Title. Just in general, make American culture, language and customs even more widespread and common than ITTL.
Why? I don't know, I just was thinking about it one day.
Which is why I said even more than this timeline. But even so, Europe is still quite a bit different than the US if you actually live there and get a feel for it.OTL is a very americanized timeline.
One step toward a more Americanized world could be US annexation of many pacific island countries in the aftermath of WW2. It would not do much, but would be something.
Maybe a union resembling the EU in North America could accomplish this if American nations, primarily in the north but also in the south had joined. American as in the continent from Chile to Canada.
More successful campaigns In europe + Asia, to push the iron curtain farther back than OTL, then embark on a military conflict against the soviets, before 1948, before the soviets have nukes, then have the US expand territorially into Asia, make the phillipines a state and fully integrate them, do this with other potential US colonies, i.e. US indonesia? US borneo, US brunei? After a few decades, eastern asia becomes like Japan and the Phillies, all americanified.
I mean, no interaction between two cultures lets one side get out without any effect. But, if integration occurs smoothly enough, yes American culture is shifted but not that much, and the integrated are, well, integrated. 10 million in one go is a hell of a cultural shift, though. American culture should still be somewhat recognizable, even with new words from other languages and new superficial customs the "American Spirit" as it were should remain intact.Depending on your definition of "Americanized" maybe. But you can't integrate the tens of millions of Filipinos without fundamentally changing American culture.
Oooo sneaky sneaky. I like it.Include protections for US media IP in the provisions of the Marshal Plan to the effect that those who accepted the aid would be unable to set local content quotas until copyright expired. That was what? 50 years at the time? The ol House of Mouse has shown that doesn't mean anything. Anyway, with heaps of cheap US content that only needs to be dubbed we can strangle large chunks of Europe's movie and TV industry in the cradle.
Honestly, I'm surprised that this didn't happen OTL. The US easily could have forced West Germany into accepting that and accepting a highly advantageous free-trade agreement.Include protections for US media IP in the provisions of the Marshal Plan to the effect that those who accepted the aid would be unable to set local content quotas until copyright expired. That was what? 50 years at the time? The ol House of Mouse has shown that doesn't mean anything. Anyway, with heaps of cheap US content that only needs to be dubbed we can strangle large chunks of Europe's movie and TV industry in the cradle.