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  1. The Desperate War

    It is generally accepted that America could not have been invaded by the Axis in WWII. However. WI Germany had done even better in the war's early stages. They take the French Navy whole and then 300,000 prisoners at Dunkirk. They convince the British to exchange their Navy for the...

  2. Hawaiiwank

    Given any POD before 1900 make the native nation of Hawaii a major power today. Either a superpower, Great power, or Regional Power will do but they must remain solidly independent throughout, though crucial alliances and friendships are permitted. Feel free to butterfly away as much of...

  3. WI Grant appts you head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs

    And gives you special powers. You are now the Indian czar, as it were, as the President will back you all the way. He wants the Indians treated fairly, but he also wants the West settled and prosperous. He wants solutions. You're you but you back then. You're a fairly well-known lawyer...

  4. WI Rhineland gambit fails.

    I know this has been on before, but I can't find it. Hitler's taking of the Rhineland in 1936 meets with stiff resistance. His forces, heavily outnumbered and outclassed, are easily thrown back by the French with heavy losses. What happens now?

  5. President Tony Soprano

    How could a big time fully "made" actual Mafia member become President of the US, plausibly? or why couldn't they?

  6. AH challenge, Surviving Feudalism

    Plausibly, have feudalism survive to the present day. The world must be as modern as our own. Any POD, anytime, multiples allowed.

  7. No charge at Gettysburg

    You're General Longstreet at Gettysburg, just before Picketts's Charge Lee comes up to you. "I've decided to take your advice and cancel this charge" he says to you, "...what do you think I should do instead?" Well??

  8. US sends no men to WWII

    WI the US sent no men, or very, very few, to fight in WWII. The US sends materials and supplies aplenty, but mainly decides that men, and esp the expense, food etc that they would require, are better spent on the atom bomb, development of which becomes the main US contribution to the war, which...

  9. No or different historical divisions

    What if the idea of divisions of historical times, that is, the Renaissance, Medieval, Ancient, etc, had never caught on, or been discredited early (like they are today to some extent). History remains the "seamless web" it was until the 1800's. Conversely, what are some other divisions of...

  10. WI No oil crisis.

    WI the Arabs never got mad in 1973 and kept pumping oil at the same prices. How would the US be different if gas had never went higher than 37 cents per gallon?

  11. The world 'pulls a Meiji'

    What would happen if the response of the entire non-Western world to the European challenge was the same as Japan's? What if India modernized her army in the 1600's and China, the Ottomans, even SE Asia and the African kingdoms did the same? Nothing else changes, they don't have any more money...

  12. Russian Rockets in WWI

    In 1905 a book published in 1903 by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky comes to the attention of the Russian Imperial Army. By 1910 Tsiolkovsky is launching test rockets in Siberia. In 1914 the first reports of Russian war rockets are coming in from the German Army on the Eastern front. By 1915 Russian...

  13. Mr Prostitute

    WI British (and maybe other) navys recognized the sailor's "needs" and incorporated women for just that purpose. How would they actually do this, and what overall effect would it have on discipline, the navy, attitudes to women, history, etc.

  14. Holy Roman America

    Based on Columbus sails for Maximilian I How would this change the settlement patterns in North Am? What would a USA (or whatever it would be called, if if existed at all) settled from the German states have ended up looking like by 1800 or later?

  15. Caesar survives

    As Crassus (?) raises his knife someone warns Caesar and he turns and blocks. The others fall back and Caesar's bodyguard moves in. The assassins all turn on Crassus. The upshot is that Caesar survives, but noone beyond Crassus (or whoever was first) is clearly implicated in the plot. What...

  16. WI the Colts never leave Baltimore?

    Irsay shops the Indianapolis deal and a consortium of Baltimore businesses better it. The Colts stay in Balto in 1984. I know it's sorta ASB, Balto in 1984 wanted to have their team and kick it around too. Let's say Irsay keeps the dealings with Indianapolis secret but let's local businesses...

  17. WI the Vikings are blocked from Europe?

    As I understand it the Viking age was brought about somewhat by something called the Medieval Warm Period or somesuch, which warmed up all Europe and particularly caused a population boom in Scandinavia. Now WI one of Charlemagne's sons was as good as the old man, killed off or dominated his...

  18. WI no obscenity laws?

    WI there were no obscenity laws in the USA? of any type, ever, anytime? a specific prohibition of same being written into the Bill of Rights and defended as zealously as gun ownership is now, throughout US history?

  19. WI TV cheap?

    WI TV shows were restricted by law to having a budget no greater than the modern equivalent of $50,000, this being an ironclad FCC regulation upheld by SCOTUS 9/0 since 1935?

  20. WI France a sea power?

    How would Europe have developed differently if France had a tradition/policy of being a sea power equivalent to England? I realize this is against cultural determinism since France is geographically a land power, but there is no real reason it cannot be a sea power as well.
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