Best underused pods post-1900?

I'm sorry, I have another long list :p

The McLaughlin family keeps Canada Dry and McLaughlin Motor Car and develops into a giant industrial conglomerate.

Canada isn't excluded from the Sterling area.

Britain is able to maintain a front in Norway.

Rabih az-Zubayr is able to win at Kousséri, afterwards he is able to play the British and French off each other and negotiate his existence as a buffer state. A sahelian Thailand if you will.

Mao kicks the bucket prior to the great leap forward.

The power struggle between Le Duan and Ho Chi Minh escalates to the point of one faction being violently purged.

Shri Lanka/Ceylon remains a Dominion/Commonwealth Realm.

Namibia selects German rather than English as its sole official language (the whole point of the sole official language was to promote unity and national identity, selecting an language which would be unique on the continent theoretically could be better in this regard)

Rather than dumpstering Cybersyn, Pinochet reorients the project towards allowing investors and prospective investors to monitor the productivity of companies. Combine with an electronic trading platform and you have a super neat really innovative proto-web-gen economy (or a total nightmare, depending on how you slice it).

Burundi's monarchy isn't overthrown and succeeds in abolishing the Hutu-Tutsi divide.

The US is too busy laughing at the existence of a "Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist state under a constitutional monarchy" to intervene in Grenada.

Strafexpedition pushes all the way down to Venice.

Lagos Colony is never merged with the rest of Nigeria.

Similar thought: Northern and Southern Nigeria are never merged.
 
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Argentine navy comes out to support the Graf Spey.
Why would the Anglophile Argentine government choose to go to war with the country they traded the most, the same country they (partially) by running a "pay whenever you can and in pounds" scheme before the USA approved Lend Lease? If Argentina gets involved, it's on the British side
 
What if the February 26 Incident was successful?

I'm surprised I see this scenario so little considering it allows for an early Soviet-Japanese War
 
The American secretary of the treasury (I think that was his title?). Not closing the new york stock market in time in July 1914 leading to Europe liquadationg it's American assets and causing a massive crash, creating a lot of ill will between America and the entont.
We've discussed this a bit. Economic PoDs are less popular here.

I wonder how that’s going to effect world war 1 to be honest because if the world economy takes a turn for the worse the soldiers may have more mutinies
The US economy would be severely damaged, to Great Depression levels, with subsequent social problems. No US credit for the Entente if the war lasts into 1917, a US economy much more reliant to Entente orders and resentful. Less US anger at submarine warfare. Little chance of direct US intervention.

Patton not killed in '45. Enters politics - more successful than MacArthur?
Unlikely.
 
In early 1945, just before his death FDR invited Orson Welles to the White House. The reason? To discuss the possibility of Welles running for office. After some talk it was decided that Welles would run for the Senate in his home state of Wisconsin in 1946. Well FDR died and Welles never ran for the Senate for Wisconsin in '46. Who won that race? A Republican named Joe McCarthy. What If Welles had run? Would he have run? If McCarthy lost what would he do? Without McCarthyism damaging the Anti-Communism hearings how would they have shaken out? Would Welles have run for President in '56 or '60? What about the entertainment world? Without some of Welles' later movies would the entertainment world be different?
 
I never got that trope. Many of Israel's founding leaders lived and worked in the US. They all spoke English. Lots of Jews came from the US. The US public was symphateic to Jews after WW2.

Stalin did not like Jews.

Just because the labor party was strong doesn't mean Israel was a step away from communism and a societ ally, no more than when labor was strong in Britain
Israel is in a odd position during the Cold War. You have a lot of Jews from the US and USSR. Both had Jewish people in their governments and many within their populations. Stalin was brutal but he was pretty brutal towards everyone equally. It was usually more about politics and loyalty then ethnicity with Stalin. The only ethnic group he went after more so was usually the Germans. If you have a less brutal or smarter Soviet leader many Jews in Israel might be sympathetic towards the Soviet Union especially if the leader is Jewish in blood. Many Jews supported the communist during the revolution due do how terrible the tsar regime treated them. For all it’s flaws, most Jews preferred Soviet rule over the Tsar and his pogroms. Even when the Soviets committed atrocities it usually wasn’t specifically targeted towards them like the pogroms of the past. The Soviets have the benefit of looking better by comparison to the Jews when it comes to the Tsar and Nazis because of the deep rooted anti-semitism in those two.

Without some of the decisions by Stalin or just without him the Jewish population in Israel could see the USSR much differently. The Soviets liberated the worse of the Nazis camps and suffered much of the same atrocities at their hands. They ended the pogrom of the Tsar and had major Jewish figures in its history. They defeated the Nazis by taking their capital and gave them the harshest punishments. This is going to appeal to some in the Jewish population especially ones from Eastern Europe. The propaganda the Soviets can use is so easy it’s writes itself. It really speaks of Stalin paranoia and his successors failure on how they blew those chances at gaining support in Israel.
 
Israel is in a odd position during the Cold War. You have a lot of Jews from the US and USSR. Both had Jewish people in their governments and many within their populations. Stalin was brutal but he was pretty brutal towards everyone equally. It was usually more about politics and loyalty then ethnicity with Stalin. The only ethnic group he went after more so was usually the Germans. If you have a less brutal or smarter Soviet leader many Jews in Israel might be sympathetic towards the Soviet Union especially if the leader is Jewish in blood. Many Jews supported the communist during the revolution due do how terrible the tsar regime treated them. For all it’s flaws, most Jews preferred Soviet rule over the Tsar and his pogroms. Even when the Soviets committed atrocities it usually wasn’t specifically targeted towards them like the pogroms of the past. The Soviets have the benefit of looking better by comparison to the Jews when it comes to the Tsar and Nazis because of the deep rooted anti-semitism in those two.
Didn't Israel also receive material aid from the USSR durring the 1948 war?
 
Didn't Israel also receive material aid from the USSR durring the 1948 war?
Yes, both the USSR and US supported the creation of Israel and them in that war. Stalin thought Israel would be a socialist state or sympathetic towards the USSR when it was being created due to some of the stuff I mentioned above. The USSR didn’t swing more towards the Arab nations until a bit later. When Israel is created all the Arab nations are either monarchs or under colonial rule so they aren’t really ally options for the USSR. That only leaves them with Israel being a possible ally in the region.
 
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