Alternity

The very first major PoD takes place in November 1776, when Jonathan Eddy's militia force wins the Battle of Fort Cumberland, thanks largely due to an accident which overtook the messenger delivering word of the attack on the fort to British colonial authorities at Halifax, paving the way for a series of anti-British uprisings across the region, including Prince Edward Island (aided by exiled French Acadians). But, with fighting on the island locked into a stalemate until 1781, Britain includes Nova Scotia and PEI in the territory ceded to the USA in the 1783 Treaty of Paris. The second divergence point from OTL takes place during the War of 1812, when Lt. General Gordon Drummond is killed in the Battle of Lundy's Lane, and the British fail to prevent American troops from sweeping across Southwestern Ontario and Upper Canada. The Treaty of Ghent is signed in January 1815 and resolves the issues of conquered Canadian territory by giving back much of Upper Canada to Britain, with the exception of Southwestern Ontario, which becomes the US state of Erie by 1843. Further divergences include the US control of Vancouver Island after the Oregon Treaty in 1846 (when President Polk is pressed by hard-liners to acquire further territory), and control of Baja California as well as a portion of Sonora as far south as the village of Caborca after the Baja/Gadsden Purchase of 1852 (pressed by a more hard-line Secretary Jefferson Davis). The US made no further territorial gains until the late 1800s, namely because it had already had control of the New England Islands since 1798. Other notable events include World War II (1938-1947), the Canadian Civil War (1957-1963), the Arctic Wars (1967-Present), First Australian War (1973-1986), and the Indonesian War (1973-1979).

The World of Alternity
Below is a political map of the nations of the world circa 1997 (Alternity's current year).