For All Time AMA

What's happening in India during most of the TL? It doesn't seem to play a large role either way vis a vis the other great powers/alliances.
 
What's happening in India during most of the TL? It doesn't seem to play a large role either way vis a vis the other great powers/alliances.
As far as I recall, very little was said about India. It gains independence during/shortly after World War II, by the 1950s it voluntarily becomes a military regime governed by a "Council of State" due to hostility from its neighbors. By the mid-1980s it becomes under the control of militant Hindu nationalists, who are nuked by Alexander Haig but are strong enough by the '90s to conquer Pakistan. By TTL 2002 there's a Cold War between America and India.
 
I'd call PRI Mexico a fair analogy - albeit with a few more crackdowns on political opponents.
Tibet is (for now) free! And a grim Buddhist theocracy.
re: the Chikatilo loyalists - hey, if we've learned anything from the news, people will stick by their leader in the midst of all sorts of things. The Soviet Civil War is what caused the nuclear taboo in the ATL.
the GOP: By 2016 there's a two-party system in the US again, now that we've had enough time post-Jones/post-Haig. Maybe something kludgy, like economic liberals and social conservatives in the same party, and the reverse...

RER: I'm a actual historian at this point!
 
India: I'll be honest, I didn't know enough about Indian history while writing it to write something good! I'd assume they have an unpleasant Hindu nationalist government that oppresses Muslims and forces cartoonish patriotic displays that, hmm...
 
So, @gentboss, one of my favorite things about For All Time is the way that postwar diplomacy is subtly yet completely turned on its head. There is no Cold War—not only in the sense that there is no nuclear taboo preventing an actual war from breaking out, but in the sense that the world does not get segmented into two opposing power blocs in the aftermath of World War II. Most of the TLs I've seen with an alternate World War II still consider it inevitable that the US and USSR become sworn enemies, while in FAT's 1950s, American-Soviet relations are considerably better than Anglo-American relations! Perhaps my favorite side effect of this lack of a neatly sorted, bipartite world order is that several first world powers form their own "special relationships" with random smaller countries, like Canada with Ethiopia and Norway with Thailand. I didn't even realize this was the case until the third or fourth read-through. Did you consciously design it to be this way, or did this setup sort of come around naturally?
 
What do you think about FAT’s impact on the genre, specifically how it has become the go-to answer for “WI President Wallace?”/do you think that’s fair to Wallace
 
What pushes Feingold into the same party as Buchanan?

President Taft's decision to provide financial aid to Jewish survivors of the Holocaust and refugees from the short-lived State of Israel who immigrate to the USA resulted in the Jewish community becoming Republicans. Note that Golda Meir became a Congresswoman from New York City and was assassinated in the 1970s.
 
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How did the Catholic church fair ITTL? Is it possible to see a list of Pope's?
According to the version I have downloaded:

Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli): March 1939—August 1957
Gregory XVII (Joseph Mindszenty): August 1957—???
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John Paul I (Unknown): Installed by July 1, 1971
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Francis (Unknown—and yes, it's ironic): Installed by 2002
 
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