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Basically the same as OTL, but with the Guominjun (國民軍) in dark green surviving the Central Plains War , with one butterfly that it's joined by Yunnan's Long Yun (龍雲). Another butterfly is less-resounding Fengtian and Ma Clique victories keeping more KMC alive. The Guominjun appeals to the peasants as much as the CCP does--and is just as friendly to the idea of a "party-state" (exactly like Chiang Kai-shek's KMT, in fact). Presumably the Blue Shirts pissed off enough lesser warlords to let the KMC armies stay independent after 1930, keeping Zhang Xueliang (張學良; Manchuria until 1931, and Henan) from threatening Yan Xishan (閻錫山, in Shanxi and Shaanxi) 1930 and letting Yan and Feng Yuxiang (馮玉祥, Anhui and Henan) remain as linchpins of North Chinese resistance. Chiang comes to an anti-Japanese settlement with the CCP and KMC at Xi'an 1936 (since they actually can't kill him), leaving more and stronger nationalistic warlords running when Japan attacks 1937. Xinjiang is striped red/light green to represent Sheng Shicai (盛世才) turning coat 1942.

In Vienna the Nazis sent their worst goons to trap the Hapsburg family at Schönbrunn and move them to Innsbruck-Reichenau and then Dachau to prevent any Austrian patriotic rallying against the 1939 Staatsanschluß. British destabilization of Mesopotamia (to cheapen oil) has been going on since the 20s TTL, but with the Mideast as a united country it can afford to stay neutral--and coyly sell oil to both sides.

In the US H.P. Lovecraft goes to the doctor and we get the apocalyptic masterpiece "Sandy Spit" (1941) after the '38 Hurricane sent him into windowsill-gnawing ecstasies, the Yankee shanty "The Sea-Branch" (1944), and "Muezza" (1944). "The Marble Fountain" (1946) is too New-Dealer for HUAC and the unofficial censure contributes to his 1947 death by rage-stroke. "Dim Light," mocking the idea of mortals colonizing space, and the twisted " 'Wit and Want' " are run 1949.

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Basically the same as OTL, but with the Guominjun (國民軍) in dark green surviving the Central Plains War , with one butterfly that it's joined by Yunnan's Long Yun (龍雲). Another butterfly is less-resounding Fengtian and Ma Clique victories keeping more KMC alive. The Guominjun appeals to the peasants as much as the CCP does--and is just as friendly to the idea of a "party-state" (exactly like Chiang Kai-shek's KMT, in fact). Presumably the Blue Shirts pissed off enough lesser warlords to let the KMC armies stay independent after 1930, keeping Zhang Xueliang (張學良; Manchuria until 1931, and Henan) from threatening Yan Xishan (閻錫山, in Shanxi and Shaanxi) 1930 and letting Yan and Feng Yuxiang (馮玉祥, Anhui and Henan) remain as linchpins of North Chinese resistance. Chiang comes to an anti-Japanese settlement with the CCP and KMC at Xi'an 1936 (since they actually can't kill him), leaving more and stronger nationalistic warlords running when Japan attacks 1937. Xinjiang is striped red/light green to represent Sheng Shicai (盛世才) turning coat 1942.

In Vienna the Nazis sent their worst goons to trap the Hapsburg family at Schönbrunn and move them to Innsbruck-Reichenau and then Dachau to prevent any Austrian patriotic rallying against the 1939 Staatsanschluß. British destabilization of Mesopotamia (to cheapen oil) has been going on since the 20s TTL, but with the Mideast as a united country it can afford to stay neutral--and coyly sell oil to both sides.

In the US H.P. Lovecraft goes to the doctor and we get the apocalyptic masterpiece "Sandy Spit" (1941) after the '38 Hurricane sent him into windowsill-gnawing ecstasies, the Yankee shanty "The Sea-Branch" (1944), and "Muezza" (1944). "The Marble Fountain" (1946) is too New-Dealer for HUAC and the unofficial censure contributes to his 1947 death by rage-stroke. "Dim Light," mocking the idea of mortals colonizing space, and the twisted " 'Wit and Want' " are run 1949.

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