What if, before the Long March, Mao Zedong was assassinated in 1934, and thus he never rises to power?
Would the CCP still win?
Would the 28 Bolsheviks win?
Would the KMT win?
In the Spanish-American War of 1898, the US annexed Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines, but not Cuba due to the Teller amendment that prevents the US annexed Cuba!
Here's my question: What if the Teller amendment never happened?
Would the US annex Cuba?
What would happen?
Would Cuba eventually become a state?
Would the Cuban Revolution and the Cuban Missile Crisis happen?
I know that, historically, the US could have annexed/purchased more from Mexico, and that the one who signed the Treaty, Nicolas Trist, violated Polk's orders, moderated the Treaty, and stopped short of everything except Baja California, which was on the table and the US wanted to pay 30 million dollars to Mexico after the war for all of this, but Trist moderate the price too to 15 to 20 million dollars!
Now here's my question: What if Nicolas Trist died before the war's end, and thus he never signed any treaty!?
What if Joseph Stalin died in 1945, around the same time as FDR, wherever by assassination or heart attack or anything else!?
How would this affect the war, the Cold War, USSR, everything?
Would the USSR still collapse in 1991?
What if in 1934, before the Long March, Mao Zedong was assassinated?
Would this prevent the CCP victory?
Would the KMT win?
How would everything change?
What if the United States annexed the Baja California peninsula after the Mexican-American War, and Cuba after the Spanish-American War?
What if, in Worldbox, we'll have republics similar to Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome, with elections or appointments, democratic bodies like a Senate; and besides this I also suggest elective monarchies with the king or queen being elected instead of hereditary monarchy!?