Who knows if those entitites would even have existed if the South had won? The USA would not have been big enough to help France win WW1, we might not have fought. Maybe they would have been owned by the Kaiser. Without Versais Treaty Hilter would have been just another bad artist.
I do certainly think that the end of slavery, as a side effect of the war, was a great thing. Perhaps for this reason alone the North had to prevail. I often what would have happened if the President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, had abolished slavery before Lincoln thought of it.
Ideally I would prefer the war never was fought, that it was resolved through negotiation, and (in my alternate history) both the citizens and the states retained far more rights as a result of not have had the Imperial Lincoln presidency.
Hows that? Did you ever read the Novel by L. Neil Smith where the citizens won the Whiskey Rebellion?
The civil war really was a crucial turning point in history, and it could have turned out differently for many simple reasong. The north won Antiedam because of a found operational dispatch. If the south had won that victory in Maryland and marched to Washington, Britain was poised to support the Confederacy.
If...if...if... Fascinating.
I love "alternate history" novels, what is the name of the one you mentioned?
Some day I may right a mega novel (geez, EFAD is "only" 560 pages!) on the Norse colonization of North America.
The Vikings ran into unfriendly Indians, and their toehold failed. If they had run into different tribes, (think of Cortez in Mexico), they may have ended up colonizing North America with Vikings in the tenth century. Imagine that!