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  1. Soviets do not establish satellite states In eastern Europe post world war 2

    The territorial changes had been agreed to during various war time conferences so those would've still be implemented regardless of whether the Soviet Union had established Communist satellite states or not. The annexation of the Baltic states by the Soviet Union was never recognised by the...

  2. Aside from Axis or Confederate victory, what is the most common AH scenario?

    John F Kennedy survives the assassination attempt in 1963. The atomic bombs weren't dropped on Japan so the Americans had to invade the Japanese home islands. Man didn't land on the moon. (Not to be confused with the conspiracy theory that the moon landing was faked.) Hitler was killed or...

  3. WI the 9/11 attacks occurred exactly one year earlier?

    Most Americans are unaware that the Taliban regime in Afghanistan did offer to let the Americans have Osama bin Laden. (Source: The Guardian, October 14th, 2001, "Bush Rejects Taliban's offer to hand over Bin Laden") George W Bush's rejection of that offer in favour of invading Afghanistan...

  4. Trotsky lives?

    From the moment the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917 in Russia Lenin, Trotsky and, later, Stalin purged virtually everyone who didn't agree with their interpretation of the ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Those Communists who didn't tow the line dictated from Moscow were eliminated by...

  5. Western European economies without the EU and immigration

    The simple answer would be a National Front wet dream. It's also ASB. Long before the European Economic Community, the Common Market or the European Union were ever conceived there has been immigration from what you call the Third World. Part of it has been driven by the need for cheap...

  6. WI: 9/11 fails. Sort of...

    If I walked into a crowded movie theatre with a gun loaded with sixteen bullets and there were two hundred people in the theatre I could get them to do what I wanted. Even if I made every bullet count the maximum number of people I could kill would be sixteen so there's still one hundred and...

  7. How much sooner does South Vietnam fall if JFK lives and withdraws from SV?

    If John F Kennedy had survived his assassination attempt he would've done pretty much what Lyndon B Johnson did. He would've poured in more soldiers and equipment to prop up the South Vietnamese government. South Vietnam was an ally of the United States so JFK would've done everything he...

  8. What would you do differently at Versailles in 1919?

    Lithuania didn't need Memel to be independent. From 1919 to 1923 Memel wasn't part of Lithuania. It was a Free State. Although the areas Poland received from Germany in OTL had more Poles the reason for giving Germany Gumbinnen is two-fold. The first is that it wouldn't split Prussia in...

  9. What would you do differently at Versailles in 1919?

    When drawing up my proposals I was using a map from about 1900 that showed rail and other infrastructure in the area. From a ethnic perspective allowing Austria to annex Southern Sudetenland makes sense but not from a infrastructural point of view. As for creating peace in the Middle East...

  10. What would you do differently at Versailles in 1919?

    If I was responsible for imposing the peace treaties after the First World War I would do the following: GERMANY: 1. I would've dissolved the German Empire and given all the various territories that made up the former German Empire their independence. 2. Alsace-Lorraine would've gone back...

  11. How could the USSR have survived to see its 100th anniversary?

    In 1986 I was at college (which in New Zealand is the equivalent of high school) and I said to a group of friends that if Gorbachev made the Soviet Union democratic the Soviet Union would collapse. They thought I was crazy. Then I explained to them that only force kept the Soviet Union...

  12. WI: Red Baron leads the Nazi Luftwaffe?

    Even if Goering didn't take over the von Richthofen squadron in World War One he was still a decorated World War One fighter ace so he would've been a great asset to the Nazis even if Manfred von Richthofen had survived the First World War. In all likelihood Goering would've recruited von...

  13. Besides Japan, have other non English speaking countries be able to get their pop media into the US.

    Films and TV programmes are now routinely filmed and edited using computers and this permits the voice track to be separated from the film and replaced with a voice track in the local languages. In addition the technology allows the post production editors to change lip movements so the lips...

  14. Without the Baby boom, what's the population if the US by 2016?

    When I checked the annual population growth rates within the United States from 1900 I noticed the United States experienced population growth rates of less than 1% from 1930 to 1941, no doubt due to the Great Depression. The birth rate went up after 1941 but it did not spike during the baby...

  15. WI: Socialism failed to take over Russia, but was established in Germany?

    The victory of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution in 1917 saw the Russian Empire disintegrate into civil war. The only way Lenin could focus on winning the civil war was to sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in 1918 in which the new Soviet Russia ceded territory to the Central Powers. This...

  16. Names for a Independent South

    I don't think the southern colonies would've gone for something that different from the United States of America. Perhaps the Federated States of America or the Commonwealth of American States?

  17. If You Could Change One Historical Event, What Would It Be?

    If I could change history I would have Lenin killed when he was in exile in Swirzerland. The evil that was done in the name of Marxism-Leninism completely discredited the teachings of Karl Marx and inflicted untold misery, death and suffering in much of the world. Without the fear of...

  18. Challenge : maintain the colonial empires (France and UK)

    The scenario only requires one thing to make it reality: no Pacific War in World War Two. When the Japanese attacked white colonial powers in Asia and initially defeated them they blew apart the myth that the white colonial powers couldn't be defeated by non-white powers. Once that myth...

  19. ACH:Restrain the Japanese Military

    When the Japanese military staged the Mukden Incident which they used as the excuse to invade Manchuria in 1931 the Emperor should've ordered the arrest of the commanders and shot a few of them as an example. It would've created an uproar but I doubt the military would've been stupid enough to...

  20. WI: Hitler Does Not Invade the USSR But Annexes African Colonies Instead

    I doubt very much any attempt would've been made by Petain to prevent the Germans from either taking over, or at least using, French colonies in North Africa as a springboard for launching attacks against British and other colonies in Africa. After all, the Vichy French did nothing to stop the...
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