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So the end of history continues. I wonder if anything major will hit the international scene during Bush's second term to really shake things up (perhaps something to do with Iraq); especially if/when the economy starts going haywire as it did IOTL.

OOC: They lasted until around the 1990s; it's a dbwi, so individual posters can decide what exact year the regime fell, if they want.

It's often been claimed that the Soviet 'pyrrhic victory' over Finland in the Winter War was one of the primary reasons why the Germans invaded the USSR when they did (mid-1941); it gave Hitler and his commanders confidence that they could easily steamroll the Soviet defences before the winter...

Thanks for the support, and yes, you can ask any questions regarding the world; however, it'll be better if you posted it in the new thread HERE.

I might be treading similar ground with this thread, but the question of if it is possible to 'destroy' the Soviet Union has been on my mind a lot recently. The USSR has been around for almost a hundred years now, and though there have been ample opportunities to prevent its formation and rise...

ASSASSINATION OF THOMAS E. DEWEY Considered one of the seminal acts of American history during the 20th Century, the assassination of President Thomas E. Dewey in the December of 1955 marked a major turning point in the First Civil Rights Era (1949 to 1961), partially leading to the demise of...

CIRCLE THE WAGONS: THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR (1993-1998) "Whilst many individuals living with the benefit of hindsight may argue over 'ifs' and 'buts', it's an almost universally acknowledged truth both believed before, during, and after the South African War that the system of Apartheid could only...

2000 United States House Elections The 2000 elections for the United States House of Representatives (HoR) was perhaps one of the most dramatic in the history of that Lower House. Coming off the back of over a decade of Reform Party dominance within the HoR, the previous (1998) midterm...

This particular story itself? I would say yes. I've still been working on expanding TTL's universe in the meantime and I'll probably start something new based around TTL in the near future (most likely focusing on news stories rather than blog updates). In writing this timeline, I figured out...

Interesting answers from Bush, especially with regards to his stance on immigration and Iraq/Korea. Whilst he's not my cup-of-tea, I'd probably rate Bush as a passing-grade president thus-far, and it may be higher at the end of his second term (if he wins one that is), especially if he avoids...

I don't want to ruin too-much right now, but I can say that India will come up in the timeline some point in the near future. As for its history of India in the 20th Century, let's just say that it was remarkably rocky. To be honest, I never delved too deeply into the alt-history of comic...

It's the remnants of the 'Nationalist Army' that fought against the United States and the Turkish government during (surprise surprise) the Turkish War. Though I'll expand more on it in a later update, it has since the de jure end of the conflict become essentially a minor hodgepodge of...

I will explain it, because I doubt that it'll come-up as a major part in the timeline's 'main storyline' (though I'll have to break it up into two parts - the tale of how Zimbabwe got to where it is today is honestly a massive story in-and-of-itself). ZIMBABWE-RHODESIA (PART 1) When Godfrey...

Thanks a bunch; I appreciate any and all comments I get. Chinese culture ITTL (especially without the mass cultural destruction that it experienced after the rise of the Communists) is fairly massive and influential across the entire world, though particularly in East Asian countries. Very much...

Thanks for the support. 1. Not really; they didn't even fully transition to electronics manufacturing in TTL, the Japanese economic growth which boomed during OTL's 1950's and 1960's being displayed by the even larger economic growth that occured in TTL's China. As a result, Nintendo has the...

I probably should have clarified better; I never said China didn't have the capabilities to project force globally, I just said that the absence of major wars such as the ones fought by the United States, a number of individuals doubt China has a similar military capacity. It's illusory...

Not really, just more federalised: the short-version of the story is this; Successful Referendum → Chaos → Unsuccessful Referendum Both OTL claims that many in both the Philippines and Ecuador don't take seriously nowadays, despite the fact that the Ecuador-Peru dispute led to a series of...

To a certain extent; Byrnes in TTL wasn't as strong-a-supporter of Israel that Truman was, partially out of a growing fear that an independent Israel would become a socialist state and a key Soviet ally in the Middle East, as well as his concerns that giving full diplomatic recognition to Israel...

Very. TTL's Democrats are for more xenophobic than their OTL counterparts, to the point in which a strong anti-illegal immigration plank was included in the party's 2012 platform (back when the semi-populist Daniel Bremer was their candidate). Included within this anti-immigrant sentiment is...

The country between Vietnam and Laos is the Hmong Republic; a bizarre offspring of the Thai intervention in Laos that is today more of a puppet of Vietnam than anything else. Kurdistan will be expanded upon later, but I will say that it's a partially recognised, self-declared republic that...