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A follow-up question in that case would be: what if the Allies had an interest in occupying Germany? What would have happened then?

I am not sure how plausible this scenario is but I wanted to mention it as I think it could generate some interesting discussions. Germany and Austria were occupied after WWII by the Allies and the occupation zones were as seen below: My question is, what if the two countries remained...

Here's something from wikipedia that I thought was interesting: The island of Niʻihau was considered as a possible location for the United Nations headquarters in 1944 by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt had visited Hawaiʻi in 1934.Under Cordell Hull, Roosevelt's Secretary of State, the State...

I don't think it's unlikely. If you look at some of the people who became frontrunners throughout the primary season, you could easily imagine Boehner winning the nomination. Santorum? Herman Cain? Rick "oops" Perry? Newt "I'm still here, and I'm still selling books" Gingrich? Bachmann?The...

In the Euro 2012 football (soccer) tournament, Ireland was in the same group as two of the strongest teams, Spain and Italy. Spain and Italy had superstars such as Xavi or Andrea Pirlo. Ireland had two strikers named Shane Long and Simon Cox.Irish fans remained optimistic: For some reason...

You haven't seen this: or this: , have you?

In 1973 George W. Bush chooses to go to Harvard Business School. What if he had chosen to go to art school and pursue a career as a painter, something he seems to enjoy a lot more than politics. He becomes known for his dog paintings and nude self-portraits. He's not particularly talented, but...

Interesting points. How would that turn out in your opinion? And how would the country be divided?

I agree on executions, but do you think they would object to jailing former slaveowners in the Confederacy? Remember, these people were considered traitors and before the war many in the North feared they would try to take over the government through Slave Power. Also a lot of things are...

Are you sure about that? I am pretty sure only a small % of southern whites were slave owners. I agree on execution, but putting the slave owners in prison (while being very hard to do since they were really powerful) would have leveled the playing field in a way, giving a lot of poor people...

What if the slaveowners were imprisoned ...or, say, executed. Would that have made things different?

I was wondering, what would it take for the U.S. to divide into two parts after the 1796 election with one part being ruled by Adams and the other one by Jefferson? If this happened, what would have been some of the major consequences and how would the map look like in 2013 in your opinion?

The radicals didn't need to manipulate Lincoln. I guess it depends on what you mean harsh (I would call it real) reconstruction. If for example they had imprisoned all slave owners and given their land to the former slaves, America would have been a much better country now and we wouldn't...

Yes, he would have formed a government with the Independent Greeks and DIMAR (if SYRIZA and the Independent Greeks didn't have enough MPs). He would tour Europe trying to convince Merkel that the memorandum will harm Greece and Europe in the long run, but he probably wouldn't have been very...

There's absolutely no way the United States could have conquered Japan. Europeans had tried it and they failed miserably.

If Fillmore died while in office, say in August of 1850, we would have a new election in 1850 according to the system that was in place at the time. That would have surely changed American politics since all elections from that point on would be in between OTL election years.

So how do the states settle their disputes? I can't imagine Mass or Connecticut or New York having too much of an interest in the Northwest Territories due to distance from those areas even though they probably would seek monetary compensation to give up on their claims. If Virginia ends up in...

Well lets assume that the smaller states refuse to ratify the Articles. What happens to the claims west of the Ohio river? Who gets that land. Also does the Union collapse? And do external threats force the States to cooperate?

Well that was one of my questions too. My guess is that if they were able to reach an agreement by ceding the land to the federal government, then another peaceful solution might have also been possible. Many of the states ceded the land and the federal government took over their war debt...

When the United States won independence from Britain, the borders were set as seen in the map below: As you can see, several states had claims on the land west of the Ohio River due to the confusing sea-to-sea grants. In order to avoid conflict between the states, they agreed to cede these...