How about some interactivity? Let's see which decisions you would do in some crucial moments of the Timeline! Make sure to place yourself in the mind of the character without abusing the power of Hindsight. You may also justify your choices.
1) You are President Cordell Hull after the capture of Okinawa, the Nuclear bomb is still almost two years away and you are about to launch Operation Sunset, do you:
A) Go ahead with the Operation?
B) Starve out the Japanese through a blockade and strike their occupied Zones in Southeast Asia and China?
C) Attempt to make a Conditional Surrender?
2) You are Strom Thurmond in the last months of Operation Sunset, the OSS has been contacted by Kislitsin, one of the leaders of the Russian White Army made up of Japanese collaborators. In return of American support and sponsorship, he is willing to turn the White Army against the Japanese and restore the Russian Empire under Andrey Romanov, do you:
A) Back the Monarchist Plan and support them?
B) Ignore their offer and let the conflict play out?
C) Intervene in favor of Stalin and the legitimate Soviet Government?
D) Intervene in favor of the Soviet Red Army?
3) You are a random American voter, probably an Operation Sunset veteran, who do you vote for in this year's election as America suffers racial riots, a technical recession caused by demobilization and rising tensions with Germany?
A) Douglas MacArthur from the Republican Party.
B) Huey Long from the Democratic Party.
4) You are Adolf Hitler (insert Indy Nidell meme), it's 1951 and you worry that you may not live for long. Who do you leave the Reich to in your Testament to inherit the country?
A) Ask Bormann's help (Hess)
B) Rudolf Hess.
C) Joseph Goebbels.
D) Albert Speer.
E) Heinrich Himmler.
F) Reinhard Heydrich.
E) Tell them all to go to Hell (Name no Successor).
5) You are Huey Pierce Long, President of the United States, It's the 13th of March of 1951 and the News just came that Hitler died and as such Germany is vulnerable during the power transition. Prime Minister Eden, Tsar Andrey and President Charles de Gaulle urge you to launch a preemptive strike on Europe during the mourning period before the Reich can reach Nuclear deterrence, do you:
A) Go along with Eden's plan, restarting the War in Europe while the momentum is in your favor. But at risk of millions of deaths and even strikes from German submarines against the East Coast.
B) Focus on your domestic agenda and leave the Warhawks in London, Yekaterinburg and Brazzaville to settle down and not start a war.
C) Actually MacArthur won, let's carpet bomb Germany with Nuclear Hellfire and Anthrax, make Operation Gommorrah look like firecrackers.
6) You are General Monteiro, your health is declining and the Brazilian elections have come. There is popular momentum in favor of the Integralists and your own regime is becoming more unpopular due to it's corruption and the blatant nepotism, do you:
A) Concede the Presidential Victory to Salgado, its just symbolic anyways.
B) Crackdown on Salgado and increase authoritarian measures to ensure your brother becomes President.
C) Make an alliance with the UDN (Liberals) to elect a Liberal President to oppose the Integralists (and have to handle the fact Aranha will have beaten you).
7) You are Antoun Saadeh during the Suez War, Israel, Jordan and Egypt are fighting one another. Anti-Zionism is one of your main selling points and will grant you points with your German sponsors. But Pan-Arabism has the potential to threaten your power in the Long-Term if you leave them to grow. You have perhaps the strongest Army in the Middle East, your intervention may be decisive, do you:
A) Intervene in Israel's favor against the Pan-Arab alliance.
B) Intervene in Nasser's favor and finish the job from 1947.
C) Strike them both while Vulnerable (Repeating 1947 won't go wrong for sure).
8) You are Rab Butler, it's 1952 and you just became Prime Minister following the Suez War. You have a certain understanding with Hugh Gaitskell's Labour Party while your own party is divided. The US is an unreliable ally, the economy is sustained by abusive loans to keep the high military spending while Germany offers an Olive Branch, do you:
A) Cautiously engage with Germany while continuing the decolonization process.
B) Fully commit to a peace, scaling back your spending and continuing the decolonization process.
C) Refuse to engage but continue the decolonization process.
D) Engage in talks while tightening the grip on the Empire.
E) Refuse in talks while tightening the grip on the Empire.
9) You are Huey Long and just got shot, the elections are coming up. By all accounts you should have a quite easy victory with the political machine and popular support by your side. But you would also break Washington's precedent and miss another chance of an easy retirement, do you:
A) Run for a Third Term!
B) Hold a Party primary and oversee the choice of successor.
C) Explicitly pick a successor and discipline the party to rally around him (specify your ticket here).
10) You are Paul Wegener, after several years handling the politics and maneuvering your advantages you became the Party Chancellor, starting the process to make Germany into a proper streamlined Party-State with the objective of one day sidelining the Führer's position. However you have several enemies such as Reinhard Heydrich, Albert Speer, Joseph Goebbels and much of the State bureaucracy and many gauleiters. However, you have the opportunity of winning the necessary leverage by showing yourself as a hero through an external adventure, do you:
A) Strike for the Urals under the leadership of Adolf Heusinger.
B) Strike for the Urals under the leadership of Ferdinand Schörner.
C) Strike for the Urals under the leadership of Erich von Manstein.
D) Forget the idea and focus on the internal war under the risk of fading into irrelevance.
11) You are Mao Zedong and the Russians have their forces tied down in the West, leaving your northern reactionary enemy extremely vulnerable. With the US preoccupied in giving support to the Russians, you have a decisive opportunity in hands to expand the Communist cause in the world, do you:
A) Strike only Mongolia, preventing an all-out war while annexing the last remaining territory you have claimed.
B) Strike all of Russia, overrunning Siberia and Central Asia by surprise and sheer numbers, restoring the Soviet Union in the region, although at risk of provoking the US and allowing the Germans to cross the Urals, perhaps up to the river Ob.
C) Strike at Korea, restarting the War and overwhelming the South before the US can save them, potentially starting a conflict with Washington.
D) Stay put and only take Macau as part of your previous plan with India and Indonesia.
E) Support Russia as an Anti-German alliance, sending in a million troops to tip the scales, exposing yourself to German retaliation (but why would you pick this option anyways?).
1) You are President Cordell Hull after the capture of Okinawa, the Nuclear bomb is still almost two years away and you are about to launch Operation Sunset, do you:
A) Go ahead with the Operation?
B) Starve out the Japanese through a blockade and strike their occupied Zones in Southeast Asia and China?
C) Attempt to make a Conditional Surrender?
2) You are Strom Thurmond in the last months of Operation Sunset, the OSS has been contacted by Kislitsin, one of the leaders of the Russian White Army made up of Japanese collaborators. In return of American support and sponsorship, he is willing to turn the White Army against the Japanese and restore the Russian Empire under Andrey Romanov, do you:
A) Back the Monarchist Plan and support them?
B) Ignore their offer and let the conflict play out?
C) Intervene in favor of Stalin and the legitimate Soviet Government?
D) Intervene in favor of the Soviet Red Army?
3) You are a random American voter, probably an Operation Sunset veteran, who do you vote for in this year's election as America suffers racial riots, a technical recession caused by demobilization and rising tensions with Germany?
A) Douglas MacArthur from the Republican Party.
B) Huey Long from the Democratic Party.
4) You are Adolf Hitler (insert Indy Nidell meme), it's 1951 and you worry that you may not live for long. Who do you leave the Reich to in your Testament to inherit the country?
A) Ask Bormann's help (Hess)
B) Rudolf Hess.
C) Joseph Goebbels.
D) Albert Speer.
E) Heinrich Himmler.
F) Reinhard Heydrich.
E) Tell them all to go to Hell (Name no Successor).
5) You are Huey Pierce Long, President of the United States, It's the 13th of March of 1951 and the News just came that Hitler died and as such Germany is vulnerable during the power transition. Prime Minister Eden, Tsar Andrey and President Charles de Gaulle urge you to launch a preemptive strike on Europe during the mourning period before the Reich can reach Nuclear deterrence, do you:
A) Go along with Eden's plan, restarting the War in Europe while the momentum is in your favor. But at risk of millions of deaths and even strikes from German submarines against the East Coast.
B) Focus on your domestic agenda and leave the Warhawks in London, Yekaterinburg and Brazzaville to settle down and not start a war.
C) Actually MacArthur won, let's carpet bomb Germany with Nuclear Hellfire and Anthrax, make Operation Gommorrah look like firecrackers.
6) You are General Monteiro, your health is declining and the Brazilian elections have come. There is popular momentum in favor of the Integralists and your own regime is becoming more unpopular due to it's corruption and the blatant nepotism, do you:
A) Concede the Presidential Victory to Salgado, its just symbolic anyways.
B) Crackdown on Salgado and increase authoritarian measures to ensure your brother becomes President.
C) Make an alliance with the UDN (Liberals) to elect a Liberal President to oppose the Integralists (and have to handle the fact Aranha will have beaten you).
7) You are Antoun Saadeh during the Suez War, Israel, Jordan and Egypt are fighting one another. Anti-Zionism is one of your main selling points and will grant you points with your German sponsors. But Pan-Arabism has the potential to threaten your power in the Long-Term if you leave them to grow. You have perhaps the strongest Army in the Middle East, your intervention may be decisive, do you:
A) Intervene in Israel's favor against the Pan-Arab alliance.
B) Intervene in Nasser's favor and finish the job from 1947.
C) Strike them both while Vulnerable (Repeating 1947 won't go wrong for sure).
8) You are Rab Butler, it's 1952 and you just became Prime Minister following the Suez War. You have a certain understanding with Hugh Gaitskell's Labour Party while your own party is divided. The US is an unreliable ally, the economy is sustained by abusive loans to keep the high military spending while Germany offers an Olive Branch, do you:
A) Cautiously engage with Germany while continuing the decolonization process.
B) Fully commit to a peace, scaling back your spending and continuing the decolonization process.
C) Refuse to engage but continue the decolonization process.
D) Engage in talks while tightening the grip on the Empire.
E) Refuse in talks while tightening the grip on the Empire.
9) You are Huey Long and just got shot, the elections are coming up. By all accounts you should have a quite easy victory with the political machine and popular support by your side. But you would also break Washington's precedent and miss another chance of an easy retirement, do you:
A) Run for a Third Term!
B) Hold a Party primary and oversee the choice of successor.
C) Explicitly pick a successor and discipline the party to rally around him (specify your ticket here).
10) You are Paul Wegener, after several years handling the politics and maneuvering your advantages you became the Party Chancellor, starting the process to make Germany into a proper streamlined Party-State with the objective of one day sidelining the Führer's position. However you have several enemies such as Reinhard Heydrich, Albert Speer, Joseph Goebbels and much of the State bureaucracy and many gauleiters. However, you have the opportunity of winning the necessary leverage by showing yourself as a hero through an external adventure, do you:
A) Strike for the Urals under the leadership of Adolf Heusinger.
B) Strike for the Urals under the leadership of Ferdinand Schörner.
C) Strike for the Urals under the leadership of Erich von Manstein.
D) Forget the idea and focus on the internal war under the risk of fading into irrelevance.
11) You are Mao Zedong and the Russians have their forces tied down in the West, leaving your northern reactionary enemy extremely vulnerable. With the US preoccupied in giving support to the Russians, you have a decisive opportunity in hands to expand the Communist cause in the world, do you:
A) Strike only Mongolia, preventing an all-out war while annexing the last remaining territory you have claimed.
B) Strike all of Russia, overrunning Siberia and Central Asia by surprise and sheer numbers, restoring the Soviet Union in the region, although at risk of provoking the US and allowing the Germans to cross the Urals, perhaps up to the river Ob.
C) Strike at Korea, restarting the War and overwhelming the South before the US can save them, potentially starting a conflict with Washington.
D) Stay put and only take Macau as part of your previous plan with India and Indonesia.
E) Support Russia as an Anti-German alliance, sending in a million troops to tip the scales, exposing yourself to German retaliation (but why would you pick this option anyways?).