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November 4 1980: James Earl Carter is narrowly reelected President of the United States, defeating the Republican nominee George HW Bush.

December 22nd 1977: Ayatollah Khomeini dies in an automobile accident in Najaf. May 1st 1978: Shah Reza Pahlvani announces extensive political reforms, hoping to stop protests against his regime June 15th 1978: Rev. Jim Jones of the People's Temple cult and Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie...

Unless it is annexed gradually through two or more wars against Mexico.

November 5 1978: Dan White commits suicide and leaves a note saying "The arrival of the Greater Beings are imminent-I must come to them".

Jackson vs. Burnside. :D

Are non-alien events allowed (ie butterflies resulting in say a second Carter presidency for example).

August 27th 1977: Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev says in a speech "It is clear that we are not alone in this universe, but there are fellow comrades elsewhere who like all sapient species must still abide by Karl Marx's great insights. I can but hope there the withering away of the State has...

Pat Robertson is not a theocrat (although a Religious Right-winger).

What is the bloodiest, and most totalitarian regime possible in modern times? In OTL it is generally considered that Pol Pot's Cambodia followed by Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, and Maoist China were the worst. Historically of course, Zhang Xianzhong probably takes the cake along with...

The naval superiority of Britain which ensued a deadlock and blockade and the entrance of the US into the war which resulted in collapse of German morale

I was thinking more of (ex) Soviet Central Asia than East Asia.

Based on Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here.

Probably the Kuomintang (there was lots of Chinese-German cooperation for a while). Considering Nazi ideology I suspect it'd be called "Qin Shi Huangdi" or "Tsao Tsao".

Hmm... 1. James Buchanan 2. Franklin Pierce 3. Millard Fillmore 4. James Madison 5. John Tyler

Counting only their Presidential administrations rather than what they did before or after: 1. Abraham Lincoln-Kept the Union together and abolished slavery 2. George Washington-Set important precedents regarding the Presidency and guided the country through its first few critical years 3. James...