160 years ago the South lost the Civil War in the USA. What would the world be like if they had won?
The Civil War in the USA is a significant watershed not only for America's past but for the entire world. This conflict was the last war of the Modern Era and the first of contemporary history. It began with volunteer militias whose commanders emulated Frederick the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte, and ended with mass professional armies fully prepared for the meat grinders of World War I. Ironclads, submarines, repeating firearms, field trenches, and the telegraph—all were first used in the war of 1861–1865. The political consequences of the American conflict were no less important.