AHC: Make two nations that have a rivalry in OTL have friendly relations in TTL.

Kaze

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France and England. For centuries they were rivals and enemies. All it took was one World War to turn them into friends.
 
France and England. For centuries they were rivals and enemies. All it took was one World War to turn them into friends.
Eh, it wasn't that sudden a shift. France and Britain were warming up to each other leading into the Great War. The Entente Cordiale was signed in 1904, both Britain and France resolved not to come to blows despite their alliances with Japan and Russia respectively, and generally their relations weren't quite as hostile following Napoleon I's second deposition (the closest they came was the Fashoda Incident in the entire century), with some level of cooperation concerning foreign affairs (the first intervention in Mexico, the Crimean War) especially with Napoleon III (pro-British as he was) in charge. They were no longer rivals by the start of the 20th century. Friends, well, that's maybe later, but the whole rivalry was over by 1904.
 
Venezuela joins the Axis in Ww2, America lands, takes it over in months. Install friendly leadership. Shows people atrocities done by former Fascist government. America supports Venezuelan economy. Become allies.
Is that ASB?
 
Venezuela joins the Axis in Ww2, America lands, takes it over in months. Install friendly leadership. Shows people atrocities done by former Fascist government. America supports Venezuelan economy. Become allies.
Is that ASB?

Venezuela joining the Axis? Yes. It would never have done anything that suicidal (it was nominally neutral for most of the war but really favored the Allies). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela_during_World_War_II

OTOH, good relations with the US were certainly possible if Chavez had never come to power--if, say, he had been killed in one of the 1992 coup attempts.
 
Here's a pretty simple one: the Chinese communists get defeated. This means that America views China as a bulwark against communism in Asia, and so relations are much friendlier.
 
Here's a pretty simple one: the Chinese communists get defeated. This means that America views China as a bulwark against communism in Asia, and so relations are much friendlier.
So, even if China should economically surpass the U.S. , they'd still be friendly?
 
Ok I'll copy myself from an earlier thread.

Lets begin with the Greek parliamenary election of 1933 and George Kondylis reconciling with Venizelos. This shifts about 4.2% of the vote from the royalists to the republicans, just enough to turn a close victory of the former to easy victory of the latter. This has certain positive effects for Greece. The country avoids the instability of 1933-36 which almost led to civil war and did bring restoration and a royal dictactorship under Metaxas. Come 1940 it is still a republic and thanks to having 3 more years preparing and avoiding the purges of republican officers is militarily notably stronger and less internally divided. When Mussolini attacks the Greeks mobilize 600,000 men instead of 450,000 and push back the Italians even harder than OTL. When the Germans intervene the Greeks with more troops to start with and without Papagos in command have shifted significant troops on the Olympus line. The Germans still win but it's slower and harder. By the end of it the allies are still holding Crete and the Eastern Aegean islands while tens of thousands of Greek troops have escaped from the mainland along the British.

Fast forward to 1946. Greece had a relatively better war. No civil war between the resistance organizations, thanks to the continuation of the republic in 1935 and the Greek government in Crete. EAM is still signficant but republican organisations were even more so. And the Greek army in exile has gained a lot of PR from fighting in North Africa and Italy. Without the civil war as an excuse the Foreign Office proposal for union of Cyprus with Greece takes place in 1946. Before that turns a major issue in the 1950s. By 1952 when both Greece and Turkey join NATO they are friendly to each other, have a fair bit more goodwill, the East Aegean islands were being supplied through Anatolia during the war, and Cyprus has ceased being a problem before even occuring.

It goes uphill from there. The September pogroms against the Constantinopolitan Greeks never happen and Greco-Turkish relations keep improving with every passing year, with increasing trade and investment between the two countries and a common enemy in the Soviet Union and her satellites. The Turkish army without Cyprus and tension with Greece is relativey less influential within the country. Greece joins EEC in 1973, backing Turkish entry afterwards (similar to what the two countries had done when they tried to join NATO) and by 1980 there is a free trade agreement betwen Greece and Turkey and joint arms procurement and production. By the turn of the new century Greece and Turkey are no different than France and Germany. Talks for a loose federation within the EU which Turkey joined in 2004 are underway though not expected to end anytime soon...
 
Cheating as these no longer exist but:
Nazi Germany and USSR. Just have Strasserism take power instead.

"...it is a serious error IMO to regard him as pro-Soviet. He emphasized that for "we National Socialists ... the struggle against Marxism in its every form is a sacred task" and that there had to be no suspicion that "we sympathise with the Marxist Soviet Republic and its Jewish leadership." https://books.google.com/books?id=8Y-QBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA42 He did for a while think that despite their ideological differences Germany and Soviet Russia had some common interests as oppressed nations, but by 1926 he dropped this and accepted Hitler's idea of an alliance with Britain and Italy." https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...alliance-impact-on-wwii.435969/#post-16456323
 
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