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  1. Could fascism survive to the present without WW2?

    Turn the clock back to the thirties and many parts of the world needed serious rule or change. The Great Depression was setting in and in 1932, Roosevelt was warned not to run for president unless he was ready to assume a role of dictator. After all, look at Russia, Italy and Germany. FDR...

  2. The death of Adolf Hitler on August 20, 1939 - the consequences...

    By 1939, didn't Germany already have its war machine? If Hitler passes away in 1936, after the Olympics, would there be less preparation for war? Hopefully, the antisemitism would decline rather than accelerate.

  3. President Reagan assassinated in 1981

    Prices for fuel and real estate accelerated inflation before 1981. When the prices stopped rising (or fell) in 1983-84, the incumbent president (or his party) was guaranteed another term.

  4. What if Ferdinand Lived?

    The second decade of the 20th century offers many PODs for history. A shorter WWI, no Bolshevik revolution, no collapse of the German economy in 1923 or no Hitler. Even if the Titanic did not sink, survivors of a luxury liner would have influence. A different WWI rewrites history.

  5. AHC: Ways to delay the Counterculture Movement?

    Counter-culture had many dimensions, namely music, art, dress, and anti-war sentiment. As I remember it, war protests were the most vocal. When people demonstrated on campuses, they were against the Vietnam war. The fifties saw an "incomplete" teaching of Nuremberg and ex post facto that...

  6. AHC: Ways to delay the Counterculture Movement?

    I never said Nuremberg was not justified. I say the fact that American history classes did not say why it was not ex post facto was actually a problem that led to the counterculture. The number of people who used LSD was small and the media over-emphasized it. In fact, only 4% of the young...

  7. AHC: Ways to delay the Counterculture Movement?

    Civil rights and counterculture are two different subjects. I see civil rights as a direct response to television programming. TV brought to homes daily display of the newest homes, furnishings and vehicles in advertisements, programs and game shows. They did it at the time postwar prosperity...

  8. AHC: Ways to delay the Counterculture Movement?

    The causes were rather simple. It was the way history was taught. Children were taught in the fifties how ex post facto laws were one of the greatest violations of human rights. As the history books moved a few chapters forward, the Nuremberg Trials were justified. Wait a minute, were these...

  9. Tommy Dorsey and the U.S. Army Band

    Recording technology was still limited in the forties. The consumer market still used 78-rpm records with incomplete fidelity. Until the war looked favorable for the Allies after D-Day, entertainment would have still been secondary.

  10. President Reagan assassinated in 1981

    Bush once used the term "voodoo economics" for Reagan's proposals, so many elements of Reaganomics will not be implemented. Supply and demand will cause prices for fuel and real estate to level (or fall) in 1983, assuring a second term for Bush in 1984. If the unearned income tax rate still...

  11. WI John McCain wins 2000 nomination

    The details that would be relevant might be no Bush tax cuts, no Iraq war, different economic reaction in 2008 and if Gore gets a second term, different supreme court justices. At some point the scenario would cross the line into current politics. The election of 2000, though is a good...

  12. AHC : Keep newsreels, theatrical cartoons, short subjects, and serials playing in movie theaters for as long as possible

    In the late fifties, WW2 veterans were pleasantly surprised as jet planes took off and television flooded homes. They had memories of the Depression, wartime rationing and waiting lists for cars, housing and appliances. Then, by the late fifties, supply caught up with demand. Television...

  13. What if Dune popularized role-playing games?

    D&D worked because it was confined to a middle-aged setting and used magic from children's stories. Dune and other sci-fi settings wouldn't have the same potential for rules and would be less likely to succeed.

  14. WI John McCain wins 2000 nomination

    In OTL, Gore had more popular votes than Bush, so it would have only taken one state to tip the election. Further details belong in current politics.

  15. AHC : Keep newsreels, theatrical cartoons, short subjects, and serials playing in movie theaters for as long as possible

    Stop or delay television and newsrells/shorts expand. TV was already delayed. The Depression slowed it down and the few stations there were in 1940 were forced down for the World War. When TV came back after the war, expansion was delayed from 1950 to 1953 to allocate channels. The challenge...

  16. WI John McCain wins 2000 nomination

    If I recall, many Republicans were concerned McCain was weaker than Bush. It wouldn't have taken much to tip the election to Gore.

  17. What would a timeline for a Democratic sweep look like?

    This is current politics and belongs in that forum.

  18. How would a waterbed revival happen in the 2000s?

    People put weightlifting equipment in homes. If the structure can't handle some ten people in a room, there would be problems.

  19. How would a waterbed revival happen in the 2000s?

    I had one for 39 years. The rails made it harder and harder to get out. After the third mattress, I called it quits, as leaks were a problem. As for weight, the beds are drained for movement, so that is not the primary problem. The fad aged away with the Baby Boom generation.

  20. WI: Mario never existed?

    Not much. Other new themes will emerge to take advantage of the "new" art form.
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