That's an assumption, pretty sure only @NeonHydroxide can say for sure.He didn't. With a PoD being Prussia annexing Saxony instead of Rhineland in the Congress of Vienna means that stuff before that are the same as OTL.
That's an assumption, pretty sure only @NeonHydroxide can say for sure.He didn't. With a PoD being Prussia annexing Saxony instead of Rhineland in the Congress of Vienna means that stuff before that are the same as OTL.
The entire Middle East and arguably even Vietnam in some ways.For sure - China, vietnam, cuba, etc will all be radically affected. Perhaps the US will snub China in favour of integrating the former USSR into a US-led Europe.
Mozambique, Angola, Afghanistan... the list goes on.
No Singapore?
Ah fuck Harold didn't drown this time
Papua New Guinea an Australian state or is it independent?
Ah fuck Harold didn't drown this time
For the time frame that this map is concerned with (c.1966-1979), Singapore is not an independent nation. Significantly damaged due to intense fighting by PTO forces on the way up the Malay Peninsula and on the way back down, it wouldn't be until the late 80s that it recovered fully from the war.No Singapore?
Thank you very much!Cool Sabah border btw
An Australian External Territory. Tentatively, I'll say similar to how it was IOTL until circa 1972, thought the specifics may change in the near future.Papua New Guinea an Australian state or is it independent?
Austria and Prussia fought two wars in the 1840s and 1860s respectively. Prussia lost both, leading to an Austrian-led Germany which did not include Prussia (in much the same way OTL German excluded Austria). This 'greater German solution' was about as unstable as OTL Austria-Hungary; maybe slightly more so even due to the even more complicated constitutional arrangements and the inclusion of the Danubian principalities following an alternate Crimean War with Russia. This situation was not improved by a series of attempted reforms throughout the late 1800s and early 1900s. In the Great War of the late '20s and early '30s, Germany rolled over Prussia easily and eventually defeated Russia, though at great exhausting cost which led to stalemate on the French front and collapse. The aftermath was civil war and the independence, with French and American backing, of many of the former 'crown lands' of the eastern Empire, including Bohemia, which has been given Silesia in one of the many constitutional negotiations which sought to establish stability. Throughout the '40s and '50s, as both Germany and Russia regained their footing, there was a rush for influence in these new states, mostly won by the Germans thanks to the 'cordon sanitaire' created by anti-Russia Lithuania and Ruthenia, but Vienna decided against attempting to re-annex them formally.Nice map, but I'm a little puzzled: so Germany was united by Austria, and Prussia and Czecho-Silesia (how does it even work with all those Germans) later broke away when the German empire declined in the 1980s?
I am a bit curious about Bohemia myself. Has it lost some of the Sudetenland? Might just be the curvature of the Earth with this unique map model, but it reminds me a little of Bohemia-Moravia in the west. Might just be because that one point at the border isn’t visibly sharp here. I would assume that if they did lost that land to Germany they would have some language policies to increase the use of Silesian in their northern areas. If not? Well, would Bohemia be seen as a fairly German state due to all the German speakers in it? And what of the Friulians, Slovenes, Sorbs, etc in. Germany? They are get swallowed up by mandatory German schooling? Hmmm, just looking at these borders... I can imagine someone making a fun, zoomed in map for Lusatia and the Sorbs spilling over the borders. Embarrassing for the Danes to have still lost their land. What is the situation with that one Baltic State?Austria and Prussia fought two wars in the 1840s and 1860s respectively. Prussia lost both, leading to an Austrian-led Germany which did not include Prussia (in much the same way OTL German excluded Austria). This 'greater German solution' was about as unstable as OTL Austria-Hungary; maybe slightly more so even due to the even more complicated constitutional arrangements and the inclusion of the Danubian principalities following an alternate Crimean War with Russia. This situation was not improved by a series of attempted reforms throughout the late 1800s and early 1900s. In the Great War of the late '20s and early '30s, Germany rolled over Prussia easily and eventually defeated Russia, though at great exhausting cost which led to stalemate on the French front and collapse. The aftermath was civil war and the independence, with French and American backing, of many of the former 'crown lands' of the eastern Empire, including Bohemia, which has been given Silesia in one of the many constitutional negotiations which sought to establish stability. Throughout the '40s and '50s, as both Germany and Russia regained their footing, there was a rush for influence in these new states, mostly won by the Germans thanks to the 'cordon sanitaire' created by anti-Russia Lithuania and Ruthenia, but Vienna decided against attempting to re-annex them formally.
No, you are correct, the western Sudetenland is part of Germany. That Baltic state was a German buffer state established by treaty following the war, but now a neutralish mostly native-led state.I am a bit curious about Bohemia myself. Has it lost some of the Sudetenland? Might just be the curvature of the Earth with this unique map model, but it reminds me a little of Bohemia-Moravia in the west. Might just be because that one point at the border isn’t visibly sharp here. I would assume that if they did lost that land to Germany they would have some language policies to increase the use of Silesian in their northern areas. If not? Well, would Bohemia be seen as a fairly German state due to all the German speakers in it? And what of the Friulians, Slovenes, Sorbs, etc in. Germany? They are get swallowed up by mandatory German schooling? Hmmm, just looking at these borders... I can imagine someone making a fun, zoomed in map for Lusatia and the Sorbs spilling over the borders. Embarrassing for the Danes to have still lost their land. What is the situation with that one Baltic State?
Herman Sörgel had sold his vision of an inland sea to the German colonial administration of Mittleafrika in part as a way to improve the climate of the area. However, Sörgel’s sea has had a number of climactic externalities the architect did not envision.
As the Wilhemmeer inland sea began to fill, some meteorologists began to speculate that weather patterns in the Congo basin were getting more severe. However, the German colonial administration (which was interested in fully filling the Wilhemmer to boost electricity output) adamantly held to the line that the Wilhemmeer reservoir had no impact on storm formation. Public confidence in this narrative would be shattered in April of 1991.
Late into 8 April 1991 and early on 9 April 1991, a low-pressure area formed over the Wilhelmmeer. While such a weather formation was not uncommon, above-average temperatures in the Wilhelmmeer combined with an uncommon windshear led the low-pressure area to develop into a tropical storm. The storm (which soon gained the informal name “Wilhemine” after the artificial sea from which it originated), weakened in strength as it passed over the Mittleafrika province of Gabon, but the storm rapidly gained in strength once it was over the South Atlantic. Eventually, Tropical Storm Wilhemine became Hurricane Wilhelmine, sustaining peak winds of 160 km/h by 13 April. The storm began to dissipate on 14 April, and rapidly disintegrated on the 15th.
23 people died directly or indirectly from Hurricane Wilhemine, and ℛℳ550 million (in modern Reichsmarks) in damage was recorded. Casualties and damage were most profoundly felt in indigenous and remote communities in Gabon province, Mittleafrika. Hurricane Wilhemine was not particularly strong as it passed over Gabon province, but a complete lack of weather warning alert systems led to unnecessary loss of life and property.
To date, Hurricane Wilhelmine is the only Hurricane-strength storm recorded in the eastern South Atlantic. However, the increased frequency of tropical storms spawning from the Wilhemmeer in recent years has meteorologists concerned that Hurricane-strength storms may become a recurring feature in the area in the near future and has become a topic of discussion in the wider debate about the effects of anthropomorphic climate change.
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Hurricane image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1991_Angola_tropical_storm_04-12_11z.jpg
Satellite map of Africa base map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Africa_(satellite_image).jpg
Whats up with Yugoslavia? Whos in charge, whos it algined with?got this wip idea from https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/map-thread-xxi.522105/page-450#post-24126635
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1) The Philippines turns into a disaster for the US from Day One. The public backlash cause the US to abandon any traditional imperialism early and eventually gives the Philipines nearly full independence somewhere around the 1900s.
2) The alterd US and Japanese Relations cause the US to enter WW2 later
3) An alternate July Plot is semi-successful. They abandoned everything but the pre-war border and resist Soviets until in some cases Alied soldiers reach some areas of the western front.
4) The English, French, and Germans set up an alt EU-NATO that tries to maintain some of the empires. While nominally alied to the USA they resist American economic dominance.
5) A civil War in Japan causes America to enter the GREAT PACIFIC WAR. Japan lost all its main Landholdings but keeps most of the islands.
6) The war ends when America Nukes a major PPC base and forces an end the most complicated war before the Vietnam civil war.
7) The US leads the EaPTO (East Asian-Pacific Treaty Organization)
8) Japan's civil war was nearly as scary as the OTL ww2 maybe more so given the viscousness of civil wars. Including the Murder of Hirohito by factions within the military.
9) The Vietnam War was interesting with shifting alliances. Socialist Vietnam now co-leads the Neutrality Coalition with India.
Factions
European Confederation
- The Commonwealth
East Asian-Pacific Treaty Organization
-The US-Latin American Aliances
Soviet Union
- Warsaw Pack now includes Afghanistan, PPC, and North Korea
Neutrality Coalition
- Increasingly becoming a South Asian-Indian Ocean alliance.
OK. This bitAustria and Prussia fought two wars in the 1840s and 1860s respectively. Prussia lost both, leading to an Austrian-led Germany which did not include Prussia (in much the same way OTL German excluded Austria). This 'greater German solution' was about as unstable as OTL Austria-Hungary; maybe slightly more so even due to the even more complicated constitutional arrangements and the inclusion of the Danubian principalities following an alternate Crimean War with Russia. This situation was not improved by a series of attempted reforms throughout the late 1800s and early 1900s. In the Great War of the late '20s and early '30s, Germany rolled over Prussia easily and eventually defeated Russia, though at great exhausting cost which led to stalemate on the French front and collapse. The aftermath was civil war and the independence, with French and American backing, of many of the former 'crown lands' of the eastern Empire, including Bohemia, which has been given Silesia in one of the many constitutional negotiations which sought to establish stability. Throughout the '40s and '50s, as both Germany and Russia regained their footing, there was a rush for influence in these new states, mostly won by the Germans thanks to the 'cordon sanitaire' created by anti-Russia Lithuania and Ruthenia, but Vienna decided against attempting to re-annex them formally.
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As a personal justification, I had a history teacher in High School that talked about the "Burgundian Alternative" with surprising frequency even before I got into mapping.I see that the Inevitable Burgundy(TM) is still strong amongst alternate history mappers.
This map is possibly one of the only of its kind , and I would love to see the community expand on natural weather events like this.Crossposting from MotF 273:
Hurricane WilhelmineSame universe as the map found here:
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Map by Reagent; Description by @Flashman Mittelafrikanisch Autobahnkarte The sweeping victory of the Central Powers over the Triple Entente in the so-called "Great War" propelled the German Empires to new heights. In addition to their newfound territorial and diplomatic gains in Europe, the...www.alternatehistory.com-----