Nitpick: Florida was a British possession between 1763 and 1783.
I really don't see any other power providing aid to the Americans as long as the French remain neutral. The Dutch and Spanish were plenty sympathetic OTL, but that sympathy didn't get the colonists anything more than a bit of...
Indeed; Lincoln was say too smart to make a blunder like that; if you want a functional and unified democracy after a civil war, reconciliation is a much better policy than giving in to revenge fantasies.
Possible, but by no means certain. After all, Stalin was well aware that conflict with Germany was inevitable OTL too, he just thought that if he played his cards right he could delay Barbarossa to 1942, when the USSR would be in a much stronger situation overall. I don't see any reason for...
Seconded; in Europe, Lend-Lease was probably at least as big of a contribution as anything the US military directly did. The USSR will lose a lot of fighting strength if soldiers have to be pulled off the frontlines and put into farms and factories to make up for the lost goods, not to mention...
To be fair, there were plenty of people in the West who knew that the missile gap had no basis in fact, but went along with it anyway because it was a politically convenient piece of fiction.
I would have to agree with the others that the USSR isn't likely to use nukes over Egypt. On top of the points others have brought up, the nuclear balance of power in 1956 is very much not in the USSR's favor.
Odds are they'd eventually hammer out some kind of working relationship, but Lieberman is still going to be on the outside when compared to the position Cheney had OTL.
More likely, the Speaker would just become the Acting President until the election got sorted out, but it's entirely possible that could become a legal tangle that takes a long time to resolve.
I was thinking that could be a possibility, but it would probably require a 9/11-less world. Certainly, his ties to Enron would've been a much, much bigger deal without the War on Terror overshadowing everything.
Maybe I'm being a touch paranoid, but I smell a truther here...
In any case, I'd agree with everyone else that pre-Iraq, there's no way you could really manage a Bush impeachment. The Republicans are in far too strong of a position for Bush to be impeachable unless he gets caught doing...
Yes, this. The reason Trotsky got tossed out of the USSR and any chance of succession had little to do with Stalin, and everything to do with the fact that every other significant player among the Bolsheviks hated him.
I would second Derek Jackson on the likely outcomes in Germany in Japan...
A possibility, especially since the middle of a national emergency would probably be one of the few times where his sense of duty would outweigh his general disinclination to get too mixed up in politics. However, IIRC the relationship between Bush and Powell was not terribly close even before...
You sure about that? It didn't seem to be an issue when JFK made his brother Attorney General, after all. Or did they make a law in response to that?
That aside, I'd agree with the others that making his Bush 41 his VP would probably be a bad idea. In general, having an ex-president as VP is a...
The Svoiet leadership, especially in its early days, tended to be very paranoid about the possibility of a military coup. Given the Soviet fondness for drawing parallels between the French and Russian Revolutions, everyone was quite aware of the risk that a successful and popular military leader...