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I've enjoyed your previous work so you can consider me a reader should you choose to make TL of it.
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@SnowStocker: I'd like a TL like that.
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#283
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Dewey Defeats Truman!
1948: Thomas Dewey/Earl Warren (R) 1952: Thomas Dewey/Earl Warren (R) 1956: Estes Kefauver/Adlai Stevenson (D) 1960: Adlai Stevenson/Lyndon B. Johnson (D) 1964: Adlai Stevenson/Lyndon B. Johnson (D) 1965: Lyndon B. Johnson/vacant* (D) 1968: Barry Goldwater/Robert Finch (R) 1972: Barry Goldwater/Robert Finch (R) 1976: Robert F. Kennedy/George McGovern (D) 1980: Robert F. Kennedy/George McGovern (D) 1984: George McGovern/Geraldine Ferraro (D) 1988: Jack Kemp/Bob Dole (R) 1992: Jack Kemp/Bob Dole (R) 1996: Geraldine Ferraro/Bill Clinton (D) 2000: Geraldine Ferraro/Bill Clinton (D) 2004: Colin Powell/Mitt Romney (R) 2008: Colin Powell/Mitt Romney (R) 2012: Mitt Romney/Tim Pawlenty (R) 2016: Martin O'Malley/Ben R. Luján (D) *Stevenson dies from a heart attack
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1956: Adlai Stevenson/Estes Kefauver (D)
1960: Richard Nixon/Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R) 1964: Lyndon B. Johnson/Al Gore Sr. (D) 1968: Lyndon B. Johnson/Al Gore Sr. (D) 1971: Al Gore Sr./vacant (D)* 1972: Al Gore Sr./Henry M. Jackson (D) 1976: Ronald Reagan/John Connally (R) 1980: Ronald Reagan/John Connally (R) 1984: George McGovern/Jerry Brown (D) 1988: Paul Laxalt/Bob Dole (R) 1992: Paul Laxalt/Bob Dole (R) 1996: Bob Dole/John McCain 2000: Al Gore Jr./Paul Wellstone (D) 2004: Al Gore Jr. Paul Wellstone (D) 2008: Paul Wellstone/Jesse Jackson Jr. (D) 2012: Mitt Romney/Tim Pawlenty (R) *Johnson dies
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POD: President Truman swallows his pride and agrees to give more aid to the Chinese Nationalists who win the Chinese Civil War. The Nationalists aid in defeating the Communists in Korea in 1950.
1948: Harry S Truman (D-MO)/Alben Barkley (D-KY) 1952: Harry S Truman (D-MO)/Alben Barkley (D-KY)-1 1956: William Knowland (R-CA)/H. Styles Bridges (R-NH) 1960: William Knowland (R-CA)/H. Styles Bridges (R-NH)-2 1961: William Knowland (R-CA)-3/Vacant 1962: Joseph Martin (R-MA)-4/Vacant 1964: John F. Kennedy (D-MA)-5/Richmond Flowers (D-AL) 1968: John F. Kennedy (D-MA)-6/Richmond Flowers (D-AL) 1970: Richmond Flowers (D-AL)/Otto Kerner (D-IL) 1972: Ronald Reagan (R-CA)-7/John Ashbrook (R-OH) 1975: John Ashbrook (R-OH)/Donald Rumsfeld (R-IL) 1976: Robert F. Kennedy (D-MA)/James E. Carter (D-GA) 1980: Robert F. Kennedy (D-MA)/James E. Carter (D-GA) 1984: James E. Carter (D-GA)/Sander Levin (D-MI)-8 1988: Howard Baker (R-TN)/Jack Kemp (R-NY) 1992: Howard Baker (R-TN)/Jack Kemp (R-NY) 1996: Bill Bradley (D-NJ)/Jim Guy Tucker (D-AR)-9 2000: Bill Bradley (D-NJ)/Bill Richardson (D-NM) 2004: John Ensign (R-NV)-10/Jim Gilmore (R-VA) 2007: Jim Gilmore (R-VA)/Dave Heineman (R-NE) 2008: Andrew Cuomo (D-NY)/Russ Feingold (D-WI)-11 1-Vice President Barkley died in early 1956 2-Vice President Bridges died in November 1961 3-Assassinated by Communist sympathizer Lee Harvey Oswald in 1962. President Knowland provided air cover in the Bay of Pigs invasion that overthrew Fidel Castro earlier that year 4-First Speaker of the House to move up to the Presidency. Did not seek reelection in 1964 5-First Roman Catholic President. Vice President Flowers previously served as Governor of Alabama (1963-1965) 6-Died of complications from Addison's disease in 1970 7-Assassinated in 1975 by Squeaky Fromme 8-First Jewish Vice President. Previously Governor of Michigan (1975-1977) 9-Vice President Tucker did not seek reelection in 2000 due to cancer 10-Resigns in 2007 after admitting extramarital affair and avoiding impeachment 11-Second Jewish Vice President |
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POD: Sanjay Gandhi flies a plane he's qualled on.
3/6. Indira Gandhi (INC): 24 January 1980- 31 October 1984* 7. Sanjay Gandhi (INC): 31 October 1984- 8 December 2001** 8. P. Chidharabam (INC): 19 December 2001- 29 September 2002 9. Narendra Mori (National): 29 September 2002-*** *Assassinated. ** Resigned, Martial law in effect from 24 June 1990 to 2 February 1993 due to Kargil War. *** BJP banned as an "anti-national" party in 1988.
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Alternate constitutional Convetions ahoy!
Part 1: The Virginia Plan National Executives of these United States
Consuls of the American Federal Republic
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Guess the PoD
1937-1940 Neville Chamberlain (Conservative) 1940 Lord Halifax (Conservative) 1940-1970 Sir Oswald Mosley (BUF) 1970-1995 John Bean (BUF) 1995-2015 Sir Richard Branson (BUF) 2015- Sir Nicholas Clegg (BUF) |
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Britain loses the Second World War.
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Have a sticker. It was so obvious I intended the 'Guess the PoD' to be somewhat rhetorical
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Clive the ASB swaps all Opposition Leaders with PMs. How would this play out?
Winston Churchill (Conservative) 1945-1951 Clement Attlee (Labour) 1951-1955 Hugh Gaitskell (Labour) 1955-1963* Harold Wilson (Labour) 1963-1964 Sir Alec Douglas-Home (Conservative) 1964-1965 Edward Heath (Conservative) 1965-1970 Harold Wilson (Labour) 1970-1974 Edward Heath (Conservative) 1974 Margaret Thatcher (Conservative) 1974-1979 James Callaghan (Labour) 1979-1980 Michael Foot (Labour) 1980-1983 Neil Kinnock (Labour) 1983-1992 John Smith* (Labour) 1992-1994 Tony Blair (Labour) 1994-1997 William Hague (Conservative) 1997-2001 Iain Duncan-Smith (Conservative) 2001-2003 Michael Howard (Conservative) 2003-2005 David Cameron (Conservative) 2005-2010 Harriet Harman (Labour) 2010 Ed Miliband (Labour) 2010-present *Died in office. |
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Hamilton Plan
Governors of the United States George Washington (I-VA): April 30, 1789-December 17, 1799 John Adams (F-MA): December 17, 1799- October 4, 1825 Andrew Jackson (L-TN): October 4, 1825- June 8, 1845 Lewis Cass (L-MI): June 8, 1845- April 1, 1865 William Seward (N-NY): April 1, 1865- October 10, 1872 Samuel Tilden (L-MI): October 10, 1872- December 1, 1888 James Blaine (N-ME): December 1, 1888- July 7, 1890 Grover Cleveland (L-NY): July 7, 1890- August 10, 1905 Theodore Roosevelt (P-NY): August 10, 1905- June 30, 1923 Carter Glass (L-VA): June 30, 1923- May 19, 1945 Harry S. Truman (P-MO): May 19, 1945- February 1, 1964 Richard Nixon (L-CA): February 1, 1964- June 11, 1992 Newt Gingrich (L-GA): June 11, 1992-present Liberal: First Bourbon Democratic, then OTL's Republicans after 1950.
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POD: Yang Shangkun and Wan Li ultimately sided with Zhao Ziyang, as a result an alternate Tiananmen
Notable changes from OTL: 1. Chinese democraticization 2. the Japanese economic bubble did not burst until the Asian Financial Crisis (1997-98) 3. 2nd Korean War (1998-2001) after North Korea went bankrupt without Chinese aid 4. OTL global recession did not come ITTL until May 2010 when GM files for bankruptcy protection Prime Ministers of the Federal Republic of China: 1. Hu Qili (PPC) 1992-97 2. Bao Tong (PPC) 1997-98 3. Wei Jingshen (DPC) 1998-99 (Grand Coalition) 4. Wu Yi (PPC) 1999-2007 5. Wen Jiabao (PPC) 2007-10 6. Li Yuanchao (PPC) 2010 7. Li Lu (DPC) 2010- Presidents of the Federal Republic of China: 1. Yang Shangkun (PPC) 1991-96 2. Zhu Rongji (PPC) 1996-2006 3. Hu Deping (PPC) 2006-11 4. Gao Xingjian (DPC) 2011- DPC=Democratic Party of China, formed by former dissidents and student leaders PPC=People's Party of China, successor of the Communist Party Presidents of the United States of America: 41. George H. W. Bush (R) 1989-93 42. Bill Clinton (D) 1993-97 43. Colin Powell (R) 1997-2005 44. John Edwards (D) 2005-10 (impeached) 45. Joe Biden (D) 2010- Prime Ministers of Japan: 75. Masayoshi Ito (LDP) 1989-90 76. Toshiki Kaifu (LDP) 1990-91 77. Michio Watanabe (LDP) 1991-93 78. Tsutomu Hata (LDP) 1993 79-80. Shintaro Ishihara (LDP) 1993-98 81-82. Ichiro Ozawa (NFP->DPJ) 1998-2003 83. Hirohisa Fujii (DPJ) 2003-05 84-85. Junichiro Koizumi (LDP) 2005-09 (assassinated) 86. Yoichi Masuzoe (LDP) 2009-11 87. Seiji Maehara (DPJ) 2011-present Presidents of South Korea: 6. Roh Tae-woo (DJP->DLP) 1988-93 7. Kim Young-sam (DLP->GNP) 1993-98 8. Kim Dae-jung (Democratic) 1998-2003 9. Kim Geun-tae (Democratic) 2003-08 10. Han Myeong-sook (Democratic) 2008- President of the Governing Council of North Korea: Thomas A. Schwartz 2001-03 President of the Transitional Government of North Korea: (appointed by the President of South Korea) 1. Hwang Jang-yop 2003-08 2. Lee Ae-ran 2008- British Prime Ministers: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative) 1979-90 John Major (Conservative) 1990-95 Michael Portillo (Conservative) 1995-97 (lost his own seat) Tony Blair (Labour) 1997-2010 David Miliband (Labour) 2010- Presidents of the Philippines: 11. Corazon Aquino (PDP-LABAN/UNIDO) 1986-92 12. Fidel V. Ramos (Lakas–NUCD–UMDP) 1992-98 13. Renato de Villa (Lakas-NUCD-UMDP) 1998-2004 14. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (Lakas kampi CMD) 2004-10 15. Mar Roxas (Liberal) 2010- Last edited by Tony; March 30th, 2011 at 03:47 PM.. |
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Sounds like it'd make an interesting TL Tonykwak.
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Teaser
List of Israeli Prime Ministers
David Ben Gurion (14 May 1948-26 January 1954) (Mapai) Moshe Sharett (26 January 1954-3 November 1956) (Mapai) David Ben-Gurion (3 November 1956-26 June 1963) (Mapai) Levi Eshkol (26 June 1963-26 February 1969) (Mapai/Alignment) Yigal Allon (26 February 1969-17 March 1969) (Alignment) Golda Meir (17 March 1969-3 June 1974) (Alignment) Yitzhak Rabin (3 June 1974-20 June 1977) (Alignment) Menachem Begin (20 June 1977-10 October 1983) (Likud) Yitzhak Shamir (5 August 1983-13 September 1984) (Likud) Elie Wiesel (13 September 1984-20 October 1986) (Likud) Yitzhak Shamir (20 October 1986-13 July 1992) (Likud) Elie Wiesel (13 July 1992-18 June 1996) (Likud) Shimon Peres (18 June 1996-6 July 1999) (Labor) Elie Wiesel (6 July 1999-28 February 2003) (Likud) Ariel Sharon (28 February 2003-14 April 2006) (Likud) Michael Harish (14 April 2006-31 March 2009) (Labor) Benyamin Netanyahu (31 March 2009-present) (Likud) List of Israeli Presidents Chaim Weizmann (17 May 1948-9 November 1952) (Independent) Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (9 November 1952-23 April 1963) (Mapai) Zalman Shamar (23 April 1963-24 May 1973) (Mapai) Ephraim Katzir (24 May 1973-29 May 1978) (Mapai) Yitzhak Navon (29 May 1978- 5 May 1983) (Mapai) Chaim Herzog (5 May 1983-13 May 1993) (Mapai) Ezer Weizman (13 May 1993-13 July 2000) (Mapai) Elie Wiesel (13 July 2000-13 July 2007) (Likud) Ariel Sharon (13 July 2007-present) (Likud) List of General Secretaries of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin (3 April 1922-16 October 1952) Nikitia Khrushchev (16 October 1953- 14 October 1964) Leonid Brezhnev (14 October 1964-22 January 1969) Alexei Kosygin (22 January 1969-10 October 1980) Yuri Andropov (10 October 1980-10 March 1984) Mikhail Gorbachev (10 March 1984- 23 March 1997) Alexander Lebedev (23 March 1997-8 May 2009) Vladimir Potanin (8 May 2009-present) |
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I did this same PoD months back, but I figured it could use a revamp:
Woodrow Wilson (1913-20) (D) Leonard Wood (1921-26) (R)* Warren Harding (1926-32) (R) Al Smith (1933-40) (D) Theodore Roosevelt Jr (1941-43) (R)** Herbert Hoover (1943-46) (R)* Thomas Dewey (R) (1946-52) Hubert Humphrey (1953-60) (D) Harold Stassen (1961-68) (R) Henry Fonda (1969-80) (D) John Anderson (1981-88) (R) *died in office **assassinated
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No Brighton Bombing
Margaret Thatcher, 1979 - 1989 Norman Tebbit, 1989 - 1992 Neil Kinnock, 1992 - 1997 Michael Portillo, 1997 - 2004 Tim Yeo, 2004 - 2005 Alan Johnson, 2005 - present |
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Ruling parties of the UK/ prime ministers
STV gets used in almost all constituencies in the UK in 1917 1918 Andrew Bonar Law- coalition liberal conservative coalition 1920 Andrew Bonar Law Conservative minority government 1921 H.H asquith National liberal- Labour coalition 1924 David Lloyd George National liberal-liberal coalition 1925 Stanley Baldwin*- Conservative party 1929 Andrew Bonar Law Conservative party 1930 Ramsay Mcdonald Liberal- progressive party ILP coalition 1933 Ramsay Mcdonald liberal party minority government 1935 Winston Churchill Conservative BUF coalition 1939 Winston Churchill Conservative national government** 1946 Aneurin Bevin Labour-British communist party coalition 1948 Aneurin Bevin Labour- liberal coalition*** 1950 Clement davies Liberal - UK progressive party coalition 1953 Hugh Gaskitell Labour - Liberal coalition 1958 Hugh Gaskitell Labour socialist party 1960 Eric Arthur Blair Labour CND coalition 1963 Eric Arthur Blair Labour majority government**** 1965 Harold Wilson Labour - Millitant party New communist party coalition***** 1967 Louis Montbatten****** British revival party 1972 Margret Thatcher******* BRP 1978 Tony Benn UK freedom coalition 1982 Tony Benn UK freedom coalition 1986 John Smith radical freedom party-socialist coalition 1990 John smith******** radical freedom party green coalition 1993 George galloway solidarity party- levellers party 1997 Tony Blair New liberal party UKFC coalition 2001 Tony Blair New liberal party, party of the centre coalition 2003 Caroline Lucas left party, levellers party, green coalition 2006 Mark Chadwick Levellers party Green coalition 2009 Adrian Ramsay Green- left coalition 2010 Nick clegg centre- Democratic party coalition Notes and key to symbols 2010 elections % seats and party description centre party 25% Strong all over but particuarly with those who want an alternative to left wing parties but like the social welfare programmes Democratic party 24% centre right(as far right as you can go without people hating you) Levellers party 17%- strong in the south east, particularly so around Brighton far Left and very socially liberal party Green party 14% strong all over but fight for seats with the levellers party Party Radical freedom party 10% marxist left party 6% marxist leninist others 5% *Government collapses and new election is held **BUF leaves the coalition at protest about WWII being declared on Germany the conservative party permantly splits and Winston Churchill is left to rule with the support of other parties *** Communist party leaves when relations sour with the soviet union **** The bomb is banned so CND joins the labour party ***** Assasinated in a coup as the aristocrats got fed up to the back teeth of Britain being too leftist ****** removed in an internal power struggle ******* Removed due to countrywide revolt ******** Dies due to a massive stroke |
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