What was the constitutional relationship between the US and the Philippines during the period?
I'm assuming that the Philippines was effectively a US protectorate and that the US dictated foreign policy and occupied military bases, but stayed out of domestic politics.
Can anyone fill us...
When the US finally plucked up the courage to declare war on Britain in 1812, there was talk of simultaneously declaring war on the French, for similar insults against US trade and sailors.
This didn't happen because:
1. The Republicans were broadly francophile and anglophobe.
2. It would...
Associate member status within the Commonwealth in the 1930s would have essentially made the Phillipines a British protectorate.
After 1932 Britain had also resurected the Imperial Tariff system - something which caused considerable tension with the US and prompted the drafting of the...
Regardless of what happens in North America the British would not dissolve the Union of 1801, just to regain a colony which was on the cusp of becoming a dominion and which was a strategic liability.
How likely is it that the US would simply up and declare war on Britain just after concluding...
1. Personally I think yes, maybe not in 1789, but eventually, the French state was already staggering under the weight of the debts it had acrued following 100 years of on-off warfare with Britain. Government debt and economic stagnation had been the primary reason for French intervension in the...
Says who?? The whole process of Anglo-American nuclear co-operation is tip-top secret, no-one knows exactely how it works.
Personally I find it doubtful that the US would simply hand nukes over to Britain without retaining some failsafe for preventing them being used against American targets...
Given that the UK's 'independent' nuclear deterrent is bought from, maintained by, and used in 'cooperation' with (ie with the permission of), the US the idea of a trident being dropped on Washington is laughable.
Given the unhealthy, sycophantic attitude of the present British Government...
Oh lord, not another Anglo-American War scenario....
There are already loooadds of these kicking about on this thread, covering wars breaking out at just about ever conceivable point between 1815 and 1939.
Generally speaking the rule of thumb is before 1914 the US gets bent over and given...
Without lend-lease, or destroyers for bases Britain's credit in the US runs out in mid-1941 and the nation would either be forced into an armistice, or would have to drastically scale back operations - possibly suing for peace in the Pacific.
There is a break in the Commonwealth as ANZAC...
Wasn't the bomb used on Japan primarily because of fears of the huge casuality rate that would arise from a full scale invasion of the home islands?
The Germans in western Europe never displayed anything like the level of fanatical resistance to the western allies that the Japanese did. By...
1. This would be harder, the reason that the mutiny spread so successfully in central and north east India was that the majority of European troops were stationed in the Punjab following the last Anglo-Sikh war. Any attempt at revolt in the Punjab could be much more swiftly moved against.
2...
They'd have to establish a settlement there quickly, Argentinian settlers were removed in 1831 and the British returned in Jan 1833. What is likely to make the US so keen on the islands to send ships and men to settle and defend the islands in such a short space of time?
I doubt the US would...
Germany would probably be happy at the souring of Franco-German relations and would leave it at that. The Germans would not need to be tied to a full-blown alliance with the British, they would simply need assurance that the British planned to remain neutral in a war against France.
Britain...
Yep, on St Kitts in 1692 and on Barbados in 1686, plots were uncovered where Irish indentures and black slaves had thrown there lots in together and were plotting a revolt.
Unlikely, it was during the Commonwealth that the moral arguement against slavery was lost for another 150 years, the...