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The Nazis were already planning to exterminate the Jews long before Operation Barbarossa failed. Hitler had declared to his generals on March 30, 1941 that the coming war against the Soviet Union would be a "war of annihilation." Millions of Soviet citizens would be slaughtered, and Soviet Jews...

He originally said Jack Kemp, a New Yorker.

He can't do that because they are both from the same state (New York), and presidential electors cannot cast their votes for presidential and vice presidential candidates who reside in the same state as each other.

Rumsfeld could always run for higher office. He could run for governor of Illinois in 1976 and win the Republican nomination instead of James Thompson (who won the general election in OTL and served as governor until 1991). He could run for the U.S. Senate during the 1970s - it's plausible he...

In the aftermath of World War II, U.S. Army leaders pushed for the disbandment of the U.S. Marine Corps and the folding of its functions into the Army—or, at the very least, drastically shrinking the Corps and limiting its operations. This proposal coincided with the Truman administration’s...

Argentina and Chile nearly went to war in 1978 over a territorial dispute. Argentine troops allegedly crossed the border before the invasion was called off. That would be the easiest way to get a major war in South America post-1945.

Denver might be spared if the Cuban Missile Crisis went hot, given the small number of Soviet ICBMs deployed at the time and the fact that none of the R-14 IRBMs had arrived in Cuba before the blockade. But the city would likely be on the Soviet target list since it had at least five...

@Crazy Boris Do you think you'll make a map set during the middle of World War II? I know there's at least a few other creators who have 1942 maps dating around the start of the Battle of Stalingrad.

A Socialist or Communist U.S. government would venerate Abraham Lincoln for ending slavery, and would depict him as a proto-socialist based on left-sounding statements of his like the following: – Abraham Lincoln, First State of the Union Address, 3 December 1861 The Founding Fathers would be...

Eisenhower had an extramarital affair?

With a defense budget up to 10% of GDP, the U.S. military could probably afford the full run of many expensive weapons and vehicles that were either cancelled or had their orders cut due (at least partially) to costs. Such as: All 750 F-22 Raptor stealth air superiority fighters (instead of the...

Getting universal healthcare achieved under his presidency would be a big boost to Truman. Although he would probably need a bigger Democratic majority with more liberals to get it done. Maybe that could happen if the Democrats didn't lose as many seats in the 1946 midterm election and gained...

Rudy Giuliani doesn't end his Senate campaign in 2000 and becomes the Republican nominee, but loses to Hillary Clinton. Meanwhile, Al Gore wins the 2000 presidential election. 9/11 still happens and Giuliani still becomes a "hero" and is idolized as "America's Mayor." He uses that public...

Conspiracy culture would be minimized, but still very existent in American society. It's been around ever since colonial times, as pointed out in Richard Hofstadter's "The Paranoid Style in American Politics." A failed assassination of JFK would probably be seen in a similar light as the failed...

Gingrich was the House Minority Whip in 1992, so if he lost his congressional race he'd probably be replaced as the whip by his deputy Tom DeLay. Then-Minority Leader Bob Michel probably runs for reelection in 1994 without having to worry about Gingrich's presence. Thus, if Republicans win...