For future reference, the year is 1959.
1936 was a defining year, for that year, proved to be the beginning of the end of the German Golden Age, though many did not know it at the time, as Black Monday hit the world economy hard, worsening the Great Depression in the United States. Meanwhile, Kerensky, leader of the Russian opposition in the State Duma, had been assassinated by Savinkov, who was then forced to deal with several anti-Savinkovist uprisings and declared himself Vohzd of the Russian State. Meanwhile, the Left KMT emerged victorious in the War of the League of Eight Provinces, the Qing Dynasty was deposed, the Fifth Anglo-Afghan War erupted, a Socialist Revolution took control of Cuba, only to be deposed in a US-backed coup d'etat, a crisis erupted between Costa Rica and Panama, which resulted in an American intervention, the Right KMT took control of Yunnan Province, while the Liangguang Clique collapsed into a very bloody civil war. Meanwhile, in America itself, a coalition government was formed between the Democrats, Republicans and Farmer-Labour, which resulted in the victory of Floyd Olson to the Presidency. When 1937 rolled around, however, the situation had begun to shift. A New Year's Day strike began across America by Reed and his supporters, which prompted Olson to search for a solution to the crisis. This resulted in Olson attempting to negotiate with both Reed and Long, which ended in disaster, forcing MacArthur to attempt to take control of the US government in a coup d'etat. Within hours of the coup, Reed declared the Combined Syndicates of America, and a few days later, Long gathered his supporters and declared the American Union State, while the Pacific governors declared the Pacific States of America. On March 27th, 1937, the Second US Civil War began, and fighting erupted across the nation. It proved to be one of the deadliest conflicts to descend on North America, as millions died from 1937 to 1940 for the fate of America. The Longists were knocked out of the war first, then the Syndicalists and finally, MacArthur. The dust settled, and the tyrants that wanted to dominate America for themselves were ultimately defeated. However, other conflicts raged elsewhere. The Argentinians and Chileans fought a very bloody war over the Andes, while Patagonia launched an attack into Argentina, and the Chaco War erupted between Bolivia and Paraguay. Meanwhile, Central America had fought a series of bloody wars for unification, while a pact was formed between the nations that once composed of Gran Colombia, and at the same time, Peru turned to NatPop forces. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the world, the French Republic saw the Wadai Empire attempt to break off, while the Japanese pursued a campaign of expansion across the Pacific, starting with the Philippines. Meanwhile, the Indochina War finally broke out between Germany and the Viet Mihn, which prolonged itself into the Eastern Seas War and ended with the Japanese occupation of Indochina. Meanwhile, Australasia and the West Indies Federation both fell to Syndicalism, while Russia began to expand into Central Asia, and many wars were fought between the various cliques in China. As for India, there were many wars fought for control between British India, the Bharatiya Commune and the Deccan Federation, which had brought about so much death and destruction across the globe. In China, the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out, ending in Chinese defeat by 1943. In 1939, however, the Second Weltkrieg had begun in earnest, and war had finally broken out between the Moscow Accord, the Third Internationale, Japan (as part of the Eastern Seas War) and the Reichspakt, which raged from 1939 to 1941 with minimal issues......until the Entente intervened and joined the fighting. As war raged across Europe, it seemed like the Reichspakt would emerge triumphant once again, just as in the First Weltkrieg. However, with Spanish troops no longer guarding the border with Portugal, they began to quickly turn their attention to the Germans, and eventually the French Commune and its allies retook Paris and defeated the Reichspakt, along with the Moscow Accord, who then began splitting Europe accordingly, by 1947, even seeing the first use of nuclear weapons in Central Hungary by the French Commune. However, the Americans responded with a nuclear strike in Spain, and several nuclear barrages in Marseille and Nice. By 1949, it soon became clear that France would be liberated, and one by one, the members of the Third Internationale were ultimately defeated, and by 1953, the dust had settled and as Santiago was liberated, the Second Weltkrieg finally came to an end. However, tensions between the Russian State and Japan eventually erupted into the Second Russo-Japanese War, which eventually resulted in an American intervention, which meant that the Great Pacific War had begun. The war ended in 1957, after many years of gruelling struggle, with Japan basically defeated, and the various Japanese puppet regimes now under either American or Russian spheres of influence, with China being effectively an American ally and India being partitioned between the victorious Americans and Russians. However, in the aftermath, the Cold War had begun, this time between capitalism and Savinkovism and its related variants. Meanwhile, France hosted the first elections on the mainland since the loss of France to the Syndicalists, while the United Kingdom descended into authoritarianism under Henry IX. Since the Second US Civil War, America has had the following presidents:
1. Coulbert Olson (1940 - 1944)
2. Philip La Folette (1944 - 1952)
3. Richard Nixon (1952 - 1959)
Prominent internal American events include the passing of the Equal Rights Amendment, the Child Labour Amendment, several scandals regarding Hollywood productions, the Lavender Scare still occuring under Nixon and whatever alternate history equivalent of the Watergate Scandal may exist in America. Also, the prominent trials of the Unionist and Federalist generals, which included the pardoning of Federalist generals, but the discharge of Unionist generals, due to the nature of the coming American intervention in the Second Weltkrieg in those days.
Friendly reminder that a lot of Europe is broken, destroyed, battered and crippled to the point of bankruptcy, so there are murmurs of colonial independence in the air, with American politicians increasingly asking the European powers to begin the process of decolonisation.
Now, I dare you to come up with some ideas for how the world could look like after the events of this timeline. How will Earth look like in an alternate 2023?