Easily one of the best things I've seen on the site all year. Really exceptional stuff.
A native state in Carolina in a world where Native Americans were much more resistant to European diseases than in OTL. Location helper here.
Map Thread XXI
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When John Eaton was elected President of the United States in 1836, few could have predicted what the next decade or so would have in store for the union, and for North America as a whole. The social convulsions that spread from Canada to certain states of the Union in the aftermath of the Panic of 1841 (caused, depending on who you ask, by either changes in British financial policies or the abolition of the Bank of the United States by Eaton, or by the natural end of the land value bubble of decades past) were politically exploited by Eaton, who saw them as an expression of popular support for his Jeffersonian democratic ideals and a condemnation of the Federalist governments which had maintained elitist administrations and restricted voting rights for poorer white men. The political convulsions caused by the President's support for rebellions against certain state governments led Eaton to further pursue reckless populist policies, including aggressive posturing against the UK, which had taken the regions of Michigan, Wisconsin and New Ireland from the USA after their victory in the Anglo-American War of 1809. This revanchist nationalism was a success for Eaton amongst the general public, but it caused a downwards spiral of escalation, and eventually the Anglo-American War of 1842 began.
While the United Kingdom and the USA came to blows along the Great Lakes, events continued to deteriorate elsewhere. In 1843, any recovery from the Panic of 1841 in the US South was brought to a swift end by the enormous growth of the Boll Weevil, brought up from Mexico and across the Mississippi by Spanish cotton planters. American planters went bankrupt en masse, and many abandoned their plantations, slaves and all. The Spanish in Louisiana fared little better, and the Viceroy's attempts to manage the crisis by phasing out slavery led to a backlash amongst the already-stressed Anglo community. A series of rebel republics sprouted up across the Anglo-dominated regions of Gran Luisiana, first amongst the slaver-dominated Anglos of Texas and the Arkansas Trail, and quickly spreading to the Anglos of the Missouri river and the Upper Mississippi, who cared less about slavery than they did about breaking free of Spanish control.
President Eaton's failure to achieve any significant successes against Britain, despite some individual victories, led to the defeat of his Democratic-Republican successor by Rufus Choate, leading a new National Party (bringing together the old and new opposition factions). President Choate rapidly undertook negotiations with Britain, ending the war without territorial changes. A slate of federalist policies were pursued, from federal taxation and tariffs, to the abolition of slavery, to federal intervention in the Southern states so as to re-establish "order" amongst the former slaves and poor whites who were deemed to have seized control of southern governments in a 'lawless' and 'anarchic' manner by national elites.
The northwestern states did not respond well to Choate's policies. They had been the most supportive of efforts to retake Michigan and Wisconsin, and now the President was engaging in the largest reforms to the nation since its establishment, with many fearing that the President's real goal was to expand military rule from the South across the whole nation. Northwestern cities opposed tariffs due to their dependence on trade via British-controlled St Lawrence canals, and Northwestern farmers were deeply hostile to both federal taxes and tariffs. These states formed a pact to resist the imposition of federal 'dictates' which they believed to be unconstitutional, and the hostile reaction from the Choate administration led to the formation of a Northwestern Confederation that did everything but formally secede.
Spanish aid to the Northwestern states, plus increasingly lurid stories of Spanish atrocities against Anglo rebels in Louisiana, forced the federal government's hand, and the USA soon found itself at war with Spain in 1846, its military forces having moved from the Great Lakes to the South and the Mississippi in just two years.
Unsurprisingly, early successes in taking control of land dominated by anti-Spanish rebels were soon followed by failures against actual Spanish forces, especially at sea, given the American navy was far from having recovered from war with Britain. The USA had come under incredible stress due to two radically polarising presidents and two unsuccessful wars, and President Choate needed a way out from crisis. In 1848, a treaty was signed with the United Kingdom, which provided for great freedoms of trade, migration, and investment between the two nations. In return for low tariffs on Anglo-American trade, and an end to American threats against Canada, the United Kingdom agreed to intervene against Spain, an easy sell to Britons who hungrily consumed stories of Spanish brutality against Anglo-Saxon settlers. Some in Philadelphia did challenge the treaty, but four decades of struggle had led enough of the American elite to accept the idea of British protection in return for unity and economic growth.
British intervention would soon lead to the annexation of most of Louisiana and the Floridas, with the remnants of the Viceroyalty of Gran Luisiana (a mishmash of territories separated from New Spain in 1814 to promote investment and settlement) being reintegrated with the Viceroyalty of New Spain. The Rebel Republics of Louisiana would become the colonies of Augusta and Upper Louisiana (later renamed Auzarkia), and Lower Louisiana (later renamed Aurelia) would become a Quebec-style autonomous colony dominated by Franco-Spanish Catholics and given certain freedoms in return for submission to Britain.
With time, the native territories of northern Louisiana and Rupert's Land would be partitioned into new colonies, and all the colonies in former Louisiana would form the Commonwealth of Louisiana, separated from the more fractious Realm of Canada by Sault Ste. Marie and the Canadian Shield, united by railroads that radiated out from Great Lakes ports like Du Luth and stretched from the Far North to the Gulf Coast. Emigrants from Europe arriving via Montreal and New York flowed across the plains of Louisiana, mixing with the masses of US-origin Americans taking advantage of their treaty-based rights to free migration and free trade. Oregon, despite having been surrendered to Britain by Spain, had a large population unwilling to become either a direct British colony or part of Louisiana, and Britain eventually relented and allowed it to become its own independent Commonwealth separate from Louisiana.
Cooperation between the United Kingdom and the United States broadened with time, beginning with anti-Irish policies in the late 1840s, to the 1865-66 intervention in the New Spanish rebellion to 'liberate' California, to imperialist meddling in the post-Spanish independent states of the Greater Caribbean. With the development of independent governments in Canada, Louisiana, Oregon and California, this cooperation became not just a bilateral relationship but a multilateral, Pan-American and Pan-Anglo-Saxon movement deeply integrated with the ideologies of the time (free trade, new imperialism, racialism and global great power competition).
1899 would prove to be the peak of this relationship. The rise of class politics, and the growing salience of the difference in interests between British and North American elites, would prove fatal to Anglo-American unity.
While the United Kingdom and the USA came to blows along the Great Lakes, events continued to deteriorate elsewhere. In 1843, any recovery from the Panic of 1841 in the US South was brought to a swift end by the enormous growth of the Boll Weevil, brought up from Mexico and across the Mississippi by Spanish cotton planters. American planters went bankrupt en masse, and many abandoned their plantations, slaves and all. The Spanish in Louisiana fared little better, and the Viceroy's attempts to manage the crisis by phasing out slavery led to a backlash amongst the already-stressed Anglo community. A series of rebel republics sprouted up across the Anglo-dominated regions of Gran Luisiana, first amongst the slaver-dominated Anglos of Texas and the Arkansas Trail, and quickly spreading to the Anglos of the Missouri river and the Upper Mississippi, who cared less about slavery than they did about breaking free of Spanish control.
President Eaton's failure to achieve any significant successes against Britain, despite some individual victories, led to the defeat of his Democratic-Republican successor by Rufus Choate, leading a new National Party (bringing together the old and new opposition factions). President Choate rapidly undertook negotiations with Britain, ending the war without territorial changes. A slate of federalist policies were pursued, from federal taxation and tariffs, to the abolition of slavery, to federal intervention in the Southern states so as to re-establish "order" amongst the former slaves and poor whites who were deemed to have seized control of southern governments in a 'lawless' and 'anarchic' manner by national elites.
The northwestern states did not respond well to Choate's policies. They had been the most supportive of efforts to retake Michigan and Wisconsin, and now the President was engaging in the largest reforms to the nation since its establishment, with many fearing that the President's real goal was to expand military rule from the South across the whole nation. Northwestern cities opposed tariffs due to their dependence on trade via British-controlled St Lawrence canals, and Northwestern farmers were deeply hostile to both federal taxes and tariffs. These states formed a pact to resist the imposition of federal 'dictates' which they believed to be unconstitutional, and the hostile reaction from the Choate administration led to the formation of a Northwestern Confederation that did everything but formally secede.
Spanish aid to the Northwestern states, plus increasingly lurid stories of Spanish atrocities against Anglo rebels in Louisiana, forced the federal government's hand, and the USA soon found itself at war with Spain in 1846, its military forces having moved from the Great Lakes to the South and the Mississippi in just two years.
Unsurprisingly, early successes in taking control of land dominated by anti-Spanish rebels were soon followed by failures against actual Spanish forces, especially at sea, given the American navy was far from having recovered from war with Britain. The USA had come under incredible stress due to two radically polarising presidents and two unsuccessful wars, and President Choate needed a way out from crisis. In 1848, a treaty was signed with the United Kingdom, which provided for great freedoms of trade, migration, and investment between the two nations. In return for low tariffs on Anglo-American trade, and an end to American threats against Canada, the United Kingdom agreed to intervene against Spain, an easy sell to Britons who hungrily consumed stories of Spanish brutality against Anglo-Saxon settlers. Some in Philadelphia did challenge the treaty, but four decades of struggle had led enough of the American elite to accept the idea of British protection in return for unity and economic growth.
British intervention would soon lead to the annexation of most of Louisiana and the Floridas, with the remnants of the Viceroyalty of Gran Luisiana (a mishmash of territories separated from New Spain in 1814 to promote investment and settlement) being reintegrated with the Viceroyalty of New Spain. The Rebel Republics of Louisiana would become the colonies of Augusta and Upper Louisiana (later renamed Auzarkia), and Lower Louisiana (later renamed Aurelia) would become a Quebec-style autonomous colony dominated by Franco-Spanish Catholics and given certain freedoms in return for submission to Britain.
With time, the native territories of northern Louisiana and Rupert's Land would be partitioned into new colonies, and all the colonies in former Louisiana would form the Commonwealth of Louisiana, separated from the more fractious Realm of Canada by Sault Ste. Marie and the Canadian Shield, united by railroads that radiated out from Great Lakes ports like Du Luth and stretched from the Far North to the Gulf Coast. Emigrants from Europe arriving via Montreal and New York flowed across the plains of Louisiana, mixing with the masses of US-origin Americans taking advantage of their treaty-based rights to free migration and free trade. Oregon, despite having been surrendered to Britain by Spain, had a large population unwilling to become either a direct British colony or part of Louisiana, and Britain eventually relented and allowed it to become its own independent Commonwealth separate from Louisiana.
Cooperation between the United Kingdom and the United States broadened with time, beginning with anti-Irish policies in the late 1840s, to the 1865-66 intervention in the New Spanish rebellion to 'liberate' California, to imperialist meddling in the post-Spanish independent states of the Greater Caribbean. With the development of independent governments in Canada, Louisiana, Oregon and California, this cooperation became not just a bilateral relationship but a multilateral, Pan-American and Pan-Anglo-Saxon movement deeply integrated with the ideologies of the time (free trade, new imperialism, racialism and global great power competition).
1899 would prove to be the peak of this relationship. The rise of class politics, and the growing salience of the difference in interests between British and North American elites, would prove fatal to Anglo-American unity.
I had a bit of trouble with this map - both due to my laptop not being able to handle a QGIS export this big, and because there are a few things about this map I'm unsure of - including Florida in British Louisiana, for example, versus giving it to the US as a consolation prize and/or revenge against the Seminoles. This was more an effort to hash out this scenario I've had in mind for a while, and I'm still not sure it 100% makes sense, but I'd rather put it out there than wait to come up with a perfect idea. I'm happy to answer any questions people have, though!
Amazing!Finally done the full version of my "flipped south" map idea.
You will need to zoom in lol
Point of divergence is 899 AD, when everything south of an imaginary line (through Florence and the southern tip of Sakhalin) is flipped horizontally. Some geology changed as a result of the flip.
SIBANIA
-from Japanese "zi-pan"
-latinised into "sibania"
GORIA
-from Korean "Goryo"
-latinised into "Gorio"
-over time morphed into "Goria"
TANCIA
-mixing of 2 names, "Tianxia" (under heaven) and "Tang Guok" (Tang Country)
-Tianxia was rendered as "Tansia" and Tang Guk was "Tancu"
-"Tancu" was usually used as "Tancian Empire" so "Tancia" became more common
CESCUTIA
-from "Kes" meaning "strait"
-Chinese name "Kesi guok"
-latinised sounds "Kesgwo" into "Cescu" for the people
-place name "Cescutia"
CAMBUCIA
-from Kampuchea
MAYAMA
-from local "Myamma"
MAJAPAY
-from Majapait (variant of Majapahit)
NANJI
-former Chinese colony
-From Chinese for "Southern extreme" (or "south pole")
DOLADURA
-former Dravidian colony
-from tamil "Tolaituura Natu" ("faraway country")
SINWAN
-Former korean colony
-from korean "Sin-wan-do" (new far island)
ENIBEAN OCEAN
-from arabic for "turbulent"
-not in reference to the waters, but the tremors which marked the flip
MULVATU
-former Dravidian colony
-I forget
ALAMANA
-Dravidian colony, from "ALAMANA TERKU" (deep south)
ALABAYA
-Maroccan colony
-from arabic "al Ghaba" ("the forest")
-Latinised ending added over time
NIMI ISLANDS (CONGO)
-Named after the Congolese ruling/founding dynasty
TADDAYA
-former dravidian colony
-from the word for "flat" (Taṭṭaiyāṉatu)
ZILJAD
-former andalus colony
-from "new house" (manzil jadid)
ABAGUNI
-from former Guarani self-name "Abá" meaning "men"/"people"
-after Japanese influence, statehood came about and "kuni" (country) was added
Bunayaris
-from "Buenos Aires" into Arabic "Buynis Ayaris" into shortened "Bunayaris"
A lot of the tribal migrations, especially in Siberia and central Asia, are completely different. North American migrations are also greatly changed.
The European Papacy is based in Avignon.
EDIT: As always, I noticed a few mistakes lol. Reuploaded and replaced.
How has this changed the climate everywhere?
Did the Indian Monsoon flip?
Is the Old Southeast US as dry as california?
Is there massive rainforests in the former Sahara?
How much heat is Europe getting these days?
And how did Congo get so T H I C C?
Thanks!
Yes the Indian Monsoon flipped along with India. Japan's climate is flipped a bit too, with the Atlantic coast being much drier and becoming like southern Spain, while the Mediterranean coast is like OTL Sicily. It's made Tohoku and Hokkaido much warmer and easier to settle.
OTL Southeast USA is drier, but because of the vast forests, it has resisted desertification. The transported Appalachians have also become similar to OTL Colorado.
I don't know much about climates and currents, so I don't know about Europe haha.
Congo is THICC because they are not fighting off the Portuguese ITTL. At least, that's my headcanon. They manage to unite the smaller kingdoms and states around them thanks to increased trade with the Muslim world and the Byzantines.
Cool map!
DA link here.
When John Eaton was elected President of the United States in 1836, few could have predicted what the next decade or so would have in store for the union, and for North America as a whole. The social convulsions that spread from Canada to certain states of the Union in the aftermath of the Panic of 1841 (caused, depending on who you ask, by either changes in British financial policies or the abolition of the Bank of the United States by Eaton, or by the natural end of the land value bubble of decades past) were politically exploited by Eaton, who saw them as an expression of popular support for his Jeffersonian democratic ideals and a condemnation of the Federalist governments which had maintained elitist administrations and restricted voting rights for poorer white men. The political convulsions caused by the President's support for rebellions against certain state governments led Eaton to further pursue reckless populist policies, including aggressive posturing against the UK, which had taken the regions of Michigan, Wisconsin and New Ireland from the USA after their victory in the Anglo-American War of 1809. This revanchist nationalism was a success for Eaton amongst the general public, but it caused a downwards spiral of escalation, and eventually the Anglo-American War of 1842 began.
While the United Kingdom and the USA came to blows along the Great Lakes, events continued to deteriorate elsewhere. In 1843, any recovery from the Panic of 1841 in the US South was brought to a swift end by the enormous growth of the Boll Weevil, brought up from Mexico and across the Mississippi by Spanish cotton planters. American planters went bankrupt en masse, and many abandoned their plantations, slaves and all. The Spanish in Louisiana fared little better, and the Viceroy's attempts to manage the crisis by phasing out slavery led to a backlash amongst the already-stressed Anglo community. A series of rebel republics sprouted up across the Anglo-dominated regions of Gran Luisiana, first amongst the slaver-dominated Anglos of Texas and the Arkansas Trail, and quickly spreading to the Anglos of the Missouri river and the Upper Mississippi, who cared less about slavery than they did about breaking free of Spanish control.
President Eaton's failure to achieve any significant successes against Britain, despite some individual victories, led to the defeat of his Democratic-Republican successor by Rufus Choate, leading a new National Party (bringing together the old and new opposition factions). President Choate rapidly undertook negotiations with Britain, ending the war without territorial changes. A slate of federalist policies were pursued, from federal taxation and tariffs, to the abolition of slavery, to federal intervention in the Southern states so as to re-establish "order" amongst the former slaves and poor whites who were deemed to have seized control of southern governments in a 'lawless' and 'anarchic' manner by national elites.
The northwestern states did not respond well to Choate's policies. They had been the most supportive of efforts to retake Michigan and Wisconsin, and now the President was engaging in the largest reforms to the nation since its establishment, with many fearing that the President's real goal was to expand military rule from the South across the whole nation. Northwestern cities opposed tariffs due to their dependence on trade via British-controlled St Lawrence canals, and Northwestern farmers were deeply hostile to both federal taxes and tariffs. These states formed a pact to resist the imposition of federal 'dictates' which they believed to be unconstitutional, and the hostile reaction from the Choate administration led to the formation of a Northwestern Confederation that did everything but formally secede.
Spanish aid to the Northwestern states, plus increasingly lurid stories of Spanish atrocities against Anglo rebels in Louisiana, forced the federal government's hand, and the USA soon found itself at war with Spain in 1846, its military forces having moved from the Great Lakes to the South and the Mississippi in just two years.
Unsurprisingly, early successes in taking control of land dominated by anti-Spanish rebels were soon followed by failures against actual Spanish forces, especially at sea, given the American navy was far from having recovered from war with Britain. The USA had come under incredible stress due to two radically polarising presidents and two unsuccessful wars, and President Choate needed a way out from crisis. In 1848, a treaty was signed with the United Kingdom, which provided for great freedoms of trade, migration, and investment between the two nations. In return for low tariffs on Anglo-American trade, and an end to American threats against Canada, the United Kingdom agreed to intervene against Spain, an easy sell to Britons who hungrily consumed stories of Spanish brutality against Anglo-Saxon settlers. Some in Philadelphia did challenge the treaty, but four decades of struggle had led enough of the American elite to accept the idea of British protection in return for unity and economic growth.
British intervention would soon lead to the annexation of most of Louisiana and the Floridas, with the remnants of the Viceroyalty of Gran Luisiana (a mishmash of territories separated from New Spain in 1814 to promote investment and settlement) being reintegrated with the Viceroyalty of New Spain. The Rebel Republics of Louisiana would become the colonies of Augusta and Upper Louisiana (later renamed Auzarkia), and Lower Louisiana (later renamed Aurelia) would become a Quebec-style autonomous colony dominated by Franco-Spanish Catholics and given certain freedoms in return for submission to Britain.
With time, the native territories of northern Louisiana and Rupert's Land would be partitioned into new colonies, and all the colonies in former Louisiana would form the Commonwealth of Louisiana, separated from the more fractious Realm of Canada by Sault Ste. Marie and the Canadian Shield, united by railroads that radiated out from Great Lakes ports like Du Luth and stretched from the Far North to the Gulf Coast. Emigrants from Europe arriving via Montreal and New York flowed across the plains of Louisiana, mixing with the masses of US-origin Americans taking advantage of their treaty-based rights to free migration and free trade. Oregon, despite having been surrendered to Britain by Spain, had a large population unwilling to become either a direct British colony or part of Louisiana, and Britain eventually relented and allowed it to become its own independent Commonwealth separate from Louisiana.
Cooperation between the United Kingdom and the United States broadened with time, beginning with anti-Irish policies in the late 1840s, to the 1865-66 intervention in the New Spanish rebellion to 'liberate' California, to imperialist meddling in the post-Spanish independent states of the Greater Caribbean. With the development of independent governments in Canada, Louisiana, Oregon and California, this cooperation became not just a bilateral relationship but a multilateral, Pan-American and Pan-Anglo-Saxon movement deeply integrated with the ideologies of the time (free trade, new imperialism, racialism and global great power competition).
1899 would prove to be the peak of this relationship. The rise of class politics, and the growing salience of the difference in interests between British and North American elites, would prove fatal to Anglo-American unity.
I had a bit of trouble with this map - both due to my laptop not being able to handle a QGIS export this big, and because there are a few things about this map I'm unsure of - including Florida in British Louisiana, for example, versus giving it to the US as a consolation prize and/or revenge against the Seminoles. This was more an effort to hash out this scenario I've had in mind for a while, and I'm still not sure it 100% makes sense, but I'd rather put it out there than wait to come up with a perfect idea. I'm happy to answer any questions people have, though!
The hashing is a bit too much (makes the text a bit harder to read, the different hashing is hard to make out right away) but then again I'm not sure what I would've done differently.
What is the reason behind the name "Durand"? Why is my hometown of Hamilton, ON renamed?
I like itBut with no North Arrow, it took me a li'l while to figure out exactly what I was looking at
I didn't see the link to your location helper until after I had already puzzled over it...
Haha that's kind of the reason I wanted to put it sideways tbh. Especially with a concept so alien I like that it takes some time to figure it out, gives it some extra weight once the realization comes.
Thank you!
I was particularly amused by the fact that Cheraw, of all places, is the capital and major metropolis here... as my uncle and his family lived there for a long time. No offense to any... Cherawvians? Cherawites? Who might be on here, but I always found visiting there a bit underwhelming
For most North Carolinians, it's just a speed trap that you wind up passing through on the way to Myrtle Beach
(no lie, at one time I think like 75% of their local revenue was derived from traffic stops...)
Thanks! I know what you mean, I tried to put a bit of a white glow behind the text to make it easier to read, but inkscape gave me a lot of trouble meaning it ended up not being that noticeable. In retrospect maybe I should have made the colours paler to contrast more with the text.
OTL Hamilton is named after an officer from the war of 1812 called George Hamilton who bought the land from the local MP James Durand - given the war of 1812 is pretty different ATL, I thought it would be a plausible name change.
Abkhazia and Hayastan are missing their capitals.Finally done the full version of my "flipped south" map idea.
You will need to zoom in lol
Point of divergence is 899 AD, when everything south of an imaginary line (through Florence and the southern tip of Sakhalin) is flipped horizontally. Some geology changed as a result of the flip.
SIBANIA
-from Japanese "zi-pan"
-latinised into "sibania"
GORIA
-from Korean "Goryo"
-latinised into "Gorio"
-over time morphed into "Goria"
TANCIA
-mixing of 2 names, "Tianxia" (under heaven) and "Tang Guok" (Tang Country)
-Tianxia was rendered as "Tansia" and Tang Guk was "Tancu"
-"Tancu" was usually used as "Tancian Empire" so "Tancia" became more common
CESCUTIA
-from "Kes" meaning "strait"
-Chinese name "Kesi guok"
-latinised sounds "Kesgwo" into "Cescu" for the people
-place name "Cescutia"
CAMBUCIA
-from Kampuchea
MAYAMA
-from local "Myamma"
MAJAPAY
-from Majapait (variant of Majapahit)
NANJI
-former Chinese colony
-From Chinese for "Southern extreme" (or "south pole")
DOLADURA
-former Dravidian colony
-from tamil "Tolaituura Natu" ("faraway country")
SINWAN
-Former korean colony
-from korean "Sin-wan-do" (new far island)
ENIBEAN OCEAN
-from arabic for "turbulent"
-not in reference to the waters, but the tremors which marked the flip
MULVATU
-former Dravidian colony
-I forget
ALAMANA
-Dravidian colony, from "ALAMANA TERKU" (deep south)
ALABAYA
-Maroccan colony
-from arabic "al Ghaba" ("the forest")
-Latinised ending added over time
NIMI ISLANDS (CONGO)
-Named after the Congolese ruling/founding dynasty
TADDAYA
-former dravidian colony
-from the word for "flat" (Taṭṭaiyāṉatu)
ZILJAD
-former andalus colony
-from "new house" (manzil jadid)
ABAGUNI
-from former Guarani self-name "Abá" meaning "men"/"people"
-after Japanese influence, statehood came about and "kuni" (country) was added
Bunayaris
-from "Buenos Aires" into Arabic "Buynis Ayaris" into shortened "Bunayaris"
A lot of the tribal migrations, especially in Siberia and central Asia, are completely different. North American migrations are also greatly changed.
The European Papacy is based in Avignon.
EDIT: As always, I noticed a few mistakes lol. Reuploaded and replaced.
This is amazing, I love this kind of ISOT.
I have only one nit-pick, why would Austria "restore" a descendant of the Kaiser rather than one of the Habsburgs?
I would imagine they restored a descendant of the Austrian Kaiser? Kaiser is just the German word for Emperor so it was used in both Germany and Austria.
Hayastan is an Armenian Muslim state, while Armenia was a Roman satellite, claiming the territory of Greater Armenia.
My take on the world of Lenin-1 from GURPS Infinite Worlds. Credit to Rvbomally for the inspiration from his take on this scenario.
The point of divergence is that Henry Wallace is able to keep his position as vice president in July 1944 due to Roosevelt deciding to keep Henry Wallace on the ticket instead of Harry Truman despite the resistance of conservative Democrats. When Roosevelt dies in April 1945, Henry Wallace would become president of the United States just as Harry Truman did in OTL 1945. President Henry Wallace would engage in a pacifist pro-Soviet foreign policy of disarmament and appeasement of Stalin, first granting the Soviets an occupation zone in North Japan and ceding Stalin the cities of Berlin and Vienna. Wallace would withdraw American troops from Germany and Japan soon after, with Soviet troops replacing American troops. With the withdrawal of American troops and financial support to anti-communists in Europe, communists would expand their control over Europe, first with France in 1947, Italy in 1948, Greece in 1949, and Iran in 1953. In 1948, President Henry Wallace would barely survive re-election against Thomas Dewey, continuing his foreign and domestic policy agenda of social reform, disarmament, and economic readjustment. In 1949, Mao's communists would conquer all of mainland China, destroying the remnants of the KMT after Chinese communists landed in Taiwan and crushed Chaing Kai Shek's army for good. The Republicans in America would squawk about the loss of China, but most Americans were disinterested in another land war in Asia, even as Korea went communist in 1950, Indochina in 1953, and the Philippines in 1956.
Churchill would become prime minister again in 1951 and engage in a policy of containment. The loss of India in 1947 with the establishment of the Socialist Republic of India would turn the British to contain communists in Africa and the Middle East. The British would intervene against communist guerillas in Malaya, Kenya, and Aden in the 1950s. Although the strains of keeping Britain in the containment business would be difficult for Churchill to advertise to the British people, being dethroned as prime minister in 1956. Churchill would retire from British politics altogether and accepted a history professorship at Fulton University in Missouri. In 1952, Eisenhower would be elected president after 20 years of Democrats in the white house and would respond to communist movements in the Western hemisphere, overthrowing Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954 and landing American marines in Havana in 1959 to quell Castro's communists. President Nixon would continue Eisenhower's policy, intervening in the Dominican Republic and Peru, although this would accelerate Eienhower's domestic statism even further as the postwar economy ran out of steam. In 1974, during the height of the winter of content, British socialist and leftist parties would win elections and declare a socialist republic, and abolish the monarchy, forcing the monarchy to flee to Canada. In the same year, India would proclaim its independence from the Soviets and China and declared itself a People's Republic after detonating a nuclear weapon. In 1981, a popular front of communists, socialists, and leftists would win elections in Mexico and establish a communist state in Mexico, drawing no response from President Ted Kennedy.
By 1989, the communist world is in a tripolar struggle between the Soviet Union, India, and China for dominance of the true leader of communism. The Soviet Union is by far the most powerful empire the world has ever seen, exerting a sphere of influence over all of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The Soviet Union is still very hardline communist and Stalinist-lite under the rule of Suslov and Grishin, although maintaining a massive army at full strength to defeat China and to overawe India is bringing the Kremlin to the end of its economic rope even with the resources of nearly the entire world, and it doesn't help that the Kremlin is engaging in the suicidal communist economic system. China is still Maoist in this timeline, continuing politics of mass starvation and industrial collectivism. China seeks to dethrone the Soviet Union to become the hegemon of the communist world, funding Marxist-Leninist-Maoist movements globally and preparing for the inevitable war with the Soviet Union, at least in the eyes of the Chinese Communist Party politburo. India is also a socialist state, although is de facto a representative republic, although the socialists have a monopoly on power in New Delhi. Since becoming a nuclear power in 1974, India has positioned itself as the leader of the Non-Aligned Bloc, with dissident communist countries joining India if they want to go their own way and not be a servant to Moscow or Beijing. The United States is the sole capitalist great power in the world, although has been suffering from economic malaise and decline since the 1970s.
The world is poorer, more totalitarian, technologically backward by a decade, and overall much crappier than in our own timeline, with communism racking up at least 200 million dead in this timeline and billions more trapped in eternal poverty while the politburos rule as the wealthy elites. Either the three communist superpowers destroy themselves (and the rest of the world) in a nuclear war over who is the true leader of communism or the inevitable dialect of history sweeps the capitalist United States to join the rest of the communist world in grim egalitarian poverty.
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Agreed, Kaiser is German for Emperor but it is traditionally used only for a German, not Austrian Emperor
For the longest time, the only Kaiser was a Habsburg - the Holy Roman Emperor, heavily associated with Austria. "Kaiser" definitively doesn't exclusively denote the German one, evwn traditionally.
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Kaiser von Österreich – Wikipedia
"Kaiser von Österreich lautete der Herrschertitel der Habsburger Monarchen von 1804 bis 1867 im einheitlichen Kaisertum Österreich und 1867–1918 in der österreichischen Reichshälfte der Doppelmonarchie Österreich-Ungarn. Die Gattinnen der Monarchen trugen den Titel einer Kaiserin."
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