Hey guys this is a scenario that i have changed slightly that i found on deviantart what do you think of it and how could we make it better, i have ideas how to carry it on to 2013 too...
So anyway here's the timeline, tell me what you think and tell me your ideas
In 1865 the American Civil War came to end with a victory for the Confederacy, this led to the politically messy disintegration of the United States of America over the following decade with in 1880 there being four nations were there had been one in 1860. With the successful creation of the Confederate States of America in 1865 it soon suffered an economic recession as the prices of cotton fell with cheaper competition from India and Argentina. This led to the secession of Texas in 1869 taking with it the Confederate territories of New Mexico and Arizona, later waging war against the Mexican Empire and eventually gaining Sonora. The Mormons of Utah rebelled and formed the Holy Republic of Deseret in 1871, followed by California taking with it the territory of Nevada in 1872. The United States to stop the country disintegrating further passed the States Rights Act in 1875 giving all the states within the union more power, this ended many independence movements in the west, and peace returned to North America as these new nations settled down.
The British remained allies with the Confederate States while had friendly relations with the United States. In 1890 an alliance between Germany and the United States was tried to be formed by Kaiser Wilhelm with the gift of the Statue of Friendship (OTL Statue of Liberty but instead of a torch and book of rights carries a sword and shield), an alliance is formed but ends in 1910 when US isolationist policies are passed, much to the annoyance of Germany who almost goes to war.
In 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated while in Sarajevo this results in the beginning of the Great War between the Central Powers and the Triple Entente and their allies. The CSA sends small economic aid to Britain who it is allies with but it’s not enough to turn the tide of the war, there are some calls in the Confederate Senate to go to war against Germany put the overall feeling was to remain neutral. While the US refused to aid anyone and was neutral throughout the war but secretly send aid to Britain and France (so not to ignite war between itself and Germany after the Crisis of 1910).
Even with this economic help in late 1917 a German offensive reached Paris, and France surrendered ending the Great War, with Britain bringing both sides to the negotiating table. In the Treaty of Versailles France lost territory and colonies, but avoided any truly crippling reparations and managed to keep its army, while Britain lost a few colonies in the Pacific and to allow Ireland independence and to pay war reparations. In the east, German successes were more absolute: Russia collapsed into revolution and German forces pushed far eastwards.
France, feeling it had been sold down the river by its British allies (who gave up very little in the peace treaty and had to pay less reparations), sunk into political turmoil. The Germans made an effort to restore a puppet Tsar to the Russian throne, but fanatical resistance by Red Revolutionaries combined with the possibility of a French stab in the back eventually led them to accept half a loaf in the rump “Grand Duchy of St. Petersburg”, the legitimacy of which was loudly denied by both the Reds and the few surviving members of the Royal Family which had managed to make it to exile in Russian Alaska.
Austria-Hungary eventually collapsed in the 1920s and was partially incorporated into the German Empire with Bohemia coming under personal union, while the Republic of Austria was declared as well as the Kingdom of Hungary under the Hapsburg monarch Emperor Otto I. The French settled under an unpleasant left-authoritarian regime, and began looking for new allies against Germany. While in Russia the communists established their control over the nation and formed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1926, while the Russian royals created the Empire of Alaska from the former colony of Alaska. The Japanese stumbled into China. There was a brief period of détente in the late 30s and 40s and a feeble League of Nations was set up as an international forum based in Geneva, and there was some talk about peacefully resolving the mess in China, but nothing ever came about.
Alas, the political weather turned icy again in the late 40s. Violent protest and resistance against German domination in Eastern Europe brought brutal repression and a sharp turn to the right in German politics. Britain and Japan clashed for influence in Asia, leading to an outbreak of war between the two powers in 1948. The war ended in 1951 with the British Empire proper pushed west of Ceylon. Australia and New Zealand were neutralised and given independence but in 1952 they held a referendum and came under personal union with Britain, while the British were kicked out of India in a wave of violent protests and threats of a continuation of war from Japan. British influence in Asia would disappear for the next forty years. Japan had planned to make the entire Indian peninsula a puppet, but Indian nationalists had ideas of their own they didn’t want to be controlled by another power after being controlled by the British for decades. The Japanese, after short war in 1954 that showed them an outright conquest of India would be a pain, and settled for half a loaf in the form of a Bengali satellite state.
Germany developed the atom bomb in 1951, which provided a great way to intimidate uppity Russians and Frenchmen, which were threatened with incineration of their major cities if they tried to develop their own nuclear arsenals. France as unpleasant as it was, by the 1950s not that serious a worry, with a much weaker economy than Germany and less than 2/5 of its population. No, a new bogeyman had arrived on the global scene with the defeat of Great Britain in the Pacific War: the Japanese Empire, whose defeat of the White Man (in British form) had made German blood boil, and whose snagging of rebellion-torn Dutch Indonesia was a slap of the face of the Netherlands protector. German politicians called for a Crusade in the name of Europeans against the sinister Orientals, who fully reciprocated the heated rhetoric.
That the British should develop a bomb of their own fast enough to make German nuclear blackmail somewhat impractical was no great blow to German confidence, them being fellow Germanics, after all. But the speed at which the Japanese did the same was rather shocking, thus began the atomic Arms Race.
By 1969, both sides had enough bombs to incinerate each other twice over and the missiles to deliver them (missile and rocket technology progressed faster, the first man on the moon a German planted the imperial eagle in the regolith in 1960). The whole wold was increasingly being pressured to take sides, as the world’s superpowers growled at each other from either end of the Russian “buffer”.