Just reviving one of the earlier ideas I saw in the thread, this one actually looked pretty interesting,
Das:
Das said:
Anyone ever read "Seventh Part of Darkness" (not even sure it was translated from Russian)? It's a really interesting history in which Stolypin, a early 20th Russian minister and reformer, isn't assassinated in 1911, thus leading to a 1936 constitutional monarchy (by the end of the book, switching to fascism) Russian Empire fighting a war against communism in Germany, Austro-Hungary and China, while the Western World watches on, not knowing whom to support. It SHOULD make a good NES.
Focusing on a less (if at all? haven't seen it in the thread so far) used What If: what if the Zimmerman Note had succeeded?
I haven't done much research on the idea, but it appears that a general assigned by Venustiano Carranza (President of Mexico at the time) determined that the ideal was infeasible, namely because of the large anglo population in the states the note promised Mexico (Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona), and because it would not be possible for Germany to supply them with the needed materials to fight the war (this is lifted straight out of
Wikipedia's entry).
Let us suppose one of two things happen: one, either Carranza appointed a less astute, perhaps more nationalistic general, and he gets the opposite recommendation - and then British intelligence hands over evidence of the note to the American government, or two, a different faction in the Mexican Revolution somehow came to power that was less friendly toward their northern neighbors (bearing in mind the defeats of the Mexican-American War) and accepts the note, which is again revealed by British intelligence.
How do things change if the USA's main focus is on Mexico? It seems likely Mexico would've very quickly lost, given relative military strengths, but what about the loss of American impact on the European theater?
And what happens if the USA decides not to withdraw from an occupied Mexico?
