> 1945-1960: The Cold War Begins
The world settles into a tense, three-way Cold War:
The Axis Powers: The technocratic, fascist "New Order" of Europe and East Asia.
The American Bloc: The diminished USA, clinging to the Western Hemisphere and its remaining allies (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and a terrified UK).
The Rump USSR: A bitter, starving communist holdout in Siberia, occasionally waging a brutal guerrilla war against German settlements west of the Urals.
The German Reich pours resources into wonder-weapons. They detonate the first atomic bomb in 1947. The US follows in 1949, Japan in 1951.
The space race begins early, with German Wunderwaffe scientists like von Braun launching the first satellite (Sternenkugel) in 1954.

> 1960-2000: A Fractured, Stagnant World

No Marshall Plan means Europe's economy is a slave to the German war machine. Technological progress is impressive in military and aerospace fields but stagnant in consumer goods and civil liberties.

The USA becomes a paranoid, isolated fortress nation. The "Red Scare" is replaced by the "Grey Scare" (fear of German infiltration) and the "Yellow Peril" (fear of Japanese influence in Latin America). McCarthyism never ends.

The Civil Rights movement is brutally suppressed. The federal government, obsessed with "national unity" and "social order", sides with segregationists. The narrative is that social upheaval is a weapon of the Axis to weaken America.

Without the post-WWII liberal international order, globalization never happens. The internet, as we know it, is not developed. Instead, separate, walled-off networks exist: the German Reichsnetz, the American LibertyLink, and the Japanese Daihatsu Netto. [1/2]