Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32250026-20180109043630/@comment-32250026-20180110182709

One I did not respond with hostility. Two of course the southern states al independently left the union. That's common or should be common knowledge. The CSA as the name implies war a confederation with each state acting almost as a nation this would force the csa to centralize there government if they won the war. Yes some talks of peace were made but they didn't do much. The government was being forced into a corner with no good solution. If they let the CSA take us forts and other military facilities this would force war or acknowledge them. If they tried to talk things out then they would have to acknowledge them as well. Since no one really wanted to acknowledge them they were stuck and couldn't really figure out a good solution. Now I could see 2 ways the civil war could have been averted. One during the creation of the constitution there were talks, all be it minor ones, to ban slavery. If they got rid of slavery before there was a delicate need to appease the north and south then a war would be averted. The south might still have issues with the north but by removing one of the factors, that while yes wasn't a main point of the war until Lincoln needed a way to raise moral and keep fighting, could avert war along with if the south industrialized a bit more. Second if the US commander of Fort Sumter listen to orders and surrendered the fort then maybe talks of negation could take place. Now that or the CSA or rather Carolina Government didn't fire on the fort but maybe exchange it for a border fort then northern politicians might see the south as willing to talk things out. While yes Hitler becoming the chancellor in a word where Germany one is unlikely since even if he did he would hold no real power. Now if Germany won ww1 I could see Germany giving a bit more power to there version of a parliament they wouldn't become a republic. Doing that and holding onto there European puppets would cause issues. I could see Hitler perhaps joining a group that wants to unite Austria with Germany. Perhaps viewing Hungarians as an evil that corrupted the strength of Austria. This group might gain a bit of popularity in Bavaria and Austria but that's all. Now as for nuking different Japanese cities the only other planned atomic bombing was Tokyo but japan surrendered. So maybe I this alt timeline Tokyo is nuked and the Emperor is killed. Japan is broken as there God Emperor has died. The government falls into anarchy. China takes Manchuria and Korea from them. Soviet and US troops land in japan to restore order. I could see japan never fully recovering from the war. Japan would then be a weak government backed by the US with many riots and ex Japanese troops fighting the US military. This could lead to the us leaving japan and letting them settle it out since they don't want to waste US lives over it. Japan would then be a weak government with Socialists, with Russian aid, and Japanese wanting revenge on the us to constantly wage a guerilla war until they finally appeal and divide japan between the weak republic. Northern socialists and a small imperial nation based around Kyoto in the south