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  • What If The US Kept The Articles Of Confederation And Never Adopted The Constitution? What Would Become Of These Disunited States Of America, And What Might Take Their Place In The Southern, Capital, And New England States?
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Komentáře • 451

  • @MonsieurDean
    @MonsieurDean  Před 4 lety +98

    We'll have another video next Wednesday at 2:30pm EST as always!
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    • @thedivide9559
      @thedivide9559 Před 4 lety +5

      Please give us a Free American Empire 2020

    • @deadchan2424
      @deadchan2424 Před 4 lety

      Monsieur Z what if the states were provinces

    • @deadchan2424
      @deadchan2424 Před 4 lety +2

      Monsieur Z what if the US chose to stay with Britain

    • @Lukdnuke_Narson
      @Lukdnuke_Narson Před 4 lety

      Welcome back

    • @freedomofspeech2867
      @freedomofspeech2867 Před 4 lety +1

      Dude, you're Knowledge hub and Alternative history hub, aren't you? You have extremely similar voices and video styles. Almost like you change them up a bit so that no one would notice..

  • @lebleu8843
    @lebleu8843 Před 4 lety +617

    Me: "Monsieur Z how many American alternate histories are you going to make?"
    Monsieur Z: "Yes."

    • @Dylan-lw1xc
      @Dylan-lw1xc Před 4 lety +4

      Labyrinth so basically not enough

    • @GTA5Player1
      @GTA5Player1 Před 4 lety +4

      I mean, that's kind of the point of his videos...

    • @Perririri
      @Perririri Před 4 lety +2

      Normie idiot

  • @pre-debutera6941
    @pre-debutera6941 Před 3 lety +229

    It's so odd to think of New England as being the most religious part of America when it's now the least.

    • @alberain
      @alberain Před rokem +30

      Progressivism is a religion.

    • @person8064
      @person8064 Před rokem +8

      @@alberain X to doubt

    • @ivandinsmore6217
      @ivandinsmore6217 Před rokem +15

      ​@@alberain A religion that is in no way Progressive.

    • @EnjoyTraditions
      @EnjoyTraditions Před rokem

      That's where you are wrong, California is the least religious state, except if you think that Peter Griffin G*y P*rn religion is a real a religion.

    • @MJ2A
      @MJ2A Před rokem +5

      @@alberain so is atheism

  • @DAGroupEducation
    @DAGroupEducation Před 4 lety +72

    It's always great working with you, Z.

  • @connorburns8915
    @connorburns8915 Před 4 lety +121

    *sees flags in thumbnail* yes
    *sees its by Mr. Z* Yes!
    *sees the title* YES!!!

  • @maninredhelm
    @maninredhelm Před 4 lety +125

    I wonder if greater integration would have been possible between New England, Southern Ontario and the Maritimes, permitting the English speaking Canadians to bypass Quebec. And with France having a strong ally on the continent in the Confederacy, perhaps they'd attempt to resurrect Quebecois nationalism, with Quebec ultimately achieving independence but ceding its territory south of the St. Lawrence River. The failure of the American states to gain at least partial control over that waterway always seemed like a terrible oversight. They could have gained even more economic advantage out of the Great Lakes and Hudson River with just the southern half of the St. Lawrence.

  • @Jonnyc448
    @Jonnyc448 Před 4 lety +459

    What if the Soviets and Chinese fought during the Sino-Soviet split

    • @militaristicsoldier856
      @militaristicsoldier856 Před 4 lety +30

      And Nixon would’ve had to choose between the two just like in irl. Would’ve been incredible to see the foreign policy changes with places like Vietnam and Cuba afterwards

    • @Jonnyc448
      @Jonnyc448 Před 4 lety +38

      @Alex Ikhsanov Two armies who don’t care about the wellbeing of any of their soldiers clashing, what could go wrong!

    • @Normal_Boii
      @Normal_Boii Před 4 lety +12

      Basically no Mao memes

    • @maxstone2380
      @maxstone2380 Před 4 lety +4

      @@CleverChina Yep, fuck China.

    • @idiejdbfkskdkdbdj5671
      @idiejdbfkskdkdbdj5671 Před 4 lety +20

      The chinese would win with millions dead. Just the idea of the Soviets having a supply chain strech first over the Urals and THEN over siberia is just laughable.

  • @T_Dun
    @T_Dun Před 4 lety +34

    I love when alternate history channels touch on cultural things like architecture.

  • @TheBlackAndDeckerBootyWrecker

    Instead of the United States of America (USA), we get a Union of Independent Republics (UIR).

  •  Před 4 lety +32

    I think that leaving Mexico 5 more decades to consolidate, would end up in a very different way. It had already defeatd French troops.

    • @orionsbonk
      @orionsbonk Před 3 lety +7

      i agree. also, regardless of what could've been going on in the US, napoleonic-war-era mexico was facing enough civil unrest to deny maximilian's sovereignty. since mexico's economic/political relationship w the US and colonial powers shaped much of its development in the 19th century, i'm sure said development would've had more of an affect on the US in this timeline

  • @hiroshivillanueva5248
    @hiroshivillanueva5248 Před 3 lety +27

    "dominions of Virginia" why does that sound like a really good post-apocalyptic open-world game

    • @theguybehindyou4762
      @theguybehindyou4762 Před rokem

      “There’s a fort that needs to be taken. I’ll mark it on your map.”

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican Před 4 lety +130

    When Johnny comes marching home again! Hurrah! Hurrah! We'll give him a hearty welcome then

  • @vikingen244
    @vikingen244 Před 4 lety +148

    What if the Byzantine empire survived?

    • @kizermason
      @kizermason Před 4 lety +13

      He made one, but I wouldn't mind seeing a remake

    • @MonsieurDean
      @MonsieurDean  Před 4 lety +94

      I really should remake that one.

    • @pierresihite8854
      @pierresihite8854 Před 4 lety +2

      @@MonsieurDean yes please!

    • @Perririri
      @Perririri Před 4 lety +1

      We'd technically still be in the Medieval period.

    • @tipr8739
      @tipr8739 Před 3 lety +1

      What if Swedes fight their invaders?

  • @therealx1ras453
    @therealx1ras453 Před 4 lety +109

    What if France and/or Britain recognized the CSA?

    • @benjaminjackboot6409
      @benjaminjackboot6409 Před 4 lety +2

      @@Wickedonezz
      He is a troll, or most likely a troll passing as a right-winger...

    • @chrisgibson5267
      @chrisgibson5267 Před 4 lety +1

      @Will DeMarcoBoth sides accuses the neutral British of betrayal and both employed the carrot and the stick.
      The Union blockade of the CSA led to what was known as the Lancashire Cotton Famine. There was a drop of 90% in trade with those states and the cotton in warehouses was exhausted.
      Up to 60% of the workers were idle and this led to widespread hardship abd this in turn led to pressure from some quarters to overturn the blockade, riots, and the flag of CSA being flown over a number of cotton mills.
      As the war went on ; cotton was increasingly sourced from India and Egypt.
      There was support for the Union and absolute opposition to slavery from the middle classes and factory and mill workers . Lincoln acknowledged their sacrifice in writing.
      Britain also depended on the US for about a quarter of it's supply of wheat and the city had invested heavily in the railroads bring built across the US.
      Britons who fought for the Union such as Henry George Hore seems to have been forgotten.

    • @alphagamer9505
      @alphagamer9505 Před 3 lety +1

      Ww1 comes earlier,there a video about that in his channel.
      Its Usa,Russia,Prussia,Greece,Italian States vs Csa,France,Britain,Spain,ottoman and Austro-Hungary

    • @thebandit0256
      @thebandit0256 Před 3 lety

      What if N*gga Haters learn to read

    • @benjaminaraya8073
      @benjaminaraya8073 Před 3 lety

      Freedom music stops

  • @alexanderzippel8809
    @alexanderzippel8809 Před 3 lety +11

    I love “When Jonny comes marching home” in the background. I love this song

  • @nosoypaul21
    @nosoypaul21 Před 4 lety +45

    Love johnny comes marching home playing in the background

  • @trippfields279
    @trippfields279 Před 4 lety +56

    What if the Teutonic Order survived?

  • @harz632
    @harz632 Před 2 lety +15

    I love how in most alternative histories Germany in the end would have had better chances than in our world.

    • @atriox7221
      @atriox7221 Před 10 měsíci

      They really got the short straw and threw what little chance they had with it, and not just once.

  • @vladimir-uz3dq
    @vladimir-uz3dq Před 3 lety +6

    Alternate 1800s: What if the states never united
    Alternate 2020: What if the red and blue states offically separated?

  • @josephquinnswolin3500
    @josephquinnswolin3500 Před 4 lety +45

    I think we kinda forgotten state rights after some many years

    • @josephquinnswolin3500
      @josephquinnswolin3500 Před 4 lety +8

      @David McDonald but everyone forgets south American countries still had slaves until they ended later on tho.

    • @jimgross1464
      @jimgross1464 Před 4 lety +5

      @David McDonald we ended ours with a civil war because it was always going to end that way. That's what happens when a large portion of your country is completely controlled by a powerful and rich special interest.

    • @shorewall
      @shorewall Před 4 lety +2

      @David McDonald Yep, and they are doing well today too. :D

    • @jimgross1464
      @jimgross1464 Před 4 lety +7

      @David McDonald 1. What did I say that is any way related to the Nazis?
      2. Where did the word "gentile" come from in this discussion?
      3. What examples of "progressive Nazism" can you provide, cause I haven't heard a single one yet.
      4. If south seceded, the weren't going to rejoin voluntarily, nor were they going to abolish slavery anytime soon. The South left due to the influence of plantation owners wanting to maintain their dominance over southern society- any abolition was a threat to that. If slavery was ever going to go away, it would've been extremely slow, most likely transforming into a form of racial indentured servitude and Jim Crow, since one of the fears of southern whites was that freed blacks would cause a race war due to either inherent barbarism, retribution, or a combination of the two. They were not going to go free. Why would the South want to rejoin? The societies were so different, especially the upper classes who controlled them, that if peaceful separation happened, they had no reason to get back together.
      5. What evidence do you have for these large numbers of anti-white hate crimes?
      6. Where in this discussion did I attack white people?

    • @refrainfromevil1377
      @refrainfromevil1377 Před 4 lety +6

      David McDonald You lost me when you said progressives are nazis

  • @duncanwright8004
    @duncanwright8004 Před 4 lety +12

    I like how every time someone does any form of alternate US history Canada becomes super powerful

  • @Makem12
    @Makem12 Před 4 lety +13

    I know you assumed the Entente won, but I find it far more likely that it ends as a stalemate or a marginal Central Powers victory, but a victory nonetheless.

  • @mr.lanterngaming3469
    @mr.lanterngaming3469 Před 4 lety +27

    Even today no one state is entirely like another

    • @MonsieurDean
      @MonsieurDean  Před 4 lety +3

      Well...kinda.

    • @CivilizedWasteland
      @CivilizedWasteland Před 4 lety +10

      He says before getting his McDonald's after shopping at Walmart

    • @crisp9929
      @crisp9929 Před 4 lety +6

      @@CivilizedWasteland Chains of restaurants/stores across multiple states ≠ states being exactly alike

    • @mulmusfistus4128
      @mulmusfistus4128 Před 4 lety +2

      @@crisp9929 is there a difference in fatness of the populace in the different states?

    • @Blakbox92
      @Blakbox92 Před 4 lety +9

      It's usually overstated how different states are, they're all pretty similar to one another from a foreign (non-American) perspective, but even within America it's more like different blocks of identical states than the pretty silly idea of "50 unique countries".
      Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, The Dakotas, could all be one huge state and nothing would really change (outside of the political power of the area), same with many regions of the USA. Michigan, California and Alabama are all pretty distinct from one another in terms of politics, economics, geography, history and demography (while still being clearly American in culture), but Arkansas, Mississippi, and Alabama are largely interchangeable with little difference besides accent and lines on the map.

  • @michaelgreen1515
    @michaelgreen1515 Před 3 lety +7

    An early trip up: the idea of the New England states bringing church and state together, leaving aside the original idea for the states many of the states had different denominations thus causing a major problem for a grouping of church and state. While many think the founding of the states under English rule was for freedom of religion the reverse was true, it was to have "our faith's rights" not others.
    I wonder in this alternative history if Vermont could have played politics and remained at least to a degree independent?

    • @theguybehindyou4762
      @theguybehindyou4762 Před rokem +1

      The point of the separation was to keep the state out of the church, not to ban faith.

  • @Wi-Fi-El
    @Wi-Fi-El Před 4 lety +13

    What if the US honored its alliance to France and joined the Napoleonic wars?

    • @buzter8135
      @buzter8135 Před 2 lety +5

      I don't see a Young US being much help in the long run, they were in no position to challenge Britain at the time, maybe if they used the opportunity to invade Britain holdings in the Americas and split the European powers attention. Then they might have put some pressure on the coalition.

    • @steviechubbs5238
      @steviechubbs5238 Před rokem +2

      ​@@buzter8135meh, they tried during the same period, though not on "side" with Napoleon, the US did fight the war of 1812. They weren't much help

  • @mercury6484
    @mercury6484 Před 4 lety +6

    What if alternate history hub was as good as Monsieur Z.

  • @chiangkaishrek5123
    @chiangkaishrek5123 Před 3 lety +1

    Why is CZcams recommending me this today. CZcams sure has a sick sense of humor

  • @MestizoKarf
    @MestizoKarf Před 4 lety +4

    Wednesday is still best day, keep up the great work.👍🏽
    🎊Happy New Decade!🎉

  • @DerHammerSpricht
    @DerHammerSpricht Před 4 lety +4

    Do a timeline where Alexander Dugin's vision of a united Eurasia claiming global victory, is fully realized. You can read all about the scenari in Foundations of Geopolitics, Dugin's book.
    I would LOVE to see you tackle this scenario in depth

  • @numismatistuk6745
    @numismatistuk6745 Před 4 lety +8

    Great concept, thanks for uploading. Happy New Year to you as well!

  • @Normal_Boii
    @Normal_Boii Před 4 lety +9

    Last time I was this early AlternateHistoryHub's host hasn't gone through puberty yet

  • @odinfromcentr2
    @odinfromcentr2 Před 4 lety +3

    Upstate New York would have gone to New England considering that most of its populace had come from there, but no way in hell would the Lower Hudson, NYC, or Long Island tolerate being lumped in. They would take up with literally anyone else first.

    • @MonsieurDean
      @MonsieurDean  Před 4 lety

      Not today, but back in the day it may have been.

  • @klauslandlicht9896
    @klauslandlicht9896 Před 4 lety +2

    What if the United States was founded on the rejection of all things British following the war of Independence. Rejection of the English language, rejection of protestantism/christianity, rejection of British mercantilism, and had the Norse exploration/coloniztion of Greenland, Markland, Helluland, and Vinland as their foundational mythos.

    • @sircoloniser5454
      @sircoloniser5454 Před 2 lety +1

      kinda dumb, the average American still regarded themselves as Anglo Saxon

  • @wolfram07
    @wolfram07 Před 4 lety +5

    Without exploration or colonization from any other continent into the Americas, what civilization would have risen to dominance: Aztec, Inca, any of the North America tribes? Could we see a video on this? If there's already one please send link. Thanks, love your vids!

    • @lordbonney9779
      @lordbonney9779 Před 2 lety +4

      The Aztecs where falling apart when Spain found them. The Incan’s where in a bloody civil war.
      I don’t think either could recover quickly enough, ending up like the Ottomans in 1910. There, but no major threat.

  • @louis4949
    @louis4949 Před 4 lety +4

    Great start to 2020! Speaking of the 20’s, I’ve an idea, maybe what if the Great Depression never happened, this making the roaring 20’s go into the 30’s and onwards?

    • @basedtvrk9125
      @basedtvrk9125 Před 4 lety +1

      Ahh.
      Well look at how that ended up.

    • @jackthorton10
      @jackthorton10 Před 3 lety

      The Decade technically has not started yet, according to the Gregarion Calendar, that 2020s would officially begin in January 1st 2021, but yes, we have had wrought start.. but I am a bit hopeful for the future.

  • @Yoshidoce2006
    @Yoshidoce2006 Před 4 lety +3

    It is amazing how a few changes create a huge difference. The Seiux becoming involved and The Union being created just turn things on its head.

  • @thisisimportant6658
    @thisisimportant6658 Před 4 lety +5

    What if Afghanistan
    Albania
    Algeria
    Andorra
    Angola
    Antigua & Deps
    Argentina
    Armenia
    Australia
    Austria
    Azerbaijan
    Bahamas
    Bahrain
    Bangladesh
    Barbados
    Belarus
    Belgium
    Belize
    Benin
    Bhutan
    Bolivia
    Bosnia Herzegovina
    Botswana
    Brazil
    Brunei
    Bulgaria
    Burkina
    Burundi
    Cambodia
    Cameroon
    Canada
    Cape Verde
    Central African Rep
    Chad
    Chile
    China
    Colombia
    Comoros
    Congo
    Congo {Democratic Rep}
    Costa Rica
    Croatia
    Cuba
    Cyprus
    Czech Republic
    Denmark
    Djibouti
    Dominica
    Dominican Republic
    East Timor
    Ecuador
    Egypt
    El Salvador
    Equatorial Guinea
    Eritrea
    Estonia
    Ethiopia
    Fiji
    Finland
    France
    Gabon
    Gambia
    Georgia
    Germany
    Ghana
    Greece
    Grenada
    Guatemala
    Guinea
    Guinea-Bissau
    Guyana
    Haiti
    Honduras
    Hungary
    Iceland
    India
    Indonesia
    Iran
    Iraq
    Ireland {Republic}
    Israel
    Italy
    Ivory Coast
    Jamaica
    Japan
    Jordan
    Kazakhstan
    Kenya
    Kiribati
    Korea North
    Korea South
    Kosovo
    Kuwait
    Kyrgyzstan
    Laos
    Latvia
    Lebanon
    Lesotho
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    Libya
    Liechtenstein
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    Luxembourg
    Macedonia
    Madagascar
    Malawi
    Malaysia
    Maldives
    Mali
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    Mauritania
    Mauritius
    Mexico
    Micronesia
    Moldova
    Monaco
    Mongolia
    Montenegro
    Morocco
    Mozambique
    Myanmar, {Burma}
    Namibia
    Nauru
    Nepal
    Netherlands
    New Zealand
    Nicaragua
    Niger
    Nigeria
    Norway
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    Panama
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    Peru
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    Rwanda
    St Kitts & Nevis
    St Lucia
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    United Arab Emirates
    United Kingdom
    United States
    Uruguay
    Uzbekistan
    Vanuatu
    Vatican City
    Venezuela
    Vietnam
    Yemen
    Zambia
    Zimbabwe all took turns on your mom

  • @someloyalist988
    @someloyalist988 Před 3 lety +5

    Quick question: what website do you use to make those flags on the thumbnails of your videos?

  • @CrimsonEagle90
    @CrimsonEagle90 Před 4 lety +3

    Can you do a what if Napoleonic Wars ended in stalemate

  • @venomknight7031
    @venomknight7031 Před 4 lety +15

    I have a question
    What if the American civil war ended in stalemate?

    • @MonsieurDean
      @MonsieurDean  Před 4 lety +14

      A stalemate would ultimately be a southern victory as the question was never about the south conquering the north, but the north bringing the south back under it's own order. If the north can't overpower the south, then the confederates win.

    • @venomknight7031
      @venomknight7031 Před 4 lety

      @@MonsieurDean ouch

    • @_-.-_-_.._--.-_-_----_-.--_._-
      @_-.-_-_.._--.-_-_----_-.--_._- Před 4 lety +1

      There you go mate. The events mentioned in the following link can inspire the "stalemate" you speak of. Enjoy.
      erenow.net/exams/the-civil-war-for-dummies/32.php

    • @LLT8
      @LLT8 Před 4 lety +1

      Venom Knight
      It would count as a Confederate victory as they wanted independence and a stalemate would see most, if not all, of the revolutionaries staying in the CSA and then possibly break apart into smaller nations when slavery is not as big in the world. As an example, Florida and Georgia would take the chance to get independence and then create the American Union which would create a small faction but they would be a guarantee of the greater European Powers, which they chose Prussia due to its recent gains in Europe and vast weapons. They would later join the German-Austrian alliance in WWI.
      The USA would use the chance to declare on the now weaker Confederates in about 1910 and start a war. It was a sudden attack which made relations with the rest of the world harder but not as hard if it was the Confederates. At the start of the war the Confederates were pushed back on all fronts and were close to losing their capital in 1911. However in the Defence of Richmond they pushed back the US army and moved their capital to Houston in Texas. What happened during the next few years turned into Trench Warfare and it stopped more attacks into Confederate soil.
      During the start of WWI, the Confederacy start losing ground with America starting to cut into Texas, so they join the German-Austrian alliance as they can call in Florida and Georgia. This creates the North Confederate Alliance which are able to create ships that hinder the British and French ability to send in African and Indian forces, forcing them to move by land for a time.
      During this time Mexico is still bitter about losing its North American territories and proposes an ultimatum to the USA, let them in the war and take Texas and Louisiana or they join the Confederates. The US declines their offer which makes them join the Confederates. The leaders of the Confederacy would usually decline but Mexico held a lot of manpower when hearing about the Second US Civil War.
      It is now the back end of 1914 and the USA is starting to feel the pressure against the Mexicans and the North Confederate Alliance (I’ll just continue to call them Confederates) and decides to enter the war on the Entente side.
      Due to the constant skirmishes at sea with Confederate ships, Britain is forced to take a few ships away from the blockade of Germany to deal with them. This allows the German navy to push against the British blockade and are then putting pressure on the ship builders in Britain. This makes the British create smaller and less effective ships called ‘carmines’ to try and halt the Germans from getting close to France.
      The US, due to entering the war on the Entente side was able to take out Confederate ships and starts to bomb naval ports which destroys Confederate naval support to the Germans.
      The year is 1915 and the US is starting to push back. After losing New Mexico to the Confederates and California to Mexico, they launch an offensive which could make or break the Confederate lines. They launch a naval invasion into Florida, deciding to try and invade their capital of Miami. The offensive proves successful in the first few weeks and then proved to only lead to trench warfare.
      In return, the Confederacy and Mexican armies finally come together and decide to break Union trench armies at Pensilvania to get to Washington D.C.
      This is known as Operation New Independence and proves to only push the Union army back a little bit. This then makes more soldiers get transferred to protect the capital but this is not exploited with both sides believing it would not result in much change and just have more losses for the Confederates.
      It is now August and morale on both sides is weighed low. This leases to the. Floridian general proposing an offensive in Florida to try and make the Union army send more soldiers down there and leave a gap in the line waiting for reserves.
      This plan is idealised and soon the Floridian general was in charge of 60,000 troops to take out the 40,000 troops that are entrenched to push the rest of the 10,000 back. This plan worked due to the fact a storm happened on the coast a few months back which destroyed the months worth of ration supplies leaving many hungry in the army.
      The plan was put into action and lead to the complete capture of the command post at the Union Floridian Offensive in a few weeks. This lead to 15,000 soldiers changing sides based on the fact the Confederacy had food available at all times.
      This made headlines and called the US the Big Wimp and a Tough Shadow. It destroyed morale but the president’s speech made the morale in most troops go up and hold a solid defence. While reserves were sent into France which helped them push back and regain parts of Belgium.
      The German Empire was seemingly going to win despite the efforts of the Entente. In 1916 the Battle of Verdun destroyed any chance of a French counterattack in the next months. The French called for aid so the Somme was set up as a battleground for the British and the Americans set up a battlefield in Nancy. The combined attacks were enough to push the Germans back but it cost the Americans on the Home Front as it lead to them being pushed back on the west coast as far as Canada, leading to the Entente going to war with Mexico.
      This all lead to the 1916 offensive to help with pushing the Confederates and Mexicans back. This worked as they did not realise Mexican technology was not as advanced.
      The Union army was then given a tank so they can recreate their own to use on the battlefield. They ended up not being used as much but it was enough to hold their lines back.
      Due to all of this and instability in the government, Mexico split into 2 as a civil war had broken out. This lead Mexico to have to deal with a peace treaty which was very one sided. Mexico did not agree and instead told the rebels they can have independence if they help them in the war. The rebels agree.
      It is 1917 and the Russians are once again on their last legs. It is the same with France and the other Entente powers. The Germans knew that if they made an offensive on the east the west could push and vice versa. This lead to the Germans allowing the Ottomans to become their allies and start to push into Africa.
      Even with American assistance, many Canadians and British are being used in the American Front which has lead to a slow retreat for the French in their homeland. They realise that with Ottoman involvement it will make it harder to attack the Germans while holding territories in Africa. This almost leads to a peace deal but the public wants to fight in which they do.
      It ends up as a stalemate on the American Front but an order is given to try and push into Washington. All Confederate troops are very demoralised so they try to end the war quickly with the Americans and then helping the Mexicans defeat Canada.
      All of the reserves are in this attack. It is a do or die. They push and push and push. Washington DC stands on the brink of capture and therefore the end of US involvement. The Confederates take Washington DC due to superiority in numbers. The American ranks were used by the Union a lot in the defence but the American tanks proved to be worthless and would not work as much as it could. The US states capitulate and surrender.
      *The Treaty of Washington*
      1. Lands such as New Mexico, Arizona and California are given to Mexico
      2. War reparations to be paid towards Mexico
      3. The Confederacy to get Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas
      4. The Confederacy must get paid war reparations
      5. Due to the aid from Germany, New York must be claimed as German lands and renamed to New Hamburg
      6. Confederate and Mexican troops are allowed to roam through the USA without permission
      *Treaty signed on 4th July 1917*
      This treaty had basically lead to the collapse of the American Front for the Entente, retreating to Canada and holding areas there.
      This lead to the British signing a peace treaty with the Confederacy and Mexico, however they had to pay heavy war reparations. This lead to the War of the Americas over with a Confederate victory.
      Having to fend off the Ottomans and Germans at the same time while trying to stop the Confederates strained the economy of Britain and had to sign a peace with Germany.
      *The Treaty of London*
      1. Egypt is to be given to the Ottomans
      2. All German territories taken by Britain had to be handed back
      3. Britain had to sever any alliances it had with other countries
      4. Britain had to limit the amount of ships it could have
      5. War reparations had to be paid
      *Treaty was Signed of August 28th 1917*
      The Russians later signed the same treaty with Germany as last time
      It is February of 1918 and France has been pushed back to Toulon and Paris had almost fallen. Morale has plummeted and the French Revolution has formed in Brittany. The French surrendered becoming a puppet to Germany and giving up its colonial empire to Germany.
      This war had lead to some countries getting less power and most now becoming the new empires of the 20th century. The US slowly dissolved into Iowa, Dakota and Minnesota with the rest gaining independence after the terrible war.
      Britain would slowly become the empire it once was as it would be the one to take the newly claimed Mexican territories for itself.
      Mexico did not grant the rebels independence and instead fought a gritty war leading to Mexican occupation by the rebels
      The Confederacy became isolated and worked on improving the infrastructure of its buildings and stopped the use of slavery. They then changed their name to ‘The Confederate Empire’ and proceeded to try and claim South America as its own which later worked
      France was still a puppet of Germany
      Germany went on to take over most of Europe and it lead to many revolts but Germany then defeated the Japanese and took their islands.
      That is what I think would happen

    • @jacob414
      @jacob414 Před 4 lety

      Monsieur Z we were the good guys fighting the north over state rights

  • @meteoman7958
    @meteoman7958 Před 4 lety +1

    Nice work!

  • @TheOGPlatypus
    @TheOGPlatypus Před 4 lety +3

    Man it would be so much fun to play this scenario in games like Hoi4

  • @auroanaut7207
    @auroanaut7207 Před 4 lety +5

    What if Georgism/Geolibertarianism succeeded?

  • @benjaminjackboot6409
    @benjaminjackboot6409 Před 4 lety +4

    What if the events of the novel "The Peshawar Lancers" occured in Real Life?
    And how would the world could really look like? since the maps based on what is described in the book seems too obvious, not taking in account the countries already independents in October of the year 1878 (month and year of the point of divergence to our history)

  • @ultra3068
    @ultra3068 Před 4 lety +4

    I am here from 2020 the day of the new decade!

  • @anvos658
    @anvos658 Před 3 lety +2

    Honestly I see WWI going differently as the Confederacy you describe sounds like it would be ripe to go a similar yet different path to Russia, where the Union fosters the still slave holding south into a Civil War led by abolitionists and an African Confederate uprising, that becomes backed back Mexico, who see this as their chance to strike back against the backwards oppressors who have been chipping away at Mexico. Thus with Canada and New England tied up with the Union and Sioux, WWI likely does end in a stalemate or Central victory. Thus the Union ends up taking southern Ontario to unite most of the Great Lakes and fosters Quebec as an Independent nation to stop Canada from messing with them again and the Sioux getting to expand their territory to Washington/Oregon to have a Pacific port.

  • @wildone823
    @wildone823 Před 4 lety +1

    FINALLY SOMEONE DID THIS. What if Anarchist Catalonia survived

    • @ravachol2380
      @ravachol2380 Před 4 lety

      Well... it would still have been crushed by other forces like stalinists of the PCE or the republic . But it would give the example of an alternative to bolshevism and would even make anarchism around the world more popular and a rival of bolshevism

    • @Perririri
      @Perririri Před 4 lety

      Anarchist _California_ actually does! 😋

  • @therootsofyggdrasil
    @therootsofyggdrasil Před 4 lety +1

    You may get the answer to what if the states weren’t united any longer soon if things keep up the way they are

  • @rdelrosso1973
    @rdelrosso1973 Před 2 měsíci

    There is an Alternative History novel ("The Dis-united States of America"), by Dr. Harry Turtledove.
    It's SF, but very good SF.

  • @LoudSodaCaleb
    @LoudSodaCaleb Před 4 lety +3

    I wish we’d be be a lot more decentralized. That’s be interesting to see in the 21st century if it happened.

  • @battlepans1927
    @battlepans1927 Před 3 měsíci

    I would really like for you to make a video about Maryland!

  • @HuffleRuff
    @HuffleRuff Před 3 lety +2

    So here's one to posit: What if Virginia joined the Union instead of the Confederacy? The most I know would happen: General Lee is a Union general, the Union still wins the war, though this time by a landslide.

    • @justfiddlinaround1128
      @justfiddlinaround1128 Před 2 lety

      Well, for that to happen, Lincoln couldn't have launched an invasion of the South, as by doing so, Virginia, NC, Tennessee, and Arkansas (who had voted to stay in the Union) were forced to secede and protect their sovereignty. For this scenario to work, there needed to be no war.

  • @rdelrosso1973
    @rdelrosso1973 Před 2 měsíci

    At the 4:31mark, you speak of the best way of "securing Liberty".
    Did you ever read what Alexander Hamilton wrote about that in Federalist Paper Number One (1787)?
    It is very prophetic, given the Electoral Choice we have in 2024!

  • @christopherbacon1077
    @christopherbacon1077 Před 4 lety +4

    What if we never purchased Alaska and the White Russians retreated across the Bering Strait to form it's own nation like the Kuomintang did with Taiwan?

    • @MonsieurDean
      @MonsieurDean  Před 4 lety

      I literally did exactly that maybe two years ago.

  • @polishmapper9626
    @polishmapper9626 Před 4 lety +2

    What if the Federalists never died out

  • @sigurdbigset
    @sigurdbigset Před 3 lety +2

    The music at 2:20, what is it called?

  • @SlaaneshSeeker
    @SlaaneshSeeker Před 4 lety +1

    What if the Netherlands decided to make South Africa a fully fledged and proper colony rather than just a way station in 1652 and resulted in a larger European population.

    • @robertisham5279
      @robertisham5279 Před 4 lety

      Yeah and it wouldn't be in the state it is right now.

  • @evangriffin4945
    @evangriffin4945 Před 4 lety +1

    @Monsieur Z
    This reminds me of “Bring the Jubilee “

  • @LittleGoblinBastard
    @LittleGoblinBastard Před 4 lety +3

    What if the Dutch colonised Australia?

    • @Perririri
      @Perririri Před 4 lety

      *G E K O L O N I S E E R D, M A T E!*

  • @fduranthesee
    @fduranthesee Před 4 lety

    Happy New Year, Monsieur Z.

  • @ZSC001
    @ZSC001 Před 4 lety +3

    Lest we forget other Southern Generals, namely Chesty Puller and Patton.

  • @ivandinsmore6217
    @ivandinsmore6217 Před rokem +1

    If the states had never united the world would now be a much better place.

  • @walterusalbus
    @walterusalbus Před 4 lety +27

    What if afganistan became communist and defeated the islamists

    • @Perririri
      @Perririri Před 4 lety +6

      Marx Hu-Akbar!

    • @RandyMCPEmaster
      @RandyMCPEmaster Před 3 lety +1

      @@Perririri Lmao

    • @alphagamer9505
      @alphagamer9505 Před 3 lety +2

      Soviet union still falls,I imagine 9/11 still happens but the us invades another country to get osama

  • @trollinape2697
    @trollinape2697 Před 4 lety +1

    2 videos from Wonderwhy and Wendover, now this, too perfect

  • @yakovzhz
    @yakovzhz Před 4 lety +1

    Would be nice if the maps were labeled on the side, it's really difficult to tell what's going on on them

  • @anthonymanns9083
    @anthonymanns9083 Před 4 lety +2

    I am making my own Alternate History and looking for either a unique scenario for Africa or a way to divide Africa like Korea

  • @Ethanj387
    @Ethanj387 Před 4 lety +4

    Could someone explain to me why the Confederates were on the entente side in WW1? Why wouldn't they have stayed neutral citing internal issues?

    • @t.gregory835
      @t.gregory835 Před 4 lety +3

      They would hate the North and the North would be on the other side

  • @CTXVII
    @CTXVII Před 4 lety +2

    Pls do what if the Byzantine Empire took part in the colonization of the Americas if you haven’t already

  • @harnikocink9328
    @harnikocink9328 Před 4 lety

    Really good video!

  • @thedivide9559
    @thedivide9559 Před 4 lety +8

    Free American Empire when?

    • @davestylehenry
      @davestylehenry Před 4 lety

      He did that

    • @thedivide9559
      @thedivide9559 Před 4 lety +1

      @@davestylehenry I mean right now in 2020, we need it.

    • @newtfigton8795
      @newtfigton8795 Před 4 lety

      @The Nova renaissance
      Unfortunately, our country the USA has long since been subverted by outside interests in order to benefit them. But this is a global problem.

  • @CookieMan-lx1gw
    @CookieMan-lx1gw Před 4 lety +2

    this need to be a hoi4 mod

  • @jimstafford9409
    @jimstafford9409 Před 4 lety +1

    Not only was your quote of the 10th Amendment incomplete (Omitting "or to the people") but it failed to note its most significant purpose: to ensure that States could, if they desired, permit slavery and that individuals could own slaves. it was a compromise in wording. Any direct language permitting slavery would have received objections from the northern States while lack of protection of slavery would have received opposition from the South. Without this artfully worded Amendment likely there would have been no Constitution and no United States as we know it. It seems odd given the subject matter of this video that this information was not included.

  • @stevenweaver3386
    @stevenweaver3386 Před rokem

    What if Frederick III of Germany had a successful operation for throat cancer in May 1887, and remained Kaiser for several more years? Would an alliance or at least an entente between Britain and Germany be possible?

  • @hughmungus5529
    @hughmungus5529 Před 3 lety +2

    my god this scenario would be juicy in hoi4

  • @christopherhoffer6643
    @christopherhoffer6643 Před 4 lety +2

    Can you do what if the Conch Republic actually succeded in our timeline here is the story about the Conch Republic
    In 1982, the United States Border Patrol set up a roadblock and inspection point on US 1 just north of the merger of Monroe County Road 905A/Miami-Dade County Road 905A onto US 1 (they are the only two roads connecting the Florida Keys with the mainland), in front of the Last Chance Saloon just south of Florida City. Vehicles were stopped and searched for narcotics and illegal immigrants. The Key West City Council complained repeatedly about the inconvenience for travelers to and from Key West, claiming that it hurt the Keys' important tourism industry. Eastern Air Lines, which had a hub at Miami International Airport, saw a window of opportunity when the roadblocks were established; Eastern was at the time the only airline to establish jet service to Key West International Airport, counting on travelers from Key West to Miami preferring to fly rather than to wait for police to search their vehicles.
    When the City Council's complaints went unanswered by the U.S. federal government and attempts to get an injunction against the roadblock failed in court, as a form of protest Mayor Dennis Wardlow and the council declared Key West's independence on April 23, 1982. In the eyes of the council, since the U.S. federal government had set up the equivalent of a border station as if they were a foreign nation, they might as well become one. As many of the local citizens were referred to as Conchs, the nation took the name of the Conch Republic.
    As part of the protest, Mayor Wardlow was proclaimed Prime Minister of the Republic, which immediately declared war against the United States (symbolically breaking a loaf of stale Cuban bread over the head of a man dressed in a naval uniform), quickly surrendered after one minute (to the man in the uniform), and applied for one billion dollars in foreign aid.
    Conch Republic officials were invited to the Summit of the Americas in Miami in 1994, and Conch representatives were officially invited to 1995's Florida Jubilee.
    The faux secession and the events surrounding it generated great publicity for the Keys' plight - the roadblock and inspection station were removed soon afterward. It also resulted in the creation of a new avenue of tourism for the Keys.
    So what if it was not just a joke and the newly formed Conch Republic succeded form the USA.
    Also here is the Wikipedia page about the Conch Republic en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conch_Republic

    • @fredjohnson9833
      @fredjohnson9833 Před 2 lety

      It all depends on how the Feds respond. I have no idea.

  • @kenlandon6130
    @kenlandon6130 Před 3 lety +1

    Ironic that the arch-conservative northeast of the federalist era is now arch-liberal

    • @kenlandon6130
      @kenlandon6130 Před 3 lety

      and the arch religious northeast is now one of the least religious regions

  • @z0ro_62
    @z0ro_62 Před 4 lety +1

    The whole theory falls apart if large groups of people move south that means the south would be a more industrial and devlop area

  • @t.gregory835
    @t.gregory835 Před 4 lety +2

    What if the Native Americans were immune to the Old Disease's

  • @kingss5043
    @kingss5043 Před 4 lety +2

    Hi Mr Z, what if in ww2 Japan never bombed pearl and USA join Germany instead of fighting it and Germany never invades Russia, Zimbabwe and country's like it don't find communism

  • @Tanner151
    @Tanner151 Před 4 lety +1

    What if Germany decided to ally with Nationalist China rather than Imperial Japan during the 1930s?

    • @Perririri
      @Perririri Před 4 lety +1

      Taiwan, the Nazi Protectorate of China

  • @joncaulkett5198
    @joncaulkett5198 Před 2 lety

    I don't know about the rest of the Old NW, but Michigan was definitely settled by people from New England & NY

  • @kingkrab5138
    @kingkrab5138 Před 11 měsíci +1

    What was up with California and the Four Corners?

  • @furiouschicken1
    @furiouschicken1 Před 3 lety +1

    what if the Philippines was integrated as spain's province instead of colony? what if the philippines became a US state? what if the philippines was never united by spain?

  • @shonenjumpmagneto
    @shonenjumpmagneto Před 2 lety

    Scary how powerful *The Confederate States of America* are in this alternate timeline.

  • @o-pitamask4698
    @o-pitamask4698 Před 4 lety +1

    What a wonder I can as a European watch this Nice vedio

  • @inquisitorgarza312
    @inquisitorgarza312 Před 4 lety

    I actually writing a what if World were the United States is actually disunited and each state has their culture and identities. No single state has pure control over others, and even though several states share certain traits like slavery or religion, but other than these bare bones traits they differ when you look deeper. For example, Texas is not considered a Slave State by 1860 because of a large Hispanic population outnumbering that of a white population, and other southern states don’t influence it for fear of Northern states entering the state politics. Another major change is the industrialized North and South, the Southern states cannot rely on the Northern states for industrial goods and creates a need for industry in the South. Actually the thing that forces the question of unity is trains tracks, with the creation of safer and quicker of travel allows the spread of ideas and knowledge and making a identity of unity because of the Rise of Nationalism. Not to mention that immigrants actually influenced the culture of states such as the a great Asian culture in the west coast, and the Irish culture being important in the north east.

  • @OrdinaryDude
    @OrdinaryDude Před 3 lety

    If those northern states were more religious, then the separation of Church and State would have been FAR MORE important to them; not less. The separation of Church and State was to keep the government out of the Church, not the other way around.

    • @OrdinaryDude
      @OrdinaryDude Před 3 lety

      @@WyattPriceTV Right, but that fear was just as strong the other way around. They didn't want the government to dictate how their specific religions operate. It works both ways. The founding fathers were very religious, regardless of what colony they were from.

  • @GaysianAmerican
    @GaysianAmerican Před 3 lety +1

    But if the states are divided, whose to say tucumseh wouldn't play these state militias against one another.

    • @hectorvega621
      @hectorvega621 Před 3 lety +1

      We can start to see his not taking certain things into account.

  • @ElusivePlatypus96
    @ElusivePlatypus96 Před 4 lety +1

    What’s the yellow territory in the map?

  • @vllai5785
    @vllai5785 Před 4 lety +3

    What if the Germans won the battle of the Bulge and Kursk?

  • @richdobbs6595
    @richdobbs6595 Před 4 lety

    I don't get how the USA executes the Louisiana Purchase under the Articles of Confederacy. Instead, I see the lower Mississippi being either purchased or annexed after settlement from the South similar to Texas in our timeline. Without purchase of the upper part of the Mississippi/Missouri water shed, I'd see this area partitioned between the USA and Britain/Canada. Rather than this occurring on the 49th parallel, with a less strong national government in the USA, I would guess that this would occur at more like the 42nd parallel. Also, this provides a better chance for Deseret to persist as an independent country.

  • @andrewandstacieweller1927

    Read The Freedom Factor by Gerald Lund. A novel based upon this question. It’s a great story

  • @shonenjumpmagneto
    @shonenjumpmagneto Před 2 lety

    Would rather you have done done Parts 1 & 2.

  • @jimgross1464
    @jimgross1464 Před 4 lety

    What if a western native American and/or black American state formed and was able to join the USA?
    What if Nat Turner's Rebellion never happened, and due to the lack of the tensions it created, Virginia eventually enacted gradual abolition of slavery? What would happen to the deep south? Would the confederacy ever form?
    What if Chinese immigration to the USA continued unimpeded, and eventually brought over the "Three Principles of the People" as a political philosophy that proceeded to influence the USA or at least the West Coast during the Great Depression?
    What if Daniel De Leon's American socialism was able to take power in the USA?
    What if the American Civil War became a multiparty war with more than two-sides? Say a Free State of Jones styled movement erupts in the Confederacy with blacks and poor whites rebelling against the Confederate government, and a similar uprising of disgruntled workers, immigrants, natives, etc, fighting the Union?
    What if the 1811 Louisiana Slave Revolt was successful in establishing a free black republic in the American deep south?
    What if the French Revolution was successful in establishing a stable monarch-less democratic republic in Europe?
    What if the "5 Civilized Tribes" and/or the Iroquois modernized enough to resist the USA, and established their own modern countries in North America?

  • @NewYork-tu5uq
    @NewYork-tu5uq Před 4 lety +5

    YOU CALL NEW YORK SMALL, first capital of the US and major trade so what are you on about

  • @Desmuu
    @Desmuu Před rokem

    What if the Great Lakes were one big inland sea?

  • @SlashinatorZ
    @SlashinatorZ Před 4 lety +2

    What if a North American superstate was formed?

    • @jacob414
      @jacob414 Před 4 lety

      Darth Vegeta Communist you want to take over my empire

  • @no2party
    @no2party Před 4 lety +2

    What if the Inca Empire survived.

  • @marstonbicks2517
    @marstonbicks2517 Před 3 lety

    Seems we are headed back here soon

  • @mathieuleader8601
    @mathieuleader8601 Před 4 lety

    lovely fiddle soundtrack