Last minute dictatorships

so Challenge time boys and.... um girls? any ways the Challenge is this, with the latest POD can you make any of these countries dictatorships:

France
UK
USA
Canada
Italy
Ireland
Israel

most be post-1945, no foreign conquest or nuclear war, super bonus points if you can make it happen in my life time (post-1990)
 
so Challenge time boys and.... um girls? any ways the Challenge is this, with the latest POD can you make any of these countries dictatorships:

France
UK
USA
Canada
Italy
Ireland
Israel

most be post-1945, no foreign conquest or nuclear war, super bonus points if you can make it happen in my life time (post-1990)

I don't know if you are being masochistic or sadistic...;)

France: Right Wing coup following a successful assassination of DeGaulle between 1958 and 1961. Based on Algerian crisis and disaffected military.
 
I don't know if you are being masochistic or sadistic...;)

France: Right Wing coup following a successful assassination of DeGaulle between 1958 and 1961. Based on Algerian crisis and disaffected military.

I'm both, funny story about that :p

on France, well yeah thats the easiest one, come on work harder, come on find a POD where we have Jean-Marie Le Pen win in 2002 which leads to Führer Le Pen! :p
 
France
1961 coup of De Gaulle.

UK
Loses WWI and the 1920s and 30s go to hell. Military steps in to avoid a revolution.

USA
Nuclear war.

Canada
Quebec goes really bad.

Italy
The Communists do a bit too well in some elections.

Ireland
Connected to the UK one.

Israel
In the 2030s, an increasingly religious military takes over the country to destroy the menace of the increasing Israeli Arab population and crush the Fifth Intifada.
 
France
1961 coup of De Gaulle.

UK
Loses WWI and the 1920s and 30s go to hell. Military steps in to avoid a revolution.

USA
Nuclear war.

Canada
Quebec goes really bad.

Italy
The Communists do a bit too well in some elections.

Ireland
Connected to the UK one.

Israel
In the 2030s, an increasingly religious military takes over the country to destroy the menace of the increasing Israeli Arab population and crush the Fifth Intifada.

There is rule that no nuclear war and it must be after 1945. France like other has said after assassination of De Gaulle. In Italy might be succesful communist coup on 1946. Dictatorships in other countries are quiet implausible. Or maybe in USA Joseph McCarhy choice as president but I don't see that very plausible.
 
Wasn't there some-kind of right-winged coup planned in Italy in 1970s or 1980s?

In the 70's. During the "Years of Lead".
An electoral victory by the Italian Communists or a coalition including them might have initiated a response by a Right that included more than just the Neo-Fascists anytime between the late 40's thru the 70's. So, perhaps a dictatorship of the Right out of that.
 
Canada: FLQ crisis escalates dramatically. A peaceful nationalist demonstration in Montreal is crushed violently, causing thousands of otherwise peaceful nationalists into FLQ militants. There are frequent gun battles in Montreal, Ottawa, and Quebec, armed by a secret flow of weapons from the US; Nixon and the CIA don't like Trudeau after all.

After two years of a Quebec insurgency and with Trudeau's inability to resolve the crisis, the 1972 federal election is held (widely boycotted within Quebec) with neither the Liberals or PCs capable of forming any government. While politicians squabble in Ottawa, the FLQ seize the Quebec National Assembly building and proclaim a new Republic, and plead for all Quebec civil servants and police officers to swear loyalty to them.

The Canadian Forces finally make their move declaring that it's lost confidence in Ottawa to maintain order and stability. A "provisional" military council seizes power, suspending the 1960 Bill of Rights and beginning to "restore order" in Quebec; several mutinies among soldiers sent to crush the Quebec Republic force the military council to round up all political subversives across Canada regardless of whether they're related to Quebec. While the council promises to restore democracy and hold elections once the Quebec uprising is crushed, everyone is aware what this in practice means.
 
U.S.
Date of POD: Yesterday.
Events: At the end of the debate, one of the candidate declares himself Dictator for Life (I'll let you decide which one is most likely to do this). On cue, the Secret Service kills everyone in the room except the Dictator and his most trusted lackeys. In the rest of the country, Special Forces teams killing all members of Congress and the judiciary. The Air Force makes preemptive strikes over any country that challenges the Dictator's rights to do this.

Okay, I know he would have to plan this months in advance. But who's to say he hasn't? Dun dun DUNNNNNN!



(There, I was the first to do this, and now everyone else has to give a serious answer.)
 
And now an especially juicy challenge:

Make (West) Germany dictatorial. After 1945, with a lost WWII, without nuclear war.

It must be either West Germany or reunified Germany.
 
There are frequent gun battles in Montreal, Ottawa, and Quebec, armed by a secret flow of weapons from the US; Nixon and the CIA don't like Trudeau after all.

I'm pretty sure the FLQ had a serious socialist bend. They asked to get a free escape to Cuba after all.
 
For Ireland, the only slight chance you could have of a dictatorship might be the onset of the troubles with more than a few POD's, perhaps greater violence in the North which results in the Cabinet ordering Operation Armageddon, at which point the UK promptly shatters and guts the Irish Army.


The combination of these events both undermines the Dail, leaves the Defence Forces Bitter about being slaughtered for political means, breaks the dominate Irish political party and perhaps a resurgence of greater hostility and nationalism in the Irish public.

Other than that the only other POD I could see would be Dev's Constitution in '37, but again that would require at lot of POD's.

It's a big ask either way I think.
 
Hard to do for the US as basically its already a dictatorship of two parties who basically are running the country

Israel - any day - state emergency as Iran attacks with rockets

Ireland - Irish civil war goes differently and MC gets dictatorial powers

Italy - SB goes mad and abolishes all but himself

UK - Loses WWII

France - 1940 Vichy Petain
 
In Israel, Meir Kahane was probably at the peak of his potential influence in the early 1990s, which was right about when he was assassinated in OTL.

At one of his last public appearances, he said that his political party was likely to get ten seats in the upcoming Knesset election.


PODs...

In the 1990s, an intact and mean USSR is very actively giving support to anti-Israel terrorists and the US leader is at best tepid on Cold War confrontation and downright snarky on US-Israel relations. (For example, when terrorists rake an Israeli mall with assault rifles, the president whines about Israelis "lounging in shopping malls" when "acute issues of Palestinian sovereignty are profoundly at stake.")

In the early to mid 1980s, a non-assassinated Anwar Sadat prevails on the Israelis and Jordanians to openly resolve their issues and the West Bank is passed into Jordanian custody. With further chat, Israel and Egypt agree to make the Gaza Strip a semi-autonomous zone with combined UN, Egyptian and Israeli overview with a fledgling local council.

In the late 1980s, a Soviet-supported militant group assassinates the leadership of Jordan and voila nasty nasty pro-terrorist regime is installed.

(To be continued, but you can imagine...)
 
The UK is actually pretty easy, in some ways. Civil Contingency laws mean that it wouldn't be all that hard, in the right circumstances and with a "good enough" reason, for someone to effectively become a dictator. The easiest source of a reason is probably the IRA.
 
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The UK is actually pretty easy, in some ways. Civil Contingency laws mean that it wouldn't be all that hard, in the right circumstances and with a "good enough" reason, for someone to effectively become a dictator. The easiest source of a reason is probably the IRA.

That's harder that you might think. The major IRA support base in the UK was restricted to Northern Ireland (and only parts of that). Northern Ireland was under essential military rule for a time, but the IRA just didn't have the projecting capabilities to cause the same level of violence, at the same scale, over a long enough period of time, necessary for the government to be able to push this into the entire country.

Because seriously, any Prime Minister trying this is going to be automatically subject to an internal revolt of the party and cabinet because of the fact that their supposed to be merely 'First Among Equals', hence why Brown is so badly regarded among the cabinet and Blair treated with a degree of suspicion.
 
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