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  1. DBWI: Chinese Intervene in Korean War

    *OOC: I'm not knowledgeable of Mao's successors as of 1950 which is why i defaulted to OTL, I've changed the scenario to Liu Shaoqi, thanks for the info. IC: Well... improving China's image from the USA's perspective, at least. ;) I remember reading how he and Beria came to actual physical...

  2. DBWI: Chinese Intervene in Korean War

    OOC: MacArthur did not fight Chinese forces in this DBWI, the Chinese halted when they were found out, the UN did the math about their troops facing 5:1 odds and threatened to use nukes tactically. MacArthur wanted very much to expand the war into China both OTL and TTL and so he made some very...

  3. Dominion of Southern America - Updated July 1, 2018

    The interesting question though would be comparing the OTL USA vs TTL's USA which has been an island of diplomatic stability since its founding and as such probably has attracted gobs and gobs of immigrants / refugees even over OTL thanks to being a place where one can put something like...

  4. DBWI: Chinese Intervene in Korean War

    One of the more interesting inflection points in history is the disastrous attempt by Mao to intervene in the Korean War. The Chinese tried to night march and hide their forces from UN reconnaissance, but trying to march that many men in hiding simply wasn't possible and it was clear to UN...

  5. A World Without Morphine?

    I'd agree here, barring a POD that sets all science back, morphine is going to be discovered since, unlike some synthetic drugs that are only discovered when some moron decides to eat the residue at the bottom of a beaker, morphine is derived from opium, and opium has been known for centuries /...

  6. What-If?: George Wallace Wins the Democratic Nomination, 1976?

    Wallace would be smashed in the Northeast and upper Midwest, branded a 'Dixiecrat' rather than a Democrat and the picture of him standing in the schoolhouse door would be rebranded on America's memory no matter how much he repudiates or denies or attempts penance.

  7. FAIL SAFE

    I honestly doubt the Fail Safe Solution would do any good at preventing nuclear war. Moscow is gone, NYC is gone, the people who ordered it all are dead and beyond any justice. The public and military forces of both nations are going to be looking at their fellows going "Did you support this!?"...

  8. Quebec votes to secede in 1995

    If Quebec voted to secede and truly had the willpower to do so Canada would most certainly look towards the Velvet Divorce of Czechoslovakia as a learning experience. Doubtless there would be a lot of hard feelings between the two new countries, however I have the feeling both would receive...

  9. AHC: Domesticated Alligators/Crocodiles

    Maybe the smallest species like caymans could be domesticated as guard / herd animals or to get rid of some theoretical nuisance / vermin species in a society with early advanced aquaculture, all crocodilia are predators, and that makes them competition for prime food sources for humans while...

  10. How can the United States turn into a totalitarian dictatorship by 2000?

    You can have a more totalitarian USA with a reasonable POD past 1900, but a totalitarian dictatorship would require an ASB catastrophe and general collapse of all social order since, to put it simply, up until WW2 the Federal government did not have the army or the military traditions for a...

  11. Plausibility Check: Independent Native American Nation

    United States... you maybe could have a survival of the 'Five Civilized Tribes' in an independent state of the Union if Andy Jackson goes a different way with the Indian Removal Act. Say the Nullification Crisis goes 'south' and the southern states piss him off to no end and he returns the favor...

  12. Light HIV / Worse HIV

    I recently watched the HBO documentary The Celluloid Closet which really got me thinking on the massive effect HIV/AIDS had on the 'sexual revolution' of the 1960's-1980's in basically killing it in an almost literal sense. One of the more striking things was Vito Russo complaining about how the...

  13. Question on Nazi-Japan Cold War Sphere of Influence

    Japan / Germany could not win WW2 without the most epic of FUBAR's like, say, ACW Part 2 + tons of other stuff. Neither Germany or Japan (or FWIW, the whole of the rest of the world combined) can successfully invade the US without the US being so smashed by... whatever... that it's not at all...

  14. Native Antarctic population

    Pretty much ASB I think. The seas of the Southern Ocean are just so rough and there isn't nearly enough plant life in concentrations that would allow for things like fire. It's telling that people live even in some of the most extreme areas of the Arctic, but there is no record of settlement in...

  15. AH Challenge: Ruin the Lord of the Rings movies

    I always thought the Ents in the movie were more spirits than physical, so they 'possessed' their given tree and animated it to fight in that battle as their avatar (of course they died if that tree died as well unlike Fallen... because dramatic tension!) As for worse, they always could have...

  16. DBWI: Which imperial Monarch's death saved Europe from war?

    OOC: True, but honestly, between Wilhelm, Nicholas, Franz Josef and all the rest you had an incredibly toxic group of complete and total asshats who did nothing but shove Europe into the Great War. By having them all die in one year every major belligerent of WW1, save France, is thrown into...

  17. DBWI: Which imperial Monarch's death saved Europe from war?

    OOC: This is a DBWI, in this world basically every monarch in Europe bit the dust in year 1910 for one reason or another and thus WW1/WW2 and etc is averted. IC I'm asking which monarch was the most important player whose 'tragic' death stopped Europe from going up in flames. ;)

  18. DBWI: Which imperial Monarch's death saved Europe from war?

    1910, the Year of Dead Monarchs, ushered in a sea change across Europe, first to die was the unlamented Leopold II of Belgium on New Year's Day. Next up was Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, who took a header off a gangplank after touring the SMS Nassau on January 10. Next came Franz Josef of...

  19. Second Mexican-American War?

    How does TR being elected in 1912 lead to a Mex-Am war? (honestly curious here)

  20. Transatlantic invasion and occupation of Europe?

    If everyone suddenly becomes robots, then yes, an invasion of Europe in part or whole by 'North America' is possible and winnable at most any time post 1918. Europe is also invade-able post 1945 with nukes... Getting to "USA Invades Europe the way Russia invades US/Europe in COD:MW2-3" is...
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