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Things have a way of working out for the worst. Perhaps it escalates before the high command of either nation gets word of it. Perhaps the military regim effectively in control of Germany doesn't care.

At the beginning of WWI, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden entered into an agreement to defend the neutrality and protect the common economic interests of the Scandinavian countries... 1917 January: Denmark sells the Virgin Islands to the United States for $25 million. The United States...

A longer, costlier Battle of the Bulge would have (probably), would have delayed the Yalta Conference. Yalta would have happened in March, by which time there's a good chance that the added anxiety and pressure of the stalled Allied advance would have killed Roosevelt. Yalta would have been more...

The Caroline Affair / Aroostook War develop into an actual shooting war. While relatively minor, the conflict nevertheless leaves Britain in control of Maine, northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. A different Webster-Ashburton Treaty cedes these territories to Britain. Without Maine, and...

Yes, he could have, theoretically, been fired. But... 1) Consider that there were no readily available replacements with his level of skill. Let's face it: yes, he bungled the defense of the Phillipines, but, when on the offensive, which the US would be on in a few months, there weren't too...

On December 7, 1941, Douglas MacArthur was the commander of USAFFE (United States Army Forces - Far East), which included the Philippine Department, Philippine Army (2 regular and 10 reserve divisions), and the Far East Air Force (formerly, Philippine Army Air Corps). MacArthur's area of...

Where'd you get that map from? I assume it had borders on it originally and I could really use a map like that...

Expand your Cascadia to include Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Alberta. Throw in my Second American Civil War thread and, bam...Cascadia

Isn't this just basically a map where the occupation zones of each nation become individual nations themselves...? BTW, where'd you get that map?

That all depends on your view point, now, doesn't it? The South was the most economically depressed region in the United States up until Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. Before the Civil War, much of the South was as prosperous as the North. What followed, however, was seventy years of...

Can anyone offer a POD after the American Revolution for the formation of a nation out of (at least) Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin? Extra states from will get you extra points, but the nation may not consist of more than seven of OTL states. Right now, I'm leaning towards the Toledo War*...

Oh my God, why is this back? You already posted this before, and it was almost universally shot down. Why post it again? https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=1383

LoL, it's all right. You don't need to be so humilitiated.

huh? Are you talking about the link I posted?? If so, I didn't write that. I read it a couple of days ago and just posted the link.

The biggest change, IMO, would occur earlier, when the Vikings arrived in 1000. Rather than facing a land populated by semi-hostile Skraelings, the Vikings would face a land of milk and honey, just waiting to be settled. For some ideas, see: http://www.althist.com/EA01.htm

Jackson was a mediocre President. Not good. Not poor. The worst thing Andrew Jackson did was to disband the National Bank. He once said that "the bank is trying to kill me, but I shall kill it first." Other than that, the argument could be made that he stomped on states' rights, but certainly no...

Robert Taft, his son, was the leading critic of the Roosevelt administration. In fact, I just opened another thread posing a question about him. He was the resident ultra-conservative of the US Congress during WWII and Korea.

What if… In May of 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhower suffers a heart attack and dies. Now, with the Republican Convention only two months away, two candidates emerge from the pack: The first is “Mr. Republican,” Robert A. Taft. Taft has dominated the Republican Party for nearly ten years...

No, thank you. I'll just sit and wait with the Norse. If no one claims it, I'll use the north Germans, as well, but they're not too much closer to anything than the Norse.

Presidents of the United States (since 1945) 32. Franklin D. Roosevelt (d.) (1945) D – NY 33. Henry A. Wallace (r.) (1945-1947) D – IA 34. James M. Curley (1947-1949) D – MA 35. Robert A. Taft (d.) (1949-1953) R – OH 36. John F. Dulles (1953-1959) R – DC 37. Goodwin J. Knight...