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What would be the effects on society if T.V. had been invented in the early 1900's, and had become a common consumer good for the middle class in time for the boom years of the 1920's?

Say the UK really throws its full weight into establishing a Jewish state in Palestine after ww1. The only parameters are that the state is fully established by the early 1920's. How would its relations with the rest of the world (including the U.S.) be in that interwar period? Would enough Jews...

How can you have union membership and union influence both in politics and in the workplace maintain the same numbers and clout that had in 1950 all the way through till today?

What would have happened had the government refused to do anything when it became apparent in 2008 that a financial crisis was unfolding. A republican was in office, what if he said "the market will correct itself" and took a giant step back refusing to get the government involved?

My thought is simple. The great depression never happens an the prosperity of the 1920's continues. While this sounds great it has major effects on everything. My major thought is that the labor reforms of the 1930's don't happen. Everything from the legalization of unions, to the minimum...

As everyone knows both sides thought that they would win the American civil war in a matter of months. Is their a way that the Union can crush the Confederacy in the first year of the war? Maybe a competent commander of the AOTP? In this case what would reconstruction look like with such a short...

Say Sherman losses the battle of Atlanta which causes Lincoln not to be reelected in 1864. McClellan negotiates peace with the Confederacy giving them only the states that seceded (not claimed territory like Kentucky.) Can the Confederacy in the coming decades make the change over from an...

So the premise here is that at the beginning of ww2 Hitler offers the U.S. the same non aggression pact he offered the Soviet Union on OTL. He even goes as far as to tell Japan they cannot attack the U.S. In this time line he keeps his deal with the U.S. for the entire duration of the war. It...

In an alternate timeline George Washington's health is seriously deteriorating by the time of the first U.S. Presidential election. Even though the office was created specifically for him he refuses to run telling the county he wants to spend what time he has left with his family at Mount...

Very simple Mao is defeated after ww2 and the Republic Of China stays a capitalist democracy. How does this affect their relationship with the rest of the world. Would we see closer ties with the USA as an operating base agents communist Russia? Do we see an earlier development of an industrial...

The 2002 season finale of King of the Hill focuses on Bobby and his sexual identity struggle. The first half of the episode is focused on Bobby questioning himself while the second half of the hour long episode features Bobby struggling how to tell his parents. The episode ends with a father son...

It's come to my attention recently that early "Automobile suburbs" began appearing during the boom of the 1920's. This project which was in its infancy was interrupted by the Great Depression and WW2. Say the fraud that was happening on Wall Street at the time was caught and legislated out of...

Lets say a populist/progressive government gets elected in the late 1870's early 1880's. This government supports workers rights to belong to and organize a union. BY 1900 collective bargaining is already well established and a distinct middle class begins to form. By the end of the first world...

Say th CSA won the war by Lincoln loosing the Presidential election in 1864 and the new government negotiating piece. Give me a list of presidents from then till now. Or if that is too long give me some early CSA Presidents and some modern day ones.

Lets say that in this time line George Washington refuses the offer of the presidency,saying he wishes to live out his life at Mount Vernon away from politics and public service. After much convincing Ben Franklin (who is healthier than in our time line) agrees to run. I can't see anyone beating...

As established in my last thread (https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=283866) the consensus was that a Confederate States of America which won its Independence due to Abraham Lincoln loosing reelection would be an economically poor, backward, agrarian society for most of...

Lets say the CSA had won their independence say by negotiations after Lincoln loses reelection. What would be their economic state today? Do you think they would have eventually industrialized to the point of radically changing their economy and way of life? Or would they have remained mostly...

Say Lincoln had lost reelection and the new administration negotiated a piece deal with the Confederate States Of America recognizing them as an independent nation. How long could have this new nation stayed together? Would they really have been able to make a viable economy almost solely of...

In the summer of 1863 Jefferson Davis contracts yellow fever. A few weeks later Davis dies in Richmond. Vice President Alexander Stevens is immediately sworn in as the new President of the Confederacy. What affects policy wise (and possibly the outcome of the war) does Davis's death have?

What if George Washington had refused the Presidency? It was well known he hated politics and he only served because he saw it as his duty. But what if he had been a little more selfish and out right refused? The only other person who was even close to him as far as popularity at the time was...