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I've got pretty much nothing done on my new fictional universe, so I thought that some discussion would kickstart some work and progress on Worldwar 1964. Helps me get through the frustrations in my life when I have the will to write out my stuff, and being creative is what I need to be right now with some stuff that went on not too long ago.

So anyways, Worldwar 1964 revolves around a WWI that did not happen until the mid-1960s, despite the collapse of Austria-Hungary in 1939, another partition of Africa and of Indonesia in 1945 and the rise of a fascist-like government in Hungary in 1947. Franz Ferdinand is not assassinated, and instead, the European powers enter an arms race by the late 1910s. By the time WWI does happen, the atomic bomb had been introduced (1948), the first jet aircraft had been flown (1942), and man had launched the first artificial satellite into orbit (1961).

At the start of the Great War around December 1964, the world is politically similar to the mid-1910s, socially similar to the late 1930s and technologically similar to the early 1960s. Many nations had created new allies out of old enemies and new enemies out of old allies, and the world was divided by 3 power blocs, the Entente (Britain, France, Portugal, Netherlands, Denmark), the Central powers (Germany, Szegedist Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Italy, Serbia), and the Allied powers (United States, Russian Empire, Japan, Republic of China, Egypt).

Now that you kinda have an idea of what I'm going for, what I would like to discuss here is what sort of weapons and technology would have been developed before the Great War, what would old and new players in the colonial theater have named their colonies (like what the Hungarians and Serbians would have named places in their new colonies in what is now Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Puntland), how history progressed from 1914 to 1964, and how the Great War itself would have gone.

Anyways, a political map of the world on December 24th, 1964.

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