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    AHC/WI: Neutral Korea

    With a PoD at any point after the Tehran Conference what is the best way to get a similar deal for the Korean peninsula that was arranged for Austria where the peninsula was unified under an officially neutral, ostensibly democratic government, its security guaranteed by all neighboring nations...
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    AHC/WI: US Department of Elections

    What would be the necessary point of departure, for any date after Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, for the United States to establish a federal Department of Elections whose job would be to establish consistent, clear processes for elections, registration, ensuring the security of...
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    WI: Japan surrenders due to blockade, when do nukes get used first?

    One of the existing plans pitched for forcing Japan's surrender in WWII, instead of the atomic bomb or land invasion, was put forward by the Navy. They argued the best outcome would've been an extended blockade to force Japan into submission with minimal risk to Allied lives. For the sake of...
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    WI: Roman concrete recipe survies

    What impact would there be on European history if the necessary information and skills for making Roman concrete doesn't die with the empire but is preserved, most likely in some monastery, and continues to remain in use?
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    Christianity WI: Book of Revelations not canon

    At the time of the Council of Nicaea the Book of Revelations was highly controversial & almost didn't make it into Canon. What if Revelations gets axed by the Council & isn't part of the New Testament? What does that do to Christianity?
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    AHC: Forty Acres & a Mule

    With a PoD following Lincoln's re-election in November of 1864 what would be necessary for William T. Sherman's General Order for redistributing land held by big Southern plantation owners to free slaves to be fully implemented & maintained?
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    WI: Mikhail Frunze Survives his Surgery

    Mikhail Frunze was a major figure in the Bolshevik leadership during the Russian Civil War and noted as a brilliant military commander, solid political theoretician, and was renowned for his steadfast devotion to the ideals of the Communist Party. He was even considered by some as a potential...
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    WI: Wilson loses to Hughes in 1916

    In the 1916 presidential election Woodrow Wilson narrowly defeated Gov. Charles Evan Hughes (R-NY) by barely swinging California in the Democrats' favor. Part of why Hughes lost was due to missing a key appointment with the popular Gov. Hiram Johnson (R-CA) which Johnson took as a slight and...
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    AHC/WI: United States treats the First Nations like the Cossacks

    What if, instead of following a policy of subjugation and mass removal, the early United States instead pursued a policy regarding the Native Americans similar to that of Tsarist Russia and the Cossacks where the different tribes were allowed to retain their traditional ways of life and fertile...
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    AHC: Metric United States

    What is the best PoD for the US converting to the metric system as the standard system of measurement at some point during the 20th century? Bonus points for pulling it off post-WWII.
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    United We Stand, a Stargate Timeline
    Threadmarks: Part I: Out of the Cradle, Chapter 1: First Contact

    United We Stand: A Stargate Timeline Part I: Out of the Cradle Chapter 1: First Contact Governor’s Mansion, Little Rock, Arkansas, March 12th, 1991 7:18PM Rain pattered on the windows as Governor William Jefferson Clinton and Hilary Rodham Clinton sat quietly in the main study. In the...
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    AHC/WI: Ayn Rand becomes a hit sci-fi author

    OTL Ayn Rand, after emigrating to the US from the USSR, moved out to Hollywood and managed to land a few jobs writing for the big studios. It was during this period she first wrote The Fountainhead where she espoused the beginnings of what would become Objectivism, a philosophy with...
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    Aviation WI/AHC: Spruce Goose goes into production in 1944

    One of the main obstacles to the successful completion of the AH-1 Hercules, better known as the Spruce Goose, was a lack of necessary aluminum along with Howard Hughes notorious perfectionism. With a PoD after the design was first pitched by Hughes & Kaiser in 1942 what could get the...
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    WI: A pension for Confederate veterans

    One of the biggest outlays of money at the federal level during the post-Civil War era were the somewhat generous lifetime pensions extended to Union veterans. At the same time Confederate veterans were extended no such offer and in many cases would go on to join groups like the Ku Klux Klan...
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    WI: Khrushchev makes the Secret Speech Public

    One of the big blows dealt to the USSR under Gorbachev's glasnost policy was to their legitimacy when Stalin's abuses came to light. Part of the issue was how horrific his acts were but the other part was how long it had stayed buried. These two issues, along with other factors, fatally...
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    AHC/WI: Permanent Moonbase by the Year 2000

    Using a PoD after the launch of Sputnik what is the best way to get a permanent moonbase established by any spacefaring power by the year 2000 that remains in operation to present day OTL? What would its most likely uses be and what would be the impact of having a permanent human presence on...
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    WI: The Muslim Brotherhood Backs Nasser

    "By 1954, Gamal Abdel Nasser had consolidated his positions as the undisputed head of the new "revolutionary" government. The Brotherhood's repeated calls for the application of Shari'a and its public support for General Muhammad Naguib, Nasser's rival in the power struggle that followed the...
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    WI: Nasser Assassinated during the Suez Crisis

    When one studies the Suez Crisis one thing that runs clear through the British and French planning is how incredibly half-baked the whole concept was. To run down the underpants gnominess of the plan what the British and French governments were trying to do in 1956, in response to Nasser's...
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    AHC: Neutral, United Germany in the Cold War

    On March 10th, 1952 Stalin passed on a note to the other Allied powers in Germany proposing a united, neutral, and demilitarized Germany with no preconditions on economic policy and guaranteed democratic freedoms and participation. Some historians have argued this might not have been a bluff...
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    AHC: Large French-American population

    Your challenge, with a PoD after 1803, is to create a situation where French immigrants are the third largest group of immigrants during the great immigration waves of the 1830s and 1840s after the Irish and Germans. There should be sufficient French immigration for the French-Americans to form...
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