-Cuba annexed early in 20th century
-US much more aggressive in actual annexation of territories occupied in Latin America in early 20th century, including Dominican Republic, Haiti, Panama, and Nicaragua
-Veracruz and Villa inspire more than a punitive raid into Mexico and our focus remains there instead of Germany for World War I, war between the two countries ends with the US taking Sonora, Chiahuahua, and Baja California
-Britain and France offer land leases in exchange for additional monies from the US with options to buy territory if payments are defaulted or not made
-Europe tears itself apart with both sides on the point of collapse by early 1919 and a negotiated settlement declared. USSR gets off the ground but never unites the country, instead Russia descends into seemingly endless civil war
-Decolonization efforts begin earlier with little success but the intellectual groundwork is laid in the 1920s
-Quebec dreams of separation earlier and begins efforts to seperate from Canada a generation earlier
-US and Japan maintain close ties resulting in further exchange of officers who come to share Yamamoto's assessments of American industrial capacities
-Depression occurs but with less impact in the US leading to somewhat of a faster recovery
-Keisuke Okada dies in the 2-2-6 incident in Japan in 1936 and becomes a martyr favoring peaceful relations with the West, the incident is still crushed but this combined with sentiments in some parts of the Japanese military result in Manchuria being kept with militarism growing much more slowly
-European, Japanese, and American interests play the Chinese warring factions off of one another and eventually recognize 7 distinct nations within China - Tibet, Xijiang, Xibei Ma San, the Republic of China, Communist China, Guangxi, and Yunnan. China remains divided into over half a dozen states (not counting Japanese Manchuria or Taiwan) into the 21st century
-Europe descends again into warfare in 1939-1940 with Communist (European) Russia, Germany, and France/UK all involved. By war's end most of Europe is laid to waste with Russia getting some of the worst of it, though Russia is reunited under the monarchist faction from Asia that turns the tide of the overall war. Ukraine, the Baltic States, Byelorussia, and much of central Asia avoid Russian control in the postwar years
*Technology does not develop nearly as fast, especially as the US mostly works on better models of weapons and uses other developments more towards civilian applications. Much of the war material is built for export and while is does not result in full employment is still enough to offset the lingering effects of a less severe Depression
-Decolonization contiues during the war and US acquires territory and mineral rights in exchange for money and munitions. The independence of India is particularly difficult with the old Raj separating into over a dozen countries, each with their own language and traditions
-US acquires Newfoundland, British Guiana, Jamaica, and British Honduras during this time. It will also make puppets of much of the remainder of the Caribbean and Central America through election manipulation and in some cases outright fraud, but effectively the continent minus Canada is under American control by the last 1950s
-Much of the European intelligencia moves to the US where relative peace and calm are in place, US has approximately 55% of world industry at this point
-Rocket technology from Germany inspires exploration of space with Russia deciding that such a program might unify the country, space race begins in mid 60s with American moon landing in 1982
-Transistors discovered in mid 60s with personal electronics revolution underway by mid-late 70s. Civil rights movement results in notable social changes in the US though the counterculture movement, and as a result much of the alternate medicine / New Age / Environmental movement, is not as strong as OTL without Vietnam as a catalyst. Great Society is introduced but in much less strength resulting in far fewer entitlements.
-Quebec secession movements turn violent resulting in military actions and martial law, inflamming the local populace. British Columbians sympathize following percieved slights over the last 40 years. Quebec will eventually vote to secede but this will be a disaster with the Atlantic provinces joining the US in 1985 following the complete separation of Ottawa from the Atlantic without going through Quebecois waters
-Canada begins negotiations with the US + puppets, Costa Rica, and Mexico for free trade zone, unified currency, and eventual unified passports. The resulting Amero becomes the premier world currency, and by 2012 the continent of North America is unified economically
*Technology equal to OTL 1985 or so, there is no atomic bomb
*China and India remain collections of states and are never unified, if anything they are trending towards even more entrenched separation
*Europe is fragmented though at peace, talk of a more united system is common but differences remain
*US Debt at $1.8 trillion but slowly shrinking, there is no Medicare here and much of the Biotech (and even Telecom) revolution is a generation or two away
*Space program remains active, there was a Mars landing in 2000 here and several nations have space stations in orbit. US has a true colony on the moon while half a dozen other nations have large stations
*Resembles 2001 from the Kubrick movie in 1968 except the Russians are monarchists and the Japanese are a strong 2nd-tier or lower 1st-tier power