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  1. WI Andrew Jackson wins the 1824 election?

    Under this TL, not only do we get no Age of Jackson, we also get no James K. Polk Presidency. I predict a milquetoast America goes on to lose Louisiana and Mississippi to Spain in the Spanish-American War. Pancho Villa later burns Omaha.

  2. Churchill, We Hardly Knew Ye

    This TL seems more about an alternative Dunkirk, than about how things would have been different had Churchill died in '31. But then, didn't Churchill go on the radio and request the evacuation at Dunkirk by British civilians? Its been a while, but I seem to recall reading that, so maybe...

  3. WI Andrew Jackson wins the 1824 election?

    The movie "Amistad" never gets made, because without John Quincy Adams as an ex-President serving as their attorney, no one really cares about a movie about a slave rebellion aboard a ship (and they might have even lost their case, without ex-President Adams as their lawyer). Other than that, I...

  4. WI: Argentina was part of the Axis?

    Assuming the Germans could get a squadron of bombers into the vicinity of the Canal Zone, its not too unlikely that they'd catch us with our pants down the first time they attacked. Although with Argentina in the Axis, alert levels would probably be higher.

  5. WI: Argentina was part of the Axis?

    Chile would be a bigger country, for one. Brazil too, most likely.

  6. TR killed in 1912

    I'd forgotten about that, although I don't know if Hiram Johnson would necessarily become the Presidential nominee; that would be up to the rules of the Progressive Party. But yeah, they'd probably still get enough votes to elect Wilson, unfortunately.

  7. WW2 began in 1945-WP and USA vs all!

    Albanian swamis develop "psychic orgami" super-weapon. Seize control of the globe in 11 minutes. And everyone likes it.

  8. TR killed in 1912

    Taft probably would have won, but if only 1/3rd of TR's voters went to Wilson, he would have carried the popular vote, so its not certain.

  9. Southern-British Alliance

    Harry who? :confused:

  10. Southern-British Alliance

    The United States banned the international slave trade in 1808. The fact some criminals continued to perpetuate it as a form of contraband smuggling is irrelevant. The fact is, we still have an illicit international trade in slaves in this country. It was just a few years ago that a married...

  11. Southern-British Alliance

    That's still for the Supeme Court to decide. The mere fact Lincoln went to war settles nothing. If it were to happen, that might well be the most likely way, but all that would actually be required is a favorable decision by the Supreme Court (technically, if could be decided by a regular...

  12. AH Challenge:Harry Browne '96

    Well, its been established that Ron Paul has some potential electoral appeal, and while it wasn't realized when he ran as the LP nominee in 1988, let's say he loses the 1988 LP nomination to Russell Means that year, and stays in the Congress. Then he runs again in 1992, albeit in the Republican...

  13. Southern-British Alliance

    General knowledge of American history should suffice. All the books I've read on the subject since the Reagan administration, perhaps? If you're going to assert that history is different than how it has always been perceived, you are the one who needs to provide a citation. Any mainstream...

  14. Nazi Germany invades Ireland 1941

    The German Navy kept the Royal Navy out of the Baltic Sea, which was about all they could do (outside of U-boat activity, of course). And the initial invasion of Norway was a surprise attack, with German soldiers loaded onto ore freighters, which were thought to be arriving in order to collect...

  15. Nazi Germany invades Ireland 1941

    But the Royal Navy controlled the actual water. If the Germans could have invaded Britain, they would have. Hitler's lack of enthusiasm for Sealion almost certainly stems from his awareness that the Royal Navy would ensure its failure. This is 1940 and '41, after all, when Hitler was still at...

  16. Nazi Germany invades Ireland 1941

    In fairness, I said "relatively civilized." I think that if the Germans met serious resistance from the IRA, they'd quickly escalate things well beyond what the British ordinarily did.

  17. Nazi Germany invades Ireland 1941

    Um, probably not.

  18. Nazi Germany invades Ireland 1941

    OK, but I'm a little unclear how that's a response to what you quoted from me above.

  19. Nazi Germany invades Ireland 1941

    Yeah, the IRA owed a lot of its effectiveness to the fact they were up against the (relatively) civilized British. IRA tactics would have failed miserably against the Nazis or the Soviets. I wonder, however, if Irish resistance to a German occupation is a foregone conclusion. If the German...

  20. Nazi Germany invades Ireland 1941

    Dude, look at a map. You can't compare Norway (let alone Denmark?!?) to the situation with Ireland. Besides which, if they can invade Ireland, then they can invade Britain, so they'd invade Britain.
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