Proposals and War Aims That Didn't Happen Map Thread

[NorthTension]

Parts of Burma annexed by Thailand during WW2 in full lavender and claimed areas in striped

 

[Wendell]

Why not include the Thai claims against Laos in this same era?

 

[NorthTension]

Why not include the Thai claims against Laos in this same era?

Cause that Wikipedia map is just for Burma idk

 

[xmoose]

I wonder why they do not claim at least part of that loooong strip at the southeast of Burma...

 

[Skallagrim]

I wonder why they do not claim at least part of that loooong strip at the southeast of Burma...

The southernmost portion of that strip is actually populated by a Thai majority, but a part of Thailand adjacent to large parts of south-eastern Myanmar is actually not ethnically Thai. I don't think Thailand would want to stir up ethnic seperatist tendencies in those regions, as it might not end in their favour...

This map of the Tai languages (of which Thai is the most prominent) illustrates the situation.

 

[NorthTension]

I wonder why they do not claim at least part of that loooong strip at the southeast of Burma...

The southernmost portion of that strip is actually populated by a Thai majority, but a part of Thailand adjacent to large parts of south-eastern Myanmar is actually not ethnically Thai. I don't think Thailand would want to stir up ethnic seperatist tendencies in those regions, as it might not end in their favour...

This map of the Tai languages (of which Thai is the most prominent) illustrates the situation.

Also this ethno-linguistic map may help as well:

Spoiler

 

[NorthTension]

Schleswig-Holstein partition proposals from 1864

 

[BigVic]

Planned partition of Japan post-WWII. Would’ve been implemented if Operation Downfall went ahead.

 

[Flashman]

Occupation =/= Partition

 

[oshron]

Planned partition of Japan post-WWII. Would’ve been implemented if Operation Downfall went ahead. View attachment 394079

kinda makes me wonder what kinds of culture could develop in each part of Japan if this had happened--how different would cuisine in Chinese-occupied Shikoku be from the Anglo-American occupation areas around it, for example?

 

[Mr. Bubbles]

Planned partition of Japan post-WWII. Would’ve been implemented if Operation Downfall went ahead.

View attachment 394079

Funny enough, I posted a similar map when I first found this thread

 

[Beedok]

How many Hong Kong born folks would end up in Sino-British Osaka I wonder?

 

[Drex]

I'd love to see what would happen with Chinese-occupied Japan during and inmediately after the civil war, maybe we could have an extended Taiwan?

 

[Blind]

 

[Analytical Engine]

That's one big Armenia, and one small Turkey.

 

[Blind]

 

[Noddy]

They really phoned it in with Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Hungary.

Also it pretty audacious to actually admit in a visual format that Poles are a minority in like half the land they're claiming.

 

[Ivoshafen]

They really phoned it in with Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Hungary.

Also it pretty audacious to actually admit in a visual format that Poles are a minority in like half the land they're claiming.

Are we just skipping by Livonia?

 

[Analytical Engine]

Also it pretty audacious to actually admit in a visual format that Poles are a minority in like half the land they're claiming.

Whoever drew that map wanted MOAR POLAND (MOAR!), and didn't care how they got it.

 

[NorthTension]

"The new road of Finland" I believe from the Continuation War