In 1979, Chrysler CEO, Lee Iacocca, requested a bailout from the United States. Congress approved this and President Jimmy Carter signed off on it. The company was able to repay the loan and began to improve. However, there were those that opposed the bailout. One of them being Ronald Reagan...
In the timeline I am working on, the Napoleonic Wars don't happen. The Dutch monarchy is still established (more or less) around the same time it did OTL (just under different means).
And for the record, my interest was in Transvaal and the OFS being the Boer Republics in question, not so much...
Let's assume that for what ever reason (not important now), the Dutch keep the Cape Colony. My question is: would have the Great Trek still taken place? Would have the Boer Republics still been established?
I have heard arguments for both 'yes' and 'no' being made on this site. Both arguments...
Sorry for bringing this up again, but I have been thinking that this idea might be interesting to look into as its own timeline. But before I go out of my way, could this idea be plausible?
Just to see if I get it right. Bolivar is unable to liberate Peru and Ecuador, while San Martin is unable to liberate Chile and "Bolivia," allowing the regions to remain a united, loyalist state. Thank you, but this isn't what I am looking for either. If you could clarify. Also, because I had...
I kinda thought of this idea from a previous post (https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=253528), and wanted to know of a potential union between Chile and the Peru-Bolivian Confederacy some point in the mid 19th century. I brought this idea up with a Chilean friend, who...
Aside from decades of war, the only real problem I see is that the promised federation became abandoned (dominantly) after the rise of communism. Could a guarantee of a federalized Ethiopia be enough for the Eritreans to remain?
I also want to add that I find it strange that Isaias Afewerki of...
In May 1991, the post-communist government of Ethiopia allowed Eritrea to hold a referendum on independence. Despite some hopes that Eritreans would not vote for independence, over 99% of the region did in 1993. But was this inevitable?
The challenge is to have Eritrea remain in Ethiopia. I...
I know that the matter of a continuing Gran Colombia is a matter of speculation and debate, but lets just imagine that it continued (preferable as a federation), how would have Colombia been divided up? Initially, the nation was divided into three departments, but was further divided into 12...
I was hoping we could stay on topic, but the POD to my timeline is the August Coup fails to happen. Gorbachev remains in power, the New Union Treaty is signed, and the USSR is transformed into a democratic union of sovereign states. I will leave a link to my timeline, but let's stay on the topic...
Well actually, the events and migrations from OTL happen. By today (as OTL), Srpska is mostly Serb populated. The remaining half of BiH (as part of my timeline) will be divided between Croatia and a Bosnian Federation made up of two enclaves. Srpska wouldn't be annexed until (as early as) 1994...
Here has been a nagging question I have had for a while now. I have a timeline in which the Bosnian War goes in a different direction, with the Karadordevo and Graz agreements are successful. The war would end with the Republika Srpska being merged into Yugoslavia.
My dilemma is that Srpska...