been nuked into the stone age by 1947, while China is in the middle of a civil war between the Nationalists, the Communists, and Japanese collaborators. Many strange diseases and deformed children are noted in the eastern provinces, and large-scale famine grips the land. Africa simply goes to hell. With no foreign entities to pay their debts to the US government and the US banking system, the Depression does not get better, it gets far worse, with most of the remaining banks failing. The federal government goes bankrupt, as do nearly all businesses. With no jobs in the cities, and severe food shortages, people begin large-scale migrations to the countryside, to try their luck at subsistence farming. The last American presidential election is held in 1960, with 3000 voters. People have simply ceased to care. The population of the ruins of New York is about 30000 in the year 1970, Moscow is 40000, London about the same. Outside of the Soviet Union and Britain, there are no cities with a population above 15000 in Europe. Contact with Asia was lost in the 1950s. Humanity hasn't gone extinct, but civilization has totally collapsed, and it may be millennia before it reappears again.
 
I once bandied about doing a timeline, which would have included a World War II that extends well into 1946 (with the Axis getting nuked many times). The Soviet Union crumbles into a succession crisis and civil war when Stalin suffers a heart attack/is covertly assassinated after a Stalingrad-like defeat in Warsaw in 1944, while the victorious US, exhausted by the war, and finding it impossible to impose order, withdraws their troops from Europe and returns to isolationism. Without any means to stop it, Europe falls into another continent-wide civil war between communists and nationalists, armed with the leftovers from the last war, that totally destroys whatever is left of Europe's infrastructure. The war doesn't have a victor, it simply ceases because the means no longer exist to continue fighting. In the Pacific, Japan has been nuked into the stone age by 1947, while China is in the middle of a civil war between the Nationalists, the Communists, and Japanese collaborators. Many strange diseases and deformed children are noted in the eastern provinces, and large-scale famine grips the land. Africa simply goes to hell. With no foreign entities to pay their debts to the US government and the US banking system, the Depression does not get better, it gets far worse, with most of the remaining banks failing. The federal government goes bankrupt, as do nearly all businesses. With no jobs in the cities, and severe food shortages, people begin large-scale migrations to the countryside, to try their luck at subsistence farming. The last American presidential election is held in 1960, with 3000 voters. People have simply ceased to care. The population of the ruins of New York is about 30000 in the year 1970, Moscow is 40000, London about the same. Outside of the Soviet Union and Britain, there are no cities with a population above 15000 in Europe. Contact with Asia was lost in the 1950s. Humanity hasn't gone extinct, but civilization has totally collapsed, and it may be millennia before it reappears again.

Yeah i'd say that 'civilization' as we know it could be ended by a war from this period...but extinction would be harder to pull off...not impossible, but harder.

Not the happy furry talking animals
Aww, but they were so cute :D:p
In a way it would be kinda fun, have like some sort of animal experimentation going on during the 'last war'....kind of a Planet of the Apes thing, and have some creature or creatures capable of taking over with human kind no longer having dominion over the planet...
lol like i said, would be kinda fun...not serious, obviously, but fun none the less....
 
And I suppose all the Latin Americans just decide to spontaneously commit suicide one day? Not to mention the Australians, or the South Africans, or...

It would be a like Turtledove's post-world war three Crosstime traffic novel then. :D
 
I don't think with 30s tech you would be able to wipe out humanity you could kill a good part of it and probably wipe out civilization but not kill everyone
 
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