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Hasn't China also historically looked at Vietnam as a renegade province? Isn't it considered in China to be the province of An Nam for "Pacified South"? The PRC provided aide to help the Vietnamese expel the French and then the United States. But wouldn't the Vietnamese have feared increased PRC...

Was political union between Britain and France thought of a way for both nations to retain their empires after World War II?

According wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#People.27s_Republic_of_China So the Peoples' Republic of China did enter the Vietnam War in the OTL. What sort of involvement are you thinking about and when? LBJ was president from November 22, 1963 to January 20, 1969. By the...

So I take it that Alexei Kosygin would not have been anymore successful with his economic reforms under Suslov than he was under Brezhnev? Are proposed reforms to shift the emphasis in the Soviet economy from heavy industry and military production to light industry and the production of consumer...

If Pelshe had become General Secretary after Brezhnev's assassination, would Alexei Kosygin have been able to implement his economic reforms? Would there have been anyway to avoid the years of "stagnation and decline" that the Soviet Union experienced during the Brezhnev years?

With Alexei Kosygin as Secretary General of the Communist Party, how would the Cold War have been different? Would Kosygin have followed the "Brezhnev Doctrine" in foreign policy? Would Kosygin have threatened military intervention on the side of Egypt during the Yom Kippur War? Would Kosygin...

Had a thought, but since it was Sunday the Pearl Harbor Naval Base was not have been fully staffed. So it wasn't the best day to attack the staff of the Pearl Harbor Naval Base.

I just don't see Sarah Palin being a contender in the 2012 Republican presidential election. She was widely parodied during the 2008 campaign including some very memorable sketches on "Saturday Night Live" in which comedian Tina Fey portrayed her. Republicans protected her because she was...

Michele Bachman had just been elected to the Minnesota State Senate in 2000. I doubt she was known outside of the state of Minnesota in 2000 making it very improbable that she would be a nominee for President for the Republican Party. You need to give politicians time to develop political...

Have there been any groups that have wanted political union with the United States in Canadian politics? It seems that Canadian politicians have feared annexation by the United States and have historically opposed free trade agreements and close ties with the United States. Canadian citizens...

True, we're talking about the mid to late 1960s and the UR-500 "Proton" wasn't the reliable the launch vehicle it has since become.

Lost the Great War? You are listening to Jewish propaganda. The Fatherland achieved all that it set out to do during the Great War. We had no wish to conquer our Aryan brothers in the British Empire and had no colonial ambitions in the Americas. The Ukraine serves as our breadbasket and the...

The N-1 did have some serious problems. Was Korolev's insistence on cryogenic fuels a snub against Glushko? Or did Korolev really believe that storable fuels were just too dangerous for manned spaceflight? Also could the lunar landing have been accomplished by multiple launches of the UR-500...

According to Boris Chertok's memoirs, Sergei Osipovich Okhapkin, a Deputy Chief Designer at OKB-1, said in November 1964 regarding Sergei Korolev's plans for a lunar mission: "Do not underestimate Chelomei. He is of the same design school as Tupolev and Myasishchev. If we give him the will and...

People are also forgetting that although the Soviet Union signed the Convention on Biological Weapons in 1972 it continued to covertly develop them at Bioreparat. What if the Soviet's covertly released genetically engineered flu viruses that caused a pandemic within the United States while...