This is my personal take on the current world order and the cascading effects that caused it.

The victory of the American colonists over england and the formation of this country is the keystone of all that has happend.

Had the colonies lost. All of the leaders and property owners who financed the rebellion would have been killed or jailed. Slavery would have been abolished as that system allowed property owners to fight a war without any financial loss or risk as their farms were operated by slaves. The history of slavery as we know it would not have happened. No cival war to rip this country apart and set the racial divide. No liinchings, segregation, inequality, civil rights, ghettos. There would not be a separate canada.

There would not have been a western expansion of this country resulting in the near extermination of the native American population.

Had the american revolt failed the French would not have been emboldened to attempt to overthrow their king. No Jefferson or Franklin to encourage them. I will concede that a change was going to happen but I doubt it would have occurred right after the failed American revolt with all of the public executions, property confiscations, and slavery ended by that failed attempt. A more civilized shift of power would have been more likely. A constitutional monarchy like england would have been a more probable result.

Without the French revolution, there would have not been a rise of Napoleon as there would not have been starving masses to fill his armies.

Without Napoleon there would not have been a Congress of Vienna which united the small city states of Germany and Italy. The British wanted strong nations in Europe to counter a strong France and avoid more continental wars that they would have to sort out.

Without a strong German there would not have been a Franco-Prussian war, setting up trenches and armaments which led to the first world war. Modern weapons would not have developed as quickly.

Without the first world war there would not have been a Russian revolution and rise of communism. There would not have been a depression which led to Hitler rising to power promising prosperity and respect to the starving masses resulting in a second world war.

Without a second world war, there would not have been the development of nuclear weapons.

The US would be like Canada. Free health care. No wars in the middle east. No racial divide.

Oh why didn't we lose. Life would be far better if we had.

Brave French are always ready for change, they are fighting for change right now on the streets of Paris.

I watched a documentary on the Spanish Civil War a short while ago...it seems that the Republicans (not the same as "our" Republicans), were against the Catholic Church also...killed several priests.

Oh please!!! Let's have another!!!
Let's do it here!!!

The French had a method for getting rid of people with mental disorders known as 'Ship of Fools'. Where those people who they were unable to cope with were put into a boat and sent down the river without paddles or a rudder - in the hands of God to look after.
During the French Revolution, during the Terror, all the clergy of Orleans(?) were placed on a boat with paddles or rudder. And then blown up! Where's your God now aye?

The French Revolution got it right.