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I have improved upon this map somewhat. I've nixed the Halfling idea, as I realised it didn't really work considering the world I am building. No key this time because I do intend on making further improvements as I think up new lore, but hopefully someone can help me with a couple of points; the wall of mountains in the east is a fixture of this world that I don't intend on removing, but I do wonder if it should be larger? I.e. extend to the east far more (a bit like the Himalayas/Tibetan Plateau). I am woefully ignorant of geology and plate tectonics and such so I don't exactly know what is reasonable. In one initial idea they were supposed to be the equivalent of the Urals but over time I ended up placing them farther and farther west so a real-world equivalent might be a mountain range separating Finland/Poland/Balkans from Russia.

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I have improved upon this map somewhat. I've nixed the Halfling idea, as I realised it didn't really work considering the world I am building. No key this time because I do intend on making further improvements as I think up new lore, but hopefully someone can help me with a couple of points; the wall of mountains in the east is a fixture of this world that I don't intend on removing, but I do wonder if it should be larger? I.e. extend to the east far more (a bit like the Himalayas/Tibetan Plateau). I am woefully ignorant of geology and plate tectonics and such so I don't exactly know what is reasonable. In one initial idea they were supposed to be the equivalent of the Urals but over time I ended up placing them farther and farther west so a real-world equivalent might be a mountain range separating Finland/Poland/Balkans from Russia.

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This is pretty cool looking fantasy map. Something you have to take into account is the wind direction, because if you make a mountain range that big it would leave a large rain shadow
 
This is pretty cool looking fantasy map. Something you have to take into account is the wind direction, because if you make a mountain range that big it would leave a large rain shadow

I'm picturing the rain shadow more affecting the east than the west. Conceptually the world isn't hugely different from ours.

Edit: To clarify, this is supposed to be a mirror of Europe; so the Prime Meridian would run through the green island country (which was called Dirawen, and is now called Avendir), or perhaps through the sea to the west of it. I'm not creative/knowledgeable enough to make something completely alien (I love worldbuilding, but I find meteorology, climatology, geology, and so on extremely difficult to get my head around at times). In broad strokes I would hope most of this region is rather temperate, but considerably drier on the other side of those mountains (the lore here is that an Orcish realm has expanded to that point, a la the Mongols, but with different priorities).
 
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My attempt at proposing a division of Bosnia into three entities, using settlements with 500+ inhabitants in 1991 as base and adding the other settlements to the nearest ones.
 
Fear Itself
Our Darkest Hour


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"We have only to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down."
- Adolph Hitler, describing the Soviet Union, and John F. Kennedy, describing the Third Reich

"I am become death."
-Robert Oppenheimer, Head of the Manhattan Project

"The free men of the world are marching together to victory."
- Omar Bradley, Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces

"This is our brightest hour. This is where we show the world what humanity truly stands for. No more war. No more death. No more Nazis."
-George S. Patton, American General during Operation Nemesis

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Almost one hundred years apart, two men followed nigh identical paths on the quest for European and global domination. Both were young soldiers who turned to politics to unify their shattered homelands and embark on a journey of radicalism and conquest. Their empowered nations' tendrils snaked across the Old World through alliances and wars, amassing tribute and territory. They both even invaded Russia in the winter. Just one major detail set these two modern Caesars apart: Napoleon Bonaparte lost. Adolph Hitler won.

Adolph Hitler's long climb to the top in Germany was the end result of over a decade's worth of humiliation leveled towards the chief loser of the Firsr World War. As the nation collapsed under the weight of debt and economic strife, Hitler's National Socialist Party--the Nazis--promised they could make everything better once again. The German people listened. What followed was the most meteoric rise of a country in modern history. In just seven years, Hitler and his autocratic policies rebuilt the German economy, reformed the armed forces, remilitarized the Rhineland, annexed the Sudetenland, anschlussed Austria, rekindled the flame of nationalism, and pinned all of Germany's problems on a scapegoat--the Jews, whom Hitler claimed had conspired against Germany and engineered its downfall. These statements were, of course, absurd, but the Germans did not care. Anti-semitic rhetoric and racist propaganda had installed an artificial caste system of ethnic and cultural divisions in the country. So began Hitler's unholy crusade against those he deemed "inferior" to the "Aryan paradigm." On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany took one step too far. With their invasion of Poland, the British and French could no longer merely watch Hitler stampede over Europe uninterrupted. They soon declared war.

They wouldn't last a year.

By late May of 1940, the Anglo-French foothold in Europe had been pushed back into a small pocket around the coastal city of Dunkirk. Try as they might, the bold British plan of Operation Dynamo--the evacuation of Allied troops from the beaches and harbors--could not be put into effect when the Germans refused to halt their advance and captured the armies on June 1. Lord Halifax, the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, was forced to accept an utterly humiliating white peace with the Nazis, ending the Western War. Halifax was swiftly replaced by Winston Churchill, who, despite being aggressively anti-Hitler and delivering dozens of impassioned speeches about British temerity and indomitable spirit, could not convince the government or the people to fight Hitler's war machine again. Europe was lost, and there was no salvaging it, but at least the Empire would remain intact.

With Britain out of the game, the Axis Powers could continue their wars without fear of invasion from the West. Preparations began in Berlin for the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa, which continued smoothly until Italy launched its invasion of Greece at the end of the year, kicking off the Third Balkan War. The Italians had, in the years prior, invaded and annexed Ethiopia and Albania, both conflicts that had gone well. But the invasion of Greece went badly. Really badly. Italy became an international laughingstock, damaging the Axis' reputation and giving Churchill the ammunition to label them as "Europe's soft underbelly." Benito Mussolini, Il Duce of the Kingdom of Italy, was forced to ask for help from Adolf Hitler, Führer of the Third Reich. This forced Operation Barbarossa to be delayed and the troops meant for it to be diverted south. There, the Balkan nations were delivered an ultimatum: join, or die. Romania, Hungary, and Bulgaria opted to join. Yugoslavia, after much deliberation, opted to die. They were swiftly invaded by the Wehrmacht, whose southern strike continued on to help the Italians subjugate the Greeks. The nations were then divvied up between Italy, Bulgaria, and German protectorates, and the invasion of the Soviet Union was on the table once again. On June 22, 1941, the German Reich launched Operation Barbarossa, mobilizing the largest invasion force in the history of warfare, one month later than intended. The Great Patriotic War had begun.

Across the globe, another war was brewing. The Empire of Japan was the third member of the Axis Powers, and their own lust for power and land had led them to war with China, which was disunited and disgruntled. They had their own fair share of atrocities as well, in particular the unimaginably brutal Rape of Nanking, which even the Nazi attaché there found disgusting. These were the opening acts of the great Pacific War, the conflict that brought the Japanese from its apex to its knees in four years. Though the British had signed a peace treaty with the Germans, no such deal had been made with the Japanese, who were intent on swallowing up as much European territory in the Far East that they could. In just one year, Japan invaded and annexed Hong Kong, Macao, Malaya, Burma, and the Dutch and British East Indies, not to mention being granted dominion over France's former Asian colonies. Now, Australia and New Zealand cowered in fear. It seemed Japan was but one small step away from total dominance in Asia.

Then, on December 7, 1941, a day that would forever live on in infamy, all that changed. The Imperial Japanese Navy and its air forces launched a sneak attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Eighteen ships were sunk and over two thousand men were killed--all legally noncombatants, as no war had been declared. That came after the attack, when the Japanese representative in Washington issued an official statement. The American people, who had been egged on by President Franklin D. Roosevelt for years to engage with the wars going on around the globe, were finally roused from their isolationist slumber, and declared war on Japan. Silently, FDR hoped that the Germans would honor their treaty with the Japanese to the fullest and declare war on the United States of America, but no such thing occurred. Adolf Hitler was far too busy dealing with Russia, and the Western War was long over. This was a wise decision on the part of the Nazis, but it also meant that the Empire of Japan would be facing down the entire might of the United States all at once. Now that they were at war, the Japanese quickly absorbed the American Philippines, as the US set itself up for the long haul across the Pacific Ocean.

Back in Europe, Operation Barbarossa was going extremely well. There had been no hiccups, and in just a few months the Axis had put Leningrad under siege and reached just a few miles outside Moscow. With no western flank to worry about or direct resources toward, the Nazis seemed unstoppable. By this time, the Reich had gained ample enough territory to execute Generalplan Ost, better known as the Final Solution, or its later name, the Holocaust. Between 1940 and the fall of the Reich, millions upon millions of men, women, and children were captured, tortured, enslaved, and murdered by the Nazis. Unlike Japan's atrocities, which were more in the vein of senseless tides of butchery, the Germans were cold and mechanical in their rounding up, dehumanizing, and obliteration of Jews, Slavs, gypsies, homosexuals, communists, and anyone who dared disagree with the Führer's wishes. This had been Adolf Hitler's plan all along. He believed the German people needed Lebensraum--living space--and that Russia and the East was that territory to be settled. On November 27, 1941, after weeks of being at the city's doorstep, German troops captured the Soviet capital of Moscow. That same night, Joseph Stalin attempted to flee east for the Ural Mountains. Around midnight, he boarded the last train out of the city, but it was stopped by an artillery shell to the tracks. The train derailed, and Stalin was killed in the crash. His corpse was discovered by the Germans the next morning, and it was prominently burned in the middle of Red Square as the Holocaust gripped Moscow. Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov was captured and executed as well, though most of the Politburo managed to escape the destruction, and Andrei Zhdanov was named Premier of the Soviet Union. When Moscow fell, the rest of the USSR collapsed into a downward spiral. Leningrad was taken next, and by mid-1942 most of the Caucasus was in German hands, though the former SSRs of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan narrowly beat them back at the foot of the mountains and subsequently unted into a chaotic anti-Nazi federation. The Germans pressed further into Russia, eventually being forced to stop just miles away from the Urals. The Soviet Union degraded further, as much of Central Asia broke away to form the rife-with-ethnic-tension Federal Republic of Turkestan and anti-communist rumblings stirred in the Far East.

Japan's one-man crusade to form a sphere of prosperity in East Asia was going poorly. Though invincible on the surface, the Empire, like the Soviets, were in fact rotten to the core. Though the IJN rivaled the USN in size and power at the start of the Pacific War, what set the two sides apart was Japan's inability to rebuild their fleet if ships were sunk. Meanwhile, the Americans cranked out dozens of new ships a month. At the Battle of Midway in June of 1942, the IJN was repulsed from western waters, four of their best ships were sunk, and the tide of war was firmly turned in America's favor. After that, General Douglas MacArthur led the United States on an island-hopping excursion across the seas, culminating in the titanic Battle of Okinawa, which lasted for three months in the summer and autumn of 1944. The fight was one of the most brutal in modern history, and the plans for Operation Downfall, the amphibious invasion of the Japanese Home Isles, soon became entirely unappealing. Luckily, there was another solution: the atom bomb.

In 1940, soon after the Failure of Dunkirk, warmongering Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched the Tube Alloys program, a Commonwealth-wide effort to develop nuclear weapons. With the Pacific War hardly occupying all of Britannia's time, work on the project accelerated at an exponential pace. Following United States' entry into the war in 1941, the American counterpart to Tube Alloys, the Manhattan Project, was started, eventually growing to absorb Tube Alloys entirely. Now a truly international project with seemingly endless amounts of funding and some of the greatest scientific minds the world had ever seen behind it, progress was quick, and on December 7, 1944, three years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Trinity test took place. There, in the deserts of New Mexico, the first atomic bomb was dropped, creating a crater two-hundred-and-fifty feet wide in the sand. The remaining pair of bombs were immediately sent out to the front. On February 13, 1945, the Japanese city of Hiroshima was decimated by "Little Boy." Three days later, after no word of surrender had been delivered, Nagasaki was obliterated by "Fat Man." On February 20, 1945, after a failed coup attempt by the military, the Empire of Japan officially surrendered.

There was much celebration in the Anglosphere, but very little jubilation was felt anywhere else. The Axis Powers griped and groaned about losing their Asian ally, but Adolf Hitler was silently content with the development, no longer having to pay lip service to people he considered beneath him for how they looked and acted. The Soviets struggled on in their noble cause to hold back the Germans, as a sort of informal armistice came into effect. Despite keeping up the claims of continued advancement into Russia at home, the Führer had been convinced (this being no small feat in and of itself) to end total war and reign back the Wehrmacht to merely hold the line at the Urals. In the meantime, a new world order blanketed East Asia. Japan and Korea were put under American occupation for seven and four years respectively. These occupations were intended to lead to smooth transitions to functioning local governments. For the former, a parliamentary democracy with the Emperor as a figurehead was installed, while in the latter, a presidential republic in the vein of the United States was implemented. Indonesia was returned to the Dutch and the British colonies were returned to the British, though Indochina was granted independence. Vietnam quickly turned communist, but surprisingly, the Americans weren't appalled. Anyone who opposed the Axis was their friend, and Ho Chi Minh was no friend of Adolf Hitler. The United States and Great Britain both had more pressing matters on their hand in any case: the Chinese Civil War. With the fall of the Japanese, China had been thrust into total chaos once more, with the deathmatch between Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists and Mao Zedong's Communists taking center stage. Now, while the West didn't mind communism, anything else was preferable if there was a chance of changing the minds of a country. Vietnam was a lost cause to capitalism, but China was not. In a show of postwar strength, the United States fully inserted itself into the Chinese Civil War on the side of the Nationalists in 1948. Industry in Japan and Korea boomed as demands for the American war machine grew. By October 1951, the communists had been routed, Mao Zedong was dead, and Chiang Kai-shek ruled from Beijing.

The Third Reich had won the wars in Europe. The United States had won the wars in Asia. Both sides were seemingly untouchable superpowers an ocean apart with global reach. President Roosevelt wanted nothing more than to invade the Germans right then and there, but his hands were tied. The people were still opposed to war, and Hitler had become just rational enough in his growing age to realize that an invasion of the Anglosphere was unviable at the present time, and likely wouldn't ever be viable. With no way to truly face off, by 1948 the transatlantic staring contest developed into a collection of proxy wars and ideological conflicts known as the Cold War.

With the major wars done, the Axis were free to act on their pent-up aggressions and went about making true their grand plans for empire. The British had swooped in from 1942 to 1944, expelling the Axis from southern West Africa in a series of informal "wars" the general public knew nothing about. Then, from the fascist French State, Tunisia and French Sudan were transferred to Italy, and Morocco fought and won a war of independence that the Germans couldn't be bothered to intervene in. In 1949, Francisco Franco's Spain officially joined the Axis Powers, though he fell more in line with Mussolini's hardline Catholicism than the increasingly erratic Hitler, who was hard at work building up an occultist variant of Norse mythology as the new national religion of the Third Reich. Meanwhile, a new military alliance was born, the South Seas-European-American Treaty Organization, or SEATO, officially linking together the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Iceland, Australia, and New Zealand in a mutual defense pact. Later additions included Japan, Korea, Sumatra, Java, the West Indies Federation, and much of Central America. Lines were being drawn, but not every nation could be put in a box. Finland, Portugal, and China formed the crux of the Non-Aligned Movement, an unorganized movement for neutrality in the Cold War where both sides were played off each other, Allies versus Axis.

Try as they might to delay the twilight, the sun was slowly setting on the British Empire. In 1947 the people of Egypt revolted against Anglo-American dominance and their oppressive monarchy and won their independence fair and square, with no help from the Axis. Egypt was emboldened, but they soon realized they were in no shape to go it alone in the scary new world, especially since the British retained the Suez Canal and the Sinai Peninsula, and they rejoined SEATO barely half a year later. A similar situation went down in northern Arabia, where the Hashemites of Jordan, backed by the British, went on a conquering spree to form the Western-aligned, oil-spewing United Arab States in 1948. The Axis set its sights on the Middle East as well around that time. In 1950, the Italians decided they wanted the old city of Constantinople and control over the Straits, and so they launched an invasion of Turkey that summer. Their armed forces, however, were still more than incompetent, and the Turks were initially victorious. Then came the Germans, as powerful as ever, and the Turks were crushed. Given that the Axis now had full control over Anatolia, Hitler brought his own brand of cultural genocide to the region, purging Turkey of Islam altogether. This reflected Hitler's ongoing descent into occultism and paganism. All across Nazi Germany, Christianity was gradually falling to the wayside as a new brand of Norse mythos took over. Adolf Hitler, it said, was the reincarnation of Odin, and his greatest general Erwin Rommel was Thor. Many other high-ranking Nazis came to be seen as demigods on Earth as well. In 1955, Hitler officially went off the deep end and changed his official title from "Führer" to "All-Father and Führer of the Greater Germanic Reich."

In 1948, word leaked out of Berlin about Generalplan Ost and the Final Solution, thanks to an American reporter and her daring attempts to show the Germans for who they really were to the world. The entire globe was appalled at what had transpired. The Nazis had exterminated twenty-five million people by the end of that year, this number mostly consisting of Jews and Slavs, though numerous other groups were represented as well. Utterly horrified, the United States and the Commonwealth created the new Underground Railroad, covertly setting up paths through Nazi Europe leading to anywhere the Allies could risk trying to get someone out--neutral Portugal, Sweden, or Finland, or a port on the English Channel. It's estimated that several million people were saved from the horrors of the Holocaust due to this initiative. The majority of the Jews who fled the continent moved to either the United States or to the Republic of Israel in the Holy Land, which had been set up as a new Jewish homeland far enough from Germany's reach. The anti-Semitism that so defined Nazi ideology had other negative effects on the Reich, most notably Germany's avoidance of nuclear technology, which Hitler dismissed as "Jewish pseudoscience." Despite having more than enough materials, time, funding, and ability to develop a nuclear bomb, the Third Reich would never do so.

All was not well in the Middle Kingdom. In 1951, almost immediately after the Nationalist victory in China, the United States was ejected from the nation. President Chiang was suspicious of American meddling, especially after seeing the complete transformations of Japan and Korea, and he declined to align himself with anyone. Being neutral in Asia meant that all of China's goals could easily be sought after. All it took was a little… convincing. Even after winning the war and expelling what remained of Mao's movement to the far west, the people were still divided based on their political alignments. Only one great, big, unifying event could heal those wounds any faster. Enter the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Proudly led by Ho Chi Minh and a halfhearted American ally, many in China saw Minh's state as illegitimate and rightful Chinese clay. So, on March 14, 1952, the Republic of China invaded Vietnam from the north. At this, the Germans attempted to open diplomatic relations with Beijing, but Chiang was having none of hit and he openly delivered speeches decrying the Americans and Germans both. The Anglosphere in Asia degraded as well in 1952 when, after years of deliberation and disagreement, civil war broke out in the British Raj. Negotiations with London hadn't been getting anywhere, and after five years of being promised "independence, eventually" with precious little to show for it, the subcontinent was fed up. The British were quickly expelled from the north, where the Hindus and Muslims erected their own republics in Pakistan, Bengal, Assam, and the greater Ganges area. In the south, though, the British held on for longer, maintaining good relations with Hyderabad, Bombay, and the Tamil Republic and keeping a hold on the Maldives and Ceylon. In 1958, the southern Indian nations would officially join the Commonwealth, tying themselves to Longon. The other mess in China's vicinity was the former Soviet Union, which was just barely hanging on by a thread. After the Pacific War the Americans had annexed the island of Sakhalin and much of Polynesia, and with those additions alongside their absorption of Greenland after the Danish fell in '40, a new wave of expansionism hit the United States. Throughout the 1950s, following the victory in China, the Americans would begin meddling in Siberia. After the 1953 Counter-Revolution in Vladivostok, the US stepped in to support a fledgling Russian Republic centered around the city. Needless to say, the Soviets were enraged, and they began bombing the Americans, too. In an effort to restore order and security (or so they said), the US crossed the Bering Strait in mid-1953 and annexed the Kamchatka region. The peacekeeping mission had warped into a fulfillment of new Manifest Destiny.

The mid-1950s were a major turning point in the Cold War. In 1955, the Nazis finally acted on their impulses and invaded Sweden. However, unlike the relatively easy time the Reich had had in invading Turkey, the Swedish War was not so simple. Germany had been on the decline ever since the great wars of the 1940s. The whole rotten edifice of Nazism, time and time again, threatened to come crashing down due to ideological fanaticism, internal disagreements, and the unstoppable tide of propaganda. The only thing keeping Nazi Germany together by 1955 was the All-Father and Führer himself, though as Hitler's health degraded he rarely made public appearances anymore. The war in Sweden, then, was the Nazi's Winter War. The Swedes, despite not having fought in a war since 1814 and facing down arguably the most powerful nation on Earth, hung on for well over a year, even going without Anglo-American aid for the first four months. Eventually, Sweden was ground down and forced into German arms, but it had been worryingly difficult. Across the seas, the exact opposite was going on. On December 11, 1955, the Atlantic Union was formed, a supranational organization economically and politically linking the United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Panama, the West Indies Federation, Colombia, Venezuela, Iceland, Ireland, and the United Kingdom under one banner.

Over the next nine years, the Cold War only heightened. In 1956, the Nazis launched the first object into space, the satellite Vaterland, kicking off the Space Race and leading to German creatures in space by 1958, American men in space by 1960, and American boots on the lunar surface by 1967. In 1959, the peoples of the islands of Sumatra and Java in the Dutch East Indies rebelled against European tyrrany, leading to their independence and the long march to the end of colonialism in East Asia. In the United States, the Civil Rights Movement kicked off in the middle of the 1950s, as public outcry over the hypocrisy of American foreign policy decrying Nazism while upholding Jim Crow at home reached a head. By 1961, segregation hd been struck down and paved over across the nation, with groups like the Ku Klux Klan and Confederate-flag-waving racists being declared fascists and potential enemies of the United States and the natural world order. America continued its slide to the left to oppose Nazism, employing many New Deal-esque programs over the years and eventually forcing the Atlantic Union and Commonwealth to cut all ties with South Africa, whose system of apartheid was far too similar to those entrenched in Europe. But the biggest shocker came in 1964. On December 2, Adolph Hitler was attending a Hitler Youth rally, the first one he'd spoken at in over a decade. As he was climbing the stairs of the concert hall the rally was being held in, he tripped, and, his body racked by Parkinson's disease and the tremors that come with it, was unable to catch himself. He hit his temple on the railing and was killed instantly.

What followed was utter chaos. In Germania--the new name of the new and improved Berlin (nevermind the fact that the city was sinking into the mud)--Hermann Göring was named the new Führer, as per Hitler's wishes. However, not everyone was happy about this, namely, the power-hungry Heinrich Himmler, who attempted to launch a military coup barely a week into Göring's reign. It failed, but Himmler managed to escape to the east, where he rallied the SS and the units of the Wehrmacht managing the Reichskommissariats and the ongoing Holocaust to his side. It was civil war.

The entire globe was thrown into a panic over this--the Axis were worried, the Allies were ecstatic. This was the genesis of the Second World War. An old war plan was taken down off the shelf--Operation Overlord--dusted off, and reimagined for the modern day as Operation Nemesis. The Soviets quickly began regaining ground, storming back into their stolen lands. From Gibraltar, Egypt, and Morocco, Atlantean strikes were staged, sweeping through an unprepared Axis North Africa under Operation Typhoon and piercing Spain and Italy's soft underbellies. Nationalist uprisings in Poland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and the Baltics broke out. The Thousand-Year Reich was crumbling before the world's eyes. On July 16, 1964, Operation Nemesis was finally launched. British, American, Canadian, Australian, Mexican, Japanese, and Egyptian troops massed in southeast England crossed the Channel in the largest amphibious military operation in history, landing at Calais and Dunkirk in a deliciously poetic reversal of the event that had knocked the British out of the war all those years ago. Subsequent landings at Normandy, the Hague, and Schleswig-Holstein were just as successful and just as hard fought. When the Allies arrived, the French, Belgians, and Dutch begain their own rebellions. The Reich was collapsing. Onwards the Allies pressed, with the Americans leading the charge across Europe, liberating the peoples there and putting a stop to the lingering systems still in place from the height of the Holocaust. In just over a year, the Americans were at the edge of Germania, and on July 30, 1965, the war came to an end when Himmler was captured and Göring committed suicide. Adolph Hitler's dream had faced a rude awakening.

The postwar world was very different from anything that came before. The Soviet Union reannexed all the land it had lost to the Germans during the Cold War, though they had serious issues repopulating it for quite a while. The same could be said for the Federation of Zapadoslavia, the union formed out of the ashes of Poland, Czechia, and Slovakia. Millions upon millions of Eastern Europeans had been slaughtered, leaving these lands mostly populated by ethnic Germans. That was not to be tolerated. Zapadoslavia and the USSR engaged in an enormous revenge plot together, forcibly removing German residents from their regained territories. Those that struggled were shot. Those that went without a fight were shipped off to the new "prison" that was the German Confederation, a loose confederacy of states packed with almost all ethnic Germans in Europe. This new Germany was kept under the watchful eye of the new United Nations, as a campaign of de-Nazification and collective guilt for the Holocaust was embarked upon by the occupying Allied forces. Though some predicted a new Cold War might break out between East and West, the East was simply too exhausted to do anything but play along. In Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States took the brunt of restoring order to chaotic Axis colonies, making sure to install mostly functioning governments before leaving that would not immediately sink into dictatorships and poverty as soon as they left. The only major holdover from the Cold War was the fascist governments that characterized sub-Amazonian South America. Nations like Brazil, Argentina, Peru, and Bolivia, just to name a few, had fallen to fascism over the course of the conflict. Brazil was the most worrying to the United States, so when they spotted an opportunity in 1969, they took it, artificially creating a succession crisis after assassinating the president and subsequently intervening in the ensuing civil war on the side of democracy. The rest of the countries in the region skated by undetected, though all but Argentina would eventually revert to democracy or communism by the 21st century.

The world of 1982 is very different from the world of the Cold War. After showing the absolute worst side of humanity for so long, the memory of the Nazis lives on as a reminder of everything not to be. Liberal democracy and international unity is growing rapidly, and even the Soviet Union, once the epitome of totalitarianism and isolationism, has begun to transition to democratic socialism under its new constitution. Humanity reaches out to the stars together with the United Nations Space Administration, and a crusade against global injustice and for care of the environment is exploding across the globe. It seems that President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the man who led the United States through the Great Depression, the Pacific War, and the opening act of the Cold War, was right in his assertion that the only thing we have to truly fear, is fear itself.

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What's going on in South Africa? Did the apartheid government go full fascist and survive the fall of the Third Reich and is now (1982) facing uprisings/invasion?
 

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I feel from now on any map thread made before page 500 should be closed. Or for us to have the person who makes the lists of all the top maps in the previous post to be the one to do it.
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A WIP of a world where the Cuban Missile Crisis goes hot.
Also, the map thread is dead, long live the map thread!
On the plus side, now they might just set aside all of the Dakotas for Native Americans. Though there would be bad blood if the Sioux (Dakota and Lakota) try claiming too much extra land for themselves at the expense of other tribes. And of course things are going to be difficult for loads in the Hreat Plains, not just from missile strikes on their land but from Chicago, St. Louis, and other port and major riverways being blasted to pieces. I wouldn’t be surprised if the rubble from some of the blasts clogged up a river and got it to change its course through a city. Do you have the Franz Josef Land white due to being abandoned by any Russian state? Or just one of those thighs that got missed? Would be interesting if you went the route of Nuclear Winter causing what little land isn’t encrusted by ice to be fully hidden away. You have the Japanese leave the islands claimed by Korea in exchange for the Kuriles, including the parts they hadn’t been claiming? If the US decides to expand their own territory, I don’t see people give them Commodore Island very often. Might be something to go with. For the Azores and other colored islands, are you using a new maritime border system?
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November 1942, the Axis Powes are at the height of their power. The world has been fighting a bloody war for 3 years now (6 in Ruthenia) between the Axis Powers (comprised of the Aenglish Raikh under Aetheldorf Hiller, the Kingdom of Illyria under Benite Muczini and the Empire of Anatolia under Emperor Hirocratos) and the Allies (led by the triple alliance of José Esalín's UJSR, the German Empire under prime minister Walter Kirchekrank, and the United Arab States under Falaqin Rusev).

In Asia, the war started back in 1936 when Anatolia declared war on Ruthenia over an incident on the Kuban river, rapidly seizing their coast of the Black Sea and pushing up the Yellow and Blue rivers, capturing the imperial capital of Sarking and then the republican capital of Nankhov. In Europe, the Aenglish Raikh was founded when Aetheldorf Hiller took power after winning the elections under his Social Nationalist party (Zoni party). The fundament of his party was restoring Aenglish pride and reconquering former territories, aswell as expanding towards what he called as the "Livingroom" to the south. He considered Mediterraneans (specially Hispanics) inferior and worthy of extermination. Initially both Gaul and Germany allowed him to peacefully annex the Westrian Republic, and they signed an accord with him hanging over the Scots territory of the south. However Hiller broke the accord and invaded the rest of Scotland, creating the Protectorate of Albania and Pictia.

Finally, on September 1st he invaded Eireland attempting to connect with the enclave of West Ulsteria. Gaul and Germany said enough, and declared war to Hiller's Aenglia. Juntist forces invaded the southern tip of the island after the secret Montoro-Riverside pact, but the Allies did not declare war to Esalín's UJSR. Eireland was swiftly crushed and partitioned, with Hiller creating the General Government of Eireland to the south. Then he proceeded to secure his flank and assure Aengland continued receiving the precious iron ore from Sweden, then under the leadership of Frankirk. Icemark fell in a matter of hours, but the Normarkian campaign extended for months as the Aenglish lacked the cappabilities to dislodge them from Ernvik, which would fall on June 1940.

Gaulish planners expected an Aenglish landing right in Normandy in order to seize Lutetia rapidly and end the war, but they were completely surprised when on May 8th Aenglish forces stormed the beaches of Belgium and Holland, advancing south towards Brussels and the Meuse, splitting the Gauls from the Germans. The Gaulish army was crippled and lacked mobility compared to the Aenglish. Lutetia fell without a fight, and the Aenglish stablished a puppet regime in Dijon, while the empire fell into civil war between the forces loyal to the Republic and those loyal to Dijon. Aengland annexed the claimed area of Flandes-Neustria and proceeded to attack Germany. The lands to the Rhine fell swiftly, but it took the Aenglish thousands of casualties to cross the Rhine, only to be pushed back in the south as their air force was starting to dwindle. The war became static, as German industry had been razed and Aenglia began to focus on other matters.

Illyria stabbed Gaulish forces in Padania, and attacked both Hella and the Kingdom of Zapadoslavia. Aenglish forces had to assist them and Muczini achieved his goal of liberating Rome from the Slavic pest. Magyaria and Pannonia sided with the Axis, further hampering the German war effort. In Africa a stalemate ensued between the Aenglo-Illyrians and the Germans, who also occupied Gaulish Algeria. On June 22nd 1941, the war extended to Esalín's UJSR as over a million Aenglish soldiers stormed the Pyrenees and landed on the northern coast, aided by the Lusis who wanted to recapture their lost territory. The invasion quickly conquered Iberia after the disastrous battle of Saragossa, where the Juntists lost over 600,000 men. Toledo, however, held the attacks, while the southern city of Leonarda was sieged by a combined Aenglo-Lusi force.

On December 7th 1941, Anatolia bombed the Arab air base at Damietta and launched a brutal campaign against Gaulish, Hollandish and German possessions in the east, quickly capturing most the territory and only being stopped in Palestine. Due to the harsh desert climate, the war became mostly static and aerieal, with few advances. Meanwhile, Hiller ordered Case Blue to start, launching a swift campaign from Edetania into Betica, reaching the sea and the important city of Esalina. The war now stands still, with both sides attempting to tip the balance to their favour, but it seems the war could take years to end...

England/Britain = Germany and viceversa
Westria = Austria
Eireland = Poland
Albania and Pictia = Bohemia and Moravia
Frankland = England
Polabia = Wales
Swabland = Scotland
Northern Czechland = Northern Ireland
Czechland = Ireland
Norland = Norway
Icemark = Denmark
Gaul = France
Norway = Portugal
Sweden = Spain
Finalnd = Morocco
Northernmost Russia = East Africa
Holland and Belgium = Netherlands and Belgium
Lusiland = Finland
Union of Juntist Socialist Republics = Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Numidia and Carthage = Palestine and Egypt
Libya is just Libya
Italian States = Yugoslavia
Illyria = Italy
Magyaria = Hungary
Pannonia = Romania
Sarmatia = Persia
Vlachma = Burma
Vulgland = Thailand
Vandalia = Bulgaria
Hella = Greece
Morea = Malaysia
Crete = North Borneo
Ruthenia = China
Ural = Tibet
Turkestan = Uyghuristan
New Jewland = New Zealand
Persia = Australia
Alania = Mengkukuo
Atropatene = Manchukuo
Anatolia = Japan
Dutch Near Indies (should say Hollandish) = Dutch East Indies
Qasimine Island = Philippine Islands
United States of Arabia = United States of America
As Denmark retains Bornholm, I have no criticism.

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very large one-shot scenario I started about a month ago and just finished. i really enjoyed making this world and have gotten pretty attached to it so please ask questions :)
Oh dear with the Dakotas. They really would want to find a name besides Lakota to use. Also seems that ethnic cleansing of perhaps a hundred thousand would be required to have that area be Native majority. Do these regulations remove American citizenship from those in their de facto independent areas? I feel in the first map more details should have been given of the northern attacks, as I imagine that involves something like how there were so many lynchings and attacks in minorities in the North throughout history. As an example you can think of how Irishmen and others did their best to massacre and drive out Blacks in New York when the state abolished slavery, as well as during the Draft Riots. Or how the KKK had the highest membership by state in the Midwest at some point, though I feel that partially comes down to how people couldn’t count Blacks in the south, thus skewing numbers. Having that new flag that doesn’t count states with stars seems a poor idea. I assume it is to avoid declaring on it if the autonomous areas count, (despite them using the flags themselves, ain’t almost an insulting manner as it shows them subsumed) but then you get into the symbolism of the thirteen colonies and school children having to learn which ones they were. Always being reminded of the states that were ripped apart and eradicated. Wait, I am reading the map and I right and the thing for the Black region... what does t mean they get access to internal programs? The military thing goes without saying, but can’t think of anything besides roads and river work that the rest could involve. Almost wish you released these one at a time (or I might have missed the release of the second one) as I see some things are answered on the third map, though not entirely.
Fear Itself
Our Darkest Hour


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"We have only to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down."
- Adolph Hitler, describing the Soviet Union, and John F. Kennedy, describing the Third Reich

"I am become death."
-Robert Oppenheimer, Head of the Manhattan Project

"The free men of the world are marching together to victory."
- Omar Bradley, Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces

"This is our brightest hour. This is where we show the world what humanity truly stands for. No more war. No more death. No more Nazis."
-George S. Patton, American General during Operation Nemesis

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Almost one hundred years apart, two men followed nigh identical paths on the quest for European and global domination. Both were young soldiers who turned to politics to unify their shattered homelands and embark on a journey of radicalism and conquest. Their empowered nations' tendrils snaked across the Old World through alliances and wars, amassing tribute and territory. They both even invaded Russia in the winter. Just one major detail set these two modern Caesars apart: Napoleon Bonaparte lost. Adolph Hitler won.

Adolph Hitler's long climb to the top in Germany was the end result of over a decade's worth of humiliation leveled towards the chief loser of the Firsr World War. As the nation collapsed under the weight of debt and economic strife, Hitler's National Socialist Party--the Nazis--promised they could make everything better once again. The German people listened. What followed was the most meteoric rise of a country in modern history. In just seven years, Hitler and his autocratic policies rebuilt the German economy, reformed the armed forces, remilitarized the Rhineland, annexed the Sudetenland, anschlussed Austria, rekindled the flame of nationalism, and pinned all of Germany's problems on a scapegoat--the Jews, whom Hitler claimed had conspired against Germany and engineered its downfall. These statements were, of course, absurd, but the Germans did not care. Anti-semitic rhetoric and racist propaganda had installed an artificial caste system of ethnic and cultural divisions in the country. So began Hitler's unholy crusade against those he deemed "inferior" to the "Aryan paradigm." On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany took one step too far. With their invasion of Poland, the British and French could no longer merely watch Hitler stampede over Europe uninterrupted. They soon declared war.

They wouldn't last a year.

By late May of 1940, the Anglo-French foothold in Europe had been pushed back into a small pocket around the coastal city of Dunkirk. Try as they might, the bold British plan of Operation Dynamo--the evacuation of Allied troops from the beaches and harbors--could not be put into effect when the Germans refused to halt their advance and captured the armies on June 1. Lord Halifax, the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, was forced to accept an utterly humiliating white peace with the Nazis, ending the Western War. Halifax was swiftly replaced by Winston Churchill, who, despite being aggressively anti-Hitler and delivering dozens of impassioned speeches about British temerity and indomitable spirit, could not convince the government or the people to fight Hitler's war machine again. Europe was lost, and there was no salvaging it, but at least the Empire would remain intact.

With Britain out of the game, the Axis Powers could continue their wars without fear of invasion from the West. Preparations began in Berlin for the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa, which continued smoothly until Italy launched its invasion of Greece at the end of the year, kicking off the Third Balkan War. The Italians had, in the years prior, invaded and annexed Ethiopia and Albania, both conflicts that had gone well. But the invasion of Greece went badly. Really badly. Italy became an international laughingstock, damaging the Axis' reputation and giving Churchill the ammunition to label them as "Europe's soft underbelly." Benito Mussolini, Il Duce of the Kingdom of Italy, was forced to ask for help from Adolf Hitler, Führer of the Third Reich. This forced Operation Barbarossa to be delayed and the troops meant for it to be diverted south. There, the Balkan nations were delivered an ultimatum: join, or die. Romania, Hungary, and Bulgaria opted to join. Yugoslavia, after much deliberation, opted to die. They were swiftly invaded by the Wehrmacht, whose southern strike continued on to help the Italians subjugate the Greeks. The nations were then divvied up between Italy, Bulgaria, and German protectorates, and the invasion of the Soviet Union was on the table once again. On June 22, 1941, the German Reich launched Operation Barbarossa, mobilizing the largest invasion force in the history of warfare, one month later than intended. The Great Patriotic War had begun.

Across the globe, another war was brewing. The Empire of Japan was the third member of the Axis Powers, and their own lust for power and land had led them to war with China, which was disunited and disgruntled. They had their own fair share of atrocities as well, in particular the unimaginably brutal Rape of Nanking, which even the Nazi attaché there found disgusting. These were the opening acts of the great Pacific War, the conflict that brought the Japanese from its apex to its knees in four years. Though the British had signed a peace treaty with the Germans, no such deal had been made with the Japanese, who were intent on swallowing up as much European territory in the Far East that they could. In just one year, Japan invaded and annexed Hong Kong, Macao, Malaya, Burma, and the Dutch and British East Indies, not to mention being granted dominion over France's former Asian colonies. Now, Australia and New Zealand cowered in fear. It seemed Japan was but one small step away from total dominance in Asia.

Then, on December 7, 1941, a day that would forever live on in infamy, all that changed. The Imperial Japanese Navy and its air forces launched a sneak attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Eighteen ships were sunk and over two thousand men were killed--all legally noncombatants, as no war had been declared. That came after the attack, when the Japanese representative in Washington issued an official statement. The American people, who had been egged on by President Franklin D. Roosevelt for years to engage with the wars going on around the globe, were finally roused from their isolationist slumber, and declared war on Japan. Silently, FDR hoped that the Germans would honor their treaty with the Japanese to the fullest and declare war on the United States of America, but no such thing occurred. Adolf Hitler was far too busy dealing with Russia, and the Western War was long over. This was a wise decision on the part of the Nazis, but it also meant that the Empire of Japan would be facing down the entire might of the United States all at once. Now that they were at war, the Japanese quickly absorbed the American Philippines, as the US set itself up for the long haul across the Pacific Ocean.

Back in Europe, Operation Barbarossa was going extremely well. There had been no hiccups, and in just a few months the Axis had put Leningrad under siege and reached just a few miles outside Moscow. With no western flank to worry about or direct resources toward, the Nazis seemed unstoppable. By this time, the Reich had gained ample enough territory to execute Generalplan Ost, better known as the Final Solution, or its later name, the Holocaust. Between 1940 and the fall of the Reich, millions upon millions of men, women, and children were captured, tortured, enslaved, and murdered by the Nazis. Unlike Japan's atrocities, which were more in the vein of senseless tides of butchery, the Germans were cold and mechanical in their rounding up, dehumanizing, and obliteration of Jews, Slavs, gypsies, homosexuals, communists, and anyone who dared disagree with the Führer's wishes. This had been Adolf Hitler's plan all along. He believed the German people needed Lebensraum--living space--and that Russia and the East was that territory to be settled. On November 27, 1941, after weeks of being at the city's doorstep, German troops captured the Soviet capital of Moscow. That same night, Joseph Stalin attempted to flee east for the Ural Mountains. Around midnight, he boarded the last train out of the city, but it was stopped by an artillery shell to the tracks. The train derailed, and Stalin was killed in the crash. His corpse was discovered by the Germans the next morning, and it was prominently burned in the middle of Red Square as the Holocaust gripped Moscow. Field Marshal Georgy Zhukov was captured and executed as well, though most of the Politburo managed to escape the destruction, and Andrei Zhdanov was named Premier of the Soviet Union. When Moscow fell, the rest of the USSR collapsed into a downward spiral. Leningrad was taken next, and by mid-1942 most of the Caucasus was in German hands, though the former SSRs of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan narrowly beat them back at the foot of the mountains and subsequently unted into a chaotic anti-Nazi federation. The Germans pressed further into Russia, eventually being forced to stop just miles away from the Urals. The Soviet Union degraded further, as much of Central Asia broke away to form the rife-with-ethnic-tension Federal Republic of Turkestan and anti-communist rumblings stirred in the Far East.

Japan's one-man crusade to form a sphere of prosperity in East Asia was going poorly. Though invincible on the surface, the Empire, like the Soviets, were in fact rotten to the core. Though the IJN rivaled the USN in size and power at the start of the Pacific War, what set the two sides apart was Japan's inability to rebuild their fleet if ships were sunk. Meanwhile, the Americans cranked out dozens of new ships a month. At the Battle of Midway in June of 1942, the IJN was repulsed from western waters, four of their best ships were sunk, and the tide of war was firmly turned in America's favor. After that, General Douglas MacArthur led the United States on an island-hopping excursion across the seas, culminating in the titanic Battle of Okinawa, which lasted for three months in the summer and autumn of 1944. The fight was one of the most brutal in modern history, and the plans for Operation Downfall, the amphibious invasion of the Japanese Home Isles, soon became entirely unappealing. Luckily, there was another solution: the atom bomb.

In 1940, soon after the Failure of Dunkirk, warmongering Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched the Tube Alloys program, a Commonwealth-wide effort to develop nuclear weapons. With the Pacific War hardly occupying all of Britannia's time, work on the project accelerated at an exponential pace. Following United States' entry into the war in 1941, the American counterpart to Tube Alloys, the Manhattan Project, was started, eventually growing to absorb Tube Alloys entirely. Now a truly international project with seemingly endless amounts of funding and some of the greatest scientific minds the world had ever seen behind it, progress was quick, and on December 7, 1944, three years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Trinity test took place. There, in the deserts of New Mexico, the first atomic bomb was dropped, creating a crater two-hundred-and-fifty feet wide in the sand. The remaining pair of bombs were immediately sent out to the front. On February 13, 1945, the Japanese city of Hiroshima was decimated by "Little Boy." Three days later, after no word of surrender had been delivered, Nagasaki was obliterated by "Fat Man." On February 20, 1945, after a failed coup attempt by the military, the Empire of Japan officially surrendered.

There was much celebration in the Anglosphere, but very little jubilation was felt anywhere else. The Axis Powers griped and groaned about losing their Asian ally, but Adolf Hitler was silently content with the development, no longer having to pay lip service to people he considered beneath him for how they looked and acted. The Soviets struggled on in their noble cause to hold back the Germans, as a sort of informal armistice came into effect. Despite keeping up the claims of continued advancement into Russia at home, the Führer had been convinced (this being no small feat in and of itself) to end total war and reign back the Wehrmacht to merely hold the line at the Urals. In the meantime, a new world order blanketed East Asia. Japan and Korea were put under American occupation for seven and four years respectively. These occupations were intended to lead to smooth transitions to functioning local governments. For the former, a parliamentary democracy with the Emperor as a figurehead was installed, while in the latter, a presidential republic in the vein of the United States was implemented. Indonesia was returned to the Dutch and the British colonies were returned to the British, though Indochina was granted independence. Vietnam quickly turned communist, but surprisingly, the Americans weren't appalled. Anyone who opposed the Axis was their friend, and Ho Chi Minh was no friend of Adolf Hitler. The United States and Great Britain both had more pressing matters on their hand in any case: the Chinese Civil War. With the fall of the Japanese, China had been thrust into total chaos once more, with the deathmatch between Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists and Mao Zedong's Communists taking center stage. Now, while the West didn't mind communism, anything else was preferable if there was a chance of changing the minds of a country. Vietnam was a lost cause to capitalism, but China was not. In a show of postwar strength, the United States fully inserted itself into the Chinese Civil War on the side of the Nationalists in 1948. Industry in Japan and Korea boomed as demands for the American war machine grew. By October 1951, the communists had been routed, Mao Zedong was dead, and Chiang Kai-shek ruled from Beijing.

The Third Reich had won the wars in Europe. The United States had won the wars in Asia. Both sides were seemingly untouchable superpowers an ocean apart with global reach. President Roosevelt wanted nothing more than to invade the Germans right then and there, but his hands were tied. The people were still opposed to war, and Hitler had become just rational enough in his growing age to realize that an invasion of the Anglosphere was unviable at the present time, and likely wouldn't ever be viable. With no way to truly face off, by 1948 the transatlantic staring contest developed into a collection of proxy wars and ideological conflicts known as the Cold War.

With the major wars done, the Axis were free to act on their pent-up aggressions and went about making true their grand plans for empire. The British had swooped in from 1942 to 1944, expelling the Axis from southern West Africa in a series of informal "wars" the general public knew nothing about. Then, from the fascist French State, Tunisia and French Sudan were transferred to Italy, and Morocco fought and won a war of independence that the Germans couldn't be bothered to intervene in. In 1949, Francisco Franco's Spain officially joined the Axis Powers, though he fell more in line with Mussolini's hardline Catholicism than the increasingly erratic Hitler, who was hard at work building up an occultist variant of Norse mythology as the new national religion of the Third Reich. Meanwhile, a new military alliance was born, the South Seas-European-American Treaty Organization, or SEATO, officially linking together the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Iceland, Australia, and New Zealand in a mutual defense pact. Later additions included Japan, Korea, Sumatra, Java, the West Indies Federation, and much of Central America. Lines were being drawn, but not every nation could be put in a box. Finland, Portugal, and China formed the crux of the Non-Aligned Movement, an unorganized movement for neutrality in the Cold War where both sides were played off each other, Allies versus Axis.

Try as they might to delay the twilight, the sun was slowly setting on the British Empire. In 1947 the people of Egypt revolted against Anglo-American dominance and their oppressive monarchy and won their independence fair and square, with no help from the Axis. Egypt was emboldened, but they soon realized they were in no shape to go it alone in the scary new world, especially since the British retained the Suez Canal and the Sinai Peninsula, and they rejoined SEATO barely half a year later. A similar situation went down in northern Arabia, where the Hashemites of Jordan, backed by the British, went on a conquering spree to form the Western-aligned, oil-spewing United Arab States in 1948. The Axis set its sights on the Middle East as well around that time. In 1950, the Italians decided they wanted the old city of Constantinople and control over the Straits, and so they launched an invasion of Turkey that summer. Their armed forces, however, were still more than incompetent, and the Turks were initially victorious. Then came the Germans, as powerful as ever, and the Turks were crushed. Given that the Axis now had full control over Anatolia, Hitler brought his own brand of cultural genocide to the region, purging Turkey of Islam altogether. This reflected Hitler's ongoing descent into occultism and paganism. All across Nazi Germany, Christianity was gradually falling to the wayside as a new brand of Norse mythos took over. Adolf Hitler, it said, was the reincarnation of Odin, and his greatest general Erwin Rommel was Thor. Many other high-ranking Nazis came to be seen as demigods on Earth as well. In 1955, Hitler officially went off the deep end and changed his official title from "Führer" to "All-Father and Führer of the Greater Germanic Reich."

In 1948, word leaked out of Berlin about Generalplan Ost and the Final Solution, thanks to an American reporter and her daring attempts to show the Germans for who they really were to the world. The entire globe was appalled at what had transpired. The Nazis had exterminated twenty-five million people by the end of that year, this number mostly consisting of Jews and Slavs, though numerous other groups were represented as well. Utterly horrified, the United States and the Commonwealth created the new Underground Railroad, covertly setting up paths through Nazi Europe leading to anywhere the Allies could risk trying to get someone out--neutral Portugal, Sweden, or Finland, or a port on the English Channel. It's estimated that several million people were saved from the horrors of the Holocaust due to this initiative. The majority of the Jews who fled the continent moved to either the United States or to the Republic of Israel in the Holy Land, which had been set up as a new Jewish homeland far enough from Germany's reach. The anti-Semitism that so defined Nazi ideology had other negative effects on the Reich, most notably Germany's avoidance of nuclear technology, which Hitler dismissed as "Jewish pseudoscience." Despite having more than enough materials, time, funding, and ability to develop a nuclear bomb, the Third Reich would never do so.

All was not well in the Middle Kingdom. In 1951, almost immediately after the Nationalist victory in China, the United States was ejected from the nation. President Chiang was suspicious of American meddling, especially after seeing the complete transformations of Japan and Korea, and he declined to align himself with anyone. Being neutral in Asia meant that all of China's goals could easily be sought after. All it took was a little… convincing. Even after winning the war and expelling what remained of Mao's movement to the far west, the people were still divided based on their political alignments. Only one great, big, unifying event could heal those wounds any faster. Enter the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Proudly led by Ho Chi Minh and a halfhearted American ally, many in China saw Minh's state as illegitimate and rightful Chinese clay. So, on March 14, 1952, the Republic of China invaded Vietnam from the north. At this, the Germans attempted to open diplomatic relations with Beijing, but Chiang was having none of hit and he openly delivered speeches decrying the Americans and Germans both. The Anglosphere in Asia degraded as well in 1952 when, after years of deliberation and disagreement, civil war broke out in the British Raj. Negotiations with London hadn't been getting anywhere, and after five years of being promised "independence, eventually" with precious little to show for it, the subcontinent was fed up. The British were quickly expelled from the north, where the Hindus and Muslims erected their own republics in Pakistan, Bengal, Assam, and the greater Ganges area. In the south, though, the British held on for longer, maintaining good relations with Hyderabad, Bombay, and the Tamil Republic and keeping a hold on the Maldives and Ceylon. In 1958, the southern Indian nations would officially join the Commonwealth, tying themselves to Longon. The other mess in China's vicinity was the former Soviet Union, which was just barely hanging on by a thread. After the Pacific War the Americans had annexed the island of Sakhalin and much of Polynesia, and with those additions alongside their absorption of Greenland after the Danish fell in '40, a new wave of expansionism hit the United States. Throughout the 1950s, following the victory in China, the Americans would begin meddling in Siberia. After the 1953 Counter-Revolution in Vladivostok, the US stepped in to support a fledgling Russian Republic centered around the city. Needless to say, the Soviets were enraged, and they began bombing the Americans, too. In an effort to restore order and security (or so they said), the US crossed the Bering Strait in mid-1953 and annexed the Kamchatka region. The peacekeeping mission had warped into a fulfillment of new Manifest Destiny.

The mid-1950s were a major turning point in the Cold War. In 1955, the Nazis finally acted on their impulses and invaded Sweden. However, unlike the relatively easy time the Reich had had in invading Turkey, the Swedish War was not so simple. Germany had been on the decline ever since the great wars of the 1940s. The whole rotten edifice of Nazism, time and time again, threatened to come crashing down due to ideological fanaticism, internal disagreements, and the unstoppable tide of propaganda. The only thing keeping Nazi Germany together by 1955 was the All-Father and Führer himself, though as Hitler's health degraded he rarely made public appearances anymore. The war in Sweden, then, was the Nazi's Winter War. The Swedes, despite not having fought in a war since 1814 and facing down arguably the most powerful nation on Earth, hung on for well over a year, even going without Anglo-American aid for the first four months. Eventually, Sweden was ground down and forced into German arms, but it had been worryingly difficult. Across the seas, the exact opposite was going on. On December 11, 1955, the Atlantic Union was formed, a supranational organization economically and politically linking the United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Panama, the West Indies Federation, Colombia, Venezuela, Iceland, Ireland, and the United Kingdom under one banner.

Over the next nine years, the Cold War only heightened. In 1956, the Nazis launched the first object into space, the satellite Vaterland, kicking off the Space Race and leading to German creatures in space by 1958, American men in space by 1960, and American boots on the lunar surface by 1967. In 1959, the peoples of the islands of Sumatra and Java in the Dutch East Indies rebelled against European tyrrany, leading to their independence and the long march to the end of colonialism in East Asia. In the United States, the Civil Rights Movement kicked off in the middle of the 1950s, as public outcry over the hypocrisy of American foreign policy decrying Nazism while upholding Jim Crow at home reached a head. By 1961, segregation hd been struck down and paved over across the nation, with groups like the Ku Klux Klan and Confederate-flag-waving racists being declared fascists and potential enemies of the United States and the natural world order. America continued its slide to the left to oppose Nazism, employing many New Deal-esque programs over the years and eventually forcing the Atlantic Union and Commonwealth to cut all ties with South Africa, whose system of apartheid was far too similar to those entrenched in Europe. But the biggest shocker came in 1964. On December 2, Adolph Hitler was attending a Hitler Youth rally, the first one he'd spoken at in over a decade. As he was climbing the stairs of the concert hall the rally was being held in, he tripped, and, his body racked by Parkinson's disease and the tremors that come with it, was unable to catch himself. He hit his temple on the railing and was killed instantly.

What followed was utter chaos. In Germania--the new name of the new and improved Berlin (nevermind the fact that the city was sinking into the mud)--Hermann Göring was named the new Führer, as per Hitler's wishes. However, not everyone was happy about this, namely, the power-hungry Heinrich Himmler, who attempted to launch a military coup barely a week into Göring's reign. It failed, but Himmler managed to escape to the east, where he rallied the SS and the units of the Wehrmacht managing the Reichskommissariats and the ongoing Holocaust to his side. It was civil war.

The entire globe was thrown into a panic over this--the Axis were worried, the Allies were ecstatic. This was the genesis of the Second World War. An old war plan was taken down off the shelf--Operation Overlord--dusted off, and reimagined for the modern day as Operation Nemesis. The Soviets quickly began regaining ground, storming back into their stolen lands. From Gibraltar, Egypt, and Morocco, Atlantean strikes were staged, sweeping through an unprepared Axis North Africa under Operation Typhoon and piercing Spain and Italy's soft underbellies. Nationalist uprisings in Poland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and the Baltics broke out. The Thousand-Year Reich was crumbling before the world's eyes. On July 16, 1964, Operation Nemesis was finally launched. British, American, Canadian, Australian, Mexican, Japanese, and Egyptian troops massed in southeast England crossed the Channel in the largest amphibious military operation in history, landing at Calais and Dunkirk in a deliciously poetic reversal of the event that had knocked the British out of the war all those years ago. Subsequent landings at Normandy, the Hague, and Schleswig-Holstein were just as successful and just as hard fought. When the Allies arrived, the French, Belgians, and Dutch begain their own rebellions. The Reich was collapsing. Onwards the Allies pressed, with the Americans leading the charge across Europe, liberating the peoples there and putting a stop to the lingering systems still in place from the height of the Holocaust. In just over a year, the Americans were at the edge of Germania, and on July 30, 1965, the war came to an end when Himmler was captured and Göring committed suicide. Adolph Hitler's dream had faced a rude awakening.

The postwar world was very different from anything that came before. The Soviet Union reannexed all the land it had lost to the Germans during the Cold War, though they had serious issues repopulating it for quite a while. The same could be said for the Federation of Zapadoslavia, the union formed out of the ashes of Poland, Czechia, and Slovakia. Millions upon millions of Eastern Europeans had been slaughtered, leaving these lands mostly populated by ethnic Germans. That was not to be tolerated. Zapadoslavia and the USSR engaged in an enormous revenge plot together, forcibly removing German residents from their regained territories. Those that struggled were shot. Those that went without a fight were shipped off to the new "prison" that was the German Confederation, a loose confederacy of states packed with almost all ethnic Germans in Europe. This new Germany was kept under the watchful eye of the new United Nations, as a campaign of de-Nazification and collective guilt for the Holocaust was embarked upon by the occupying Allied forces. Though some predicted a new Cold War might break out between East and West, the East was simply too exhausted to do anything but play along. In Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States took the brunt of restoring order to chaotic Axis colonies, making sure to install mostly functioning governments before leaving that would not immediately sink into dictatorships and poverty as soon as they left. The only major holdover from the Cold War was the fascist governments that characterized sub-Amazonian South America. Nations like Brazil, Argentina, Peru, and Bolivia, just to name a few, had fallen to fascism over the course of the conflict. Brazil was the most worrying to the United States, so when they spotted an opportunity in 1969, they took it, artificially creating a succession crisis after assassinating the president and subsequently intervening in the ensuing civil war on the side of democracy. The rest of the countries in the region skated by undetected, though all but Argentina would eventually revert to democracy or communism by the 21st century.

The world of 1982 is very different from the world of the Cold War. After showing the absolute worst side of humanity for so long, the memory of the Nazis lives on as a reminder of everything not to be. Liberal democracy and international unity is growing rapidly, and even the Soviet Union, once the epitome of totalitarianism and isolationism, has begun to transition to democratic socialism under its new constitution. Humanity reaches out to the stars together with the United Nations Space Administration, and a crusade against global injustice and for care of the environment is exploding across the globe. It seems that President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the man who led the United States through the Great Depression, the Pacific War, and the opening act of the Cold War, was right in his assertion that the only thing we have to truly fear, is fear itself.

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Not going to lie. I tries reading it twice, but things screeched to a halt whenever you went with Hitler and Odinism. How things going in Assam? Seems China might step in there to get disputed territories, if the pink color signifies it is communist leaning. I also feel the borders in Northern Burma are iffy, as it seems to be the area China claimed, rather than their own subdivisions. Why goes Italy never take anything from Greece? What is the color in Bosnia in the last map signifying? How does Australia get away with keeping half a Mandate? I suppose it isn’t the same situation as IOTL, when the Un demanded South Africa give Namibia Wallis Bay and the Penguin Islands, despite having belonged to Cape Colony. Greenland being absorbed by the US seems a bit ridiculous, as they Americans were invited in, while this almost seems to imply they invaded it. If anything, it should go to the Kingdom of Iceland, which you seem to have given the the Faroe Island and Svalbard. Side note, this seems to wank Greece to a ridiculous extent, given they swallow up Slavic, Turkish, and Italianized land by the barrel full. The official languages of the West African states all include English rather than French? What the story with the Guianas? Seems more likely the Americans occupy that than the French one, or at least they wouldn’t hold onto it at the end.
Threadmarks should be done in all maps with more than 40 likes, I think that’s easier than every map.
Wait, people can see those likes? I assumed the reason I could only ever see those I made or others did on my posts was because the update wanted to avoid people favoring posts with a lot of likes. Is it just some new setting where you have to opt in to see others Like? As for threadmarks, I feel it is best to keep those out. It would only feed on itself, where people start skipping pages if they don’t have thread marked maps on them.
 
Wait, people can see those likes? I assumed the reason I could only ever see those I made or others did on my posts was because the update wanted to avoid people favoring posts with a lot of likes. Is it just some new setting where you have to opt in to see others Like?

Not quite.

If you see the post number, then just to the left there would be a "thumbs up" symbol with a number next to it - that is the number of likes. Click on the "thumbs up" symbol, and there is a pop up listing all of the people who gave likes to that post.
 
Not quite.

If you see the post number, then just to the left there would be a "thumbs up" symbol with a number next to it - that is the number of likes. Click on the "thumbs up" symbol, and there is a pop up listing all of the people who gave likes to that post.
Ahhh, that explains it. I always use my iPad so anything involving scrolling over or left clicking is out of my reach.
 
I made a map for a contest on reddit, where the theme was a relocated people/nation from their OTL location. For the content I borrowed from the World of Achaemenid Hellas. There's a lot of displaced-compared-to-OTL peoples in there, but I decided on the Goths of the Balkans, partially cause I couldn't find a Central Asia basemap I considered suitable. So in the end, this is what was produced.

For anyone unfamiliar with the World of Achaemenid Hellas, the name is indicative- the PoD involves Hellas falling to the Persians in 480 BCE. The timeline itself was always somewhat coy, on purpose, about exact truth or an omniscient perspective, so the timeline is almost exclusively shown through source material and quotes from different periods. Snippets of the world that came afterwards have always been present through the nature of using 'later' sources for material, and a couple of updates referred to Goths in the Balkans around the equivalent of the late 3rd century AD, with a 'Middle Iranian Empire' rising to meet them. This map is effectively the Gothic perspective on 285 AD in that scenario, showing their names for various regions in the Balkans and Anatolia, as well as showing all cities ruled by 'Goths' or that have a substantial Gothic population. This includes areas within the Middle Iranian controlled regions of Hellas.

In total I think I might have spent the most time on researching urban locations, their names, and histories compared to any other individual element of the map. Attempting transliteration into a version of Gothic, which I don't regard as being 1:1 with OTL Gothic anyway, was also somewhat challenging. A lot of cities retain a Greek name on here, and you can probably read into that that the city is still Greek ruled or Greek majority, though some locations with Gothic-ish names are meant to be fresh foundations rather than unilateral renaming.

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The world map in 2020 of a TL (https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/albion-an-empire-in-which-the-sun-never-sets.491713/) I'm doing on this site, sorry if I posting it is a little redundant (I originally posted it on the TL's thread on tuesday and only today decided to also post it here for some reason (probably my own insecurity over not having many people seeing it there). As I said previously, my computer is a failure of technology and so I'm not actually capable of posting the map as a single piece
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On the plus side, now they might just set aside all of the Dakotas for Native Americans. Though there would be bad blood if the Sioux (Dakota and Lakota) try claiming too much extra land for themselves at the expense of other tribes. And of course things are going to be difficult for loads in the Hreat Plains, not just from missile strikes on their land but from Chicago, St. Louis, and other port and major riverways being blasted to pieces. I wouldn’t be surprised if the rubble from some of the blasts clogged up a river and got it to change its course through a city.
The Dakotas are under military rule because of a Russian missile strike on Minot AFB and fallout drift into South Dakota, but the Indians in both North and South Dakota have increased political influence in the states. In general, though, the western states werent hard hit by fallout, but there were bad harvests and food shortages due to the nuclear winter.
While no rivers were redirected, coast-to-coast transit, especially rail traffic, and river traffic have been hindered due to the nuclear war.
Do you have the Franz Josef Land white due to being abandoned by any Russian state? Or just one of those thighs that got missed? Would be interesting if you went the route of Nuclear Winter causing what little land isn’t encrusted by ice to be fully hidden away. You have the Japanese leave the islands claimed by Korea in exchange for the Kuriles, including the parts they hadn’t been claiming? If the US decides to expand their own territory, I don’t see people give them Commodore Island very often. Might be something to go with.
I havent finished the map quite yet, but Franz Joseph's Land is occupied by the United States in the aftermath of the USSR's collapse.
Those islands disputed between Japan and Korea are under Korean administration and the map doesnt show territorial disputes/claims. Japan occupied the Kurils during the USSR's collapse.
For the Azores and other colored islands, are you using a new maritime border system?
What do you mean? I used the national outline for the EU around the islands, and any islands that could be colored where colored the lightest color to show autonomy.
 
What's going on in South Africa? Did the apartheid government go full fascist and survive the fall of the Third Reich and is now (1982) facing uprisings/invasion?
They didn't go full fascist, but apartheid never had the peaceful ending it did IOTL and it also got worse faster, eventually leading to an armed uprising.

Not going to lie. I tries reading it twice, but things screeched to a halt whenever you went with Hitler and Odinism.
Well, Hitler was a complete madman who was close to going off the deep end IRL. This scenario just gave him the means to go further. Also, check out this Wikipedia article about Occultism in Nazism. IOTL Franco refused to join the Axis because he didn't like how occultist Hitler seemed and that rubbed his ultra-Catholic self the wrong way.

Why goes Italy never take anything from Greece?
Italy does take things from Greece. They take the Dodecanese Islands, like they did IOTL.

What is the color in Bosnia in the last map signifying?
...That's just the SUCK color for Bosnia.

How does Australia get away with keeping half a Mandate? I suppose it isn’t the same situation as IOTL, when the Un demanded South Africa give Namibia Wallis Bay and the Penguin Islands, despite having belonged to Cape Colony.
You seem like you're rambling here. The Australians wanted that half of New Guinea. With the United Nations not existing ITTL until after alt-WWII ended in 1968, they couldn't appeal to them for independence. The Anglo-Americans didn't particularly care, since keeping Australia happy during a cold war where most of Indonesia doesn't like you is critical. Therefore the Australians integrated Papua New Guinea.

Greenland being absorbed by the US seems a bit ridiculous, as they Americans were invited in, while this almost seems to imply they invaded it. If anything, it should go to the Kingdom of Iceland, which you seem to have given the the Faroe Island and Svalbard.
ITTL the Americans were still invited into Greenland, since Iceland didn't have the means to maintain such a far-flung union between Greenland and Svalbard. The Americans stuck around for a long time, and in the 1950s they annexed Greenland, which by then most of the residents supported since the Americans had been so well behaved the whole time.

Also, did you miss the part about a slight resurgence in Manifest Destiny? Mild Manifest Destiny meets Cold War peacekeeping equals the US annexing whatever it can get its paws on. Also, given that they're opposing the Nazis, almost all of Western Europe is under a fascist dictatorship, and that the US has taken a sharper slide to the left to oppose the Reich's slide to the right, the United States is objectively one of the best countries in TTL's world. Oppressed peoples from far-flung poor lands escaping the Nazis or Soviets or Chinese aren't going to exactly oppose becoming a part of the Union.

Side note, this seems to wank Greece to a ridiculous extent, given they swallow up Slavic, Turkish, and Italianized land by the barrel full.
Uh, no. The Allies ITTL did that because they understandably want revenge on the Nazis and their complicit friends for shit like the Holocaust or keeping an entire continent under totalitarian heel for twenty-eight years. The Greeks were fucked over as an Italian protectorate who lost extremely important land to Bulgaria and Italy for twenty-seven years, so the Allies merely returned the favor when they could and made Greece big.

The official languages of the West African states all include English rather than French?
Those along the coast do, yes, though French is still present in some countries.

What the story with the Guianas? Seems more likely the Americans occupy that than the French one, or at least they wouldn’t hold onto it at the end.
After the revolts in Indonesia the Dutch government-in-exile moved to Guiana since they didn't feel the East Indies were safe anymore. The Americans, on the other hand, were the main power to take over France's colonial holdings outside of Africa, so they occupied French Guiana, and then just held onto it because it was right next to a fascist threat (Brazil) and was a good staging ground for a potential incursion. Also, it's good for launching rockets.

Also, why are you asking me all these questions if you flat-out say you couldn't be bothered to read the whole thing?
 
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It was mostly Himmler that was into that stuff, though.
Sure, but Hitler ITTL had years of Himmler whispering in his ear about how he was a demigod-on-earth and how his seemingly impossible victories were only proof of his godly powers.

The Nazis were whackjobs. It wouldn't take much to convince a fanatic like Hitler, especially a Hitler who won every war he started, that he was a god.
 
Well, Hitler was a complete madman who was close to going off the deep end IRL. This scenario just gave him the means to go further. Also, check out this Wikipedia article about Occultism in Nazism. IOTL Franco refused to join the Axis because he didn't like how occultist Hitler seemed and that rubbed his ultra-Catholic self the wrong way.

Italy does take things from Greece. They take the Dodecanese Islands, like they did IOTL.

...That's just the SUCK color for Bosnia.

You seem like you're rambling here. The Australians wanted that half of New Guinea. With the United Nations not existing ITTL until after alt-WWII ended in 1968, they couldn't appeal to them for independence. The Anglo-Americans didn't particularly care, since keeping Australia happy during a cold war where most of Indonesia doesn't like you is critical. Therefore the Australians integrated Papua New Guinea.

ITTL the Americans were still invited into Greenland, since Iceland didn't have the means to maintain such a far-flung union between Greenland and Svalbard. The Americans stuck around for a long time, and in the 1950s they annexed Greenland, which by then most of the residents supported since the Americans had been so well behaved the whole time.

Also, did you miss the part about a slight resurgence in Manifest Destiny? Mild Manifest Destiny meets Cold War peacekeeping equals the US annexing whatever it can get its paws on. Also, given that they're opposing the Nazis, almost all of Western Europe is under a fascist dictatorship, and that the US has taken a sharper slide to the left to oppose the Reich's slide to the right, the United States is objectively one of the best countries in TTL's world. Oppressed peoples from far-flung poor lands escaping the Nazis or Soviets or Chinese aren't going to exactly oppose becoming a part of the Union.

Uh, no. The Allies ITTL did that because they understandably want revenge on the Nazis and their complicit friends for shit like the Holocaust or keeping an entire continent under totalitarian heel for twenty-eight years. The Greeks were fucked over as an Italian protectorate who lost extremely important land to Bulgaria and Italy for twenty-seven years, so the Allies merely returned the favor when they could and made Greece big.

Those along the coast do, yes, though French is still present in some countries.

After the revolts in Indonesia the Dutch government-in-exile moved to Guiana since they didn't feel the East Indies were safe anymore. The Americans, on the other hand, were the main power to take over France's colonial holdings outside of Africa, so they occupied French Guiana, and then just held onto it because it was right next to a fascist threat (Brazil) and was a good staging ground for a potential incursion. Also, it's good for launching rockets.

Also, why are you asking me all these questions if you flat-out say you couldn't be bothered to read the whole thing?
I did read the majority of your thing, it was just a bit ... Made it difficult to keep my eyes on it. Hitler had no respect for any occultist stuff and you will need to cite something about the Franco thing, since I don’t believe that has been given as a motive before. Italy got the Dodecanese Island from Turkey in 1912, not from Greece. Your logic for Greenland is strange and I don’t see how it would push Americans into some other Manifest Destiny, especially as the whole thing was about settling areas, not annexing places they had been invited to protect from the Germans. You are inconsistent when relating to the Guianas and and Greenland, and you do not even Dutch Guiana as being occupied by the Americans during WWII, which it seems they would have done here if they had been going along with the whole ‘Manifest Destiny’ revival, given they DID occupied it IOTL. Also, goodbye Good Neighbor Policy. For Bosnia I was asking because of the two colors and I did not recognize the outline color you gave it anywhere on the map, making it look as though it were still an Italian satellite. New Guinea is actually a similar issue to most of the colonies you give the Americans here, which are incredibly different in racial composition, language, climate, etc. basically, not something many would see as worth having. And if you must know, I did search the page for the words of these countries so that I didn’t bring it up if the subject was indeed in your post. For the most part they were not, and I didn’t touch a lot of the more ridiculous stuff. Also, your thing about the Greeks losing land to Italy is unfounded, so it makes your excuse taking the Turkish land and giving it to them, as well as the Serbian Macedonian lands, a case of robbing Peter to pay Paul. Thank you for the reply, it explained a fair bit.

Sure, but Hitler ITTL had years of Himmler whispering in his ear about how he was a demigod-on-earth and how his seemingly impossible victories were only proof of his godly powers.

The Nazis were whackjobs. It wouldn't take much to convince a fanatic like Hitler, especially a Hitler who won every war he started, that he was a god.
And this explains so much more.
 
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I did read the majority of your thing, it was just a bit ... Made it difficult to keep my eyes on it. Hitler had no respect for any occultist stuff and you will need to cite something about the Franco thing, since I don’t believe that has been given as a motive before. Italy got the Dodecanese Island from Turkey in 1912, not from Greece. Your logic for Greenland is strange and I don’t see how it would push Americans into some other Manifest Destiny, especially as the whole thing was about settling areas, not annexing places they had been invited to protect from the Germans. You are inconsistent when relating to the Guianas and and Greenland, and you do not even Dutch Guiana as being occupied by the Americans during WWII, which it seems they would have done here if they had been going along with the whole ‘Manifest Destiny’ revival, given they DID occupied it IOTL. Also, goodbye Good Neighbor Policy. For Bosnia I was asking because of the two colors and I did not recognize the outline color you gave it anywhere on the map, making it look as though it were still an Italian satellite. New Guinea is actually a similar issue to most of the colonies you give the Americans here, which are incredibly different in racial composition, language, climate, etc. basically, not something many would see as worth having. And if you must know, I did search the page for the words of these countries so that I didn’t bring it up if the subject was indeed in your post. For the most part they were not, and I didn’t touch a lot of the more ridiculous stuff. Also, your thing about the Greeks losing land to Italy is unfounded, so it makes your excuse taking the Turkish land and giving it to them, as well as the Serbian Macedonian lands, a case of robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Sorry, I didn't realize you were the Lord of All Cartography.

This is a map I spent a few days on. I do not pretend to be an expert on history of any type. If I make a few errors, or if I make a few rash judgements, that's because I'm not perfect, nor an expert. By all means, if I made a map where the Nazis defeated the British through Operation Sealion, argue with me about the viability of such a major change and how unrealistic it is. But my god, you don't have to point out every little detail that seems off. This is a thing I made for fun without doing any extensive amount of research, not a dissertation for you to pick apart every piece of.

Also, like I said, if you're going to criticize the scenario so much, kindly read the entire accompanying write-up. Don't just skim and scan it.
 
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