The Restless Twenties (CP Victory Timeline)

Grey Wolf

Grey Wolf

Completing the 1920s

Completing the 1920s

A certain degree of revision is needed here

Italy

Having established a military form of government by the mid 1920s, Italy embarks on a series of military adventures, subduing the Somali sultanates and enforcing full colonial status upon them, and seeing off a Senussi revolt in Libya.

By the end of the 1920s public opinion has swung strongly against the military, but the king and the generals see little hope in any return to democracy and repressive measures increase as they seek to retain their grip on the organs of government.


Naval

I went with HOPES for the Ersatz Monarch to be resumed in the early 1920s, building in new lessons from the war, but the financial and political situation in the Habsburg Empire mitigating against this

Thus, the later 1920s decision to order two battleships is the first such work undertaken in a decade by Austrian yards


Ottoman Empire

I am not saying that any of the rebellions succeed, only that they occur. In the immediate post-war years they are reasonably widespread, if small scale or small of scope.

In later years, agitation across the Hejaz is more difficult to deal with, especially as the area is so vital to Ottoman claims on the Caliphate. The government in Istanbul eventually agrees to basically buy off rebellion, pouring money into the region as a sign of the Sultan's favour

The al-Atrash rising in Syria in the late 1920s (c 1928) seems to come out of thin air, the result of the 1927 Anglo-Egyptian accord which for the first time allocated many of the rights of true independence to the Egytpians. The Syrian rebels enjoy brief success and drive the Ottoman garrison out of Damascus, but are overwhelmed and put down with bloody reprisals


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Grey Wolf
 

benedict XVII

Valdemar II said:
The annextion of Belgium Luxembourg (BL) are going to have interesting consequencies. BL is home to a third of Wallons population, which will mean that the population of Flandern is now in majority, this is somewhat offset by the Francophone elite in Flanders, but some of the bitterness from the Flemish is going to stay or even increase, I could see Brussel staying Flemish thanks to lowered Francophone immigration and a stronger Flemish nationalism, we can end up with a Belgium which is 80% Flemish instead of 60%. In Germany the new Francophone population (in both Luxembourg and Lorraine) is likely to face limitation in the use of French which could either mean a development of the local Romance dialect into independent languages or the adoption of the local Germanic dialects as a protest against Standard German, or both things could happen at the same time.
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Belgian Luwembourg represents less than 10% of the total French-speaking population in Belgium, so it wouldn't alter much the language balance in the country. And the Flemings were and are still the majority.
 

Valdemar II

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benedict XVII said:
Belgian Luwembourg represents less than 10% of the total French-speaking population in Belgium, so it wouldn't alter much the language balance in the country. And the Flemings were and are still the majority.
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Yes you're correct :confused:, I don't know where I got the Idea that Belgian Luxembourg was home to a million people, I must have looked at Liege instead of Luxembourg as a mistake.
 

DuQuense

I don't [can't] see a independent Poland in a CP wins TL
Germany [Prussia/Austria] and Russia have spent the last 250 years trying to erase the idea of Poland from the maps.
Neither Germany or A-H, will want to give up their territory for this, and to cut a Poland out of the Russian part would only encourage the Radicals in the German areas.

Pre WW1 the three biggest grain growing areas were US mid west, Argentinia and the Ukraine.
All three had boom times during the war, growing food for export, as the [drafted] farmers in the fighting nations went to war.
But by 1921 the Boom was over as the Demobilized Soldiers returned to their Farms and returned to growing crops at home.

As such whe had a declining agricultural sector pulling the Economy down all thru the Roaring Twenties.

IITL where whe have a restless listless twenties instead of OTL Roaring Confident twenties. The Great depression should happen earlier.
In Fact I could see the Great depression starting in 1923~25.
 
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