Slovenia is in Yugoslavia. Shillinger asked me to change that and he changed the map accordingly.
OOC: well, I disagree so far, and I never heard of the reasons that you two based this change upon. Please give me a convincing reason to change my mind or as thread author I'm not going to acknowledge this and Slovenia stays in the Western camp ITTL.
OCC
These are more or less canon
Economically the United States is somewhat poorer than OTL. The sunbelt misses the WWII war industries buildup. There is no GI Bill, nor was the military desegregated in a timely manner. The South is a mess. Civil rights is about at least 50 years behind OTL's. The rough approximation of a civil rights movement flared during the 70's and 80's, but segregation is still a major problem throughout the entire country. There is a black middle class in major urban areas, but little interaction between races.
Japan has collapsed due to civic unrest and imperial over reach in China. When this happened, and what kind of regime emerged in the aftermath is still up in the air. It is larger but presumably much poorer than in OTL.
Decolonization has occurred in a much slower manner, as Europe is less willing to give up its colonies. Views on race are extremely regressive and eugenics has not been discredited.
OCC this is speculation on my part
I imagine both Britain and France are quite conservative states with building colonial resentment. They haven't left their settler colonies, and they presumable hold a heavy hand over their African and Asian commonwealths. I know nothing about the state of India, I imagine it isn't pretty.
Oil is less important primarily due to the Russian Bloc's domination over global supplies. This is also due smaller global demand; suburbanization is stillborn in the united states, japan is much poorer, and trade is still protectionist. Energy wise most of the developed world is power by a combination of coal, nuclear, and hydroelectric power.
OOC: This is mostly correct, except I'd not say that the civil rights movements is 50 years behind OTL. Jim Crow segregation is not going to survive to present day. The PoD may delay its demise by a generation at most, but by the 80s-90s at the latest, the civil rights movements would be victorious (compare with OTL South Africa). So by 2010, the civil rights situation would be more akin to the '80s, but Political Correctness (or stuff like busing) is never going to arise. So yes, social segregation largely endures, but legal one is dead.
As it concerns women equality and sexual liberation, and the rise of the youth as a separate social identity, the POD is not going to change them overmuch, since they happen because of social changes driven by industrialization. It is actually possible that they get more successful and less controversial than OTL, since they don't get entangled with desegregation.
Progress of biological sciences is eventually going to discredit early 20th century racism, but sheer prejudice stays a respectable opinion much longer. Multiculturalism and post-colonial guilt are in all likelihood never going to arise.
Eugenics stays respectable and popular. Over time it most likely gets channeled in the form of widespread popularity and strong legal-social support for prenatal testing and eugenic abortion, although sterilization of the disabled gets used much longer. Eventually it is also going to drive greater development of bioengineering than OTL, which shall promise a less brutal means of dealing with disabilities.
I dont' think postwar trade is going to be that protectionist. The EL is going to unify Western-Central Europe in one federal free trade area, and the USA drop isolationism after the war, taking a foreign policy similar to OTL. So at least as it takes the Western world, there is still going to be much free trade.
As it concerns Japan, I don't think it is going to be that much poorer, since it was a budding industrial power even before the war, and it going to keep Korea and Taiwan. The various foreign policy setbacks and the quagmire in China may drive a revolution by reform-minded young officers akin to Portugal OTL (but less left-wing-oriented, probably with the ideology of a "second Meji restoration" against the Showa imperialists that screwed it out).
In full agreement that Soviet control of Middle Eastern supplies drives North America and Europe (probably by the 60s, when Western Hemisphere oil sources start to be insufficient) to give up oil as a fuel (even it stays an important commodity for the manufacturing of plastics, fertilizers, etc.). Energy is produced by a combination of coal, nuclear, and hydroelectric power, railroads stay the most important means of continental long-range transport, cars (less important because of less development of suburbia) go electric.
I'm more uncertain on what happens re decolonization.