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A little more clearly... 1. I assume that the Union minus five (of 12) states would be more liberal, and that this increase in liberalism would induce the other conservative states to leave. Specifically the remaining states would start passing laws that would encourage the other states to...

I read a book once... This book was about the German attitude to war loot. What the Germans did was esentially print money for other occupied countries and then send their soldiers there to occupy the country, eat and live there instead of consuming food and fuel in Germany, and to buy stuff...

Maneuvers? Churchill noted that the Germans were never in danger of eclipsing the British fleet because the British would always outbuild them, and in OTL they did just that. Churchill also noted that the Germans could not build a huge submarine fleet and make war on Britain because Britain...

There was quite a bit of support for letting the CSA just leave, and then throwing Kentucky, Maryland, and Virginia after them. Horace Greely was the editor that wrote the headline above. What if the CSA wasn't a scam? What if somebody wrote a book explaining why both sides would be better off...

In OTL, the reason the CSA won was because they took their troops out of the Shenandoah and left the Union troops there. So the Union had a fresh unit just sitting around. The Union troops were disorganised except for the fresh cavalry unit that was covering their retreat, and making quick time...

The Ottomans need to do six things between 1895 and 1945. 1. Monopolise cheap oil. 2. Avoid the Balkan wars and WWI, while acquiring emigrants for skills and connections and selling high priced oil. 3. Annex the British occupied parts of the Ottoman empire like Yemen, Kuwait, Oman, the...

The CSA could probably have expanded to Virginia, Kentucky, and Maryland. Missouri and Kansas voted them out, New Mexico didn't like Gringos and especially racist Gringos. Colorado was colonised by miners and ranchers and beat off a CSA attack without half trying. Might have picked up the...

The Japanese conquer the West Indies. Maybe the Dutch try to sell them to America?

The Democrats stole the election in Texas by blocking the Blacks from voting Republican. RFK becomes vice president after LBJ goes to jail? JFK pardons LBJ after the trial and impeachment?

The Ottomans would get whatever the Germans gave them, and that their experienced army could conquer from the natives. Basically, all of the 'stans, Iran, and all of Arabia. Maybe they would also take the NW area in what is now India if India didn't want it. Germany wanted tropical colonies...

A democratic Spain would have freed up French troops for defending Sedan, so the German invasion of France gets bogged down in Luxemburg. The Germans got four divisions down four roads in four days because the French weren't defending or even observing the area. Like they thought the Germans...

Well, didn't they mostly kill each other off trying to be the sole ruler? So have Alexander live a little longer, so his son is older and doesn't get killed off right away. The son is the obvious heir, so no one can try to claim the whole thing. The various rulers take advantage of a weak heir...

Wish List The Ottomans need several things. 1. Money. A sole source of high output oil wells. No Texas and Iranian oil gushers. 2. Stay out of WWI till six months before the end. 3. Stay out of WWII till six months before the end. 4. Lots of refugees from middle Europe. Jews are easy, but...

At the time we had no idea how bad the situation was. We didn't find out until the radiation had died down so much that we could drill into the reactor and find out exactly how much had melted. We had thought it was just a mess, not how much of a mess. The number I saw was 45 minutes short of...

With the unemploymet rates of 1932, the only Red Scare going on would be communists loitering outside city hall with guns, exchanging wisecracks with cops wandering by. People were seriously pissed. It wasn't 25% of the country mad because they were unemployed, it was 75% unhappy because their...

If the North wanted to avoid the Dred Scot decision legalising slavery in the North, they could have just let the South secede. End of problem.

No Korean war. Lots and lots of antiRussian propaganda, though. Sort of like OTL, but without a Korean war. Maybe more aid for Nationalist China? Maybe we get pissed and take over Hainan? Or use our navy to seize Cheju-do as a refuge for the Korean collaborationists that weren't in Korea when...

Oil Crisis in Japan Japan didn't go to war with us until we stopped supplying them with oil in 1941. If they had discovered the Daquing oil field in Manchuria, they wouldn't have needed either our oil or our tankers.

Peacefull South Why not? If the South hadn't confiscated the assets of the Northern bankers to fund their government takeover they could very well have gotten away with it.

Nixon lost the support of the Republican Senators and was in danger of being convicted because of his support for liberal causes like racial and sexual quotas for employment, removal of American forces from Vietnam, opening America to Chinese products, ending the gold standard, pollution...