The anti-FaT

You caught it. Good. :D

For those that didn't know, Argentina seized the Falklands on April 1, 1982.
Oh, I didn't know that was the day it happened, I assumed it was an April Fool's reference... OK.

Also happens to be my exact birthdate.

(Waits for jokes about him being 'an April Fool', as happened many a time in school...)
 

Vault-Scope

Banned
Simple. Start where FAT started.

The more inward-turned USA solves its internal problems far faster than it ever did in OTL.

No cold war, soviet-union allows reunification between east-Germany with the German Republic in 1952. No conflict with Yougoslavia, more democratic regimes are allowed in the 1950s in eastern europe (and the pfalz republic), as France and Britain does not represent a threat.

Vichist French (and in a smaller measure britain) remains powerfull, its empire united and developpe a good economic base with them instead of decolonialising.
Vichist French governemenmt identifies the problem of aids and does its utmost to stop it.
There are some insurrectionists wars in the colonies but no mass-starvation, no middle-east conflicts, no dictators like ide amin etc.

South america becomes more democratic, no CIA-sponsored coups against suspected communists.

Cooperation between countries progressively increases. 1960s sees world disarmament treaties. 1970s sees the banning of ICBMs. There are more nuclear powers in OTL and accidental nuclear war is still possible, but a nuclear war won´t be that disastrous.

By 2002, world is more prosperous, stable(USA running almost completely on nuclear power, instead of foreign oil), less corrupted than OTL. Technology is backward compared to OTL militarily speaking(there have not been any real conflict in decades) but more advanced in other fields.
With decades of technological assistance, China have become a superpower rivaling with the united states and the soviet-union, its main allie Japan stands closely behind.
 
Vichist French (and in a smaller measure britain) remains powerfull, its empire united and developpe a good economic base with them instead of decolonialising.
Vichist French governemenmt identifies the problem of aids and does its utmost to stop it.
Vichy France in an anti-FAT TL? No way! In all of its three avatars (French State of 1940, French State of 1944, where racial policies were radicalized and state terror more widespread, and Darlan's, then Giraud's, transitional rule in French North Africa under US sway) Vichy was not a nice place to live.

Speaking about France, I may suggest several anti-FATish moments.

The PCF has never quite recovered after its 1939-40 bump. This means that instead of initial Gaullist-Communist dualism in the Resistance we get a more united and more effective force. At the same time, the left-leaning intellectuals disappointed with Communism rally to the Gaullist camp (much like Malraux OTL), which prevents the post-Liberation France from a form of backward social conservatism.

After the Torch, the US aren't propping Henri Giraud, but quietly accept De Gaulle's leadership of the Free French.

The internal struggle in the last months before and first months after the Liberation isn't as bloody as in OTL. There is no Communist-style attempts of class struggle, there are (due to the better coordination) less futile attacks by the Resistance that ended in OTL by bloodbaths for the locals at the hands of SS and the militia, and, consequently, the post-Liberation purges are less bloody.

The massacre of Setif is butterflied away, giving France firmer ground in peaceful dealing with Algeria.
Ditto, mutatis mutandis, for the Indochina.

De Gaulle's draft for the new Constitution isn't rejected. So, instead of still-born OTL's Fourth Republic, France has a combination of genuine democracy and enlightened despotism, not unlike indeed to early Gaullist years minus Algerian war and its repercussions.

I admit, this vision is pretty much Hexagonal and Gaullist, but in my opinion, in the 1940s, De Gaulle was the right man at the right place.
 
colonialism ends without chaos

A less powerful cold war probably leads to better outcome for Africa.
The Europeans don't keep backing the wrong horse by fighting communism. Smuts, leads south Africa, turns over to Hoymyer, and Div Graff, who promote race federation. No aparthied, but white leadership with justice. This leads to avoiding the chaos of too quick departures by whites. While giving the Africans a stake in democracy, and causing the rest of the contient to follow Garfield Tod type moderates, as apposed to Smith, Vorster paternalists, or Amin type, miltary thugs. Gradually over ten to fiveteen years intergration happens. Everything is cool
 
A less powerful cold war probably leads to better outcome for Africa.
The Europeans don't keep backing the wrong horse by fighting communism. Smuts, leads south Africa, turns over to Hoymyer, and Div Graff, who promote race federation. No aparthied, but white leadership with justice. This leads to avoiding the chaos of too quick departures by whites. While giving the Africans a stake in democracy, and causing the rest of the contient to follow Garfield Tod type moderates, as apposed to Smith, Vorster paternalists, or Amin type, miltary thugs. Gradually over ten to fiveteen years intergration happens. Everything is cool
Hah, if only... though I dispute the idea of "white leadership with justice" as being workable.
 

Vault-Scope

Banned
Vichy was not a nice place to live.

Of course, there was a world war going on! How could it not? To begin with, that alternate Vichty would have been a governement in exile to London, then it comes back in power it have the whole of Metropolitan France and the colonies, which would have been in a far better condition than OTL´s rump-state in 40-42.
 
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