Peace In Our Time: Collaborative Timeline
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First Compilation (1921-1929) to Post #34
1921:
August 26th, 1921: Franklin D. Roosevelt dies after spending nearly a month with deteriorating health from catching some sort of illness during his trip to Canada.
December 10th, 1921: Shortly after receiving the Nobel Prize for Physics in recognition of his explanation of the photo-electric effect, Albert Einstein is killed in a chance car accident in Sweden, much to the dismay of many.
1922:
February 10th, 1922: The Washington Naval Conference breaks down; no treaty is produced. The delegates do agree to meet again in six months.
April 11th, 1922: Herbert O. Yardley, head of the Black Chamber, is struck by a car on the way to work; he is forced to stay in the hospital for six months, recuperating.
November 11th, 1922: Vladimir Lenin reads his testament aloud before the Soviet Party. It has been slightly altered, after a few visits from both Stalin and Trotsky, and the Testament now criticized Stalin greatly, suggested that he be replaced as General Secretary, and it even went so far as to suggest that Trotsky take his place. After the reading of the testament, Stalin leaves the building to think, and is assassinated once outside by an OGPU agent, who escapes.
December 4th, 1922: The Washington Naval Arms Treaty is signed by representatives of the UK, Japan and the US. It declares a halt to new battleship and battlecruiser construction (with battleships and battlecruisers defined as ships of 18000t or greater, mounting cannon of 13" (330mm) or greater caliber), and to the fortification of League mandate territories in the Pacific (and of the Aleutians and Guam). It is far weaker than the treaty proposed in the first round, but the intransigent American and Japanese delegations are unwilling to compromise further - especially after the French and Italians had already walked out.
December 5th, 1922: After the WashingtonTreaty is sign but does not say how many aircraft carrier can be made out the lay down battleships or battlecruiser the US turns are 6 Lexington Class Battlecruisers into aircraft carriers.
December 6th, 1922: Japan follow the US lead and turns the 2 Tosa Class battleship into Kaga Class Carriers and the two laid down Amagi Class battlecruisers into Amagi Class Carriers and cancels the other two Amagi Class battlecruiser who have been yet to later down.
December 20th, 1922: HMS Howe, HMS Rodney and HMS Anson, the three sisters to HMS Hood, are reordered as aircraft carriers.
1923:
January 22nd, 1923: The Toll of the Sea, the first all-color Hollywood film, is released, two months after the original print was damaged. It sees rave reviews, particularly for star Anna May Wong.
July 20th, 1923: An attempted assassination of Pancho Villa fails, thanks to the effective response of Villa's bodyguards.
August 2nd, 1923: Warren G. Harding suffers a heartattack. Despite the scare, docters are able to save his life, and he recovers quickly.
September 1st, 1923: A moderately strong earthquake - 4.9 on the Richter scale - hits the Kanto plain.
November 9th, 1923: The Beer Hall Putsch ends as the police show up. There is a misfire, resulting in the unfortunate death of one young Adolf Hitler.
1924:
January 21st, 1924: Lenin dies; Kamenev takes over his post on the Council of Labour and Defense, but Trotsky's ally Preobrazhensky takes over Sovnarkom instead of Rykov (Lenin's deputy in Sovnarkom).
March 21st, 1924: Anna May Wong Productions is founded by the popular film star and the investor Sid Grauman, just three days after Wong's second success, The Thief of Baghdad, was released. The company plans to raise money for films centered on Chinese myths and starring the popular actress.
May 4th, 1924: Igor Sikorsky crashes his S-29-A on its maiden flight; though he is uninjured, his company folds.
September 2nd, 1924: A Category 3 hurricane, the fourth tropical storm of the 1924 hurricane season, slams into Savannah, Georgia, causing significant damage to a number of historic buildings in the city - most notably the Sorrel Weed House.
October 29th, 1924: Frederick Fox Riley, defeating Liberal Robert Strother Stewart and Tory Harold MacMillan, is one of the 154 Labour Party MPs elected in 1924 - not enough to preserve the minority government that had been in place since January, but more than enough to displace the Liberals as the chief rival to the Conservatives.
November 4th, 1924: President Harding is reelected in a landslide over Democratic candidate Al Smith of New York.
1925:
January 24th, 1925: Chicago's north side crime boss Hymie Weiss and Bugs Moran attempt to assassinate rival Johnny Torrio outside his home. Torrio is tiped off however, and is waiting for them. Weiss and Moran are both killed in a hail of gunfire, throwing the North Side into chaos.
February 18th, 1925: Bukharin's Right Opposition and Kamenev's Center Movement successfully oust Preobrazhensky from Sovnarkom; Zinoviev, Kamenev's most loyal ally, replaces him.
March 4th, 1925: Trotsky resigns from the position of General Secretary, unable to cope with the workload; he cites a desire to refocus attention on reforming and modernizing the Red Army, and proposes that his protege Georgy Pyatakov, deputy chair of Gosplan, take over the post of General Secretary.
April 17th, 1925: Sikorsky is hired by Grover Loening, director of the Loening Aeronautical Engineering corporation, joining Leroy Grumman.
May 11th, 1925: The doctor informs Mr. Nixon that his son, Arthur, only has the cold and should recover within the week.
May 18th, 1925: Arthur Nixon is once again fully healthy.
August 19th, 1925: Arthur Nixon is still completely fine.
October 1st, 1925: German negotiators successfully chip away at the naval limitations imposed on the Reichsmarine by the Treaty of Versailles. Germany was now granted the right to field six heavy cruisers (with armament of up to 12" (304.8mm)) of up to 12000t displacement, eight light cruisers of up to 6000t displacement, 18 destroyers of up to 800t displacement, and 20 torpedo boats.
October 15th, 1925: On a clear day in Pittsburgh, Washington Senators ace pitcher Walter Johnson wins Game 7 of the World Series, 6-3.
December 9th, 1925: Mulan, Maid of China, the first film by Anna May Wong Productions, is released, and proves wildly successful.
1926:
January 11th, 1926: Hannah Milhous Nixon discovers that she is once again pregnant with a child.
February 12th, 1926: Frances Stevenson, the mistress of David Lloyd George [DLG], gives birth to a baby girl. She names DLG as the father. He decides to accept paternity. The parents give the name Myfanwy (Welsh for beloved) to their daughter.
February 14th, 1926: Margaret Lloyd George, DLG's wife, says that she will stand by her husband. She had known for several years about his infidelity with Miss Stevenson, but she knows in her heart that she is David's first and deepest love. She will love and care for Myfanwy as if she were her own daughter.
February 17th, 1926: In order to take maximum advantage of DLG's public admission of adultery to stop him becoming leader of the Liberal Party, Herbert Asquith resigns as leader.
February 18th, 1926 : DLG says that 'for personal reasons' he will not be standing for leadership of the Liberal Party.
February 19th, 1926: Walter Runciman announces his candidature for leadership of the Liberal Party. As one of the few Liberal MPs elected in the October 1924 general election against both Tory and Labour opponents (he captured Swansea, West from Labour), he said he would keep the party independent of any pact or alliance with the Tories or Labour.
February 20th, 1926: William Wedgwood Benn announces that he is standing for leader of the Liberal Party with the intention of returning the party to its radical roots.
February 21st, 1926: Sir Robert Hutchison, the assistant whip, announces that he is standing for leader of the Liberal Party, He was a Lloyd George Liberal. The other two candidates were Asquithian Liberals.
February 22nd, 1926 : Sir John Simon declares that he is giving his full support to Runciman in the Liberal leadership contest.
March 10th, 1926: First ballot of Liberal MPs: Hutchison 18 votes, Runciman 13 votes, Wedgwood Benn 9 votes. Wedgwood Benn withdraws from the contest.
March 11th, 1926: Wedgwood Benn declares that Runciman has his full support in the leadership contest. He asks all the MPs who voted for him to vote for Runciman on the second ballot.
March 17th, 1926 Result of second ballot of Liberal MPs: Runciman 22 votes, Hutchison 18 votes. Runciman becomes leader of the Liberal Party.
March 31st, 1926: J Edgar Hoover leaves the Justice of Department after photos are found with him and a second man in the bedroom with there pants down.
June 27th, 1926: Heinrich Himmler is kill went he is hit with a car as he walks acroos the street.
August 30rd, 1926: Gustav Stresemann becomes German Chancellor for the third time.
September 12th, 1926: Mao Zedong is caught by Republic of China force is place in jail to stand trail.
November 3rd, 1926: Nellie Tayloe Ross, a progressive 'dry' Democrat, is narrowly re-elected as governor of Wyoming, defeating Republican Frank Emerson; the same day, corrupt 'wet' Democrat Ma Ferguson, having won a bruising primary fight earlier in the year, is re-elected governor of Texas.
December 21st, 1926: French ace René Fonck wins the Orteig Prize, flying a Keystone K-47A Pathfinder biplane from Roosevelt Airfield in New York to Paris Le Bourget, accompanied by navigator Charles Clavier.
December 25th, 1926: A general strike in Cologne turns into a riot as local police are goaded into brutality.
December 26, 1926: Rioters, strikers, and various other malcontents hole up in the main building of the University of Cologne. Mayor Konrad Adenauer personally orders police to storm the building; eleven die in the fighting, including four policemen, and the building itself is wrecked.
1927:
April 28th, 1927: Li Dazhao, co-founder of the Communist Party of China, escapes the KMT purge of Communists, surviving only with the support of Soviet agents.
June 3rd, 1927: President Warren G. Harding signs the McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Act into law, attempting to maintain 1913 agricultural price levels and counteract the overproduction that had occurred during the Great War by purchasing surplus crops for sale overseas; losses incurred would be made up for by fees against farm producers.
August 19th, 1927: Mendez Nunez, converted into an aircraft carrier, commissions into the Spanish Navy, twelve years after she was ordered.
1928:
January 17th, 1928: Huey Long wins re-election as governor of Louisiana, winning 45% of the vote - well more than the 27% won by each of the anti-Long candidates.
June 1st, 1928: Following the disastrous election results, the new DNVP chairman Alfred Hugenberg takes a new radical volkish course in the DNVP special conference in Stettin.
July 19th, 1928: In the Wiesbaden Conference Hugenbergs DVNP merges with General Ludendorffs Voelkisch-Nationale Block (NVP) and Josef Goebbles National Sozialistische Partei Deutschlands (NSPD).
They form the Nationale Volksblock (NVB)
June 28th, 1928: Henry T. Rainey, former Speaker of the House (D-IL), and Senator Alben W. Barkley (D-TN), are nominated as presidential and vice-presidential candidates by the DNC; Al Smith, expecting that the GOP would win in '28 and not wanting to be beaten again, had not seriously campaigned, while Cordell Hull found himself outmaneuvered.
July 28th, 1928: The Games of the IX Olympiad open in Los Angeles, California. The US, host of the Games, wins 61 medals in total, including 24 gold medals.
November 6th, 1928: Republicans Herbert Hoover and William Borah defeat Rainey and Barkley, winning 55% of the popular vote and 367 electoral votes to the Rainey-Barkley ticket's 43% and 166 electoral votes.
1929:
January 4th, 1929: Paul Von Hindenberg considers running for the Presidency of Germany in the up-coming election, but is talked out of it due to his age, even though he gets backing from several high-ranking army figures.
December 5th, 1929: Leroy Grumman, Igor Sikorsky, and four other former Loening employees, unwilling to move to Pennsylvania (home of the Keystone Aircraft Corporation that bought Loening in '28), found the Sikorsky-Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation on Long Island.
August 26th, 1921: Franklin D. Roosevelt dies after spending nearly a month with deteriorating health from catching some sort of illness during his trip to Canada.
December 10th, 1921: Shortly after receiving the Nobel Prize for Physics in recognition of his explanation of the photo-electric effect, Albert Einstein is killed in a chance car accident in Sweden, much to the dismay of many.
1922:
February 10th, 1922: The Washington Naval Conference breaks down; no treaty is produced. The delegates do agree to meet again in six months.
April 11th, 1922: Herbert O. Yardley, head of the Black Chamber, is struck by a car on the way to work; he is forced to stay in the hospital for six months, recuperating.
November 11th, 1922: Vladimir Lenin reads his testament aloud before the Soviet Party. It has been slightly altered, after a few visits from both Stalin and Trotsky, and the Testament now criticized Stalin greatly, suggested that he be replaced as General Secretary, and it even went so far as to suggest that Trotsky take his place. After the reading of the testament, Stalin leaves the building to think, and is assassinated once outside by an OGPU agent, who escapes.
December 4th, 1922: The Washington Naval Arms Treaty is signed by representatives of the UK, Japan and the US. It declares a halt to new battleship and battlecruiser construction (with battleships and battlecruisers defined as ships of 18000t or greater, mounting cannon of 13" (330mm) or greater caliber), and to the fortification of League mandate territories in the Pacific (and of the Aleutians and Guam). It is far weaker than the treaty proposed in the first round, but the intransigent American and Japanese delegations are unwilling to compromise further - especially after the French and Italians had already walked out.
December 5th, 1922: After the WashingtonTreaty is sign but does not say how many aircraft carrier can be made out the lay down battleships or battlecruiser the US turns are 6 Lexington Class Battlecruisers into aircraft carriers.
December 6th, 1922: Japan follow the US lead and turns the 2 Tosa Class battleship into Kaga Class Carriers and the two laid down Amagi Class battlecruisers into Amagi Class Carriers and cancels the other two Amagi Class battlecruiser who have been yet to later down.
December 20th, 1922: HMS Howe, HMS Rodney and HMS Anson, the three sisters to HMS Hood, are reordered as aircraft carriers.
1923:
January 22nd, 1923: The Toll of the Sea, the first all-color Hollywood film, is released, two months after the original print was damaged. It sees rave reviews, particularly for star Anna May Wong.
July 20th, 1923: An attempted assassination of Pancho Villa fails, thanks to the effective response of Villa's bodyguards.
August 2nd, 1923: Warren G. Harding suffers a heartattack. Despite the scare, docters are able to save his life, and he recovers quickly.
September 1st, 1923: A moderately strong earthquake - 4.9 on the Richter scale - hits the Kanto plain.
November 9th, 1923: The Beer Hall Putsch ends as the police show up. There is a misfire, resulting in the unfortunate death of one young Adolf Hitler.
1924:
January 21st, 1924: Lenin dies; Kamenev takes over his post on the Council of Labour and Defense, but Trotsky's ally Preobrazhensky takes over Sovnarkom instead of Rykov (Lenin's deputy in Sovnarkom).
March 21st, 1924: Anna May Wong Productions is founded by the popular film star and the investor Sid Grauman, just three days after Wong's second success, The Thief of Baghdad, was released. The company plans to raise money for films centered on Chinese myths and starring the popular actress.
May 4th, 1924: Igor Sikorsky crashes his S-29-A on its maiden flight; though he is uninjured, his company folds.
September 2nd, 1924: A Category 3 hurricane, the fourth tropical storm of the 1924 hurricane season, slams into Savannah, Georgia, causing significant damage to a number of historic buildings in the city - most notably the Sorrel Weed House.
October 29th, 1924: Frederick Fox Riley, defeating Liberal Robert Strother Stewart and Tory Harold MacMillan, is one of the 154 Labour Party MPs elected in 1924 - not enough to preserve the minority government that had been in place since January, but more than enough to displace the Liberals as the chief rival to the Conservatives.
November 4th, 1924: President Harding is reelected in a landslide over Democratic candidate Al Smith of New York.
1925:
January 24th, 1925: Chicago's north side crime boss Hymie Weiss and Bugs Moran attempt to assassinate rival Johnny Torrio outside his home. Torrio is tiped off however, and is waiting for them. Weiss and Moran are both killed in a hail of gunfire, throwing the North Side into chaos.
February 18th, 1925: Bukharin's Right Opposition and Kamenev's Center Movement successfully oust Preobrazhensky from Sovnarkom; Zinoviev, Kamenev's most loyal ally, replaces him.
March 4th, 1925: Trotsky resigns from the position of General Secretary, unable to cope with the workload; he cites a desire to refocus attention on reforming and modernizing the Red Army, and proposes that his protege Georgy Pyatakov, deputy chair of Gosplan, take over the post of General Secretary.
April 17th, 1925: Sikorsky is hired by Grover Loening, director of the Loening Aeronautical Engineering corporation, joining Leroy Grumman.
May 11th, 1925: The doctor informs Mr. Nixon that his son, Arthur, only has the cold and should recover within the week.
May 18th, 1925: Arthur Nixon is once again fully healthy.
August 19th, 1925: Arthur Nixon is still completely fine.
October 1st, 1925: German negotiators successfully chip away at the naval limitations imposed on the Reichsmarine by the Treaty of Versailles. Germany was now granted the right to field six heavy cruisers (with armament of up to 12" (304.8mm)) of up to 12000t displacement, eight light cruisers of up to 6000t displacement, 18 destroyers of up to 800t displacement, and 20 torpedo boats.
October 15th, 1925: On a clear day in Pittsburgh, Washington Senators ace pitcher Walter Johnson wins Game 7 of the World Series, 6-3.
December 9th, 1925: Mulan, Maid of China, the first film by Anna May Wong Productions, is released, and proves wildly successful.
1926:
January 11th, 1926: Hannah Milhous Nixon discovers that she is once again pregnant with a child.
February 12th, 1926: Frances Stevenson, the mistress of David Lloyd George [DLG], gives birth to a baby girl. She names DLG as the father. He decides to accept paternity. The parents give the name Myfanwy (Welsh for beloved) to their daughter.
February 14th, 1926: Margaret Lloyd George, DLG's wife, says that she will stand by her husband. She had known for several years about his infidelity with Miss Stevenson, but she knows in her heart that she is David's first and deepest love. She will love and care for Myfanwy as if she were her own daughter.
February 17th, 1926: In order to take maximum advantage of DLG's public admission of adultery to stop him becoming leader of the Liberal Party, Herbert Asquith resigns as leader.
February 18th, 1926 : DLG says that 'for personal reasons' he will not be standing for leadership of the Liberal Party.
February 19th, 1926: Walter Runciman announces his candidature for leadership of the Liberal Party. As one of the few Liberal MPs elected in the October 1924 general election against both Tory and Labour opponents (he captured Swansea, West from Labour), he said he would keep the party independent of any pact or alliance with the Tories or Labour.
February 20th, 1926: William Wedgwood Benn announces that he is standing for leader of the Liberal Party with the intention of returning the party to its radical roots.
February 21st, 1926: Sir Robert Hutchison, the assistant whip, announces that he is standing for leader of the Liberal Party, He was a Lloyd George Liberal. The other two candidates were Asquithian Liberals.
February 22nd, 1926 : Sir John Simon declares that he is giving his full support to Runciman in the Liberal leadership contest.
March 10th, 1926: First ballot of Liberal MPs: Hutchison 18 votes, Runciman 13 votes, Wedgwood Benn 9 votes. Wedgwood Benn withdraws from the contest.
March 11th, 1926: Wedgwood Benn declares that Runciman has his full support in the leadership contest. He asks all the MPs who voted for him to vote for Runciman on the second ballot.
March 17th, 1926 Result of second ballot of Liberal MPs: Runciman 22 votes, Hutchison 18 votes. Runciman becomes leader of the Liberal Party.
March 31st, 1926: J Edgar Hoover leaves the Justice of Department after photos are found with him and a second man in the bedroom with there pants down.
June 27th, 1926: Heinrich Himmler is kill went he is hit with a car as he walks acroos the street.
August 30rd, 1926: Gustav Stresemann becomes German Chancellor for the third time.
September 12th, 1926: Mao Zedong is caught by Republic of China force is place in jail to stand trail.
November 3rd, 1926: Nellie Tayloe Ross, a progressive 'dry' Democrat, is narrowly re-elected as governor of Wyoming, defeating Republican Frank Emerson; the same day, corrupt 'wet' Democrat Ma Ferguson, having won a bruising primary fight earlier in the year, is re-elected governor of Texas.
December 21st, 1926: French ace René Fonck wins the Orteig Prize, flying a Keystone K-47A Pathfinder biplane from Roosevelt Airfield in New York to Paris Le Bourget, accompanied by navigator Charles Clavier.
December 25th, 1926: A general strike in Cologne turns into a riot as local police are goaded into brutality.
December 26, 1926: Rioters, strikers, and various other malcontents hole up in the main building of the University of Cologne. Mayor Konrad Adenauer personally orders police to storm the building; eleven die in the fighting, including four policemen, and the building itself is wrecked.
1927:
April 28th, 1927: Li Dazhao, co-founder of the Communist Party of China, escapes the KMT purge of Communists, surviving only with the support of Soviet agents.
June 3rd, 1927: President Warren G. Harding signs the McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Act into law, attempting to maintain 1913 agricultural price levels and counteract the overproduction that had occurred during the Great War by purchasing surplus crops for sale overseas; losses incurred would be made up for by fees against farm producers.
August 19th, 1927: Mendez Nunez, converted into an aircraft carrier, commissions into the Spanish Navy, twelve years after she was ordered.
1928:
January 17th, 1928: Huey Long wins re-election as governor of Louisiana, winning 45% of the vote - well more than the 27% won by each of the anti-Long candidates.
June 1st, 1928: Following the disastrous election results, the new DNVP chairman Alfred Hugenberg takes a new radical volkish course in the DNVP special conference in Stettin.
July 19th, 1928: In the Wiesbaden Conference Hugenbergs DVNP merges with General Ludendorffs Voelkisch-Nationale Block (NVP) and Josef Goebbles National Sozialistische Partei Deutschlands (NSPD).
They form the Nationale Volksblock (NVB)
June 28th, 1928: Henry T. Rainey, former Speaker of the House (D-IL), and Senator Alben W. Barkley (D-TN), are nominated as presidential and vice-presidential candidates by the DNC; Al Smith, expecting that the GOP would win in '28 and not wanting to be beaten again, had not seriously campaigned, while Cordell Hull found himself outmaneuvered.
July 28th, 1928: The Games of the IX Olympiad open in Los Angeles, California. The US, host of the Games, wins 61 medals in total, including 24 gold medals.
November 6th, 1928: Republicans Herbert Hoover and William Borah defeat Rainey and Barkley, winning 55% of the popular vote and 367 electoral votes to the Rainey-Barkley ticket's 43% and 166 electoral votes.
1929:
January 4th, 1929: Paul Von Hindenberg considers running for the Presidency of Germany in the up-coming election, but is talked out of it due to his age, even though he gets backing from several high-ranking army figures.
December 5th, 1929: Leroy Grumman, Igor Sikorsky, and four other former Loening employees, unwilling to move to Pennsylvania (home of the Keystone Aircraft Corporation that bought Loening in '28), found the Sikorsky-Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation on Long Island.
We haven't even covered the full effects of the events used so far, though. What will a surviving Harding do, what will Trotsky do while General Secretary, who is his successor, what happens in the realm of science without FDR, what happens to the Nazis without Hitler to lead them, what will the effects of a lessened WNT be?
EDIT: But, to sate your appetite, I'll let dates go all the way up to 1929, since people have been posting past '27 without my permission anyways I might as well make it official.
May 30, 1929: Labour wins the British general election with an overall majority of 3 seats over all other parties and independents. The number of MPs elected and percentage vote for each party and independents were as follows:
Labour: 309 - 39.1
Conservative: 232 - 35.6
Liberal: 65 - 24.1
Others: 9 - 1.2. The others comprised 3 Irish Nationalists, 1 independent Conservative, one independent Labour, one Socialist Prohibition Party, 3 independents.
Among the Conservatives who lost their seats were Lady Astor in Plymouth, Sutton and Kingsley Wood in Woolwich, West. In Birmingham, West Austen Chamberlain scrapes through with a majority of 31 in a straight fight with Labour because enough Liberals voted for him because of his internationalist, pro League of Nations foreign policy.
May 31, 1929: Stanley Baldwin resigns and Ramsay Macdonald becomes Prime Minister. His cabinet is the same as in OTL - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Labour_Government - except that Lord Arnold is Secretary of State for India instead of William Wedgwood Benn who has stayed in the Liberal Party.
August 8, 1929: In the Twickenham by-election caused by the elevation of William Joynson-Hicks to the peerage as Viscount Brentford, Labour gains the seat from the Conservatives by a majority of 242.
August 9, 1929: The dissatisfaction with Baldwin in the Conservative Party after its defeat in the general election, receives a boost after the Twickenham by-election with the start of a Baldwin Must Go (BMG) campaign orchestrated in the Beaverbrook and Rothermere press.
September 11, 1929: After consulting with his shadow cabinet and Conservative Central Office, Baldwin announces that he will resign the leadership of the Conservative Party when a new leader has been chosen.
September 12, 1929: Leopold Amery and Austen Chamberlain announce that they are candidates for leadership of the Conservative Party. In those days Conservative leaders were not elected, rather they 'emerged' after consultations with Conservatives in Parliament and in the country. Amery is a leading tariff reformer and is strongly committed to the cause of Imperial preference. Chamberlain supports protection but without the ideological intensity of Amery. While Chamberlain has the support of most of the shadow cabinet and the liberal wing of the party, Amery is supported by the bulk of the party who want tariff reform, and by the Beaverbrook and Rothermere press.
September 19, 1929: John Davidson, the Chairman of the Conservative Party organisation, announces that the bulk of the Conservative Party in Parliament and the country want Leopold Amery to be the leader of the party. Therefore he is now the leader of the Conservative Party.
September 19, 1929: Amery says that he accepts with great humility the tremendous honour and privilege of leading the Conservative Party.
Labour: 309 - 39.1
Conservative: 232 - 35.6
Liberal: 65 - 24.1
Others: 9 - 1.2. The others comprised 3 Irish Nationalists, 1 independent Conservative, one independent Labour, one Socialist Prohibition Party, 3 independents.
Among the Conservatives who lost their seats were Lady Astor in Plymouth, Sutton and Kingsley Wood in Woolwich, West. In Birmingham, West Austen Chamberlain scrapes through with a majority of 31 in a straight fight with Labour because enough Liberals voted for him because of his internationalist, pro League of Nations foreign policy.
May 31, 1929: Stanley Baldwin resigns and Ramsay Macdonald becomes Prime Minister. His cabinet is the same as in OTL - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Labour_Government - except that Lord Arnold is Secretary of State for India instead of William Wedgwood Benn who has stayed in the Liberal Party.
August 8, 1929: In the Twickenham by-election caused by the elevation of William Joynson-Hicks to the peerage as Viscount Brentford, Labour gains the seat from the Conservatives by a majority of 242.
August 9, 1929: The dissatisfaction with Baldwin in the Conservative Party after its defeat in the general election, receives a boost after the Twickenham by-election with the start of a Baldwin Must Go (BMG) campaign orchestrated in the Beaverbrook and Rothermere press.
September 11, 1929: After consulting with his shadow cabinet and Conservative Central Office, Baldwin announces that he will resign the leadership of the Conservative Party when a new leader has been chosen.
September 12, 1929: Leopold Amery and Austen Chamberlain announce that they are candidates for leadership of the Conservative Party. In those days Conservative leaders were not elected, rather they 'emerged' after consultations with Conservatives in Parliament and in the country. Amery is a leading tariff reformer and is strongly committed to the cause of Imperial preference. Chamberlain supports protection but without the ideological intensity of Amery. While Chamberlain has the support of most of the shadow cabinet and the liberal wing of the party, Amery is supported by the bulk of the party who want tariff reform, and by the Beaverbrook and Rothermere press.
September 19, 1929: John Davidson, the Chairman of the Conservative Party organisation, announces that the bulk of the Conservative Party in Parliament and the country want Leopold Amery to be the leader of the party. Therefore he is now the leader of the Conservative Party.
September 19, 1929: Amery says that he accepts with great humility the tremendous honour and privilege of leading the Conservative Party.
Just some random things
January 10th, 1923: Captain George S. Patton is transferred to the Panama Canal Zone to serve as Executive Officer to General Fox Conner.
August 17th, 1923: Captain Dwight D. Eisenhower officially petitions the US Congress for funds for an armored force in the United States.
March 11th, 1925: The Bush family moves to New York City, New York, so that Prescott, as VP of the company, can work at the companies headquarters.
January 10th, 1923: Captain George S. Patton is transferred to the Panama Canal Zone to serve as Executive Officer to General Fox Conner.
August 17th, 1923: Captain Dwight D. Eisenhower officially petitions the US Congress for funds for an armored force in the United States.
March 11th, 1925: The Bush family moves to New York City, New York, so that Prescott, as VP of the company, can work at the companies headquarters.
August 9, 1926: Captain Eisenhower is appointed commander of the 1st Independent Tank Battalion stationed in Fort Huachuca, Arizona. The battalion operates the Medium Tank M1; it is organized into three companies, each with ten tanks - a command tank and three 3-tank platoons.
November 4, 1927: The Legend of the White Serpent, a film by Anna May Wong Productions, is released. The plot, in which an evil serpent is accidentally transformed into a woman, who then falls in love with a young scholar, is an adaptation of a Chinese legend; much of the cast, and a portion of the crew, is Asian, in keeping with Wong's desire to develop the Chinese-American film industry; funding comes in part from the Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco affiliates of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association. It was the second 'talkie' released, but, thanks to Sid Grauman's connections and the support of Chinese-American groups in New York, it was the first to see a national release, beating out The Jazz Singer by a month.
March 4, 1928: HMS Cumberland, the first cruiser of the County class, commissions into the Royal Navy. Cumberland displaces 17,000 tons; her main armament consists of two triple 12"/50 Mk.XIV turrets, with a secondary armament of six 4"/45 Mk.V high-angle mounts. Two quad 2-pounder 'pom pom' AA mounts, two quad 0.50" machine guns, and two quad 21" torpedo tube mounts are fitted, along with a catapult for two Fairey IIIF seaplanes. Her maximum speed is rated at 28 knots.
November 4, 1927: The Legend of the White Serpent, a film by Anna May Wong Productions, is released. The plot, in which an evil serpent is accidentally transformed into a woman, who then falls in love with a young scholar, is an adaptation of a Chinese legend; much of the cast, and a portion of the crew, is Asian, in keeping with Wong's desire to develop the Chinese-American film industry; funding comes in part from the Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco affiliates of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association. It was the second 'talkie' released, but, thanks to Sid Grauman's connections and the support of Chinese-American groups in New York, it was the first to see a national release, beating out The Jazz Singer by a month.
March 4, 1928: HMS Cumberland, the first cruiser of the County class, commissions into the Royal Navy. Cumberland displaces 17,000 tons; her main armament consists of two triple 12"/50 Mk.XIV turrets, with a secondary armament of six 4"/45 Mk.V high-angle mounts. Two quad 2-pounder 'pom pom' AA mounts, two quad 0.50" machine guns, and two quad 21" torpedo tube mounts are fitted, along with a catapult for two Fairey IIIF seaplanes. Her maximum speed is rated at 28 knots.
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for that to happen, we're looking at a red italy, or one that somehow had the backbone to oppose the march on rome.
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A short documentary on the OTL Anna May Wong.
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A short documentary on the OTL Anna May Wong.
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Well, the March On Rome has to succeed, or there would be no Beer Hall Putsch, thus canceling out one of the foundational PODs of this TL. I don't think Mussolini is too dangerous on his own, so perhaps we could just leave him be?
To be fair, those events (arresting Mussolini (on the spurious charge of plotting to overthrow the monarch, but actually for incompetent handling of some crisis or conflict or something), then having him be spirited out) could come into play later on.
I'm trying to figure out what to do with Villa, now that I kept him around. Anyone know a lot about Mexican political history? Feel free to contribute.
I've already had one significant change for Harding rather than Coolidge - Harding is more pro-farmer than Coolidge (he's Midwestern, not a New Englander), so he signs a price control act, attempting to maintain 1913 price levels.
Not sure what to do with Bose. No Einstein may mean that the Copenhagen interpretation gains acceptance faster - after all, Einstein isn't there to argue against it. Not sure what specific events to do, though...
I'm trying to figure out what to do with Villa, now that I kept him around. Anyone know a lot about Mexican political history? Feel free to contribute.
I've already had one significant change for Harding rather than Coolidge - Harding is more pro-farmer than Coolidge (he's Midwestern, not a New Englander), so he signs a price control act, attempting to maintain 1913 price levels.
Not sure what to do with Bose. No Einstein may mean that the Copenhagen interpretation gains acceptance faster - after all, Einstein isn't there to argue against it. Not sure what specific events to do, though...
Perhaps we could have Mussolini become a Franco-analogue, leading the only significant Fascist state for most of the century.
Could work.
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The specific WNT I've laid out is going to reward building large cruisers (OTL's panzerschiffe/pocket battleships) - they'll be faster than the slow battleships of everyone's battleline, and armed well enough to take on the older ships.
It's also going to see increased development of naval aviation in the '20s and '30s - I've already suggested that with Chile and Spain acquiring carriers, and I wouldn't be shocked if other states follow.
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The specific WNT I've laid out is going to reward building large cruisers (OTL's panzerschiffe/pocket battleships) - they'll be faster than the slow battleships of everyone's battleline, and armed well enough to take on the older ships.
It's also going to see increased development of naval aviation in the '20s and '30s - I've already suggested that with Chile and Spain acquiring carriers, and I wouldn't be shocked if other states follow.
February 25th, 1925: "The Call of Cthulhu" is written by Liu Hui Wen in Shanghai, China...
April 10th, 1925: British anthropologist Lietenant Colonel Percy Fawcett reports the discovery of the aboriginal "Akakor Empire" in Mato Grosso, Brazil....
April 10th, 1925: British anthropologist Lietenant Colonel Percy Fawcett reports the discovery of the aboriginal "Akakor Empire" in Mato Grosso, Brazil....
April 22, 1925: A Brazilian expedition to the supposed site of Akakor returns, having found nothing there.
April 26, 1925: Private investigators hired by the Royal Geographic Society of London discover fake 'artifacts' under construction by confederates of Fawcett.
April 30, 1925: Fawcett, disgraced, resigns from the Army.
June 5, 1926: Braunschweig, a German pre-dreadnought battleship, is sold to Peru and renamed BAP Aguirre after Elias Aguirre, a Peruvian naval commander. Aguirre is meant to help counter the Chilean navy's battleship Almirante Latorre and carrier Almirante Cochrane. Aguirre will be refit into a slow flak cruiser; her secondary battery of 6.7" guns will be replaced with eight single 5.9"/45 SK L/45 mounts and eight single 3.5"/45 Flak L/45 AA guns, while the eighteen quick-firing 3.5"/35 mounts will be replaced by twelve 3.5"/45 Flak L/45 AA mounts and twelve 37mm cannon.
April 5, 1927: Deutschland, the first new German large cruiser, launches from her slip at the Deutsche Werke shipyards in Kiel. She is ostensibly a 12000t cruiser, though the actual displacement will likely be higher; nonetheless, it will be consistently reported as 12000t. Deutschland will mount similar armament to the British County-class large cruisers under construction, but will have lighter armor. Armament is planned to consist of a main battery of two triple 12"/56-caliber SK C/27 mounts, a secondary battery of three triple 5.9"/60 SK C/25 mounts, six of the planned 4.1"/65 SK C/29 AA mounts, eight 37mm cannon and ten 20mm cannon, along with two triple mounts for 21" torpedoes. Speed is projected to be 34 knots. Deutschland is the cornerstone of Vice-Admiral Hans Zenker's plans for the Reichsmarine; the service chief intends for a fleet of six of these cruisers for commerce-raiding, relying on their speed and their guns to outmatch or outrun hostile ships.
March 13, 1928: The Monument to the March Dead in Weimar, Germany, a monument to workers who lost their lives during the Kapp Putsch, is vandalized.
OOC: Akakor was a hoax in OTL; it's a hoax here, too. Shame I had to destroy a real-life person's reputation, but hey.
Presumably, Fawcett couldn't find his lost city, so he decided to make it himself - perhaps justifying it on the grounds that he'd use new grants to go back and find it for real.
How did The Call of Cthulhu get published by a Chinese author before it was even conceived of by Lovecraft?
Aguirre is inspired by discussion of how a pre-dreadnought might've remained useful into the 1930s. Peru can't afford a real dreadnought, so a pre-dreadnought is used instead. Peru historically tried to pick up the ancient armored cruiser Dupuy de Lome in 1914, so it's not unreasonable that it might try to pick up an older, cheaper ship.
Zenker, of course, wants to ditch the pre-dreadnoughts (as he steadily did in OTL), given their age and general uselessness, for his large cruisers; they don't make quite the same shock that they did in OTL, but they're better ships - faster and better armed, though a bit shorter in range - than OTL's Deutschland class.
April 26, 1925: Private investigators hired by the Royal Geographic Society of London discover fake 'artifacts' under construction by confederates of Fawcett.
April 30, 1925: Fawcett, disgraced, resigns from the Army.
June 5, 1926: Braunschweig, a German pre-dreadnought battleship, is sold to Peru and renamed BAP Aguirre after Elias Aguirre, a Peruvian naval commander. Aguirre is meant to help counter the Chilean navy's battleship Almirante Latorre and carrier Almirante Cochrane. Aguirre will be refit into a slow flak cruiser; her secondary battery of 6.7" guns will be replaced with eight single 5.9"/45 SK L/45 mounts and eight single 3.5"/45 Flak L/45 AA guns, while the eighteen quick-firing 3.5"/35 mounts will be replaced by twelve 3.5"/45 Flak L/45 AA mounts and twelve 37mm cannon.
April 5, 1927: Deutschland, the first new German large cruiser, launches from her slip at the Deutsche Werke shipyards in Kiel. She is ostensibly a 12000t cruiser, though the actual displacement will likely be higher; nonetheless, it will be consistently reported as 12000t. Deutschland will mount similar armament to the British County-class large cruisers under construction, but will have lighter armor. Armament is planned to consist of a main battery of two triple 12"/56-caliber SK C/27 mounts, a secondary battery of three triple 5.9"/60 SK C/25 mounts, six of the planned 4.1"/65 SK C/29 AA mounts, eight 37mm cannon and ten 20mm cannon, along with two triple mounts for 21" torpedoes. Speed is projected to be 34 knots. Deutschland is the cornerstone of Vice-Admiral Hans Zenker's plans for the Reichsmarine; the service chief intends for a fleet of six of these cruisers for commerce-raiding, relying on their speed and their guns to outmatch or outrun hostile ships.
March 13, 1928: The Monument to the March Dead in Weimar, Germany, a monument to workers who lost their lives during the Kapp Putsch, is vandalized.
OOC: Akakor was a hoax in OTL; it's a hoax here, too. Shame I had to destroy a real-life person's reputation, but hey.
Presumably, Fawcett couldn't find his lost city, so he decided to make it himself - perhaps justifying it on the grounds that he'd use new grants to go back and find it for real.
How did The Call of Cthulhu get published by a Chinese author before it was even conceived of by Lovecraft?
Aguirre is inspired by discussion of how a pre-dreadnought might've remained useful into the 1930s. Peru can't afford a real dreadnought, so a pre-dreadnought is used instead. Peru historically tried to pick up the ancient armored cruiser Dupuy de Lome in 1914, so it's not unreasonable that it might try to pick up an older, cheaper ship.
Zenker, of course, wants to ditch the pre-dreadnoughts (as he steadily did in OTL), given their age and general uselessness, for his large cruisers; they don't make quite the same shock that they did in OTL, but they're better ships - faster and better armed, though a bit shorter in range - than OTL's Deutschland class.
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According to Jung, it would be because of the "collective unconsciousness"...
The idea is to make sure that Lovecraft isn't used in the same role as in several other ATLs. Second, I am planning to use science fiction as a means of making sure that science fiction is going to be a movment that keeps China from being isolationist....
OOC: I suppose. I'm not much of a fan of the collective unconsciousness, but someone else writing a story on the lines of Call of Cthulhu is certainly plausible - its themes were part of the milieu of the '20s, the critiques of rationalism that were gaining prominence after the Great War (and even before it, thanks to Freud and Einstein). Though it might work better to use a different title. How would Cthulhu be translated to Cthulhu, after all?
Oh, and did you steal the idea (and the name for the Chinese author) from this site?
Incidentally, I'd recommend a brief summary of the plot of any work of fiction if the work didn't exist in real life, and it's not immediately obvious what it's like (for instance, I think Mulan, Maid of China clearly suggests a film about a Chinese woman warrior, so I didn't summarize the plot).
China wasn't exactly isolationist in the period so much as distracted by civil war. And it wasn't isolationist, really - China courted Germany and the USSR and the USA in the '20s and '30s, after all. Weihaiwei was returned to China in 1930, and extraterritoriality was on the way out - both thanks to Chinese pressure on Europe.
I do think a Chinese sci-fi movement would be interesting, and might tie into the emergence of a small Chinese-American film movement I've started up. I'm trying to figure out a cast, and an appropriately Americanized plot, for a late-'20s or early '30s Journey to the West.
What do you want to do with Lovecraft, anyway? Do keep in mind he was already writing horror short stories as early as 1917, and his first short was published in 1919.
Oh, and did you steal the idea (and the name for the Chinese author) from this site?
Incidentally, I'd recommend a brief summary of the plot of any work of fiction if the work didn't exist in real life, and it's not immediately obvious what it's like (for instance, I think Mulan, Maid of China clearly suggests a film about a Chinese woman warrior, so I didn't summarize the plot).
China wasn't exactly isolationist in the period so much as distracted by civil war. And it wasn't isolationist, really - China courted Germany and the USSR and the USA in the '20s and '30s, after all. Weihaiwei was returned to China in 1930, and extraterritoriality was on the way out - both thanks to Chinese pressure on Europe.
I do think a Chinese sci-fi movement would be interesting, and might tie into the emergence of a small Chinese-American film movement I've started up. I'm trying to figure out a cast, and an appropriately Americanized plot, for a late-'20s or early '30s Journey to the West.
What do you want to do with Lovecraft, anyway? Do keep in mind he was already writing horror short stories as early as 1917, and his first short was published in 1919.
Yeah, I think it might be a bit too late to change Lovecraft's life significantly. Oh, and FYI, IOTL Eisenhower was sent to Panama and Patton went to ask for funds from Congress, but ITTL they've been switched, and unlike Patton, it seems Eisenhower actually got funds, which also means that tank development in the USA will move along quicker.
How will Trotsky and others handle the Soviet industrialization without Stalin? Also, who will be running in the late 20s Weirmar election, since the OTL guy isn't?
How will Trotsky and others handle the Soviet industrialization without Stalin? Also, who will be running in the late 20s Weirmar election, since the OTL guy isn't?
Technically, a car accident (involving him and/or his wife) would change Lovecraft's life fairly significantly. But that's kinda cruel...
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For my thoughts on Soviet development, see here. The specific details of which faction is stronger or weaker within Sovnarkom could be detailed as desired, but collectivization and the 5YPs certainly go forward. Not sure on what Soviet foreign policy will look like. I'd like to drive the USSR towards a 'socialism in one country' outlook, along with internationalism; I think that the KMT turning on the CPC will help in getting the former, as it did in OTL.
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I'm not entirely sure when to kill off Landis. I'd like to develop an earlier (1940s) civil rights movement, and having Landis out of the way would be useful for that - he strongly backed the color line, so bumping him off in , say, '39 might work. Maybe earlier, though - he nearly ruined the minor leagues by trying to prevent farm systems, and it would be nice for him to not be in position to make those arguments (so that other teams start up the farm systems earlier). Which would kill off the PCL, but before it gets to the point of being a near-major anyway, so that's okay, I guess.
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For my thoughts on Soviet development, see here. The specific details of which faction is stronger or weaker within Sovnarkom could be detailed as desired, but collectivization and the 5YPs certainly go forward. Not sure on what Soviet foreign policy will look like. I'd like to drive the USSR towards a 'socialism in one country' outlook, along with internationalism; I think that the KMT turning on the CPC will help in getting the former, as it did in OTL.
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I'm not entirely sure when to kill off Landis. I'd like to develop an earlier (1940s) civil rights movement, and having Landis out of the way would be useful for that - he strongly backed the color line, so bumping him off in , say, '39 might work. Maybe earlier, though - he nearly ruined the minor leagues by trying to prevent farm systems, and it would be nice for him to not be in position to make those arguments (so that other teams start up the farm systems earlier). Which would kill off the PCL, but before it gets to the point of being a near-major anyway, so that's okay, I guess.
September 1st, 1928: In spite of opposition from both Trotsky and Zinoviev, the Sixth Congress of the Comintern narrowly adopts a policy of supporting "Popular Fronts", encouraging European Communist parties to join broad left-wing alliances containing Social Democrats and others. Trotsky had favoured support but not full alliances, and Zinoviev condemned any collaboration with "bourgeois liberals". This division in the opposition was largely why the policy was able to pass.