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New Enbland Republic New England almost seceded from the U.S. prior to the 1860s, back when the Southern States used the power of the Federal government to stop the Northern States from fully embracing Abolitionism. If Lincoln had not won his election, and there had not been a Southern...

a Second wife? If an assassination attempt on Lenin had occurred when his wife was present she could have been killed, and he could have been left relatively unhurt, and with no long term health effects. He was at the top of his Society at the time, and so would have likely been the focus of a...

Lenin lives long enough to form a Dynasty. Lenin lives longer, and has a son whom he grooms for leadership whom comes to power in 1937. The son having travelled in the West, and throughout the world takes a more pragmatic approach in regard to the Red Army, and relations with Germany. Never...

Diferences A dead Hitler means someone else would have been sent in to spy on what eventually became the NAZI Party, likely someone whom would not have taken control of it and directed it as Hitler did. It likely would have end with the Beer Hall Putsch, if it even survived that long. Germany...

Quicker reaction It is my understanding from military histories of that period, that the U boat threat was defeated through the use of a relatively small number of long range aircraft, once other methods had failed, and the problem had been worked on for a while. If the threat had been more...

What if something else was worse? If the idea for the attacks which are referred to as 911 had been discounted and discarded by the plotters, is it not likely that they would have come up with something else? And could have that been even worse? How about some ideas. How about someone in...

My wifes employer at the time would continue to expand and be successful rather than going bankrupt, as the economy would have continued as it was going and not have required Bush to tell people that Shopping was a Patriotic activity, they simply would have shopped. My house would likely not...

If France had that level of power and influence after the Great war to occupy the Westbank, would they not have considered the simplest option with the greatest effect, the elimination of the German State. For While France as a nation State had a long History, Germany did not. In fact some in...

First, make things environmentally worse. A different US President during the 72 Oil embargo, and a US less involved in Vietnam, or perhaps more successful in Vietnam. Reaction is Military Action, against OPEC by US. Initially successful, but turns into a long term low intensity war with...

So, is the real question, if Hitler had acted more like Stalin, could Germany have had better results? Yes. Great results, no. Better in regard to weapon production. With Soviet style production, total weapon production while of significantly lower quality of fit and finish, would have...

If the Confederacy decided in say 1867 or so to phase out Slavery by 1890 or so, due to ongoing problems that Slavery was causing Politically, and its decreasing economic value starting with the elderly, and moving down to the younger slaves, with an understanding that even though new births...

Maybe. The problem is how to get what was largely a Land Army across the Channel. The Allies were able to do it by first creating two conditions that would have been near impossible for the Germans to have done if they were to attempt going the other way. Those conditions were the near...

Well, if Germany gets the idea they just want to sit on France and the rest of occupied Europe and wait another generation or so before going after the USSR, they could have declared a Unilateral Armistice with the UK, pulled their U-Boats back to Port, and suspended all bombing, restricting...

Also, please do not forget that without Loyalists moving to what is now Ontario, and actions by them and other English Speaking Canadians, the area we know as Western Canada would have retained a considerable number of French Speakers. Also, I question that the Acadians would have emigrated to...

Most Die, some live. Well, I guess miracle systems which magically identify every piece of civilization on the planet, burn every book, and lobotomize the population, while leaving it alive are a possibility, not. Weapons systems are designed and used for specific purposes and require to be...

Canadians in Canada? So, Canadians are going to defend Canada in the late 19th Century. Well, how much of Canada's late 19th century Adult Male Population was Canadian? How many were economic immigrants from say, Germany, Russia, France, Portugal, Spain, anywhere else in Europe, or perhaps the...

Real Reason In reality, only specialized knowledge would be lost. It is a Literary Device. It has about as much to do with reality as the Magic in your average Fantasy Novel. Nuclear war, if extremely heavily pursued would destroy the economy of the planet, kill most of the population...

Money Well, Hipsters are basically those whom have rejected current social standards of dress, borrowed parts from the past, and have self identified as rebels. It is a matter of timing, and money. Just as blue jeans and variations of T-Shirts have come to dominate current clothing patterns...

Well, I have a new earlier cause. Fenian Raids, which started in 1866 OTL. The British Army reacts and chases the Fenians back to U.S. soil, and then pursues them, they make a stand in a U.s. border town, the British end up burning down the town, and many civilian non-combatants are killed...

Why? Something which needs to be discussed is why the American's and the British would go to war. Following this, would be how quickly they would go to war, and what would there respective goals be. If it was a Defencive War on the part of the Americans, then it likely would end up similar...