CaliGuy
Banned
If you were in complete control of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, what exactly would you do differently?
As for me:
1. Make reparations based on the amount of damage that countries who were occupied by the Central Powers during WWI (such as France, Belgium, Serbia, and Romania) suffered. Also, avoid giving any reparations to countries who weren't occupied by the Central Powers during WWI. Also, no war guilt clause.
2. Germany is allowed to annex Austria, the Sudetenland, and South Tyrol (I'm sympathetic to Italy's security argument, but its poor treatment of the South Tyrolese Germans for the next 50 years in our TL disqualifies Italy from acquiring South Tyrol) in 1919.
3. A plebiscite is held in Eupen-Malmedy to determine its fate.
4. Instead of Czechoslovakia, separate Czech and Slovak states are created.
5. Separate Croatian and Slovenian states are created in the parts of Yugoslavia (in our TL) where those two groups are a majority of the population. Also, Montenegro keeps its independence. Bosnia and the other territories still become a part of Yugoslavia, though.
6. A nominally independent Kurdistan (as a British League of Nations Mandate) is created out of the Kurdish-majority parts of Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.
7. Hungary gets to keep the Hungarian-majority areas which are located right outside of its 1920 Trianon borders in our TL.
8. Poland gets Danzig, all of Upper Silesia, and southern East Prussia (with no plebiscites anywhere there) while losing its eastern territories with large numbers of Ukrainians and Belarusians (these territories go to the Soviet Union). Basically, Germany is going to be ungrateful in any case and thus should lose as much territory as possible in the East while the Soviet Union is going to get a poison pill due to its annexation of territories filled with Ukrainian nationalists in this TL (as intended; after all, I want Ukrainian nationalists to eventually bring down the Soviet Union and deliver national self-determination for its various SSRs).
9. In the Middle East, a separate, nominally independent (but under a French LoN mandate) Alawite state is created in coastal Syria while the rest of Syria--along with the Sunni Arab-majority parts of Iraq--is annexed to (Trans-)Jordan (nominally independent but under a British LoN mandate). Indeed, hopefully the Hashemites are more capable of keeping Islamist extremists in check than the Assad family was; plus, with the Sunni Arab-majority parts of Iraq a part of Greater Syria, people like Saddam Hussein wouldn't be able to cause trouble in Iraq.
10. Bulgaria is allowed to keep a small strip of territory which allows it to have continued access to the Aegean Sea. Greece annexes the rest of this territory, though.
11. A commission is established to investigate whether or not any borders need to be redrawn in the West's current colonies in order to more closely adhere to the principles of national self-determination. If it is discovered that some colonial borders need to be redrawn in order to more closely adhere to this principle, these borders should be redrawn as soon as possible.
12. Sweden acquires the Aland Islands.
13. China acquires both Qingdao and Shandong.
Anyway, what exactly am I missing and/or forgetting here?
Also, any thoughts on what I wrote here?
As for me:
1. Make reparations based on the amount of damage that countries who were occupied by the Central Powers during WWI (such as France, Belgium, Serbia, and Romania) suffered. Also, avoid giving any reparations to countries who weren't occupied by the Central Powers during WWI. Also, no war guilt clause.
2. Germany is allowed to annex Austria, the Sudetenland, and South Tyrol (I'm sympathetic to Italy's security argument, but its poor treatment of the South Tyrolese Germans for the next 50 years in our TL disqualifies Italy from acquiring South Tyrol) in 1919.
3. A plebiscite is held in Eupen-Malmedy to determine its fate.
4. Instead of Czechoslovakia, separate Czech and Slovak states are created.
5. Separate Croatian and Slovenian states are created in the parts of Yugoslavia (in our TL) where those two groups are a majority of the population. Also, Montenegro keeps its independence. Bosnia and the other territories still become a part of Yugoslavia, though.
6. A nominally independent Kurdistan (as a British League of Nations Mandate) is created out of the Kurdish-majority parts of Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.
7. Hungary gets to keep the Hungarian-majority areas which are located right outside of its 1920 Trianon borders in our TL.
8. Poland gets Danzig, all of Upper Silesia, and southern East Prussia (with no plebiscites anywhere there) while losing its eastern territories with large numbers of Ukrainians and Belarusians (these territories go to the Soviet Union). Basically, Germany is going to be ungrateful in any case and thus should lose as much territory as possible in the East while the Soviet Union is going to get a poison pill due to its annexation of territories filled with Ukrainian nationalists in this TL (as intended; after all, I want Ukrainian nationalists to eventually bring down the Soviet Union and deliver national self-determination for its various SSRs).
9. In the Middle East, a separate, nominally independent (but under a French LoN mandate) Alawite state is created in coastal Syria while the rest of Syria--along with the Sunni Arab-majority parts of Iraq--is annexed to (Trans-)Jordan (nominally independent but under a British LoN mandate). Indeed, hopefully the Hashemites are more capable of keeping Islamist extremists in check than the Assad family was; plus, with the Sunni Arab-majority parts of Iraq a part of Greater Syria, people like Saddam Hussein wouldn't be able to cause trouble in Iraq.
10. Bulgaria is allowed to keep a small strip of territory which allows it to have continued access to the Aegean Sea. Greece annexes the rest of this territory, though.
11. A commission is established to investigate whether or not any borders need to be redrawn in the West's current colonies in order to more closely adhere to the principles of national self-determination. If it is discovered that some colonial borders need to be redrawn in order to more closely adhere to this principle, these borders should be redrawn as soon as possible.
12. Sweden acquires the Aland Islands.
13. China acquires both Qingdao and Shandong.
Anyway, what exactly am I missing and/or forgetting here?
Also, any thoughts on what I wrote here?