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Geography makes this outright impossible. The conditions for cash crops were why slavery was much more important in the south as opposed to the North.

The Allies learned from WW1 that nothing less than Unconditional Surrender was going to make peace stick,

The Nazis would have to openly scream "we are exterminating all of eastern Europe and we are PROUD OF IT!", which means that another war with the United States becomes inevitable and (see calbear)

Well there was the wee issue of the Russian civil war that hammered the final nails in the coffin of Russian liberalism.

Good luck getting past the PAL systems, which are designed for that specific scenario.

@Shevek23 I was referring specifically to demographic crunches that are going to be hitting Europe (and are already hitting Russia, China, South Korea and Japan) in the decade to come as more and more people enter retirement and there are smaller working generations. That kind of demographic...

The main problem the European Welfare system faces in the following years is: Can it be sustainable? Whenever you get a large amount of mass retirees, a welfare state's bills become a lot bigger as there are a lot less contributors, coupled with decades of low birth rates meaning that there...

The problem is people want the taxes of America the welfare of Sweden and the demographics of Japan.

The klan of that tine were not just anti black and anti Semitic in their hate list. They also had a strong anti alcohol sentiment, which meant that the German Americans were among their primary targets.

After the Civil War, how plausible would it have been for Ireland to become an industrial nation by 2000?

You would have to butterfly the temperance movement as understood. Fun fact: they fuelled lost cause myths of grant being an alcoholic while exalting the straight edge lee.

Let's say Christopher reeve fell off his horse in a way that broke his arm instead of leaving him paralysed. How does that affect hollywood?

What if instead of the ultramarines movie, gw decides to go for an animated adaptation of the ultramarines novels in 2015?

And you just guaranteed that apartheid south Africa will keep their nukes. That is not going to end well

The main problem is that China barely had any industry and virtually no middle class to speak of. Trying to go "socialism of the peasants!" Will end in disaster

After 1938 hitler could no longer be trusted to keep his word. He is the reason 1920s pacifism died brutally.

The main problem is that the Nazis would be too busy screaming from the rooftops that they would year zero all of Europe and rubbing in everyones faces what happened to russia to make allies abroad, with its only "allies" being on the continent too afraid of Germany going "haha I lied I am...

Prepare for Mexico to go the way of Syria and or 2014!iraq, with America having even less stomach to intervene.

Berlin would end up eating a nuke instead of Hiroshima.

Without Watergate annihilating trust in government healthcare would be far far less of an issue.