A World of Difference

This TL has four PODs. These would drastically change the history and face of the world

Truly this is A World of Difference. The World's Political Map as of July 2012 NOTICE: It say July 'cause I'm to lazy to change it. I know if I put June it would be like that until next June. So I put July, since it's one day away.
 * The first POD is in 1569. Poland and Lithuania do not unite into one united nation. This is primarily because the governments and peoples of the two nations decided that another union would fail and be a repeat of the Union of Kraków and Vilna, the Union of Krewo, the Union of Vilnius and Radom, the Union of Grodno, and the Union of Horodło. In a series of what would become known as the Great Baltic War, Russia defeated and annexed Poland and Lithuania in rapid succession and then attacked Sweden and took Finland and the Swedish Baltics, effectively placing the entire Baltic Sea uder Russian control.
 * The second POD is when France allies with Denmark-Norway instead of Sweden. Because of this, Sweden and the United Provinces fought with France, Denmark-Norway, and Brandenburg and lost to them in the Scanian War.
 * The third POD, and this one is more of a difference, is that Peter the Great is liberal and turns Russia into a constitutional monarchy.
 * The fourth POD is also more of a difference. Peter the Great and his son Alexei do not harbor such hatreds against their wives, allowing the Tsesarevich to take the throne when his father dies. Descendants of Ivan V would never secure the throne in their hands.

Current Events

 * A_World_of_Difference_Cold_War_Alliance_Map.png The Cold War: Flag of France.png | 72 Star US Flag.png | Flag of Russia.png The Cold War is currently ongoing between France, Russia, and America. France and its allies are mostly compacted into the Continental Alliance, while Russia and its allies (mostly concentrated in Asia and South America) are part of the Pact of Petrograd. America, and most of the world's complete democracies, and most of America's allies are in the Concert of Democracies. All the nations are in the International League.

World Wars

 * A World of Difference WWI Start.pngWorld War I: World War I is a parallel to OTL's Seven Years' War. The side of the French camp, called the Grand Alliance, defeated the British side, known as the European Coalition. Russia and Austria took parts of Prussia and Portugal was annexed to Spain. The Viceroyalty of Brazil was also formed under Spain.
 * A World of Difference WWII Start.pngWorld War II: The parallel to the Napoleonic Wars. France, Russia, Spain, America, and Denmark defeat Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, Sweden and their allies. The UK is dismantled into four nations, England, with its forever ally Wales, and Scotland and Ireland. The Royal Family, the King included, fled to Austria, where they would remain for a period of time.
 * A World of Difference WWIII Start.pngWorld War III: The Third World War has no parallel, save for the fact that part of it occurred around the same time as OTL's Franco-Prussian War. France, Russia, America, the Ottomans, and other nations fought England, Wales, Austria, newly formed Romania and Greece, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. The Argentine Revolution of 1872 placed a new, pro-Prussian government in place of the old pro-Spanish/French one. The former British monarchy had returned to England following a coup in 1862 later known as the Glorious Return. The Balkan Rebellions resulted in independence for Romania and Greece, and weakened the political power of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans.
 * A World of Difference WWIV Start.pngWorld War IV: World War I parallel. Comandeered by Marcel I, Robert La Follette, Nicholas III, and others lead France, America, Russia, and the Entente against King George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Kaiser Rudolf I, and others commandeering the Central Powers.
 * A World of Difference WWV Start.pngWorld War V: World War II parallel. We have FDR for America, Louis II in France, Constantine in Russia, and a whole load of others vs. King Edward VIII for Britain, Franz Joseph III in Austria and Ludwig Ferdinand and Hitler in Germany. We also had Mexico with the Axis, Japan and China with the allies, Patagonia, Colombia, and Peru with the Allies, and Brazil and Argentina with the Axis. America developed the first nuke and tested it in 1946. France followed suit two months later and Russia three days after France. France dropped a bomb in Hamburg, Russia one in Bratislava, and America one in Yucatan City.
 * World War VI: There has been no Sixth World War to date, although many have attempted to label the Cold War as such.