Will we have commercially available computers by the 70s maybe?
Let The Eagle Scream Version 2: Star-Spangled-Boogaloo
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I'm just saying in the novel Julian Comstock the protagonist is a farm boy from Athabaska, there's not really much conversation of how Canada was annexed in the first place, just that Mitteleuropa has been feuding with the US over the Northwest Passage since the ice melted and the oil ran out.
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I loved that book! Surprised no one has tried to explore it more or do their own timeline of it on this sight.I'm just saying in the novel Julian Comstock the protagonist is a farm boy from Athabaska, there's not really much conversation of how Canada was annexed in the first place, just that Mitteleuropa has been feuding with the US over the Northwest Passage since the ice melted and the oil ran out.
That's a distinct possibility! I have parts of the digital revolution planned, and it's going to look very different from our own.
Cool. I'm also calling that touch screen prototypes will be seen in the late 80s and early 90s.
Now that I have a clearer picture of the War, here's an updated list of the next chapters:
The Great British Invasion-Off (possibly in two parts)
Conclusion to the Balkans
Technological/Scientific Advancement in the War
The War in Asia (likely two parter)
The Fall of France
The Final Months and Peace
The Great British Invasion-Off (possibly in two parts)
Conclusion to the Balkans
Technological/Scientific Advancement in the War
The War in Asia (likely two parter)
The Fall of France
The Final Months and Peace
Hmmm shouldn't the British Invasion come after Frances fall? Or is that the British trying to pull off an invasion and failing and ending up TTLs Stalingrad?
If the Stars and Stripes aren't firmly planted on Alpha Centauri by 2020 I'm gonna be VERY disappointed!
The Great British Invasion-Off is Britain invading a few places around the world. Some go better than others.
So Italy is a netural country this time around instead of gemrnay little buddy who evwntly get tiried of being second fiddle and goes out on thier own. After the war will they a be in the german camp,b reamin netural or c end up in the ameircan shpepreFoi et Patrie: France Before the War
A French Vultur Bomber on patrol over the Mediterranean (1937)
France before the Second World War was much more quiet and inwardly focused than her British and Japanese allies. Part of this was sheer practicality: the French weren't in a good position to attack foreigners like the British and Japanese, although they did orchestrate coups. Part of it was also deliberate, as the French were much more focused on building their strength to strike the Germans than they were anything else. Before that was to happen, the house had to be set in order.
Thousands of Communists, Atheists, and dissidents were locked up in camps. Unbeknownst to them, they were sterilized. They were also put to work alongside regular criminals doing dangerous work in mines and menial tasks like street cleaning. Many were even shipped to the colonies. For your Frenchmen in good standing, the Croixist government undertook a policy of industrialization. Cooperating with industry, and driving bargains with neutral countries like Italy, Brazil, and the USSR, France experienced a boom in industrial production of all varieties, but especially in chemicals, consumer goods, and some heavy industries. The French also began eagerly selling raw materials and ammunition to a resource starved Japan, tightening their friendship. This in turn helped the economy recover, and didn't require as much expense as some of the grandiose public works programs seen in Britain, Germany, or America. This economic recovery wasn't purely done to help the people: a law required all new factories to be able to easily convert to wartime production. This enabled French military industry to punch harder than one might anticipate. While still not as powerful as Britain, Germany, the USSR, or America, France was actually quite respectable all things considered. Much of this military industry was devoted to a quiet buildup as opposed to any flashy wars. Humiliating Germany was still the ultimate goal. Further amplifying the military state, all factories were obligated to give their employees a daily hour of "health and wellness time." In reality, this was an hour of military training conducted by grizzled veterans of the previous war. The French essentially made every urban factory worker a militiaman, who could become a full fledged soldier with another dedicated couple of weeks. Farmers obviously didn't participate, but this was replaced with "weekend excursions paid for by the state," and every male French farmer was forced to surrender their Saturdays for hours of training. The French government was determined to militarize society for the coming war.
Although the French didn't unilaterally wage war before the Big One, it would be inaccurate to say they weren't aggressive. The French harassed the Liberian protectorate in the Ivory Coast quite a bit, as well as Liberia proper. More than that, they tightened control over the colonies. Frenchmen displaced by the Germans during an outburst of Francophobia after the Croixist coup were settled in Algeria to increase the White population there. Across the Empire, natives were forced into schools and Paris began the process of assimilation. The government has a stated goal of making the Empire fully Francophone in 40 years. Dissidents were sent into de facto slavery even harsher than the typical native's situation. Even more nefariously, certain ethnic groups would be pushed into rebellion for the purpose of testing new weapons and tactics on them. It was against the Kabyle people of Algeria that French tank doctrine and technology was refined from 1935-1937. In fact, it was on the colonial killing fields that the doctrine of "foudre de guerre" or "lightning war" was developed.
In foreign relations, the French became founding members of the Grand Imperial Alliance, or GIA. More than that, they were by far the most provocative force in Europe. They backed Croixist coups in Spain and Portugal, as well as bankrolling the Croixist inspired dictator of Greece who would come to power in 1939. Belgium and the Tripartite Empire experienced massive Croixist movements bankrolled by Paris, which caused significant enough disruption to become a problem. Even more than that, the Unité de Sécurité Nationale (UDSN) pioneered the kind of spy game shenanigans that would become ubiquitous in the Shadow War. In Latin America, Hispanic nationalists and Catholic extremists received mysterious parcels full of cash and guns, causing some disruptions to American aligned governments. In fact a failed coup attempt in Venezuela was one of the UDSN's few failures. In Africa, spies ferreted out native rebel groups with ruthless efficiency. Arab terrorists gained a suspicious level of knowledge regarding their German masters' troop movements. In Europe, Croixist spies blackmailed, bribed, and honey trapped German officers and scientists with remarkable effectiveness until the Germans cracked down. Although not enough to get the French technological or strategic parity with Germany, it gave them an early advantage in the war. In fact, UDNS shenanigans in Belgium would be the catalyst that would start the next World War.
Maximani Portas, a UDSN agent who would honey trap Germans by posing as a "fair-skinned Hindoo refugee"
An experimental French tank being paraded through the streets
A scene in Colonial Algiers (1936). The city was heavily targeted by Francifying efforts from Paris.
Note to US:the way to getting a conquered people to work with you is not,I repeat not,executing their leadership. That NEVER works. Instead Newcastle should’ve been co opted,perhaps by offering of a job as governor of a state. The same should’ve gone for all other Canadian politicians. No arrests,no trials,no executions. NONE. The INSTANT a country does that it has started down the slippery slope. 
Just because a sentence is rendered doesn't mean it's automatically carried out.Note to US:the way to getting a conquered people to work with you is not,I repeat not,executing their leadership. That NEVER works. Instead Newcastle should’ve been co opted,perhaps by offering of a job as governor of a state. The same should’ve gone for all other Canadian politicians. No arrests,no trials,no executions. NONE. The INSTANT a country does that it has started down the slippery slope.
Hopefully not.....sorry,that’s the kind of thing that rattles me. Like,I’d be okay with executing Hitler and Himmler and Goebbels and Goring,probably Keitel and his ilk as well,because they’re the biggest menaces,but Dick Newcastle wasn’t quite on that level. Reading between the lines he maybe is comparable to someone like Ciano.
More than likely he gets life in prison in a comfy cell.
There might be some commuted sentences and the like. A couple other things to consider:
These parties didn't necessarily all have majority support. London basically bullied the Dominions into having these snap elections to install their leaders. People weren't universally enthusiastic.
Although it's not Hitler level, there's going to be some revelations about what they did to the First Nations that will shock America into re-evaluating their treatment of Native Americans a few decades early.
Finally, these people were directly involved in a military terrorist attack against an American city that killed over 20,000 people. OTL America has done worse over less.
In regards to the bolded part I can envision American propaganda telling Canadians that it was ultimately London's bullying that led to the ultimate dissolution of their nation and the deaths of so many of their beloved sons. To stick the knife in even further, make it look like the UK abandoned them to America's mercy while they invaded Norway and try to redirect some of that anger and resentment. I hope there will be a bit of the carrot and the stick used wherever possible to make it appear that it was their leaders they sought to punish and not the Canadian people.
This is fairly close to what I have planned.
It's all good dude! Shows passion!