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Britain and France were not on the best of terms in the 1860's. Britain was appalled at how France used debts as a cover issue to launch a conquest of Mexico, and in Europe, Germany hadn't formed yet, so France was still the continental threat. Britain might not want a French Mexican empire and...

Wow, this thread was zombified twice... NEW RECORD

Good. I was writing a timeline where a new party gets the presidency by getting the election thrown to Congress, and I was afraid that would be impossible.

If a presidential election is thrown to Congress, will it be the new or old Congress voting on the President?

No, Germany bordered Lithuania in 1939. That strip of land was split in half following WW2; half went to Poland, and half went to Russia. It's a narrow piece of land to support an invasion on, but it could work. EDIT: Wait, East Prussia is separated from Germany proper. I suppose German forces...

I can just imagine if there were newspapers in Rome: Praeco Consuls Lentulus, Crassus Outlaw Human Sacrifice Leading Senators: "This law is a threat to our way of life"

But Clinton would be eligible, because the rules allow you to serve up to two years in a term you weren't elected to and still run twice. This leads to the conclusion that you can only be elected to 8 years, but can serve for 10 if you are appointed VP over halfway through the presidential term...

"The pope has been kidnapped by Nazis." "Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the pope?" :p

The fundamental question is "Why?" At this point Hitler was making more and more mistakes, and was beginning to break down. By killing him, they risk unleashing a more competent Fuhrer, who delays the end of the war and possibly leads to the Soviets gaining more territory (Which Churchill was...

Suppose that in 1948, WW3 starts. As neither side wanted to start a war then, let's suppose that the Soviet West Berlin Blockade causes an escalation and someone fires. Who would win, and how long would it take? Given that the Soviets don't have nukes yet, would America use them and, if so, how?

If the amendment conflicts with something the Constitution says cannot be amended, the SC can strike it down. At the moment, the only amendment which would qualify is one creating non-equal suffrage in the Senate without unanimous consent by the states, as the other restrictions on amendments...

No, see, it's not that he got killed, it's that they couldn't make him stay dead.:D

He gave rather good interviews, I imagine that if, by some miracle, he got into public office, he would be quite the diplomat. It would be utter horror for Austria if he had been elected with his fascist views, and as he softened his views he lost interest in politics, so a liberal Hitler in...

Perhaps France wouldn't have gone Fascist and voted for the FTFSN. The genocide enacted by the Fetefeursons was obviously horrible, particularly for Jews and Germans... oh my. Their expansionism against Belgium and Switzerland went ignored by Britain and Germany, and it was only an...

ASB. Do you know who you're dealing with? :D

OOC: So, how did this happen? Some of the obviously brainwashed or threatened characters are calling Stalin a hero, while others are saying it was his removal which allowed Soviet victory. How did this timeline happen?

Read the OP. The words "Democratic" and "Republic" are the same in Greek.

Who wins? Of course, this will be dependent on if they run in 1964, 1972, or another year.

Well, it actually has ten: Canada, U.S.A., Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama (and, if you count Greenland as basically autonomous from Denmark and as part of North America, 11, but I wouldn't). But, it can be worse. An upsurge of French...

Two big divergences will help: 1: American communism is less hostile to religion. Rather than claiming that religion is the opiate of the masses, say that a state-enforced religion is the true tyranny. Americans are far less averse to religion because we were never domineered by the church like...