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  1. WI: The Confederacy Crumbles in 1861?

    Here's the Idea (which I read in the Alt-Hist Anthology What If) In 1861, Union and Confederate forces clashed at Bull Run; the fighting seemed to go against the Confederates until General Jackson "Stonewall" Jackson's inspired stand rallied the rebels and they held--ending with the federal...

  2. AHC: One Quadrillion

    The Challenge: Create a Situation in which a nation creates and uses a One Quadrillion (That's 1,000,000,000,000,000) Unit of currency. Although history records horrible acts of hyperinflation, I've never heard of "One Quadrillion" being used on any monies. So, how would a country actually...

  3. DBWI: Put a Hobo and a Bank Robber as world Leaders

    As it says on the tin. Note: when I say a Hobo, I mean someone who was a homeless drifter. I'm not referring to wandering revolutionaries like Che Guevara, I mean one of those guys talking to their shopping cart companion. So, AHC people: Put a Bank Robber and a Homeless Guy in charge of...

  4. WI: The Nazis capture Josef Stalin

    I was curious what would happen if Stalin were captured by the Nazis, perhaps in the opening phase of Barbarossa. This is perhaps not as unlikely as it would seem. Stalin refused to believe that Barbarossa was really happening, and suffered a mental breakdown with the thought of being arrested...

  5. No Time for Great Men

    [This was the first project I worked on AH.Com, and I learned a great deal by exploring it. The Premise is simple: No Churchill, Mao, Stalin, FDR, TR or Hitler. While Communist Wizard created the original idea, he wound up opposing the direction the TL took (and gave no reason or explanation...

  6. Nuclear Exchange in South Asia

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kargil_War I am floored by the ramifications of this conflict, which appears to have come perilously close to a nuclear exchange, despite the marginal value over the contested region. In particular, Pakistan's situation in this conflict was desperate--if the...

  7. The Ace and the Deuce--Germany's Best Plan for the 1940s

    In a couple of other threads, I had talked about a better German Strategy achieving hegemony in Europe, in threads that discussed wildly different ideas (and as a consequence, were ignored). Each thread moved well away from Hitler's stated intentions in Mein Kampf, but I think the right move is...

  8. Iron Curtain at the English Channel

    The Idea behind this is rather simple: the Red Army, instead of getting encircled in facing massive defeats against the Wehrmacht, instead quickly blunts the German offensive in Barbarossa--and by Winter 1941, the Germany is about to get ejected from the Baltic States and the Ukraine. The Red...

  9. WI The War not Waged: United States follows the Dutch approach to Drugs

    In the early 1970s, many people in the United States considered the use of drugs to be a matter of personal choice, not a very serious criminal offense. The Rockefeller Drug Laws, pioneered by New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, represented a sea-change from the tolerant attitudes of the...

  10. Soviets surrender due to Nuclear Disparity?

    I've been wondering, after reading AV's Cuban Missile War Timeline... The Soviets were badly outmatched in terms of nuclear weapons up into the 1960s. And there certainly were a large number of incidents that could have triggered some kind of war between the USA and the Soviet Union. How...

  11. Confederate States of America: An Inviable Nation?

    I am beginning to wonder whether the CSA, if it had somehow seceded from the United States, could survive under its own internal pressures and problems, combined with a large unfriendly neighbor to the North. I see several problems with the Confederate States which would possibly impair their...

  12. WI: USA, after WW2, goes back into being a sleeping Giant?

    Title says it all. People like Robert Taft spoke of the United States not being a part of NATO and going back to an isolationist stance. WI, in 1946, the USA starts pulling out of Europe and by 1950, the only US Presence outside of North America is Japan (The USA decides to retain a presence...

  13. RP: Hitler to Chamberlain: [See OP]

    "I'm Terribly Sorry, but that will no longer do" [Stretching the idea of RP even further than the DBWI threads, this thread idea instead goes into a real historical situation but with people taking their own views about history as its happening] After Prime Minister Chamberlain went to Munich...

  14. FDR gets advance warning of Pearl harbor

    Here's a very simple question: Suppose that on November 24th, the USA, after breaking Japanese Codes (I believe that had done so before Pearl Harbor) learns that Pearl Harbor is going be hit on December 7th? Granted that FDR wants a war, but this puts him in a very awkward situation. On one...

  15. DB-RP: No Atomic Offensive over Germany?

    Good evening, everyone. It appears that the last radiated zones of Germany have been declared safe for human habitation, after nearly 60 years of unsafe radiation levels. With the German Chancellors current vow to rebuild Hamburg, Berlin, Essen, Munich and Frankfurt-am-Main to their preatomic...

  16. Little Boy's Detonate Fails, explodes on Ground

    [ARG! Typo on the Title. Change it to 'Detonator'] Stolen from the interesting part of this thread: https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=90423 Suppose that instead of detonating at a height of 2,000 feet, as was originally intended, the first US Nuclear Weapon...

  17. 20th Century Humanity-wank Challenge.

    Here's one I haven't seen on this forum yet: With a PoD of no later than Jan 1st, 1850, turn the 20th Century into something that meets the following requirements: The World GDP/Capita [on Jan 1st, 2000] is roughly $15,000 in today's dollars. This Figure is roughly equal to South Korea...

  18. James Bond Supervillains get their way: What Happens?

    [I had thought about posting this one in the ASB forum, but decided that many of the James Bond movies were realistic enough that it could be discussed here] What would have happened if the Bond Supervillains had managed to succeed in their nefarious schemes? (I mean this on a movie by movie...

  19. USA attempts to Mediate World War War, 1916.

    [Edit: I MEANT to write World War ONE. I just can't do anything about it. Too little sleep... :(] Somehow, I think this was the option that the USA really forgot about in OTL. Instead of a massive jingoistic campaign for the USA to join the Allied Powers, what if the United States decides...

  20. No Guadalupe Hiladgo--the USA annexes Mexico

    Instead of the Historic peace deal that granted the USA the northern part of Mexico (Guadalupe Hildago), the USA decides to annex the entire nation of Mexico. With the war following a historical course, ending with Winfield Scott in control of Mexico City, President Polk decides to honor...
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