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Perhaps he is assassinated, and there is a power vacuum after? The Reds in Russia was just getting a firm grip on power, perhaps a Communist Turkey?

If this happens I am going to go crash on Hendryk's couch for a few years. Need a roommate there Hendryk????

The Second Coming happens and everybody but the TEA Party is raptured! Glenn Beck runs on the Third Coming Party platform against Alan Keyes on the Why Did I Get Left Behind Party platform. Keyes the only black person left loses because of racial discrimination which is now predominant and...

Alot of this depends on various factors. The Boll Weevil could be introduced earlier, perhaps even by anti-slavery factions in the United States or British Empire and wreak havoc on cotton crops. Without cotton, slavery is going to become very expensive and not in the immediate best interest of...

What about a blatant Union assault on Charleston? Say a different President (John Fremont) is elected in 1860, the South will still secede for the same reasons. If he brazenly decides to send his armada into Charleston Harbor guns blazing so Fort Sumpter could be resupplied, border states like...

Actually I think the Ottoman Empire would be 100% likely to join the British-German Alliance rather than the Franco-Russian Alliance. The Ottomans knew the British were strong but thought the Germans were stronger and backed the wrong horse, however put the Germans and British together there is...

Im 100% sure this will never happen. There is a thing called the Designated Survivor. If everyone is killed in a nuclear blast in Washington D.C. then the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (or someone else) would be found in a coal mine in West Virginia or something. He would then be sworn in as the...

Any independent Confederate League would be a minor league or a lower level Major League (ala Japan or Mexico). What is far more likely sometime in the 1960's or 1970's a Major League expansion will place a team in a large southern city such as Atlanta or New Orleans. I could see it being alot...

Sounds like your suggesting eliminating Nat Turners Rebellion, without it, Virginia would likely have abolished slavery, and probably would have been copied by the upper south such as Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina. Another POD would be to do away with Eli Whitney and have the cotton...

So what do we have here - The United States is more progressive and has far fewer religous fanatics holding the nation as a whole back. - The US may reach Canadian levels of Progressivism in TTL - One or both of the major parties will be reduced to historical status as a result of the loss...

Why do you keep operating on this belief that the British and French are going to start beating up on the United States that has just lost the Confederacy? TL-191 was a fun read, but not too feasible in this part. The British economy was too entangled with the American economy and visa versa for...

I think you missed the point, hell the Radical Republicans were all for black equality, of course this also meant that blacks were going to remain the defeated south. In a world where the south wins, then the northern states would welcome blacks, mostly because of the deep held abolitionist...

In my opinion the first international incident will be over the Fugitive Slave Act, the United States may not be particularly welcoming towards blacks and will have a very small black minority (mostly in Maryland, Missouri and Delaware) which is where many runaway slaves may attempt to go. But...

Another one? Whats wrong with the one that just elected POTUS? A minor quibble I know, Lincoln is unlikely to rise to prominence in this ATL, seeing how the election of 1858 skyrocketed him to the national stage even though he lost.

A power sharing agreement between Serbia and Croatia perhaps. Bosnia would then be surrounded and not allowed to leave, Montenegro would stay too. This leaves Macedonia and Slovenia that could possibly escape, however Slovenia is the only one that could perhaps leave. Im not an expert though...

Going by the map, the most likely area to industrialize is likely to be in the Mississippi Valley , however with OTL Confederacy the main areas are still in the Union in your scenario. Intresting as is, I have serious doubts about THIS Confederacy, we are more likely to see an independent...

I seem to remember reading somewhere that days prior to the Peoples Volunteer Army went to Korea, Mao and Stalin had agreed Korea was a lost cause and it would be best not to get involved. Alternatively you could have MacArthur acting more intelligently (ASB I Know) and halting the UN at the...

Maybe in a world with no Cold War, the USSR opens up missions in various African regions, building hospitals, roads and schools etc. The local populace warm to the Soviet Union, and embraces Communism, then during a later decolonialization by Europe the Soviets back their demands for...

Well with the USSR not existing then it is unlikely the Nazis will come to power in Germany as they played alot on the fear of Communism spreading throughout Europe. Russia will likely devolve into a state of warlords, some communist, some Imperialiast, some democratic, some fascist-like, some...

I disagree with Best keeping his job, he was too much of an outsider with the other three. However if he did keep his job, the Beatles will likely throw him out by the mid-1960's, around the time of the Bigger than Jesus crisis. He may even quit the group, in fact without George Martin and...