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I hope this is the right place to post this. I recently made a map where the US purchases Rupert's Land and I have written a rough timeline starting with that as the POD. It's very rough and un-finished, but I'm posting it here to get some feedback on how plausible it is etc.

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1865: The Union wins the American Civil War.

1867: The United States purchases Rupert’s Land from the Hudson’s Bay Company for $8 million.

1869: The Suez Canal is opened, funded by British and French investors;
The British government officially splits British North America into Ursalia in the west and Canada in the east. Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island remain as separate colonies.

1871: German and Italian unification.

1872: The United States purchases Alaska from Russia for $6.8 million, despite competing British interest. The US is successful due to the Russian reluctance to sell to Britain, its imperial rival in Turkestan.

1878: Britain declares war on the United States after it signs an agreement for the annexation of Prince Edward Island. British, Canadian and Ursalian troops invade the US, however they are forced to retreat and the Americans seize Vancouver and Halifax. However, the British to manage to impose and naval blockade of some US ports.

1880: The Treaty of Montreal officially ends the Anglo-American War, with the United States gaining all British possessions in the Americas, except Ursalia and Canada.

1884: The Conference of Brussels effectively divides Africa between the European colonial powers. France is given northwest Africa the Suez Canal zone, the Sudan, the Sahel, northern Congo and Madagascar. Britain gets Egypt, Nigeria, the Gold Coast, the Cape and part of east Africa. Germany controls southwest Africa, the remainder of east Africa and Cameroon. The rest of the continent goes to Portugal, Spain, Belgium and Italy. Abyssinia and Liberia are the only remaining independent countries.

1913: The Second Balkan War escalates into a major, Europe-wide conflict as the Triple Alliance (Austria-Hungary, the United Kingdom and Germany) support Bulgaria and the Double Entente (France and Russia) support Serbia.

1915: The Russian army deserts, leading to the overthrowing of the Tsar and the provisional Russian government make peace with the Triple Alliance.

1916: France surrenders when the German army, now only fighting on one front reaches Paris.

1917: The Treaties of Paris end the Great War, with France ceding Lorraine to Germany and demilitarising its borders with Germany, Belgium and the Channel Coast. All French colonies, expect Algeria are split between Germany, Britain and Italy (which joined the Alliance in 1916). In the east, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Ukraine are created as German puppets from former Russian territory.

1918: Austria-Hungary reorganises itself as the United Monarchies of Greater Austria and Hungary (UMGAH; informally Austria-Hungary continues to be used), giving autonomy to Bohemia, Slovakia, Croatia and Transylvania.

1920s: The United States picks up some of the trade lost by the European powers during the Great War and becomes a major economic power, gaining influence over the central American republics, due to it’s possession of Belize and the Panama Canal Zone. The Europeans continue to exploit their African and Asian colonies; however they face increased pressure from nationalists.

1925: A major Arab revolt breaks out in the Ottoman Empire, which spreads to European colonies in north Africa.

1928: The American economy enters a depression, which soon affects the global economy.

1930: The Ottoman Empire collapses as the global depression continues and the Sultan is unable to revive the Empire’s ailing economy.

1931: France’s reparations payments are cancelled as it is unable to pay. The Front National Français (FNF), a far-right group come to power in France. Austria-Hungary is plagued by nationalist demonstrations.

1932: Germany sends troops into Austria-Hungary to assist the Austro-Hungarian government in putting down the rebellions. France uses this opportunity to remilitarise its borderlands. The Conference of Nations, which was set up as an international peacekeeping organisation by the Paris Treaties, fails to act. Britain is distracted by putting down the Arab revolts in Egypt and Sudan and in trying to gain influence over the former Ottoman territories.

1933: The conflicts in Austria-Hungary, the Arab world and France/Germany all escalate as the increased defence spending revives the global economy.

1935: The major powers meet in Munich to try to bring an end to the Great Nationalist War.

1936: The Treaty of Zurich ends the Great Nationalist War, with the Franco-German border being restored to its 1914 line, the establishment of independent Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Hungarian, Serbo-Croat, Austrian, Turk and Arab states in former Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian territories.

1938: Japan invades China and sets up the puppet state of Manchukuo.

1940: Japan has occupied most of the Chinese coast and is starting to threaten European colonies in southeast Asia. By the summer, many have declared war on Japan.

1942: Japan is defeated by a European and Chinese coalition. The Treaty of Harbin limits the Emperor’s power and establishes Korea as an independent state.
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