The scenario –
POD : US President Woodrow Wilson has a stroke on 2 October 1918 (one year earlier than in OTL) but in this TL it’s fatal.
VP Thomas R Marshall takes over and under pressure from his party announces that the US will not attend the Versailles Peace Conference. Although he declares that US troops will remain in Europe (actually until June 1919) it’s back to an isolation stance for Uncle Sam and no League of Nations. There are different Versailles, St Germain, Trianon, and Sèvres Treaties. Germany descends into chaos, a Communist coup in 1920 leading to Bavaria declaring independence. France, occupying the Saar under the Versailles Treaty for a period of 15 years from 1920, decides to annex that territory in 1923. Russia experiences civil war from 1918 to 1923, then a right wing junta gains power, creating the ‘Confederation of Russian Republics’. Lots more happening as a glance at the 1940 map (below) will show.
In 1924 a group of countries in central Europe, wary of the ‘big powers’ around them, form a grouping aimed at close co-operation etc, the grouping popularly becomes known as ‘Mitropa’. By 1940 this group (from 1939 properly known as the Central European Union) numbers 9 nations and is akin to OTL modern European Union but with stronger military ties.
The challenge –
Design a flag for ‘Mitropa’.
