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In 1959, the "Alaskan Missile Crisis" begins, as U.S. President Adlai Stevenson learns that surveillance flights over Russia's North American territory have found that launch sites for intermediate-range nuclear ballistic missiles are under construction.
Alaskan Missile Crisis by Eric LippsIronically, The U.S. had had the chance to buy Alaska in 1867, but then-Secretary of State William H. Seward had been thwarted in his efforts to complete its purchase by opposition in the House of Representatives, which refused to appropriate the necessary funds. The offer had been withdrawn in March 1868.
A U.S. expeditionary force had briefly invaded Alaska following the 1917 Russian revolution, but had withdrawn following the armistice of Nov. 11, 1918.
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~ Why wouldn't Alaska become the bastion of the White Russians, in the post Revolution Period, & thus ally itself with the West? Needless to say, due to Allied involvement in the post WWI period, during the Russian Civil War, I'd dare say Alaska wouldn't have fallen to the Soviets.
~ It might, for a while--but I suspect it would have fallen after all. The "Allied involvement" against the Soviets never amounted to much in oour history, and doesn't sound as though it did in this one either.
The parallel which I suspect David Atwell has in mind is with Taiwan, but Taiwan (aka Formosa) was physically separated from the Chinese mainland. Alaska and Siberia are essentially contiguous: the Bering Strait hardly amounts to an effective barrier.
~ If the Soviets had a large chunk of North America, we'd have been quite a bit more paranoid about them than we were. I misdoubt that we'd have allied with the Nazis against them in WWII.
~ I must ask how the Red Army would get to Alaska with even token US/Commonwealth opposition. The Bering Strait is not that wide but getting to it is not that easy.
~ Ooo, wouldn't Canada be nervous!
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