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I think the Western Allies would be willing to cede much to avoid the Soviets directly bordering either France or the Low Countries.

As the title implies, this thread asks what the leading characters from alternate history works would have done in IOTL. TL 191: Jake Featherston Irving McDowell Hosea Blackford Flora Hamburger Gordon McSweeney 1984: Winston Smith O'Brien Julia Emmanuel Goldstein "Big Brother"

Suppose that Roy Cohn didn't became HIV positive and subsequently die of AIDS in the 1980s, instead remaining alive to the present. Would Cohn's continued survival (assuming he still remains mentally active and capable) have any larger repercussions on American society, especially in his...

How could you arrive at a Presidential election where Ronald Reagan is running for President against Jimmy Carter...but the former is a Democrat while the latter is a Republican? With an early enough POD, keeping Reagan as a Democrat is relatively easy given he was a New Deal liberal who...

There's no evidence to suppose that especially since Trump will draw votes primarily from the right even with an economically populist platform.

Suppose the DPRK never decided to invade South Korea or the Korean War ended on a much more decisively victorious note with full reunification under Seoul without Chinese intervention. Either way, Harry Truman decides to follow in the footsteps of his predecessor and run for a third term in...

Another factor to consider is climate which before modern medicine would have been a death trap for people from more temperate climes. If small Caribbean islands where the vast majority of the native population perished due to disease or violence couldn't become British or French majority, I...

Berlin if World War II and the division of the city on East/West lines doesn't happen, making it the hub of Central Europe's economy and culture. Vienna if the Austro-Hungarian Empire doesn't fall. The population, I believe, has remained fairly steady since the end of World War I.

What about a Democratic Party in the US that ideologically is a de factor Christian Democratic party? I think this is possible if the New Deal coalition survives, especially under someone like Robert F. Kennedy and the party uses a solidarist, Catholic social teaching type of ideology to weld...

Salazar's regime was mildly authoritarian and friendly towards the Allies in World War II while Franco attained power with backing of the fascist states and engaged in a policy of pro-Axis "non-belligerence".

Which parts? I could see a US with a stronger Progressive movement adopting "America the Beautiful" as the national anthem. West Germany might have kept "Ich hab' mich ergeben" which temporarily served as her anthem from 1949 to 1952:

The areas immediately surrounding the city of Los Angeles itself were quite Democratic even then.

I think given his natural charisma and ambition, a Ronald Reagan who remained a New Deal Democrat in the political arena would still have a great chance of attaining higher office including the Presidency. Even in OTL, Reagan reused many of FDR's phrases such as "rendezvous with destiny" in his...

Ice free ports in the northern half of the Peninsula such as Wonsan.

Not educational, but seen at a Sears clearance sale:

Why would Scoop Jackson's platform not appeal to a lot of postgraduate liberals? In the 1976 primaries, he performed extremely well in the wealthy suburbs of Boston for example.

Here's a reverse of some of the other recent what ifs posted regarding France experiencing higher population growth during the 19th Century. What if, instead, other European countries especially those with relatively high levels of socioeconomic development such as the UK, Germany, and the Low...

Did you go up the 101 or the 5 for your trip?

Depends on if 9/11 and the War on Terror still happen or not (I don't see the Iraq War happening with President Gore). John McCain would probably the most hyped candidate in either case, but the latter probably means a more significant socon attempt to block him (Rick Santorum)?