With the Romanov Dynasty, consider thge following point. By 1924, Princesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia would have been been married to someone of some kind of royal or noble heritage. By 1929, they would be considered old maids. The fact is that they would be actively seeking suitors before the end of the decade. By c.1931 Czar Nicholas II, due to health conditions in the family, Czar Nicholas would have been dead.So consider the following information when charting the course of the Romanov Dynasty.
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Abdul Hadi Pasha said:
Really? Damn. I'll have to write that down on the calendar so I remember to celebrate it every year:
"February 3: The day I offered a suggestion to a TL problem that John accepted." LOL, just kidding!
Seriously tho, any other nitpicks or problems you see so's I can explain why they're not really problems (
) before I post the next part?By 1934, there will be pressure to make sure that Prince Alexei is married to a suitable bride. If he is still suffering from childhood diseases, Alexei will be dead by (36yrs) 1940. This means that unless he gives birth to a child sometime between 1934 and 1940, there will be an Imperial Succession Crisis in St. Petersburg. Any of these things could spell trouble for the dynasty. There is also the possibility that one of the daughters of Czar Nicholas II will marry into either the British House of Windsor or the German Imperial line.
Welll here are some names to consider adding to the ATL , based on the recent book, The Kennedys in Hollywood by Lawrence J. Quirk. If anything, they will add a little flavor to the situation. Everyone seems to know about the 1926-1930 affair of Joseph P. Kennedy with Gloria Swanson. But some other names to include may be:
1930-Gloria Bennett, blonde actress, had an affair with JPK, nearly committed suicide
1931-Nancy Carroll, blonde actress, had an affair with JPK after his breakup with Gloria Swanson
1939- Marlene Dietrich, blonde German actress, had an affair with JPK and JFK separately
1940- Robert Stack (The Untouchables and Unsolved Mysteries ), was the chilhood friend of John F. Kennedy
1946-Gene Tierney, redhead actress, had an affair with JFK, nearly married
1947- Peggy Cummins, British blonde actress, had an affair with JFK
1947-June Allyson, blonde actress, had an affair with JFK, nearly married
1961-Lee Remick, brunette actress, had an affair with RFK, nearly committed suicide when her marriage collapsed over the affair
But one more name to add to the list is William Randolph Hearst. As the owner of 80% of the newspapers in American readership, Hearst considered himself a power player until 1942. It wasn't until Orson Welles filmed Citizen Kane was the power of Hearst ever challenged.
1930-Gloria Bennett, blonde actress, had an affair with JPK, nearly committed suicide
1931-Nancy Carroll, blonde actress, had an affair with JPK after his breakup with Gloria Swanson
1939- Marlene Dietrich, blonde German actress, had an affair with JPK and JFK separately
1940- Robert Stack (The Untouchables and Unsolved Mysteries ), was the chilhood friend of John F. Kennedy
1946-Gene Tierney, redhead actress, had an affair with JFK, nearly married
1947- Peggy Cummins, British blonde actress, had an affair with JFK
1947-June Allyson, blonde actress, had an affair with JFK, nearly married
1961-Lee Remick, brunette actress, had an affair with RFK, nearly committed suicide when her marriage collapsed over the affair
But one more name to add to the list is William Randolph Hearst. As the owner of 80% of the newspapers in American readership, Hearst considered himself a power player until 1942. It wasn't until Orson Welles filmed Citizen Kane was the power of Hearst ever challenged.
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The 1920s: A Decade of Unease (Part One)
--Thanks to Dr. R. Reagan, Harvard History Dept., for allowing me to use the title of his recent book as the caption for this section--
1921
History and Politics
-January: Renewed unrest in Finland leads to the implementation of draconian measures by Colonel Rasputin, including the execution of many prominent Helsinki citizens. Czar Nicholas is reluctant to support Rasputin, fearing the former monk’s growing popularity among the army and the church, but is unable to remove Rasputin for fear of reprisals.
-Liverpool Conference: Central America is reorganized – British Dominion of Honduras encompasses OTL Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, and El Salvador; Nicaragua and Costa Rica are US territories.
-February: The Mexican Liberation Army (MLA) is officially constituted in Sonora. Composed mainly of fugitive members of the regular army in hiding since the Great War’s end, the MLA’s stated goal is the total withdrawal of all US forces from Mexico and the Yucatan.
-March: Josef Stalin returns to Petrograd from six years of Siberian exile (1915-1920). Humbled, poor, and bitter, he finds scant welcome after the purges of the last few years which have broken the power and influence of the Bolsheviks.
-Indian independence movements grow more and more violent.
-Ernst Roehm begins to unite various fascist and nationalist movements in Germany.
-Japanese Crown Prince Hirohito named prince regent after his father retires due to mental illness.
-First radio broadcast of a baseball game made from the Polo Grounds in New York.
-British Broadcasting Company (BBC) founded.
-Actor Charlie Chaplin retires from acting after losing a leg in a train wreck in Boston.
-Radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh transmits first regular radio programs in US.
-Ku Klux Klan activity becomes increasingly violent throughout southern US.
-US President Marshall’s idea of an ‘International Union’ finds little support in Europe, and only lukewarm reception in South America and Asia.
-June 2: Three US servicemen in the Sonoran town of Tepache are accused of raping a sixteen year-old Mexican girl. The three are acquitted by a military court on August 5. Remnants of the Mexican Army, living as bandits in the mountains of western Sonora since the end of the War, use the acquittal to stir up resentment in the province.
-August 28: MLA forces destroy a US army supply convoy bound for Hermosillo. When the survivors try to gain sanctuary at a nearby Catholic mission, the priests refuse them entry, and they are slaughtered.
-August 30: Governor Pershing declares a state of emergency in the Mexican Protectorate. All military forces are placed on the highest state of alert, and dusk curfews are enforced.
-September: Josef Stalin, having heard of Colonel Rasputin’s unorthodox techniques in Finland, relocates to Helsinki and ingratiates himself with Rasputin.
-September 2-5: Sporadic attacks by the MLA against US forces in northern and western Sonora rouse the general population to a state of rebellion. Before it is quelled in January of 1922, the Sonoran Rebellion claims the lives of more than 10,000 Mexicans and 1300 US servicemen.
-October 14: Former US President Charles Bonaparte commits suicide in his Hartford, CT home. Friends and relatives claim Bonaparte felt ‘intolerable guilt’ over the US’s involvement in the Great War and his inability to prevent it.
-November: Boston newspaper reporter Nicola Sacco brings to light arguments between US President Marshall and Governor Pershing over whether foreign aid ought to be requested in quelling the Sonoran Rebellion.
Learning and the Arts
-Aldous Huxley: “In Question”.
-Ezra Pound: “Poems of the War”.
-E. Stern-Rubarth: “Propaganda as a Political Weapon”.
-Enrico Caruso, Italian operatic tenor, d. (b.1873).
-Rafael Sabatini: “Scaramouche”.
-Films: “The Wishing Well” (Chaplin – his last film), “The Sea King” (Fr.), “The Battle of Paris” (Ger.; controversial war film).
Science and Technology
-Robert Goddard designs a variation of his ‘thumper’, capable of being mounted on a tank.
-American Rocketry Institute founded in Clovis, New Mexico, with Goddard as head.
-H.J. Oberth: “The Rocket into Interplanetary Space”.
1922
History and Politics
-Calvin Snow (Conservative) becomes Prime Minister of Britain.
-New Klu Klux Klan gains political power in US.
-Cardinal Matimeo Alcari elected Pope Pius XI to succeed Benedict XV.
-January 13: The Sonoran Rebellion is ‘officially’ quelled, though significant rebel forces remain at large.
-Large-scale rebellions in Indian cities of Bombay, Calcutta, Hyderabad. Jahandar Patel, a former carpenter, first comes to prominence in India as a supporter of Indian independence. Patel, a suspected supporter of resurgent Kali-worshipping thuggee cults, garners popular support among the lower classes; he is basically unknown outside of India.
-Benito Mussolini forms fascist government in Italy.
-Rapid fall of German mark; beginning of inflation.
-July 9: Russian Czar Nicholas’s heir son and heir Alexis dies due to complications of his hemophilia. Nicholas’s second son Yuri is named as his successor.
-Mustapha Kemal orchestrates anti-US protests and bombings in Turkey over continued US occupation of Istanbul and surrounding areas.
-A citizen’s group called the Angel Committee, led by war hero Alphonse Capone, receives federal relief funds to rebuild the city of Los Angeles, to be renamed Angel City.
-Stalin named head of Finland’s internal security forces by Rasputin.
-Britain recognizes Kingdom of Egypt under Fuad I.
-Miguel Primo de Rivera assumes dictatorship in Spain.
-Stock market ‘boom’ begins in America.
Learning and the Arts
-Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter discover the tomb of Tutankhamen.
-T.S. Eliot: “The Waste Land”.
-John Galsworthy: “The Forsyte Saga”.
-Films: “Nosferatu” (F.W. Murnau), “Lost Mountain” (Fritz Lang), “Last of the Mohicans” (Tourneur).
Science and Technology
-Alexander G. Bell d.(b.1847).
-Henry Ford: “My Life and Work”.
-Insulin first administered to diabetics (Can.).
-Fruit fly heredity mechanism experiments by T.H. Morgan.
1923
History and Politics
-Disputes between Finland’s military governor Rasputin and pro-Czar officers.
-First birth-control clinic opens in New York.
-The mayor of Corpus Christi, Texas, is assassinated by a Great War veteran named Charles Powell. Powell had been released from an Austin mental institution days earlier.
-Imperial Air Service founded in Russia (largest airline in the world).
-Ger. aircraft designer Willy Messerschmitt establishes aircraft factory.
-Nevada, Montana, Wyoming, become first American states to introduce old-age pensions.
-Non-fascist parties dissolved in Italy.
-May: Limited street battles in Helsinki, Oulu, and Turku between pro-Rasputin and pro-Czarist forces. A group in Moscow called the Orthodox National Party (ONP), a fascist party with heavy pseudo-religious underpinnings, announces its support of Rasputin and calls for the overthrow of the Czar.
-May 20: Colonel Rasputin publicly denounces the actions of his military supporters and the ONP, heading off any possible action by the Czar, while at the same time covertly solidifying his ties to both groups.
-June: US, Britain, France, declare support of Russian Czar against ‘destabilizing elements’.
-US President Marshall declares intentions to withdraw all US forces from Turkey, Syria, and Armenia by February of 1924.
-Martial law established (June-August) in Oklahoma and Nebraska to protect people and property from attacks by Ku Klux Klan.
-Name of Petrograd changed back to St. Petersburg.
-June: State Security Organization (SO) founded by Rasputin to ‘protect the integrity of the Finlandic state’ (in the Czar’s name, of course). J. Stalin is chosen to head the organization. Interestingly, most of Finland’s populace supports Rasputin, despite his installation by the Czar to crush the communist movements; in him, they see the possibility of an independent and strong Finland.
-September 4: Angel City, California, officially re-incorporated. Alphonse Capone is assitant Police Commissioner.
-Col. Jacob Schick patents electric razor.
-B. Hadden and H.R. Luce found newsmagazine ‘Time’.
Learning and the Arts
-George Gershwin: “Rhapsody in Blue”.
-Felis Salten: “Bambi”.
-Lutheran World Congress held at Eisenach, Germany.
-Karel Capek: “R.U.R.” Czech science fiction drama.
-Jazz musician ‘Jelly-Roll’ Morton begins to record.
-Films: “Why Worry” (Harold Lloyd), “Witness” (Douglas Fairbanks).
Science and Technology
-F. Lindemann (Brit.) investigates the size of meteors and the temperature of the upper atmosphere.
-Theory of acids and bases postulated by J.N. Bronsted.
-Juan de la Cierva (Sp.) develops basic principle of Autogiro.
-Lee de Forest demonstrates process for sound motion pictures.
1924
History and Politics
-February 16: On schedule, the US begins to withdraw from Turkey. Mustafa Kemal applauds the move as ‘a step in the right direction’.
-March 4: The Gysankinya Incident – SO troopers corner suspected Czarist saboteurs in the Russian border town of Gysankinya. Seventeen civilians are killed in a gun battle and the Czarists flee into Russia. At the border, soldiers of the Russian Army arrest nine pursuing SO operatives. SO Chief Stalin issues a statement of protest, demanding the immediate release of his men.
-British Imperial Airways begins operations.
-Ford Motor Company produces 10 millionth car.
-Giacomo Matteotti, leader of Italian socialists, murdered by fascist Quadristi.
-J. Edgar Hoover named Director of the National Bureau of Intelligence (NBI).
-April 1: The nine SO operatives arrested the month before are sentenced to hang by a St. Petersburg court. Colonel Rasputin calls for general revolution in Russia and Finland to overthrow the ‘tyranny of the Czar’.
-April 2: Beginning of the Russian Revolution.
-April 17: The ONP openly declares its support of Rasputin.
-May 4: France, followed by the US, vows to send troops to Russia to support the Czar.
-Alphonse Capone marries poet Dorothy Rothschild in Angel City.
-First elections in Italy under fascist methods; 62% favor Mussolini.
-Lao Shen Wu re-elected as China’s Prime Minister.
-Olympic Games held in Chicago, USA.
-Lobbying by Angel City begins to bring US film industry back to the West Coast.
-June: American troops arrive in Russia; marine divisions see combat in the Gulf of Finland June 20th.
-July: First French troops arrive in Russia.
-August: Czar Nicholas II and most of his immediate family are slain by ONP troopers. The Czar’s brother Michael, along with Yuri Romanov, heir to the Russian throne, manage to flee to St. Petersburg, where they receives asylum aboard an American destroyer.
-First Winter Olympics held in Quebec, Canada.
-Leopold and Loeb sentenced to life imprisonment for kidnapping/murder of 12-year old Bobby Franks.
-Jon W. Davis (D-WV) narrowly elected US President, defeating Eugene Debs (socialist) and Calvin Coolidge (republican). First election broadcast on radio.
Learning and the Arts
-E.M. Forster: “A Passage to India”.
-Morgan Aptow: “Mexican Options”, a treatise detailing possible US withdrawal strategies from Mexico.
-Mark Twain: “Autobiography” (posth.).
-Albert Schweitzer: “Memoirs of Childhood and Youth”.
-Tsukiji Little Theater opens in Tokyo; beginning of modern theater movement in Japan.
-Films: “Theodore Rex” (Fritz Lang), “Captain Morgan” (Douglas Fairbanks), “America” (D.W. Griffith), “The Ten Commandments” (C.B. DeMille).
Science and Technology
-R.C. Andrews discovers bones of Mesozoic dinosaurs in Gobi Desert.
-Insecticides used for the first time.
-Arthur Eddington (Brit.) discovers that the luminosity of a star is related to its mass.
-Sources of Brahmaputra-Tsangpo River in Tibet discovered.
1925
History and Politics
-Pershing steps down from duties as Governor of the Mexican Protectorate due to disagreements with the Davis administration over when and if the US should withdraw from the Protectorate.
-March: ONP forces in control of most of northern, western Russia.
-US film companies begin to relocate from Boston and other eastern cities back to southern California.
-Christiania, the Norwegian capital, renamed Oslo.
-May: The ‘Month of Blood’ begins in Germany – communist and fascist supporters clash in cities throughout northern and western Germany after Milos Krueger, a communist sympathizer, becomes German chancellor.
-Cyprus transferred from Britain to Italy for 49 million pounds.
-Japan introduces general suffrage for men.
-Sun Yat-sen dies. The Chinese government honors his contributions to democracy with a week-long celebration.
-Roosevelt Motors, hovering near bankruptcy for the last five years, introduces the Roosevelt Rambler. The car’s low cost, excellent performance, and stylish design combine to create a vehicle whose sales outstrip all other US car manufacturers sales in 1926 combined.
-Crossword puzzles first become fashionable.
-Tornado in south-central US kills 622 people.
-Madison Square Garden, New York City, opened.
-Ford Motor Company’s Brazilian subsidiary begins operations.
-September: Major ONP victories in Kiev, Minsk, Donetsk, and Kursk. Czarist forces collapse.
-October: After it becomes obvious that Rasputin’s Nationalist forces control Russia, the US and France withdraw their forces. Michael and Yuri Romanov and a cadre of supporters are granted sanctuary in the US.
-November 11: Grigori Rasputin proclaimed President of the Russian Republic.
Learning and the Arts
-United Church of Canada founded.
-Trinity University, NC (USA), changes its name to Duke University after a grant of $40 million by tobacco magnate James Duke.
-Sinclair Lewis: “Normal Avenue” (Pulitzer Prize).
-“The New Yorker” (magazine) begins to appear.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald: “Boomtown” (about the rebuilding of Angel City, California).
-Popular song: “Show Me the Way to go Home”.
-Jazz, Chicago style, arrives in Europe.
-W.J. Bryan d. (b. 1860).
-Films: “The Rangers” (US-first film produced in Angel City after the Great War); “The Time Machine” (D.W. Griffith); “In the Street” (Lubitsch).
Science and Technology
-John L. Baird (Scot.) transmits recognizable human features by television.
-A.O. Rankine predicts the possibility of talking motion pictures in the not-too distant future.
-Solar eclipse in New York is the first in 300 years.
-Scopes Trial takes place; Scopes is convicted, then acquitted on a technicality.
-Carl Bosch (Ger.) invents process for preparing hydrogen on a manufacturing scale.
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The 1920s, Part Two... tomorrow, same time, same channel.
--Thanks to Dr. R. Reagan, Harvard History Dept., for allowing me to use the title of his recent book as the caption for this section--
1921
History and Politics
-January: Renewed unrest in Finland leads to the implementation of draconian measures by Colonel Rasputin, including the execution of many prominent Helsinki citizens. Czar Nicholas is reluctant to support Rasputin, fearing the former monk’s growing popularity among the army and the church, but is unable to remove Rasputin for fear of reprisals.
-Liverpool Conference: Central America is reorganized – British Dominion of Honduras encompasses OTL Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, and El Salvador; Nicaragua and Costa Rica are US territories.
-February: The Mexican Liberation Army (MLA) is officially constituted in Sonora. Composed mainly of fugitive members of the regular army in hiding since the Great War’s end, the MLA’s stated goal is the total withdrawal of all US forces from Mexico and the Yucatan.
-March: Josef Stalin returns to Petrograd from six years of Siberian exile (1915-1920). Humbled, poor, and bitter, he finds scant welcome after the purges of the last few years which have broken the power and influence of the Bolsheviks.
-Indian independence movements grow more and more violent.
-Ernst Roehm begins to unite various fascist and nationalist movements in Germany.
-Japanese Crown Prince Hirohito named prince regent after his father retires due to mental illness.
-First radio broadcast of a baseball game made from the Polo Grounds in New York.
-British Broadcasting Company (BBC) founded.
-Actor Charlie Chaplin retires from acting after losing a leg in a train wreck in Boston.
-Radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh transmits first regular radio programs in US.
-Ku Klux Klan activity becomes increasingly violent throughout southern US.
-US President Marshall’s idea of an ‘International Union’ finds little support in Europe, and only lukewarm reception in South America and Asia.
-June 2: Three US servicemen in the Sonoran town of Tepache are accused of raping a sixteen year-old Mexican girl. The three are acquitted by a military court on August 5. Remnants of the Mexican Army, living as bandits in the mountains of western Sonora since the end of the War, use the acquittal to stir up resentment in the province.
-August 28: MLA forces destroy a US army supply convoy bound for Hermosillo. When the survivors try to gain sanctuary at a nearby Catholic mission, the priests refuse them entry, and they are slaughtered.
-August 30: Governor Pershing declares a state of emergency in the Mexican Protectorate. All military forces are placed on the highest state of alert, and dusk curfews are enforced.
-September: Josef Stalin, having heard of Colonel Rasputin’s unorthodox techniques in Finland, relocates to Helsinki and ingratiates himself with Rasputin.
-September 2-5: Sporadic attacks by the MLA against US forces in northern and western Sonora rouse the general population to a state of rebellion. Before it is quelled in January of 1922, the Sonoran Rebellion claims the lives of more than 10,000 Mexicans and 1300 US servicemen.
-October 14: Former US President Charles Bonaparte commits suicide in his Hartford, CT home. Friends and relatives claim Bonaparte felt ‘intolerable guilt’ over the US’s involvement in the Great War and his inability to prevent it.
-November: Boston newspaper reporter Nicola Sacco brings to light arguments between US President Marshall and Governor Pershing over whether foreign aid ought to be requested in quelling the Sonoran Rebellion.
Learning and the Arts
-Aldous Huxley: “In Question”.
-Ezra Pound: “Poems of the War”.
-E. Stern-Rubarth: “Propaganda as a Political Weapon”.
-Enrico Caruso, Italian operatic tenor, d. (b.1873).
-Rafael Sabatini: “Scaramouche”.
-Films: “The Wishing Well” (Chaplin – his last film), “The Sea King” (Fr.), “The Battle of Paris” (Ger.; controversial war film).
Science and Technology
-Robert Goddard designs a variation of his ‘thumper’, capable of being mounted on a tank.
-American Rocketry Institute founded in Clovis, New Mexico, with Goddard as head.
-H.J. Oberth: “The Rocket into Interplanetary Space”.
1922
History and Politics
-Calvin Snow (Conservative) becomes Prime Minister of Britain.
-New Klu Klux Klan gains political power in US.
-Cardinal Matimeo Alcari elected Pope Pius XI to succeed Benedict XV.
-January 13: The Sonoran Rebellion is ‘officially’ quelled, though significant rebel forces remain at large.
-Large-scale rebellions in Indian cities of Bombay, Calcutta, Hyderabad. Jahandar Patel, a former carpenter, first comes to prominence in India as a supporter of Indian independence. Patel, a suspected supporter of resurgent Kali-worshipping thuggee cults, garners popular support among the lower classes; he is basically unknown outside of India.
-Benito Mussolini forms fascist government in Italy.
-Rapid fall of German mark; beginning of inflation.
-July 9: Russian Czar Nicholas’s heir son and heir Alexis dies due to complications of his hemophilia. Nicholas’s second son Yuri is named as his successor.
-Mustapha Kemal orchestrates anti-US protests and bombings in Turkey over continued US occupation of Istanbul and surrounding areas.
-A citizen’s group called the Angel Committee, led by war hero Alphonse Capone, receives federal relief funds to rebuild the city of Los Angeles, to be renamed Angel City.
-Stalin named head of Finland’s internal security forces by Rasputin.
-Britain recognizes Kingdom of Egypt under Fuad I.
-Miguel Primo de Rivera assumes dictatorship in Spain.
-Stock market ‘boom’ begins in America.
Learning and the Arts
-Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter discover the tomb of Tutankhamen.
-T.S. Eliot: “The Waste Land”.
-John Galsworthy: “The Forsyte Saga”.
-Films: “Nosferatu” (F.W. Murnau), “Lost Mountain” (Fritz Lang), “Last of the Mohicans” (Tourneur).
Science and Technology
-Alexander G. Bell d.(b.1847).
-Henry Ford: “My Life and Work”.
-Insulin first administered to diabetics (Can.).
-Fruit fly heredity mechanism experiments by T.H. Morgan.
1923
History and Politics
-Disputes between Finland’s military governor Rasputin and pro-Czar officers.
-First birth-control clinic opens in New York.
-The mayor of Corpus Christi, Texas, is assassinated by a Great War veteran named Charles Powell. Powell had been released from an Austin mental institution days earlier.
-Imperial Air Service founded in Russia (largest airline in the world).
-Ger. aircraft designer Willy Messerschmitt establishes aircraft factory.
-Nevada, Montana, Wyoming, become first American states to introduce old-age pensions.
-Non-fascist parties dissolved in Italy.
-May: Limited street battles in Helsinki, Oulu, and Turku between pro-Rasputin and pro-Czarist forces. A group in Moscow called the Orthodox National Party (ONP), a fascist party with heavy pseudo-religious underpinnings, announces its support of Rasputin and calls for the overthrow of the Czar.
-May 20: Colonel Rasputin publicly denounces the actions of his military supporters and the ONP, heading off any possible action by the Czar, while at the same time covertly solidifying his ties to both groups.
-June: US, Britain, France, declare support of Russian Czar against ‘destabilizing elements’.
-US President Marshall declares intentions to withdraw all US forces from Turkey, Syria, and Armenia by February of 1924.
-Martial law established (June-August) in Oklahoma and Nebraska to protect people and property from attacks by Ku Klux Klan.
-Name of Petrograd changed back to St. Petersburg.
-June: State Security Organization (SO) founded by Rasputin to ‘protect the integrity of the Finlandic state’ (in the Czar’s name, of course). J. Stalin is chosen to head the organization. Interestingly, most of Finland’s populace supports Rasputin, despite his installation by the Czar to crush the communist movements; in him, they see the possibility of an independent and strong Finland.
-September 4: Angel City, California, officially re-incorporated. Alphonse Capone is assitant Police Commissioner.
-Col. Jacob Schick patents electric razor.
-B. Hadden and H.R. Luce found newsmagazine ‘Time’.
Learning and the Arts
-George Gershwin: “Rhapsody in Blue”.
-Felis Salten: “Bambi”.
-Lutheran World Congress held at Eisenach, Germany.
-Karel Capek: “R.U.R.” Czech science fiction drama.
-Jazz musician ‘Jelly-Roll’ Morton begins to record.
-Films: “Why Worry” (Harold Lloyd), “Witness” (Douglas Fairbanks).
Science and Technology
-F. Lindemann (Brit.) investigates the size of meteors and the temperature of the upper atmosphere.
-Theory of acids and bases postulated by J.N. Bronsted.
-Juan de la Cierva (Sp.) develops basic principle of Autogiro.
-Lee de Forest demonstrates process for sound motion pictures.
1924
History and Politics
-February 16: On schedule, the US begins to withdraw from Turkey. Mustafa Kemal applauds the move as ‘a step in the right direction’.
-March 4: The Gysankinya Incident – SO troopers corner suspected Czarist saboteurs in the Russian border town of Gysankinya. Seventeen civilians are killed in a gun battle and the Czarists flee into Russia. At the border, soldiers of the Russian Army arrest nine pursuing SO operatives. SO Chief Stalin issues a statement of protest, demanding the immediate release of his men.
-British Imperial Airways begins operations.
-Ford Motor Company produces 10 millionth car.
-Giacomo Matteotti, leader of Italian socialists, murdered by fascist Quadristi.
-J. Edgar Hoover named Director of the National Bureau of Intelligence (NBI).
-April 1: The nine SO operatives arrested the month before are sentenced to hang by a St. Petersburg court. Colonel Rasputin calls for general revolution in Russia and Finland to overthrow the ‘tyranny of the Czar’.
-April 2: Beginning of the Russian Revolution.
-April 17: The ONP openly declares its support of Rasputin.
-May 4: France, followed by the US, vows to send troops to Russia to support the Czar.
-Alphonse Capone marries poet Dorothy Rothschild in Angel City.
-First elections in Italy under fascist methods; 62% favor Mussolini.
-Lao Shen Wu re-elected as China’s Prime Minister.
-Olympic Games held in Chicago, USA.
-Lobbying by Angel City begins to bring US film industry back to the West Coast.
-June: American troops arrive in Russia; marine divisions see combat in the Gulf of Finland June 20th.
-July: First French troops arrive in Russia.
-August: Czar Nicholas II and most of his immediate family are slain by ONP troopers. The Czar’s brother Michael, along with Yuri Romanov, heir to the Russian throne, manage to flee to St. Petersburg, where they receives asylum aboard an American destroyer.
-First Winter Olympics held in Quebec, Canada.
-Leopold and Loeb sentenced to life imprisonment for kidnapping/murder of 12-year old Bobby Franks.
-Jon W. Davis (D-WV) narrowly elected US President, defeating Eugene Debs (socialist) and Calvin Coolidge (republican). First election broadcast on radio.
Learning and the Arts
-E.M. Forster: “A Passage to India”.
-Morgan Aptow: “Mexican Options”, a treatise detailing possible US withdrawal strategies from Mexico.
-Mark Twain: “Autobiography” (posth.).
-Albert Schweitzer: “Memoirs of Childhood and Youth”.
-Tsukiji Little Theater opens in Tokyo; beginning of modern theater movement in Japan.
-Films: “Theodore Rex” (Fritz Lang), “Captain Morgan” (Douglas Fairbanks), “America” (D.W. Griffith), “The Ten Commandments” (C.B. DeMille).
Science and Technology
-R.C. Andrews discovers bones of Mesozoic dinosaurs in Gobi Desert.
-Insecticides used for the first time.
-Arthur Eddington (Brit.) discovers that the luminosity of a star is related to its mass.
-Sources of Brahmaputra-Tsangpo River in Tibet discovered.
1925
History and Politics
-Pershing steps down from duties as Governor of the Mexican Protectorate due to disagreements with the Davis administration over when and if the US should withdraw from the Protectorate.
-March: ONP forces in control of most of northern, western Russia.
-US film companies begin to relocate from Boston and other eastern cities back to southern California.
-Christiania, the Norwegian capital, renamed Oslo.
-May: The ‘Month of Blood’ begins in Germany – communist and fascist supporters clash in cities throughout northern and western Germany after Milos Krueger, a communist sympathizer, becomes German chancellor.
-Cyprus transferred from Britain to Italy for 49 million pounds.
-Japan introduces general suffrage for men.
-Sun Yat-sen dies. The Chinese government honors his contributions to democracy with a week-long celebration.
-Roosevelt Motors, hovering near bankruptcy for the last five years, introduces the Roosevelt Rambler. The car’s low cost, excellent performance, and stylish design combine to create a vehicle whose sales outstrip all other US car manufacturers sales in 1926 combined.
-Crossword puzzles first become fashionable.
-Tornado in south-central US kills 622 people.
-Madison Square Garden, New York City, opened.
-Ford Motor Company’s Brazilian subsidiary begins operations.
-September: Major ONP victories in Kiev, Minsk, Donetsk, and Kursk. Czarist forces collapse.
-October: After it becomes obvious that Rasputin’s Nationalist forces control Russia, the US and France withdraw their forces. Michael and Yuri Romanov and a cadre of supporters are granted sanctuary in the US.
-November 11: Grigori Rasputin proclaimed President of the Russian Republic.
Learning and the Arts
-United Church of Canada founded.
-Trinity University, NC (USA), changes its name to Duke University after a grant of $40 million by tobacco magnate James Duke.
-Sinclair Lewis: “Normal Avenue” (Pulitzer Prize).
-“The New Yorker” (magazine) begins to appear.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald: “Boomtown” (about the rebuilding of Angel City, California).
-Popular song: “Show Me the Way to go Home”.
-Jazz, Chicago style, arrives in Europe.
-W.J. Bryan d. (b. 1860).
-Films: “The Rangers” (US-first film produced in Angel City after the Great War); “The Time Machine” (D.W. Griffith); “In the Street” (Lubitsch).
Science and Technology
-John L. Baird (Scot.) transmits recognizable human features by television.
-A.O. Rankine predicts the possibility of talking motion pictures in the not-too distant future.
-Solar eclipse in New York is the first in 300 years.
-Scopes Trial takes place; Scopes is convicted, then acquitted on a technicality.
-Carl Bosch (Ger.) invents process for preparing hydrogen on a manufacturing scale.
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The 1920s, Part Two... tomorrow, same time, same channel.
There are some interesting characters and PODs that you should definetly take into account with the ATL:
-Without Al Capone and Frank Nitti in Chicago, there are certain major developments. First on 3/1/1932, when Charles Lindbergh's son is kidnapped, Al Capone's offer of aid to the FBI is not so quickly rejected. Second, on February 14, 1929, with the absence of the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, most of the criminal syndicates on the East Coast remain divided on May 13-15, 1929 when the major crime families meet in Atlantic City, NJ.
-With California, there are some major changes. In 1931, Al Capone was unable to establish criminal syndicate ties to San Francisco, California in the North Beach "Little Italy" neighborhood, because of the vast distances from Chicago to San Francisco. According to many histories of San Francisco, many leaders, including future mayor Joseph Aliotto were afraid that Capone's ties would undermine Italian-American politics in the city.
-Earl Warren who was a leading California political leader at the time, led the fight against organized crime in California. In the ATL, what if Earl Warren is the "mirror" of Elliot Ness. Both were Republicans who had aspirations of higher office, who were tapped by the government.
-Without Al Capone and Frank Nitti in Chicago, there are certain major developments. First on 3/1/1932, when Charles Lindbergh's son is kidnapped, Al Capone's offer of aid to the FBI is not so quickly rejected. Second, on February 14, 1929, with the absence of the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, most of the criminal syndicates on the East Coast remain divided on May 13-15, 1929 when the major crime families meet in Atlantic City, NJ.
-With California, there are some major changes. In 1931, Al Capone was unable to establish criminal syndicate ties to San Francisco, California in the North Beach "Little Italy" neighborhood, because of the vast distances from Chicago to San Francisco. According to many histories of San Francisco, many leaders, including future mayor Joseph Aliotto were afraid that Capone's ties would undermine Italian-American politics in the city.
-Earl Warren who was a leading California political leader at the time, led the fight against organized crime in California. In the ATL, what if Earl Warren is the "mirror" of Elliot Ness. Both were Republicans who had aspirations of higher office, who were tapped by the government.
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Mr_ Bondoc said:
Though this ATL may bear many resemblances to ours (so far), the devil's in the details, as they say. What makes you think Lindbergh even has as son? But Capone, as you'll see, is by no means the pariah he was in OTL. As for organized crime: Without Prohibition, it never really reached the levels of pseudo-corporateness and mass networking it did in OTL. In this TL, 'organized crime' is a bunch of thugs joining together for a few weeks to plan a bank heist.
Mr_Bondoc said:
See above.
Mr_Bondoc said:
I don't have any plans right now for Warren, but that could change. Elliot Ness will play a prominent role further down the road.
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Special thanx to Bondoc: You greatly enrich the quality of this TL with all your suggestions; it really gets me thinking. Keep 'em coming!
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I'm not quite ready to post the second half of the 1920s as one long post, so rather than piss everyone off, I'll post one year every day or two. I'm basically rewriting my whole TL as I go, here; things are vastly different in this version than they were originally. So be patient.
1926
History and Politics
-January: Germany’s Chancellor Krueger resigns, replaced by Sigmund Linck, an ineffectual compromise candidate reluctantly agreed upon by communist and fascist factions in the Reichstag.
-Brazil’s economy collapses due to over-production of coffee. Ford Motor Company and several other US companies with heavy investments in Brazil, convince Congress to approve significant financial aid to the country.
-Congress makes US Marine Corps a branch of the military separate from the Navy; General Marcus Dennison becomes the first Marine Chief of Staff.
-Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan.
-Eugene Debs, US politician, d.(b. 1855).
-Lufthansa Airlines founded.
-April-June: Rebellions in Mexican Military Protectorate crushed by US Army. Enrique Salazar, the so-called “Father of Mexican Communism”, begins to organize anti-US protests in his home state of Monterrey.
-Republic of Lebanon proclaimed.
-August: Russian Republic, under Rasputin, recognized by Italy, Spain, France.
-Harry Houdini, US magician and escapologist, retires after a near-fatal accident.
-Alphonse Capone elected Police Commissioner of Angel City.
-Businessman Joseph Kennedy relocates from Boston to Angel City after his divorce, bringing with him his new wife, the actress Gloria Swanson, and his four sons. Impressed by all the Angel Committee has done to rebuild the city, Kennedy pledges his support and buys out six small film studios, merging them into one company, Kennedy Films.
-Tension between Italy and Germany over South Tirol.
-Fascist youth organization, “Ballilla” in Italy founded.
-Continuing clashes in Germany between communists and fascists.
Learning and the Arts
-Duke Ellington’s first records appear.
-Ernst Lubitsch leaves Berlin for Angel City and “Movieland”.
-William Faulkner: “When the Ships Return”.
-A.A. Milne: “Yellow Bear’s Woods”.
-Ernest Hemingway: “The Wishing Well” (Nobel Prize for Literature).
-Reading University, England, founded.
-Marc Chagall: “Lover’s Moon”.
-Ludmilla Sciotta: “A Wife of the Sea”.
-Films: “Fear City” (Fritz Lang); “The Inferno” (Murnau); “Don Juan” (John Barrymore); “The Battle of New Orleans” (Kennedy Films’ first production, dir. C.B. DeMille).
Science and Technology
-Amundsen, Graves, and White fly over North Pole from Norway to Alaska in the airship “Skymaster”.
-Robert Goddard fires first liquid-fueled rocket.
-Theodore Roosevelt Bridge planned, to span Hudson River between Fort Lee, NJ, and Fort Washington in Manhattan.
-Kodak produces the first 16mm movie film.
-Werner Heisenberg further develops quantum theory.
With the near fatal accident of Charlie Chaplin in 1922, and the arrival of Joseph P. Kennedy in Hollywood, California in 1926, you could have one of the first studios purchased by Kennedy pictures is United Artists. United Artists was owned by Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, and by Douglas Fairnbanks. With the hospitalization of Chaplin, JPK would have certainly been interested in taking over the studio. One major changes is that MGM Studios under Samuel Goldwyn would have been unable to purchase the studios in 1935. If that happens, there is a possibility that MGM loses the rights to such films as "Wizard of Oz".
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1927
History and Politics
-March 2: US stock exchange collapses; world economic crisis begins (Great Depression); US securities lose $31 billion in value.
-Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, opened.
-Series of political murders in Germany, France, Poland, Austria, mainly of communist and/or fascist officials.
-May: Communist riots in Germany, Austria.
-G. Feder publishes “The Program of the NSDAP” (Roehm’s Nazi Party).
-Great Moffat Tunnel through Rocky Mountains opened.
-Airplanes first used to ‘dust’ crops with insecticides (Can.).
-Babe Ruth hits 62 home runs for the Boston Red Sox.
-Deepest well in the world (8000 feet) sunk in Orange Co., California.
-Hans Dorn assumes leadership of Germany’s Communist Worker’s Party (KPD).
-Henri Petain announces his support of France’s communist party.
-First scheduled television broadcasts by WKD, Paterson NJ.
-Mexico’s President Raul Heredia assassinated by members of the Mexican Liberation Army. Succeeded by Rueben Matizo.
-Communist rebels in Panama attempt to destroy the Panama Canal; the attempt fails, and the US responds by more than tripling security in the Canal Zone.
Learning and the Arts
-Rodgers and Hart: “Dreaming in Manhattan”.
-Lev Theremin invents the first electronic musical instrument.
-C. Braun: “Primitive Religion in the Modern Day”.
-Upton Sinclair: “The Last of the Good Men”.
-Sigmund Freud: “Trends of the Mind”.
-Films: “Faces in the Crowd” (D.W. Griffith – A. Capone has small role); “Drums in the Pacific” (Lubitsch – first US film); “Copperhead” (D. Fairbanks – Kennedy Films).
Science and Technology
-I.P. Pavlov: “Conditioned Reflexes”.
-Andre Moreau (Fr.) flies monoplane “Horizon” nonstop from Paris to New York in 35.2 hours.
-Holland Tunnel opens as first vehicular tunnel linking New York and New Jersey.
-1 millionth Roosevelt Rambler produced.
History and Politics
-March 2: US stock exchange collapses; world economic crisis begins (Great Depression); US securities lose $31 billion in value.
-Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, opened.
-Series of political murders in Germany, France, Poland, Austria, mainly of communist and/or fascist officials.
-May: Communist riots in Germany, Austria.
-G. Feder publishes “The Program of the NSDAP” (Roehm’s Nazi Party).
-Great Moffat Tunnel through Rocky Mountains opened.
-Airplanes first used to ‘dust’ crops with insecticides (Can.).
-Babe Ruth hits 62 home runs for the Boston Red Sox.
-Deepest well in the world (8000 feet) sunk in Orange Co., California.
-Hans Dorn assumes leadership of Germany’s Communist Worker’s Party (KPD).
-Henri Petain announces his support of France’s communist party.
-First scheduled television broadcasts by WKD, Paterson NJ.
-Mexico’s President Raul Heredia assassinated by members of the Mexican Liberation Army. Succeeded by Rueben Matizo.
-Communist rebels in Panama attempt to destroy the Panama Canal; the attempt fails, and the US responds by more than tripling security in the Canal Zone.
Learning and the Arts
-Rodgers and Hart: “Dreaming in Manhattan”.
-Lev Theremin invents the first electronic musical instrument.
-C. Braun: “Primitive Religion in the Modern Day”.
-Upton Sinclair: “The Last of the Good Men”.
-Sigmund Freud: “Trends of the Mind”.
-Films: “Faces in the Crowd” (D.W. Griffith – A. Capone has small role); “Drums in the Pacific” (Lubitsch – first US film); “Copperhead” (D. Fairbanks – Kennedy Films).
Science and Technology
-I.P. Pavlov: “Conditioned Reflexes”.
-Andre Moreau (Fr.) flies monoplane “Horizon” nonstop from Paris to New York in 35.2 hours.
-Holland Tunnel opens as first vehicular tunnel linking New York and New Jersey.
-1 millionth Roosevelt Rambler produced.
Something to consider is the story of Queen Kelly , which was the Gigli of its time period. The failure of the film in 1929 so embarassed Joseph P. Kennedy that he immediately felt compelled to return to Hyannisport, Massachusetts. It should also be noted that Gloria Swanson's life was became the subject of parody with Sunset Boulevard (1950). In the ATL, the Billy Wilder classic could be seen as a counterpart to Citizen Kane (1942).
Diamond- Here are a few other PODs that might be of interest to you for the ATL. For instance:
-The introduction of the 1930 Film Code seriously hampered the careers of many actors and actresses in OTL. With the imposition of the code, actresses like Jean Harlow, Gloria Swanson, Anna May Wong (one of the first Asian-American actresses) and Marlene Dietrich all found themselves with fewer jobs. It wouldn't be until the 1950s were the movies allowed to breach the Film Code.
- In OTL, Joseph Kubert, creator of Sgt. Rock and His Howling Commandos and the Ultimate X-Men immigrated with his family to the United States in 1926, avoiding the horrors of the Nazi regime. What if his family hadn't immigrated and stayed in Poland?
-In OTL, until the late 1970s, the Australian government pursued an "assimilation policy" which amounted to the abduction of children from their families for "cultural development". The first stemps towards the elimination of the policy were in 1936, when aborgines began to note the similarity to the "Jewish question" in Germany.
-The introduction of the 1930 Film Code seriously hampered the careers of many actors and actresses in OTL. With the imposition of the code, actresses like Jean Harlow, Gloria Swanson, Anna May Wong (one of the first Asian-American actresses) and Marlene Dietrich all found themselves with fewer jobs. It wouldn't be until the 1950s were the movies allowed to breach the Film Code.
- In OTL, Joseph Kubert, creator of Sgt. Rock and His Howling Commandos and the Ultimate X-Men immigrated with his family to the United States in 1926, avoiding the horrors of the Nazi regime. What if his family hadn't immigrated and stayed in Poland?
-In OTL, until the late 1970s, the Australian government pursued an "assimilation policy" which amounted to the abduction of children from their families for "cultural development". The first stemps towards the elimination of the policy were in 1936, when aborgines began to note the similarity to the "Jewish question" in Germany.
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Straha said:
I'd rather you not continue it; no offense, but I consider this my intellectual property. I realize I have no way to stop you, but I would appreciate if you would leave this alone and develop your own TL.
It's not too cool to pirate other people's creations, you know?
I do plan on continuing this TL eventually, but I'm working on other stuff right now.