Challenge: Alliance names other than "Entente", "Central Powers", "Allies" and "Axis"

Or the League of Three Emperors (Bund can be translated as league, after all - apparently, Bulgaria was not that important to the makers of that picture).
 

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WW I

Old, sick, withered, & landlocked Confederation

The League of "Yes, we do have money coming out of ears and not a lick of sense to back it up"

"Let's kill millions of innocents over the kid nobody liked" Coalition

"We have one more cousin than you do!" Compact


WW II

Frank & Winnie's Traveling Road Show?

Wolfie & the Pips.

90% of Eurasia, Oceania, and the Western Hemisphere against you three yabbos?

The "We really didn't think this through too well" Trio?
 
Union could work. The European Union could have been an alliance system if a war involving one of them had happened. There could also be a "Union For [ideological point]" or some kind of real-life counterpart of the Union of Maedhros from the Silmarillion, named after its organizer or the place it was organized (Like the Kalmar Union, though that wasn't an alliance).

Something involving "Oath" could also work, though sounds to far out of modern political rhetoric to come up with a post-1900 PoD, especially if you want them to be the good guys, as for some reason politicians in functioning democracies have an aversion to making anything actually sound or look cool.
 
Or the League of Three Emperors (Bund can be translated as league, after all - apparently, Bulgaria was not that important to the makers of that picture).

They updated it apparently.:D (to Vierbund)

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What on earth is that flag over Franz Joseph's head? Not Austrian or Hungarian, or the sometimes merger of Austian and Hungarian flags, from what limited knowledge I have.
 
What on earth is that flag over Franz Joseph's head? Not Austrian or Hungarian, or the sometimes merger of Austian and Hungarian flags, from what limited knowledge I have.

What I think it is the modified version of this, the compromise flag:

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But the artist might be changing the Austrian flag to its pre-compromise version resulting in the picture shown there. (The classic black and yellow flag)
 
During the WWI Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire could have been termed as the Imperial Triangle ( Was Bulgaria that important?) or the Central Triangle. Britain and the allies being on the west as well as east could be called the Circle of Freedom.
In the WWII period Germany and her allies may be termed as the Steel Triangle (Remember the Pact of Steel) or the Fascist Triangle. The Allies could be termed as the Circle of Democracy. The Soviet Union was termed as People's Democracy by themselves.
 
What on earth is that flag over Franz Joseph's head? Not Austrian or Hungarian, or the sometimes merger of Austian and Hungarian flags, from what limited knowledge I have.
Could it be a 'dynastic' flag rather than a 'territorial' one, using armorial colours?


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During the latter half of WW2 the western allies were sometimes referred to colloquially as 'the ABC Powers' (as in 'America, Britain, Canada'.)
 
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