AHC: 'Korea' your country

You need to take your current country of residence and create a timeline where it split into two nations, like what happened to Germany, Korea and Vietnam.
 
The best shot for New Zealand is if the 1875 Abolition of Provinces Act never happens, which is pre-1900, so outside this forum's scope.

Basically, the provinces stay in place a bit longer.. then the South Island provinces form some sort of grouping (maybe even a union) in response to what they believe is neglect from North Island-dominated central Government.. which evolves into a separate country.
 
Split the UK without current politics. The 1979 devolution referendum goes through (POD being the failure of the amendment that killed it) and the Scottish Assembly with more limited powers than the OTL Parliament is formed. With this, the wounds of Scotland having "false autonomy" and effectively being a puppet of Westminster open up much earlier, as the powers of the Assembly are much more limited than the electorate expected. The SNP has obtained a 3/4 supermajority in the Assembly by the early 1990s, as they seem to be the only Scottish party opposed to the English policies of gouging the north of the border as much as possible. They negotiate a referendum on independence, and the result is overwhelmingly "yes" (the wounds of Poll Tax and other Thatcherite policy are still keenly felt). From this I could go on to describe how the Republic of Scotland interacts with an rUK whose Parliament has lost one of its main bastions of progressive policy support, but that'd be a TL in itself.

As for splitting Scotland itself, that'd be difficult
 
There is the trope of Soviet Union reaching Paris and the Seine but it's been done too many times. So let's make something original !

After the death of Henri III, assassinated, Henri of Navarre is considered by the protestants as the rightful heir. However, the Archbishop Charles of Rouen is considered by the catholics as the rightful King, since he is the first catholic heir. Charles of Rouen is crowned Charles X in Paris, but is caught by Henri IV the next year, and dies in 1590. Being an archbishop, he has no heir, which leads the catholic succession to François de Montpensier (yes, I've checked), who becomes François III.

He dies two years later, and his son Henri de Montpensier becomes Henri IV the Catholic, opposed to Henri IV the Calvinist. The civil war soons becomes a war between a protestant Southern France and a catholic Northern France. After interventions from all the Great Powers of Europe, the war ends in 1598, with the truce of Nantes. The Kingdom will be split by the Loire and the Rhone, creating the Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of Aquitaine.

And that's how you split France because of Religious wars B)
 
Challenge: Split the Vatican into two globally recognized sovereign states.

Do they both have to hold onto land, or can one of them be like that Sovereign Order Of Knights Of Jerusalem Whatever group?

In any event, Vatican II might be the best prompt for a Vatican seccessionist movement in the 20th Century. Though I have to think that if it had been possible IOTL for one of the right-wing schismatic groups to make themselves into a country, they would have done so.
 
Make Bolsheviks in Russia much stronger so they can effectively supply Finnish Reds during our civil war and stop any German aid to Finnish Whites. Give too Finnish Reds much better military and political leadership and prepare them better to coming war. Perhaps some Finns who served in Germany could leap side of Reds. Then Reds would be strong enough keeping Suth Finland but not strong enough conquer the whole country.
 
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After the second World War, shit hits the fan in Italy after the monarchy/republic referendum is even more closely contested than in OTL; both sides accuse each other of vote rigging, a civil war breaks out, and the peninsula is split in two: a monarchical south that soon becomes a de facto neo-fascist state, and a republican north that falls under the thumb of Moscow and the PCI; South Tyrol is annexed to neutral Austria, while Trieste survives as a neutral microstate sandwiched between capitalist, communist and non aligned powers.
 
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After the second World War, shit hits the fan in Italy after the monarchy/republic referendum is even more closely contested than in OTL; both sides accuse each other of vote rigging, a civil war breaks out, and the peninsula is split in two: a monarchical south that soon becomes a de facto neo-fascist state, and a republican north that falls under the thumb of Moscow and the PCI; South Tyrol is annexed to neutral Austria, while Trieste survives as a neutral microstate sandwiched between capitalist, communist and non aligned powers.

Why South Italy would become fascist only just while after defeating Italy in WW2? It probably would be democratic nation at least not surely any kind of fascist nation.
 
Why South Italy would become fascist only just while after defeating Italy in WW2? It probably would be democratic nation at least not surely any kind of fascist nation.

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There were CIA-backed attempts at a neo-Fascist renaissance in OTL, with a communist northern Italy they'd waste no time in dusting off the fasces.
 
The Confederates push on to DC after winning the First Battle of Manassas and quickly end the Civil War. One could also have New England secede under the Federalists via the Hartford Convention.

China is quite easy: Chiang surrenders Manchuria to the Communists.

Vietnam stays divided if Nixon is elected in 1960 (he is going all in immediately to preserve the South).

South Africa falls to civil war if Mandela dies in prison and the Nationalists refuse concessions. The Boers fight to hold onto a breakaway state.
 
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No manchu invasion. Shun Dynasty sets up North while the Ming retreat and establish their hold on the South. A divided China creates an intense rivalry between the 2 with competition intensifying to the point of both dynasties seeking more foreign trade.
 
Sweden never unifies and instead an independent Götaland and Svealand emerges as seperate countries, both to some degree acting as buffer states to Denmark and Norway.
 
Do they both have to hold onto land, or can one of them be like that Sovereign Order Of Knights Of Jerusalem Whatever group?

In any event, Vatican II might be the best prompt for a Vatican seccessionist movement in the 20th Century. Though I have to think that if it had been possible IOTL for one of the right-wing schismatic groups to make themselves into a country, they would have done so.

Vatican III: Electric Boogaloo - the Pauline faction holds St. Peter's basilica while the Gregorians (papal claimant Cardinal Siri) are based at St. John Lateran.

As far as my country goes, aside from the Great Depression going much worse or WW3 taking place, I can't see the USA splitting in half.
 
Portugal doesn't invade Uruguay during the Argentine independence wars for reasons (idk, they suffer a slave revolt at the time? the war goes better for Argentina so the expect stiff resistance?). As Argentina progresses from independence war to civil war, the bitter commercial rivalry between Uruguay and Buenos Aires ends up with the nascent country splitting into an eastern part composed of Uruguay and OTL eastern Argentina and a another part lead by Buenos Aires and made up with center and south Argentina. The northwest would be a bit of a toss up, I'm not sure the leadership or either country would be too interested in it.
 
By which point the possibility of a Red electoral victory had all but vanished.

Actually, the coup attempt was in November 1970, it was part of the years of lead, which had begun, just, 2 years earlier in late 1968, and, only, ended in mid 1988.
 
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