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  1. The Campaign Trail Game Has Returned.

    Tonight, I did two 1860 Lincoln/Hamlin runs: in the first one, I run on abolitionism, homestead and high tariffs but lost voters with support for civil rights, going to visit Seward and doing speeches in New York. I got a hung college. In the second run, I did the same excepted I opposed civil...
  2. A world without the Soviet Union, will we still have decolonization?

    However, some powers such as Belgium and Portugal were less favorable to local self-government, even from settlers.
  3. A world without the Soviet Union, will we still have decolonization?

    Depends of how the WW2 ends, and how the winners get victory. If the Western powers are as weakened and impoverished as OTL, I can't see colonialism last longer; OTOH, if they avoid the world wars and if they manage to involve local elites (more local authonomy and more rights for natives) then...
  4. Would a Japanese Invasion of the USSR during Barbarossa have actually helped?

    Why would Japan attack Siberia when more interesting items awaited them south? For exemple, they would need oil for their troops; this is why they attacked Indonesia.
  5. What if the original USA had 7 New England states instead of 4?

    With more New England states, how would react Southern colonies? Would they ask for more slave states to compensate? Would they even accept to sign this Constitution or will they ask for other clauses?
  6. AHC: Surviving Soviet Union keeps the Baltic States

    There's another factor to consider: the Baltic states were sovereign countries for one entire generation.
  7. If World War 2 doesn't happen, how long would Japan have held onto Korea and Taiwan?

    Taiwan might be doable but Korea might be more difficult, due to a larger population, a less favorable treatment and more nationalistic tendencies. Koreans living in the Home Islands managed to be elected to the Diet, and the former Korean imperial family became part of the kazoku. Okinawa...
  8. AHC: Surviving Soviet Union keeps the Baltic States

    Maybe if they sent more Slavic settlers to drown out the population.
  9. WI Czechoslovakia resisted in 1938

    Given the state of the German military, how much would officers thought this war would be disastrous, and what could have been their reaction (see Oster)?
  10. DBWI: The United States wins the Cold War...

    The James Eastland presidency after both Goldwater and his VP died in a plane accident sure didn't help things.
  11. The Anglo/American - Nazi War - The on-going mystery

    They went on an suatus quo ante bellum, which was simpler to do.
  12. Rebirth of an Empire "O Renascimento de um Império" v2.0

    So, depending of whether a Jacksonian democracy will occur, will the Trail of Tears occurs sooner? And how will Southern society evolve if they went from the OTL latifundism to TTL yeomen? Would politicians such as Calhoun still end getting elected to serve the landed gentry?
  13. Rebirth of an Empire "O Renascimento de um Império" v2.0

    Small nations with large colonial empire tend to have common interests.
  14. Rebirth of an Empire "O Renascimento de um Império" v2.0

    With the Frontier closed for now, how will American colonists expand themselves? OTL, some claimed it was a safety valve to prevent social dissent by sending poorer sectors off West. And it seems Southern states are larger, maybe due to the fact most of the colonies' charters allowed them to...
  15. The Anglo/American - Nazi War - The on-going mystery

    As said Calbear: "In the ATL, the worst is simply a much clearer vision, one that is still killing tens of thousands in Europe 30 years after the war ended. "
  16. Rebirth of an Empire "O Renascimento de um Império" v2.0

    With such divisions, will India even be united?
  17. The Campaign Trail Game Has Returned.

    Who's the Southern candidate in this case?
  18. The Anglo/American - Nazi War - The on-going mystery

    I bet he still fought for the Axis and dued during fighting or being purged after liberation, since he might be too much extremist for the Lyon Republic.
  19. The Campaign Trail Game Has Returned.

    I heard they included screens about Wallace winning on 1968 but I didn't knew they planned cases of ties.
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