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WI Jackie, instead of Jack, was hit on November 22th, 1963, dying some hours after, similar to OTC Jack? How JFK would react? A second marriage could follow?

As for Charles and Diana, think that the marriage would still move forward, but to be performed only after the lengthy mourning and coronation periods, so something like 1982 or even early 1983. The general pro-Monarchy sentiment and pressures within the Royalty to a kind of return to a "normal...

WWI was indeed highly avoidable but the tensions, imperialistic ambitions, defensive alliances and arms race that lead to 1914 weren’t...the continent seemed poised for a general war since early 1900s and 1914 was just the moment on wish clumsy diplomacy and alliance schemes detonated the war...

A Falklands War won’t be needed, as the Argentine Army (if victorious) wouldn’t need a scapegoat for all national ills by 1981. Falklands was just a disastrous adventure by the military to distract the attention from the internal problems...

Too difficult. Great Britain was already past its prime by WWI and all OTL wars and events simply made Britain too weak to sustain a huge Empire, even if in a formal-only aspect. A max-devolved Parliament, as suggested, could have helped to hold the Empire a bit longer, but would be a symbolic...

Understand, but, IMHO, the necessary POD is still much before the 1950s...by such time, the US mix of patriotism and a kind of "Judeo-Christianism" religious sense was already prevalent in the population. Eisenhower's speech was just a reference to it and not the source of it. A calmer 1960s...

How to pass a stronger Civil Rights Act só soon, when the moviment was in its initial steps? Even during JFK administration the support for a comprehensive Act was dubious...things just picked up speed with the quasi-chaos which became Southern US, MLK, international bad image and with LBJ...

Sympathy and could even increase his prestige, as an “old man which would spend his forces for the betterment of his nation” By 1986 Reagan age was a kind of open secret - everybody knew that the President was of significant age but everybody disregarded it and waited for the best (which really...

Well, maybe I’m missing something but the 1950s were a conservative time, not only from a religious aspect. In general terms, after the roaring 1920s, a chaotic Depression and WWII the ordinary folk was looking to a peaceful and orderly life, enjoying the post-war economic boom. Additionally...

Maybe a more conservative 1960s (from which no idea about how to avoid the Swing Sixities without any major POD, such a WWIII or a second major depression) would also lessen the evangelical revival during the 1980s, as the cultural wars around morality and sexuality wouldn’t be so intense as in...

This is a part of US social fabric and a much-prior 1900 POD is necessary, maybe even to major modifications to the future-US colonization and formation aspects. Basically you had two ingredients that produced this tie: formation of several colonies by independent protestants groups which saw...

Yes...and from a West Germany perspective, which Chancellor wouldn’t like to make history as the “unite the Heimat Chancellor”? If Kohl decided to act in an über rational manner (e.g: no union to avoid burden to the BDR taxpayers), SPD would soon be available to unify things : )

Agree...Carter seems fragile and unpopular since mid 1978...if Carter’s hold and leadership were so significant by late 1979, Ted Kennedy would never dared to challenge a sitting president or, at least, would be a dark horse in the Democratic primaries

In such case Argentina may have followed the Brazilian (and ironically, Chilean) path to democracy: a controlled and gradual transaction from full military power to democracy, with some checks and controls kept under the military (basically to avoid major discussions about the crimes committed...

Basically the DDR was doomed once that the 1989 Revolutions started: the Inner German Border would eventually fall, even if this could take a bit longer than OTL and the country would be soon emptied. The division of Germany after WWII was a purely political and artificial one and, except for...

According to the approval ratings, Carter crossed the negative threshold by March 1978 and never got back, expect for two brief periods (one being during the Iran Crisis, a potential Round the Flag effect)...so, could be understood that Volker wasn’t the main source of Carter’s unpopularity...

Another POD: No Cuban Adjustment Act In the US. Cuban refugees are simply arrested, returned to Cuba ou force to flee to other countries

Something related to regional sport rivalities, like an out-of-control case of football (soccer) hooliganism...

Guevara does not leaves Cuba in 1965...

Don’t know...Carter was never a popular President and maybe just held initial advantages against Reagan only, as mentioned, given its potential “extremism”...if this holds true, a more standard Republican would just crush even harder Carter... So, would say one of the three possibilities: 1-the...