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Keep commodity prices high. When commodity prices collapsed in the 1980s following the boom in the 1970s, it did all kinds of damage to the Soviet economy, which was heavily-dependent on commodities like oil and gold (as Russia still is today). I don't think that, in and of itself, would have...

Sea Lion would be hard-pressed to happen at any point during the war, much less in mid-1944. Not a chance at that point (not that there ever really was much of one in the first place).

Well, the heaviest aircraft on Earth to this day is the Antonov An-225 and it first flew in 1988. Technology isn't so much the problem as is will.

Ah, okay, thanks for the correction. I did not know that. :)

I'm not so sure, though. Ann Dunham was an American citizen at the time of Obama's birth, so even if he were born outside the United States, Obama would be a citizen from birth and, thus, would not have to be naturalized. As such, he would be eligible to become president all the same...

Those are good, too. :) Well, it was a minor POD that would seemingly not mean anything, except that, as you said, the event sparked WWI. WWI was probably eventually going to start up, regardless, but it could have been completely different. A minor POD ends up causing huge differences.

Yeah, I don't think a Soviet-aligned Israel is really much of a stretch at all.

Gavrilo Princip is hit by a bus and sustains fatal injuries in the early morning of June 28th, 1914.

South Africa is pretty much the only nation with much of a chance with a post-1900 POD, IMO, and its chances are slim. EDIT: If you are talking about a Great Power on the world stage, at least. There are many more candidates for regional powers, of course.

LOLWUT???? Conspiracy theory much? As to the OP, I don't see much way of it happening short of North Korea going full on insane and invading South Korea. Iraq features very favorable terrain for the modern US military to thrive in and we saw this as the Iraqi government was toppled with great...

Hoover was very interventionalist, yet somehow a lot of people think he was some laissez-faire fellow. :rolleyes: Now, if you want to see a more laissez-faire solution to a depression (granted, not as deep as the Great Depression), look at Harding's policies that guided us out of the Depression...

How would they deal with the language barrier?

Not exactly. The 2000-2002 recession was about to happen and GDP growth was falling off in 2000.

We are the masters of preemptive war.

+1. I don't know why people get so freaked out about this stuff. If you don't want to read a timeline with such a POD, then don't read it. Some of us might like to read such a timeline.

It can either stay as an independent nation or become a state in the United States.

I don't see any reason to stray from the recent convention of using red for the GOP and blue from the Democrats.

It could be argued that pizza was invented in Greece.

At that point, NATO would probably win. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Warsaw Pact has a good chance, though the NATO defense buildup of the 1980s pretty much sealed that shut.

How about ASTROPOL from 2061: Odyssey Three? :D