A Capitalist World

The year is 1917; the whole world has been engaged in a bloody conflict for years. In the Russian Empire, Tsar Nicholas II is overthrown, ultimately causing a civil war.

However, in this alternate world, the conflict is much different. Instead of the Bolshevik revolutionaries winning the civil war, the White Army manages to defeat them. The Soviet Union would never be founded, and Communism would remain just a theory, even now.

Due to resistance from the Russian population, the Red Army has trouble recruiting enough soldiers to win the war, creating a much smaller Red Army. The White Army easily takes out the weaker Reds, creating a world much different from ours.

The White Army captures Mongolia and Tuva instead of the Reds, giving China more capitalist influence. The Chinese Civil War never happens, and China remains the Republic of China. China's warlordism never becomes as powerful as it was; it gets easily stopped by Japan and Russi. The Cold War never happens, either, as the USSR never comes into existence; thus no Korean or Vietnam wars ever happen.

PoDs
The main PoD in this timeline is the Bolsheviks winning the Russian Civil War. There are numerous other non-civil war related PoDs in this timeline, including the following:
 * Russia and China go to war against the Chinese warlordism, with a Chinese victory.
 * Russia eventually annexes Finland after the fall of the Russian Empire.
 * Russia attempts to invade the Baltic countries like the USSR did during WWII, however they team up and they founded the Union of Baltic States.
 * Germany eventually conquered the new nation.
 * Japan annexed Hawaii after the Pearl Harbor bombings.
 * Kurdish Iraqi rebels helped the Allies in WWII in hopes of making a Kurdish state. This led to an Iraqi civil war.
 * Danzig gained independence after WWII.
 * Pakistan helps Hyderabad not get annexed by India during the first Indo-Pakistan War.