Future Predictions From Britain in 1938

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What does the future hold. This is a question that is asked daily by millions of people. But this is not a question that can be contained to the present. We as historians have amazing powers of hindsight to look at the past with. This is great for understanding the past, but it also means that we are limited in the realistic stories we can construct from the past. So in this series I will be making alternate histories from the perspective of people from the past. I will base my analysis on just the situation in the year and place I choose, ignoring any event that cannot be reasonable predicted from that starting year and location.
In this first video we will be looking at what the future of Europe may have looked like from the perspective of Britain in 1938. 1938 was a crucial year thanks to the Sudeten crisis. In our timeline the allies gave in to Germany, but Germany kept demanding more and more, leading to war. But from the British perspective in 1938, was this the clear future?
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[@possiblehistory]

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[@oracle372]

Hi

[@CatarigMaTt]

Hi

[@ReVittorioufficiale]

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[@lempereurcremeux3493]

With these kinds of predictions, I'd suggest also adding a Actual Probability rating for them at the end. The French one was very probable because none of the factors involved were unchangeable and there was a lot of time for the situation to change. The Americas could remain undiscovered for perhaps another century, the Hapsburgs might not get lucky with Spain/Burgundy, the Reformation could pan out differently/later, etc. But with Germany, it's completely improbable. Even if you factor out ideological imperatives, the economic cost of rearmament and the Ponzi scheme the Nazis built to sustain it meant that plundering other countries was the only way forward other than collapse. This wouldn't be apparent to a Brit in 1938, but it was there and it couldn't be changed inside of one year.

[@Dao67]

What if europe had has much as china or india

[@TheEmperorYTP]

"I have no more territorial demands to make in europe." - Honest Adolph, 1938

[@derdude6214]

You write his name with an F at the not ph.

[@fullmetaltheorist]

"Psych. I lied."

[@fortgaming9058]

He was no longer asking

[@soulofglebb]

@@derdude6214 what’s the difference?

[@borp9173]

"You lied to me." "Whaddya expect, I'm Hitler!" -Oversimplified

[@Iridescence93]

Trying to look at historical events through the perspective of those who lived them is always a super-interesting approach.

[@cardboardking577]

British comments in 1942: well that didn't age well 💀💀💀

[@RemyGamin]

What if Napoleon agreed to the Frankfurt Proposals and stayed emperor of France?

[@possiblehistory]

*soon*

[@fildafernandes4366]

Aka napoleonic wars good ending

[@dengronebaronen5260]

What if Sweden won the great northern war.

[@angelo3998]

a man of culture I see

[@concept5631]

Yes please

[@danielduhzgaming3070]

They’d lose to napoleon, possibly keep Finland but eventually they would collapse and world would be almost exactly the same

[@dengronebaronen5260]

@@danielduhzgaming3070 Yes, that might be the outcome but Russia would be a lot weaker and that's also a big part of this alternative history.

[@Tommuli_Haudankaivaja]

@@danielduhzgaming3070 I don't think so. Sweden would not lose against Napoleon. Perhaps in a few first battles, but once Sweden retreats to their mainland and winter comes, Napoleon would freeze yo death in Sweden instead.

[@krisp1871]

Great concept! This is a great format for WW1 era nations. You could definitely do "[Major Power] 1914" with all of them. Such an interesting time with so much potential.

[@addazarmy6826]

Super fresh alternate history that I don't think I've ever seen done this way before. Always a good day when I see a notification from you

[@colinj69]

The allies made the mistake of Versailles being too lenient to stop Germany from remilitarizing and too harsh that the Germans inevitably had to break it at some point.

[@jameswebb4171]

I think this idea of alternate history from the perspective of people in the past is pretty thought provoking

[@wavemanj14]

Waiting for part 2 of this series for a while hoping it was gunna be an interesting senerio, definitely did not disappoint

[@tictac2therevenge291]

The war reperations Germany was asked to pay at Versailles were less crushing than the French were asked to pay in 1871

[@toreq1127]

the entire rhetoric is that versalies was "emotional" and overall wrong which is just absurd

[@justaplayer94]

WTF do you mean ? 132 Billion gold marks vs 5 Billion francs in gold is a BIG difference...

[@Rowlph8888]

@@justaplayer94 the idea of the treaty of Versailles being harsh is a complete joke for people that cannot think past the end of their nose.You can only call something harsh, by comparison to other things that have happened.If you compare the treaty with any other reckoning, whether official or unofficial in history for similar situations, then the only reckoning that was more lenient than the Treaty of Versailles, in history, was the reaction to France after the Napoleonic wars when the French must have been ecstatic with how they got away with so much. Germany were very lucky not to have their industrial base completely taken away and then 10 times more lucky that it didn't happen after the Second World War.Right now, Germany is the luckiest nation ever to have existed, in a practical sense

[@elyisusking3603]

Chamberlain: Peace in our time Japanese in Nanking: For you, it's a baby; For me, it's a football ball =)

[@frostnova8300]

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[@zooman_expeditions8984]

Thank you so much for posting so much possible History im loving your content and I needed a up KZbinr to post this! ❤

[@rowsbros6130]

Been loving these alt hist videos! Very well researched and with alternate history hub rarely uploading you have become my new favorite alt hist channel

[@juliandamen9804]

Very interesting concept, loving the series

[@skeletonkeysproductionskp]

Brilliant video bro, keep up the great work! Can't wait for the collab!

[@geheimnis8187]

Japan's history of saying it was humiliated by the Europeans and that it modernized to the point of reaching parity with the Europeans reminds me of China's narrative today and it makes me scared

[@bendackins7211]

Very interesting! Ww1 was definitely the nail in the coffin when it came to the British empire as we think of it, but ww2 was what truly killed Britain as a world power

[@ub3rfr3nzy94]

I think the US becoming allies is what did it. Before the second World War, America was still not trusted (rightfully so) and so the dominions might not have felt safe without the protection of the Empire, specifically Canada, who probably would have fought for the empire to stay united in case of that threat.

[@bendackins7211]

@@ub3rfr3nzy94 yes, post ww1, a main reason Britain’s influence loosened was that the dominions felt more comfortable looking outside of the UK exclusively for protection, however the situation wasn’t hopeless and Britain still could have reasonably hoped to remain the one with the biggest influence over them. However the reason that many of the dominions drifted away from Britain entirely after ww2 was that Britain could quite literally no longer afford to protect them. They were entirely broke. It’s the reason they willingly accepted the terms in Marshall plan that demanded decolonisation. They desperately needed the money, and on a large scale the majority of their colonies, especially the African ones, were running at a loss anyway. Britain had run out of the collective money, political capital, and will to be a world power. Two world wars so close to home had finally broken the camels back as it were

[@emilianohermosilla3996]

Amazing video!

[@KonstantinValentix]

My day just became so mutch better.

[@right_4718]

Love your videos! Great quality of research and presentation. You deserve more views. Future predictions from Lenin's Soviet Union?

[@BritishRoyalMapping]

Great video!!

[@bigballershotcaller]

great video!

[@AttaVonKissinger1996]

Very interesting video Mr Potential. Sometimes brief periods of cynicism (early 20s right after WW1 in the US) and optimism (peace in our time) get forgotten due to being in the middle of more memorable periods, and this definitely seems to be one, especially amongst the Americans. I think a Soviet perspective from this time period could be interesting, given that many in the USSR at the time (At least those not in Ukraine or targetted by purges) had a sort of optimism for world socialism at that point.

[@nataliamundell6266]

I'm really enjoying this scenario as it's not just what we would have thought happend but if we where there what would you think is about to happen and that takes a lot of humility to be effective

[@itapi697]

I really enjoyed the video

[@carlosvalerochavez3045]

I like this scenario. It would also mean that the 1942/1946 World cups and the 1940/1944 Olympic games could happen Someone should make a timeline of this

[@codysodyssey3818]

I'd like to see a video on what if Britain stayed neutral in WWI. Honestly, that'd be easy. Just have Germany not invade Belgium.

[@bob_0146]

They definitely would have expected their empire (including India) to last at least another hundred years

[@rioujoel3584]

I love this concept. Here is some ideas Future predictions for the inca empire or aztec before contact with europeans. future predictions from the perspective of the byzantine empire at the end of the reign of justinian. future predictions from a soviet perspective in 1978. future predictions from a american perspective just after the revolution. Future predictions from a Habsbourg perspective before the reformation.

[@georgesdelatour]

I think this is one of your best videos. Maybe your presentation of Chamberlain’s world view in 1938 is too self-assured. I suspect he was improvising a lot, like a juggler running out of hands. He was trying - unsuccessfully - to avoid disaster, rather than operating with a clear plan for the UK’s future. It’s also important to remember that he was operating under severe constraints. In particular: 1) The British public was overwhelmingly opposed to war, and this attitude only changed after Hitler took the whole of Czechoslovakia. This limited Chamberlain’s room for manoeuvre. 2) In the three-way bidding war between the Entente (UK plus France), Germany and Soviet Russia, the Entente had the weakest hand, and Chamberlain knew this. Both Germany and Russia lost territory at the end of WW1, and both were therefore revisionist powers wanting to reverse Versailles. That’s why something like Molotov-Ribbentrop was always likely. That pact divided Poland and Romania between Germany and the USSR, and gave the Baltic states and Finland to the USSR (though the Soviets proved unable to fully conquer Finland). It was impossible for Chamberlain to offer Hitler or Stalin a more generous deal in Eastern Europe than they could offer each other. And anyway, neither the UK nor France had any soldiers in Eastern Europe. 3) There was a strategy which might have worked for Chamberlain, though it was almost impossible for a democratically elected leader to pull off, and it would have been loudly condemned as cynical and immoral by Chamberlain’s political opponents. If the Entente had told Hitler they were going to re-arm and reinforce their western border with Germany, but they didn’t care at all what happened to the lands to Germany’s east, they might have pushed him to launch a version of Barbarossa already in 1940, with Western Europe still unconquered. They could then attack Germany later, at a moment of their choosing. However, it’s only with hindsight that we can see the viability of such a plan. Another point to consider… Chamberlain compared the Czech crisis of the 1930s with the Belgian crisis of the 1830s. At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the allies created a strong Kingdom of the Netherlands specifically in order to limit French power. When the Belgians seceded from the Netherlands, this was seen as boosting French power. The UK went along with it anyway, and everything turned out fine. It was an example of appeasement which worked. The problem was, Louis-Philippe in the 1830s was a very different kind of leader than Hitler in the 1930s.

[@justinambru8529]

Can you also do future predictions form the perspective of america in the 1940s?(I got this inspiration from lighting in the night by fred allhoff BTW)

[@joroa7151]

Could you elaborate regarding the end map? (18:48) Is the marked land exchanged territory or usable by both? Why is Alsace-Lorraine one of them? France would under no circumstance even allow the thought of it. Also by that point the Germans there felt closer to France than Germany as well. Can you also talk about the Polish corridor? Also the Hungarian majority Transylvania? The Albania/Kosovo border is way off. More of the south would be taken, even parts of Macedonia, since those areas are the ones that are the actual Albanian majority. More of North Macedonia would be under the Bulgarian shared/exchanged border (also southern Dobrudja in a manner similar to treaty of Craiova)

[@Quickshot0]

Interesting point of view.

[@eagleowl833]

Bittersweet tear dripping from my british eye 🥲🇬🇧

[@osheridan]

Read this as tea. The association is too strong

[@woojoo6382]

What if the Transcaucasia didn't break up in 1918 and stopped the Soviet conquest of the Caucasus?

[@Laneperk1]

Good video

[@00martoneniris86]

What if Britain kept the France and the Nederlands colonies when the Napoleonic Wars ended

[@noturaverageperson23]

Good viedo

[@MiketheLegocommander]

Good vid

[@00martoneniris86]

What if the Greek monarchie was never abolished Constantine 2 never exiled

[@savagedarksider]

What if Richard III won the battle of bosworth ? What if Henry V had lived longer ? What if Edward V wasn't usurp by his uncle ? What if Leon Trotsky had took over instead of Stalin ? What if Austria had united Germany instead of Prussia ?

[@adamrivers3294]

Video suggestion: What is the US took more land after the Mexican-American war

[@kermitthehermit764]

What do the horizontally shaded regions mean?

[@lilsansbigsans792]

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[@tolgakocakova7764]

i would love to see a scenario that William of Orange died before 1688. England’s involment in the king Louis’s wars is the most important event of the French history. Instead of 250 years of Anglo-Saxon world order, we could be living in a French superstate.

[@tomvlogs8463]

Is imperial knoledge also a channel of yours?

[@Ma_ksi]

5:25 Why didn't you mention the Slovenia and Croat majority under Italian annexation?

[@MPhussarW]

So what time would the age of empires come to a end for the British

[@toreq1127]

6 minutes into the video and this guy spent most of it criticsing versallies epic

[@accountthatillusetocomment3041]

Really helps me to understand what the fuck were they thinking.

[@spaghettiking7312]

The sun never sets, the empire never falls and the tea keeps flowing. Peace in our time!

[@00martoneniris86]

What if Yugoslavia joined the European Union

[@browneyeofsauron1244]

Holy hell, that would be a mess. Interesting scenario to think about.

[@carljo002]

Hi, i have discovered alternate history as a new "hobby" :)

[@00martoneniris86]

What if beyezid 1 won the battle against Timur

[@Jammy__100]

Can't wait for people to do this but in the modern day in like 80 years

[@dumworks3440]

What if egypt won the second ottoman Egyptian war

[@Pigraider268]

I like this series it's something really fresh in alt history community :) My idea would be "future from the perspective of Jagiellonian Poland in 1443" (before the battle of Warna)

[@Anton43218]

What if the union of the 3 romanian principalities under Michael the Brave persisted in history?

[@MrSomervillen]

How “Future predictions from the Soviet Union in 1956”? Or “Future predictions from Poland/ Czechoslovakia/ Yugoslavia/ East Germany etc in 1987”? Or “Future predictions from Spain in 1788”?

[@mrjaman3752]

Minor mistake in 1:26 and 5:25 You forgot to add the Etnic Bulgarians in Macedonia as part of the Minorities left out because of Versallies But Besides that, very good video!, keep the good work

[@isaiasvargas1757]

Good

[@philiptrudel7994]

what country do you live in?

[@Hession0Drasha]

What if dutch people were shorter

[@tysonwastaken]

what if greece got constantinople

[@PhantomZGames]

👍

[@moontruther7519]

Siam actually was on the Entente's side

[@thebigboss-msmandmore6600]

Isn't this just, a better world for everyone involved?

[@shreksswamp5721]

What if the ottomans recreated the Roman empire

[@attiladerhunne2998]

What if Kleinvenedig succeded

[@SoapheadPog]

What if Italy won the war in Ethiopia without bio weapons?

[@Heres_Fatih]

Entente future predictions during the Turkish war of independence

[@jgr7487]

Nz Germany's biggest problem prior to WW2 is that autarcy was hitting its limit in Germany itself, thus expansion was needed. had Britain denied the Germans a war in 1939, Berlin would have been quite weaker in 1941.

[@gb2k465]

Bruh the British out here trying to make an early european union💀

[@olsta1306]

What if Ireland fought off the English & became a colonial empire. Completely unlikely, but fun to think about

[@soulofglebb]

What do you mean? That’s what happened. Ever heard of America…

[@johnarnehansen9574]

What if Norway highly mobilized before World War 2?

[@nouhowlmao2809]

Does the uk care enough to stop further german naval invasion? If not then borway holds longer and thats it

[@pdp117O]

Video Idea: Future Predictions USA 2024

[@dengronebaronen5260]

What if France won the Franco prussian war.

[@00martoneniris86]

What if nuclear power or nuclear boms were never greated Maid

[@KristubeYT]

What if France lost The War of The First Coalition

[@alonk1060]

Mondo cool

[@manmanman2000]

1:24 Südtirol (South Tyrol) should be white too as it was almost exclusively populated with Austrian Germans at that time (and is still overwhelmingly German today).

[@utubrGaming]

What if Tudor England remained Catholic?

[@ub3rfr3nzy94]

What if Turkey lost the Greco-Turkish war (1922)

[@finnikanskywalker2767]

This series is verrty nucetxv

[@wilhelmbaur]

What If Tsar Nicholas II was a competent ruler? What if Tsar Nicholas II died In 1900? What If Tsar Nicholas II was killed by a samurai? What If Tsar Nicholas II turned Russia Into a constitutional Monarchy In the 1890s? What if Abraham Lincoln became a professional wrestler? What If Theodore Roosevelt became a professional boxer? What If the 1917 French soldier desertion caused a revolution by the soldiers? What If Napoleon was a writer or a sailor? What If Napoleon stayed on Elba and made It into a micro-nation? What If Kaiser Wilhelm II was assassinated In 1901? What If Kaiser Wilhelm II was assassinated by Britain In 1918? What If Gutenberg gained power Instead of Hitler and became fuhrer or restored the monarchy? What if the Weimar Republic survived? What If Germany had more colonies? What If Kaiser Wilhelm II's son ran for president of the Weimar Republic and won? What If Hitlers Beer Hall Putsch succeeded? What If Mussolini never Invented Fascism? What If Hitler never moved to Germany and became Chancellor/Fuhrer of Austria? What If The German Empire won the German revolution In 1919? What If Hitler became a priest? What If Bismarck was killed In a college duel? What If the French Revolution never happened? What If Spain joined the Axis In WW2? What If Operation Tannenbaum happened? What If Gavrilo Princip killed the governor Instead of Sophie? What If Gavrilo Princip killed the Governor AND Sophie but missed Franz? What If FDR was assassinated In 1933? What If the Soviet Union Invaded Poland first? What If the Soviet Union did not accept the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact? Wht If Poland ceded Danzig? What If the Oster Conspiracy succeeded? What If Texas was a German puppet colony? What If Prince Leopold Of Prussia became King Of Spain? What If Russia actually SETTLED Siberia? What If the United Nations was more effective? What If France and Britain objected the remilitarization of the rhineland?

[@historia6848]

How about the future predictions of Germany In 1914 at the start of WW1?

[@xtr4me829]

Future prediction from Boris yeltaink in 1990 russia

[@jelly4frog498]

hi

[@itsmealex8959]

3:23 "In 1933, a certain party I'm now allowed to name came into power" My God, the Greens finally took over.

[@andresvalbuenamansilla34]

I liked to see Spain winning the war with USA

[@PaperCashsir]

Hi

[@TheDethBringer666]

what a cute and utterly british view of the world

[@TheSwedishHistorian]

intetestinh

[@00martoneniris86]

What if the German monarchie was restored in Germany instead of an Nazi dictatorship

[@khangnguyenthaiduy9129]

Well, thanks to a certain mustache guy, all of those prediction failed. The commonwealth is now more associated with the US than Britain and Britain has become just a middle power.

[@mappingshaman5280]

I was taught in history that everyone knew war was coming and Britain spent a year ramping up rearmament

[@possiblehistory]

They most certainly knew war was a possibility, ever since 1933 the British and French war budgets started to be prepared for conflict with Germany

[@marym7104]

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