Timeline 191: Through a Mirror

Originally Posted by Sakoda Yataro

Through a Mirror

Northern victory scenarios tend to be popular (I can imagine why), so here's another one. I decided to flip the fates of Germany and the United States, so the Union succeeds in uniting its country during the War of Secession, and the Prussians fail in creating a united German Empire. I still have the Central Powers winning the Great War (although Austria-Hungary is with the Entente) and which fractures Austria-Hungary (making it ripe for a Freedom Party analogue), sees Germany expanding northward, and the United States taking up a lot of the Entente's former colonial possessions. 

By 1941, the Entente powers are ready for round two. The South German Federation, under Jakob Federstein's Freiheit Party, want to avenge their loss in the Great War and create a greater Germany under Vienna's rule. Germany is slowly demilitarizing under the Socialist Labor Party. The United States is the premier power on the world stage, although colonial and Canadian rebellions prove to be a pain. The British have thrown out the monarchy, and a nationalist Protectorate has taken root. They want revenge primarily against the United States, which has thoroughly humiliated them in the Great War. The French are more lukewarm about revenge, but they do want another go at the Germans. 

The Russians, who have been a rising power since the late 19th and early 20th centuries, are now conquering the weak and decaying Ottoman Empire. The Japanese are still struggling after barely winning a civil war against the Japanese Workers' Movement, which was instigated by their defeats at the hands of the Americans that saw the Sandwich Islands fall under the Stars and Stripes. Both are Entente powers, although the militarist Russians would gladly betray the Entente if it meant territorial gains. China, rather than being a weak power, is a rather strong one after defeating Japan in the Great War, and is reforming itself.