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  1. No Maine Explosion

    What happens if the USS Maine never exploded in Havana harbor? IOTL, the US population and yellow press had been attacking the Spanish and hankering for a war for a while. The explosion of the Maine however is what made the war inevitable. So what would have happened if the Maine didn’t explode...

  2. Dunkirk Peace in WWII: What happens with India?

    The Indian independence movement was getting increasingly about to explode in this period. When WWII started, the deal the British made with the Indian independence figures was they would have freedom once the war was over. This worked very effectively to cut out the legs of figures who wanted...

  3. WI: Woodrow Wilson in 1932

    One of the most ambitious men that the US has ever had for the Presidency, it's well known that Wilson, despite having suffered a stroke, desired a third term. The stroke ultimately is what made it impossible. His faction was still tremendously loyal to him even as an invalid. But let's say...

  4. Bismarck planned to raise Hungarian troops if France intervenes in the Austro-Prussian War?

    I'm currently reading Hans Trefousse's biography on Carl Schurz, the famous German-American writer and statesman. He notes that in Schurz's first visit with Bismarck, the Iron Chancellor really loosened up around the former '48 revolutionary and granted him an interview long past most...

  5. New World Empire: The Second Term of George H.W. Bush
    Threadmarks: 1. Introduction

    "A new partnership of nations has begun, and we stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective—a new world...

  6. WI: Smith loses reelection, who is nominee in 1928?

    The 1928 DNC was interesting in that it seemed pretty much everyone knew who would be the nominee. Al Smith, Governor of New York, was the only real credible and strong candidate running for the noimination. The dry rural populist wing that had once dominated the party made a feeble attempt for...

  7. AHC: Speaker Gerald Ford

    I guess this is more realistically an AHC where you have to get a Republican House at some point in the 60s and 70s to make Gerald Ford Speaker. This is a tough one since the Republicans were pretty much never close to the majority due to the inherent Democratic advantage. Even massive landslide...

  8. AHC: A Democrat Elected President in 1920

    ...with Wilson still winning in 1916. So no cheating by making Hughes President! So this is an election most people think is just an impossible one for the Democrats, but surely there is more than meets the eye? For instance, what if the May Day 1920 attacks that Attorney General Palmer...

  9. AHC: Make Grant Lose 1872

    By all means, 1872 should have looked bleak for the President. He had failed to get his pet project of annexing the Dominican Republic passed and had split the party in the process to such an extent that the rival Liberal Republican faction was running against him. The Democrats even endorsed...

  10. WI: Dole Dies in 1996 Before the Election

    In 1996, Bob Dole was the oldest first time Presidential nominee at a spry 73 years. So what would have happened if Bob Dole died before the election, before even the first debate? Would Jack Kemp ascend to the top of the ticket? He was pro-gay rights after all which would not sit well with...

  11. Foreign Policy Under Dukakis

    If Dukakis had won in 1988, how would he have dealt with the foreign policy challenges of that time? Was he more of an isolationist? How would he have dealt with the collapse of the Soviet Union, Tiananmen Square, and Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait?

  12. WI: Nixon Replaces Agnew With Connally in 1972

    According to Wikipedia (great source, I know), Nixon was seriously considering dropping Agnew from the ticket and replacing him with John Connally. He decided against this because he decided he needed Agnew to keep the conservative voters on his side. What if Nixon had decided McGovern would be...

  13. AHC: President Charles Lindbergh in 1940

    Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to get Charles Lindbergh elected as President of the United States in 1940. You can do this any way your brain can concoct but you must have had Franklin Roosevelt elected President in 1936 and not get assassinated (so you can't do the classic Garner...

  14. WI: United Nations Secretary-General Jimmy Carter

    Jimmy Carter is often seen as a horrible President but as a great humanitarian through his work with the Carter Center which even led to him receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. So what if Jimmy Carter was elected as the Secretary-General of the United Nations? Is it even plausible? The best...

  15. In a CP victory scenario, who wins the 1920 US elections?

    Let's say the US stays neutral and the CP manage to win WWI in 1918. Britain and France are broke and can't pay back all the war debt to the US banks. A huge economic crisis, maybe even a depression, occurs. Who is going to be nominated by each party and who is going to win? Does La Follette...

  16. Which WWI Commander of the German Military Did the Best Job?

    Germany's position during WWI was hardly a good one so it required creative thinking from generals to have a chance of winning. Which of the three commanders did the best job during their term at helping to win the war? Also, I combined Hindenburg and Ludendorff since they basically worked together.

  17. Was it possible for economic reforms to occur while Mao was still alive?

    In complete conflict with the classic After 1900 trope of screwing China into a thousand itty-bitty warlords, I was wondering if it was possible for even earlier reforms from guys like Deng or even Zhou while Mao was still alive. A time-line I'm sorta working on has Chinese and Japanese...
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