Decolonization in Early 1950s WW3

xsampa

Banned
Suppose there is a nuclear WW3 in the early 50s. Given nuclear capacities, thr USSR, the PRC are glassed. W. Europe, Japan and Korea are heavily damaged. After the War, the US is a total hegemon, politically, econo.ically and culturally. since W. Europe has been damaged, will European colonial rule be replaced by American occupation of parts of Africa and Asia because of the need to feed the US, and would there be puppet governments in the former colonies?
 

xsampa

Banned
The need for food would stem from global nuclear winter and the distribution of fallout around the N. Hemisphere.
 
In one nuclear war TL, the results are...mixed for Africa.

Millions of European refugees flee into Southern Africa. This leads to apartheid giving a stronger adrenaline shot.

Many African nations gain independence early, but the economic collapse means these nations are poorer.
 
since W. Europe has been damaged, will European colonial rule be replaced by American occupation of parts of Africa and Asia because of the need to feed the US, and would there be puppet governments in the former colonies?
Soviets don't ICBMs at this point so they can't reach the United States. No need to invade anyone when you have untouched farmland that can feed the whole population.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercontinental_ballistic_missile#Cold_War

Millions of European refugees flee into Southern Africa. This leads to apartheid giving a stronger adrenaline shot.
How? The Nationalist party was opposed to white immigration since it wanted maintain Afrikaaner dominance over South Africa. Afrikaaners made up a bare majority of the white population, bringing in more non-Afrikanners is a detriment to that.
 
Soviets don't ICBMs at this point so they can't reach the United States. No need to invade anyone when you have untouched farmland that can feed the whole population.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercontinental_ballistic_missile#Cold_War


How? The Nationalist party was opposed to white immigration since it wanted maintain Afrikaaner dominance over South Africa. Afrikaaners made up a bare majority of the white population, bringing in more non-Afrikanners is a detriment to that.

This was also when the National Party broadened the definition of "white". Also, Rhodesia could be very welcoming.
 
Are you talking about the honorary white status as that was in the 1970s and 1980s, It didn't consider them to be white but on an equal level. It was not used to encourage mass immigration but rather to encourage wealthy non-whites such as the Japanese to invest in South Africa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorary_whites

"Honorary Whites?"

It shows you just how idiotic and hypocritical white supremacy is.

It seems like a societal version of overprivileged high schoolers forming a club, and excluding people for extremely petty reasons, and welcoming people for really self-serving reasons.
 
Portugal keeps Angola and Mozambique unless the USA pressures them at baionet point to give independence. They have countless europeans to settle there and they probably stay neutral on such war.

Or if Portugal joins the war since it is a member of NATO and get's nuked on the process by the soviets, well, the Portuguese government relocate to Angola and keeps governing from there.
 

Lusitania

Donor
Portugal keeps Angola and Mozambique unless the USA pressures them at baionet point to give independence. They have countless europeans to settle there and they probably stay neutral on such war.

Or if Portugal joins the war since it is a member of NATO and get's nuked on the process by the soviets, well, the Portuguese government relocate to Angola and keeps governing from there.


Regardless if Portugal involved or not substancial number of Portuguese move south of equator. US and Europe two major centers of emigration for Portuguese are fried and last place people want to go.

Thing is in the early years of the end of war the Europeans will move en mass to Southern Hemisphere with French moving to French colonies while British moving to Africa and Australia New Zealand. Plus hundreds of thousand of other Europeans. So places like Zambia and Portuguese colonies be filled up very fast as well as Tanzania. Anywhere people think is safe from the radiation
 
This is the 1950s.. Not a 1980s scenario.
Sure its going to suck. But really.. Not any worse than Ww2. Except it's right after ww2
 
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"Honorary Whites?"

It shows you just how idiotic and hypocritical white supremacy is.

It seems like a societal version of overprivileged high schoolers forming a club, and excluding people for extremely petty reasons, and welcoming people for really self-serving reasons.
Welcome to the world.. Little has changed except words
 
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