Confederate States of America in WWII

MacCaulay

Banned
That movie was just ridiculous. Especially when the CSA invaded and annexed all of Central and South America. The writers were predicting the CSA's future policies based on the extreme views of a small number of individuals living at the time.
I really do wonder what kind of perverse motives drove the people who made that film.

Well, it was a parody. They weren't trying to be realistic, they were trying to show some points about modern American culture.
 
I have never been happy with the premise that the US & CS would be permament Opponents.
I see the US - CS as closer to OTL's US - Mexico, Not the Best-est Friends, but certainly not Enemies..

Depends on whether or not the Confederates go territory-grabbing in Central America and the Caribbean and this leads to another war with the US - that could really sour relationships for a long time.

(OTOH, if the Confederates tried territory-grabbing and got into a fight with the British, it could definitely improve US-Confderate relations...British Empire, bullying out fellow americans - some schadenfreude, no doubt, but also sympathy)

The CS would be one of the US's three biggest trade partners. Canada & Mexico being the other two. Not sure of the Order here.

Not sure the US traded that much with Mexico in, say, 1914: backward place, Mexicans still living who remembered the US-Mexican war...

I see the CS being Neutral in GW 1, while having lots of Volunteers in the US AEF..

Again, depends on how the UK and Confederacy get along post-war: if the UK remains the Confederacy's biggest cotton-buyer, and don't, say, slap down Confederate efforts to grab bits of Latin America and/or Africa, they may be pretty pro-UK: given their lack of attraction as a place to emigrate to, they won't have large numbers of recent German immigrants arguing the German case.

In any event, the Confederacy is _not_ going to come in on the German side: they can't do anything to help Germany directly with the British/French blockade in place, and grabbing, say, Jamaica is just going to piss off the UK and possibly the US to no real effect.

Possibility: in this TL, the *Zimmerman Telegram that brings the US into the war is one sent to the Confederacy, offering German support in regaining West Virginia and perhaps Kentucky (heck, the Confederacy would be a more credible ally than poor "too far from God, too close to the United States" Mexico).

In GW 2, I see the CS joining the Allies along with such as Mexico and Brazil, and sending the same division or two, along with being a supply centre.

Given racist attitudes, they might just join the US not long after *Pearl Harbour, if some such incident occured: asiatics attacking the Americas, threatening White People...

Bruce
 
They wouldint annex all of mexico.Proalby a part of it. and i think they might stay neutral during ww1 but I doint think they would own hawii so no Pearl Harbour. And WW2 would proably end the same way. Also i think the confedrates would be less rastional than the US and start ww3 after the SU unites. Most of the world against slavery.
 
Possibility: in this TL, the *Zimmerman Telegram that brings the US into the war is one sent to the Confederacy, offering German support in regaining West Virginia and perhaps Kentucky (heck, the Confederacy would be a more credible ally than poor "too far from God, too close to the United States" Mexico).

Bruce

Interesting, has anyone ever done a TL or POD? If not, you should.
 
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