Map Challenge

What circumstances would prevail to produce a world looking like this in 2008, with a POD of no earlier than 1920? Would this world be a better or worse place than OTL?

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It all depends. Are the Nazis still in power, albeit with a more sensible Führer?

Lets suppose they aren't. Certainly it is better for Germany, with all its new territories. Japan also seems to be doing quite well, as well as Britain. It looks like GB was more serious to the Malaya uprisings so it directly annexed them. Metropolitan France also looks like it can benefit from the resources of its colonies.

Of course there are some areas where things aren't so nice. Algeria wanted independance, so to keep it the French must be repressing it heavily, along with the Portugese occupation of Angloa and Mozambique. Turkey is also in shambels, and probably under a military dictatorship and is very unstable. The ethnic minorities in the USSR aren't going to be happy either.

I am basically going to answer this one in the classic style of answering a History paper: Yes and No.
 

Valdemar II

Banned
I think Germany are better off, East Europe is also better off, China is better off, but I feel sorry for the indigenous people of Central Asia they've most likely been assimilated (and many of them killed) into Russia. USSR without WWII have Russian majority and have likely adopted China like reform to keep the Party in power.

Overall better but with a few states completely fucked.
 
The USSR hasn't stomped over Central Asia that was their border by the end of the civil war, in fact having not taking any land from Poland or the Baltic states it seems the Soviets haven't moved since 1922 so better for the rest of the world.

Apart from that you have Angola and Algeria still having shit being blown up, I'm not sure sure Malaya would be too pleased at still being a colony when everyone else has independence, still Singapore probably more along the lines of Hong Kong than a police state OTL. Purely for the Brits, holding Kuwait might even keep the petropound instead of the petrodollar which was crucial to America's ecnomic dominance after WWII (that and Europe and Japan had been flattened). If there's no WWII like we know it, Anglo-Kuwaiti Oil would make a pretty penny as cars became widespread in a more affluent world and probably no 1970s oil crisis.

However the Dutch presense in Java, I think that might be the most unlikely, the Indonesians were ready to go to war in the 1960s over Western New Guinea for god sake, just cos it was part of the former Dutch East Indies- they'd definately go to war over Java. Holland would need international support to hold the island though seeing how many colonies remain that might not be that hard.

Also US control of Cuba, i dunno how that would go, although economically it would be better off (probably outshine Las Vegas for Casino-Tourism) but the Cubans would not take occupation and annexation by America post-1920 very well. Then again by now they might be like Puerto Rico, I bit miffed but they understand the advantages.
 
I notice the Turkey has lost the Dardenelles coast to Greece, which lifts Greece's strategic importance.

There must be a reason why in 2008 many smaller OTL post-colonial states are still part of empires.

Since I don't think todays unipolar world is an ideal situation this map may be better than OTL.
 

ninebucks

Banned
Sucks to be India, at that size, its almost certainly a failed state, rife with sectarian, separatist violence.

Sucks to be Tibet, as it looks like the Lamas are still in charge.
 
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