1930s

I have this tendency of finding obscure bits of information while looking through stuff that in most cases is not related to what I am searching for, this being the case, and post them here in the hope that it would start an interesting discussion. This is from 'The Soviet Biological Weapons...

The Long Winter of our Discontent How the West Shattered By Waldemar Hirsch, 2023 The 24th October 1929 is a date that will forever scar the human soul, it was on that day a calamitous short sell led to the collapse of the entire American economy in three weeks, the devaluation of the American...

The first PoD for this scenario is the slight Tory victory in 1929 election which leads to the ouster of Macdonald of Labour leadership and his replacement by radical-pacifist left-winger George Lansbury ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lansbury ). In 1933-1934 Labour wins and he becomes...

Did the Munich Beer Hall Massacre lead to the DNVP's rise? Article from November 12th, 1993 Many of the conditions that lead to the rise of the Deutschnationale Volkspartei, or German National People's Party (DNVP), can be traced back to the failed coup by the so-called "Nazi Party" lead by...

So I have an idea for an interesting Fifth Party System where a Conservative Democrat wins out over FDR, Smith, and the like in the 1932 Nomination field due to an upset or something (Have it be Royal S. Copeland or someone like him). That Conservadem is elected President in 1932 but does little...

The 1925 German presidential elections saw a tight race between the candidate from right-wing Reichsblock coalition Paul von Hindenburg and centre-left Volksblock coalition Wilhelm Marx. Hindenburg won the election by a 3 percent margin and had been persuaded to run by the right-wing parties...

POD: Austria-Hungary remains on the defence through 1918, the Italian Front doesn't break, and the Entente's advance on the Balkans is halted somewhere in Central Serbia thanks to Austro-Hungarian reinforcements and Entente logistical limits. (By this point, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire...

Excerpt from ‘King Huey: 20th Century Folk Hero’ by Jon Meacham and Tim Naftali (2015) …President Huey Long is undoubtedly a major figure in the storied canon of great American folk heroes, from Davy Crockett to the romanticization of Honest Abe Lincoln, ‘King Huey’ will forever remain in the...

The permise is simple. Let's say that Hindenburg refuse to participate in 1925 German reichsprasident election and his main OTL contender, Wilhelm Marx beats a less popular candidate. OTL, it seems that Marx was comitted to guarding the Weimar republic and thus we may seen more restrictive...

Luís Carlos Prestes was, by far, the most prominent representative of Brazilian communism, having served as general secretary of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB, not to be confused with PCdoB, which had a Maoist inclination) from 1943 until 1980. The "Knight of Hope", as he was known, became...

Quick links to published parts Volumes I-V (currently) available for purchase as eBooks(with accompanying media and bonus features) from Sea Lion Press via Amazon and other online purchases. Direct links: Volume I: Diverge and Conquer Volume II: Uncharted Territory Volume III: Equal and...

While an Axis USSR is a very popular (if not outright overused) trope, there is little discussion about both USSR and USA being German Allies. So, here is my scenario: The first PoD is that Poles are even more successful during the Soviet-Polish war and manage to gain more land than OTL during...

Suppose that in 1928, Roosevelt loses the NY gubernational election and Hoover is blown up by Argentinian anarchists, so the GOP replaces President Coolidge with a Curtis-Watson ticket, indirectly resulting in the Wall Street Crash/Great Depression occurring a full year earlier in 1928. Curtis...

Gilberto Freyre was an important intellectual who shaped a lot about how Brazilians think about race relations in the country. He basically argued that Brazil has always been a society of interracial relationships, arguing, for example, that the relationship between slaveowners and their slaves...

Some context: Competent A-H fends off Brusilov offensive, no German USW, February Revolution still on time, no Kerensky Offensive, no October Revolution, armistice in late 1917/early 1918, negotiated peace in 1918. Russia only loses Poland (sans Suwalki). German Asia-Pacific possessions have the...

What would have happened if Ramsay MacDonald had resigned in August 1931 as he originally intended to do, instead of being talked into forming a National Government with the Tories and Liberals by George V? The Conservatives and Liberals would almost certainly have formed a coalition government...

WI there were no Hays Code in Hollywood in the Thirties and Forties; what kinds of movies might have been made without it?

Thalberg was an early champion of the Marx Brothers and discovered many other stars before his untimely death in 1937; WI he had lived? Whom might he have supported in the 1940s?

Reading Nick Smart's The National Government 1931-40, in the wave of optimism that followed the signing of the Munich Agreement Neville Chamberlain seriously considered calling a snap General Election, and both the press and Labour Party expected him to call a snap poll within months. Eventually...

Reading John Campbell's Lloyd George biography, and during the late summer of 1929 he was reportedly worried that MacDonald would dissolve parliament and call a snap election giving Labour an overall majority and removing his bargaining position. Made me think would it be possible for Labour to...