Minor point: At the time the United States of America was established, it was the only independent country in the Americas, so I guess that's why it felt entitled to the name.
I think that was the entire reason for the problems the American natives had: loathsome diseases and epidemics washing back and forth across Eurasia and keeping the people's immune systems relatively strong, but nothing of the sort going up and down the Americas.
Also the genetic diversity of...
Perhaps something of Old English derivation that includes the word "South" in it, such as Sutherland (makes it sound a bit like "Netherlands"), Surway (like Norway), Suffolk ("south folk"), or Sussex ("south Saxony").
That might go on the coat-of-arms.
Nah... New England strikes me as pretty liberal, and I don't think they'd be too happy in Jesusland.
Immigrant mix IMO would be pretty much the same, as there was a lot of cross-border sloshing going on during the Great Wave, and a lot of Irish came to the USA through Canada.
A Catholic...
I think it's interesting to speculate about how the Entente would adapt to a hostile USA, and I wouldn't agree that it would be a "curbstomp for the CP" if the USA joined them. Here's my thoughts on this.
First, the POD. The USA was brought into the war by Germany's unrestricted submarine...
I'm not sure the winter cold was in fact a factor. The Russians themselves were notorious for exploiting the winter cold to their own advantage against the Axis and against Napoleon. So both the Finns and Soviets were attuned to winter cold.
I do think the Poles would in fact have had a chance...
I think one of the biggest reasons Poland lost against the Germans was because they placed their army too far forward. The Germans punched through and there was nothing to stop them.
I'd be thinking of a scenario where Poland employs the same strategies against the Germans as Finland did...
They could reconcile the two and create the Neo-Bolshevism of 1984 fame! :eek:
After all, they aren't polar opposites in being totalitarian, serving the state before any other organization, the suppression of religion, and that kind of thing. ;)
De Kaap Valley is where it happened in OTL. There is a river just east of Jo-burg but I haven't been able to find its name.
Nova Lusitânia?
Grootfontein (town in NE Namibia)
Ondangwa?
Cunene Crossing, Lobito, and Huambo?
The cross in the canton is an interesting expected effect of the US having more of a Catholic/Christian influence rather than a Masonic/Deist influence. Five-pointed stars only became prominent when governments influenced by the ideals of Freemasonry became commonplace. Before then, the symbol...