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Pretty much as the title says. How can some alternate WW2 result in a state of Cold War semi-hostilities between the UK and the USSR?

Part #1: Pittfall From “Atlas of British Political Figures” - London, 2003 William Pitt (1708-1754). Son of Robert Pitt, Tory member of Parliament from 1705 to 1727, and Harriet Villiers, descended from Irish nobility. Entered as a gentleman commoner in Oxford in 1727, but left without...

Could the British and French have successfully negotiated a mutually acceptable boundary before the breakout of the French and Indian War? (I'm thinking along the lines of the one in the 1750 mapgame).

IOTL, the hard-line candidate who was expected to run to succeed Chernenko (and had Chernenko's support) was the, obscure in OTL, Viktor Grishin, the First Secretary of the Moscow Communist Party. However, Grishin chose not to stand, and Gorbachev was elected unanimously. So...what if Grishin...

No, the title isn't a typo. The POD is that instead of choosing (or arguably creating) the modern presidential system, the Constitutional Convention instead decides that the British system is the most efficient, with a few changes (no rotten boroughs, an independent judiciary, written...

Before I begin, I would like to credit Thande, and his timeline, Look to the West, for first introducing me to alternate history and for inspiring large parts of this timeline. I sincerely hope this timeline will reach the same heights of detail, plausibility, and interest that Look to the West...

Although most believe the Byzantines fell in 1453, the Empire of Trebizond, the last Greco-Byzantine state in Anatolia, did not fall to the Ottomans until 1461. Your challenge is to have Trebizond retake Constantinople...with a PoD after 1453.

The Rashidun Caliphate and the Sassanid Empire faced off in 632 at the Battle of Walaja. The Rashidun army was under the command of Khalid ibn al-Walib, the so-called 'Drawn Sword of Islam'. Even though the Persians outnumbered al-Walib 3-1, al-Walib decisively defeated them. The Battle of...

One of this board's most prolific writers is Onkel Willie, who has completed a total of 15 non-ASB TLs to date. So that many masterpieces will not be forgotten, I am reposting all non-ASB TLs written by Onkel here.

The Constitutional Convention The Articles of Confederation had widely come to be regarded as a failure when the Constitutional Convention met in 1788. The one state which remained loyal to them was Rhode Island, which refused to even send delegates to Philadelphia. The union seemed to be...

"We were pretty optimistic by the time we'd gotten to South Carolina. We had momentum, and polls showed us ahead by 5 percentage points. We were going to make McCain the 43rd President of the United States..." A McCain campaign operative, Kelly Jones* "Oh, no, no, no. Absolutely no way, Karl...

The Bastille is still standing. How? Bonus points if it's still in use as a prison.

What if, after Chernenko died, Gromyko became General Secretary? He was significantly more conservative than Gorbachev, and he would have tried to preserve the system. He died in 1989, though that might be subject to butterflies - better health-care as General Secretary, yet more stress as...

A hotel in Baltimore February 23, 1861 Ferrandini walked up the stairs, to Lincoln’s hotel room in Baltimore. There was barely any security, which surprised the Corsican. He had expected more of a fight. He turned toward the door, behind which the President-elect slept. It was locked...

Chapter 1: Operation Downfall The Manhattan Project was an attempt, by the government of the United States of America, to develop a nuclear chain reaction, and use it as weaponry. Most of its research is still considered top-secret. However, it is common knowledge that the project failed to...

By 1964, Nikita Khruschev, the First Secretary and the Premier of the Soviet Union, was becoming unpopular. He was old, for one thing, and for another, his agricultural policies were not very successful whatsoever. By March of 1964, the Chairman of the Presidium, Leonid Brezhnev, was gaining...