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  1. AHC/WI Dewey Defeats Roosevelt 1944

    What are the impacts on US and global history if Roosevelt looses his reelection bid in 1944? Does Dewey drop the bomb? How do US-Soviet relations fare under a Republican president as the war wraps up? Can it really get worse than Truman? How much worse?

  2. A Marxist Lincoln?

    Radical Republicans would have gotten along quite nicely with Marxists. They wanted to abolish wage labor and give land away for free. I don't see Marx advocating for anything like agricultural collectivization in the American context, that was IIRC a specifically Russian phenomenon that built...

  3. Historical AH How did the Axis leadership expect to win WWII?

    It's in the title. How did the Japanese expect the US to react to Pearl Harbor? How did they envision the war being resolved? What were the Germans' long-term ideas about ending the war with Great Britain? How far into the USSR did they think they could push? Did they expect some sort of...

  4. DBWI: Hitler Is Rejected from Art School

    The only reason anyone is familiar with his mediocre work is because he was one of the few artist exiles from the SRG. His right-wing ravings made him the toast of London, but his art was really only fit for postcards and the walls of cheap hotel rooms. The work from his political period in...

  5. What If: a Super Bowl was discovered to be rigged?

    Unless you have unavoidable evidence you're going to have everyone who makes money on football try to bury the story. This includes the major networks.

  6. AH Challenge: Get a rock song to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 between 2008 and 2012

    Why did you have to make this thread in the middle of my classical music kick? Now I might be stuck in elitist snob mode for the rest of my life!!! What is the relationship between what's on the charts and what people actually listen to? Someone restore my faith in humanity and tell me they...

  7. Operation Downfall 1945:US invasion of Japan

    A good timeline idea would be to delay or refuse the deployment of nukes, have a Soviet invasion of Hokkaido in early September meet little resistance initially, causing the Allies to force forward the timetable for Olympic. Olympic becomes a bloodbath for the US, with some of the landings...

  8. Could the Germans have sucessfully invaded and occupied Switzerland?

    I doubt the Swiss would really have lasted very long. Their army was relatively small, inexperienced, and lacking in mobility and heavy weapons. My guess is they would surrender as soon as the Germans seized most of the major cities and chased the remaining forces to the mountain redoubts...

  9. Stop the Plague of Sprawl!

    Part of the problem is the inevitable rise of the automobile. The war had greatly developed the American automotive industry and they needed to sell their products. Sprawl becomes inevitable whether encouraged by the Federal Government or by local landowners and businesses. If you had the US...

  10. WI: Alexander Sevesus builds his temple to Jesus

    You'd probably get a much more pagan Christianity in this case as the Emperor encourages some degree of compatibility with the existing Pantheon as a driving force in the standardization of orthodox Christianity. I predict Jesus gives a sermon about how Zeus and Yahweh are the same, and the...

  11. Has Anyone Ever Killed-off Stalin during WWII?

    It's an interesting POD because depending on when he dies, a large number of different outcomes are possible. A death at the wrong time might even hand the war to the Germans, say July 1941. If he dies a few moths before Barbarossa, his successor might be better prepared for the German attack...

  12. Has Anyone Ever Killed-off Stalin during WWII?

    Have there ever been any TL's written with a POD of Stalin dying, accidental or otherwise, during WWII? That strikes me as the kind of POD that could cause some pretty wide divergence from OTL. Maybe he dies in a plane crash :D

  13. KDF "theme" park?

    There would be a few overly political, nationalistic attractions, but most of it would probably be pretty bland child-friendly non-political stuff. If you look at Nazi-era film beyond Triumph of the Will and some other propaganda works, a lot of it is light-hearted melodrama. There would...

  14. WI: The Allies had invaded the Balkans?

    If you read the OP he said that it would occur in place of Operation Dragoon, which was met with little resistance and turned out to be unnecessary anyway. That frees up upwards of 150k men with all the necessary equipment and logistics for an amphibious/airborne operation in the Mediterranean...

  15. What if Communism had fallen in 1989 in China?

    Successful Tiananmen Protests do not equal the end of Communism in China. A main target of the protests were the economic reforms. If anything the protesters were more left-wing than the regime.

  16. DBWI: Nazi Party is elected in 1930s

    It'd be difficult for them to form a coalition with anyone. AFAIK the conservative parties didn't like the whole 'socialist' bit very much, and despite that the SPD and KPD hated the Nazis even more than they hated each other. There's no way they could have won a majority on their own. My...

  17. Would Stalin have committed suicide if Germans took Moscow?

    Stalin had plans and infrastructure set up to allow him to flee East if necessary. I don't think he would have had domestic political problems if Moscow fell either, as the Politburo, already dominated by Stalin anyway, would probably value continuity and the appearance of stability over the...

  18. Red Germany 1918?

    There was a revolution in Germany in November 1918 that very nearly succeeded in establishing a socialist state. It only failed because the moderate SPD leadership decided to crack down on the workers' councils. Had Ebert et al come down on the side of the workers and USPD, there would have...

  19. No Post WW2 German Economic Miracle.

    Two words: Bretton Woods If the Deutschmark's wasn't pegged at such an undervalued price, Germany could never have pursued a strategy of export-led growth. There are any number of policies, completely outside Germany's control, that could have been changed to make Germany's Wirtschaftswunder...

  20. A Shift in Priorities

    It seems the Yorkist rebellion is also stirring up labor unrest. The Mid-west is going to be a tinder box when it comes to labor unrest, especially because the strong radical parties had been suppressed and haven't yet attained the compromises they won OTL. You might even see some socialists...
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