>>117775308they only do so by following the lead of their allies and emancipating the slaves
in the post-war period it becomes clear that the values of the original Confederate leadership are incompatible with reconstruction, they're all arrested, convicted, hanged, the South is industrialised to make up for the economic shortfalls that led to the pre-war situation and the pre-eminence of slavery as a method of economic production, the electoral college is given away in the 1870s, universal suffrage is enacted in 1899 for men and women of any race over the age of 25, coming down to 18 by 1919
the US fights no wars of aggression for the next century but aids its allies in Europe from 1914 onward as part of the Entente Cordiale, ending the Great War before Christmas that year: the Russian revolution never takes place as American values impress upon Nicholas II the new direction that the Russian Empire must take, and like Peter the Great he undertakes to modernize Russia, addressing the demands of the would-be revolutionaries before violence can take hold
under this Second Enlightenment Germany and Austro-Hungaria persist and flourish in a new Europe alongside the other Great Empires, finding in peace and trade and the betterment of the lives of their people a new economic purpose and greater strides of technological progress than ever before; empires are liberated and decolonized and the former holdings too grow as never before
in 1941 a joint US-EU-Russian mission lands on the moon
in 1944 the first base is established there, served by a network of exploratory stations around Earth and the Moon acting as waystations
Commander Anne Frank never falls pregnant, dying in an accident during the testing of the first Mars-mission rocket
