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  1. How "should" WWII in 1940 have gone?

    A key factor in the OTL outcome of the Battle of France is that German command and control was set up for a much faster decision loop than the Allies. The French Army in particular was built for a WW1-style tempo, with operations planned weeks in advance and command messages being hand-carried...

  2. Coolidge Declines Running in 1924

    Lowden turned down Coolidge's VP slot, so I'd expect him to turn down Hoover's as well. Hoover opposed re-nominating Dawes in 1928 OTL because of disagreements over farm policy that were already evident in 1924, so probably not him either. The other contenders on the first ballot for VP in OTL...

  3. Coolidge Declines Running in 1924

    If Hoover runs, he very probably gets the nomination. Hoover was already well-known and extremely popular from his famine relief work during and immediately after WW1. Plus he'd been Harding's Secretary of Commerce since the beginning of the administration, had made the position fairly...

  4. AHC: Re-elect Hoover in 1932

    Take FDR out of contention for the Democratic nomination due to a health crisis, so Al Smith instead becomes the frontrunner for the 1932 nomination. Either Smith gets the nomination and he runs into the same anti-Catholic headwinds that helped sink his 1928 campaign, or the convention has...

  5. WI: 2000 election goes to the House, Bush elected President, Lieberman as VP

    From the 12th Amendment: In this scenario, Florida appoints no electors, so the whole number of electors appointed is 513. A majority of 513 is 257. For nobody to win a majority in the electoral college, Florida would need to appoint electors who vote for neither Bush nor Gore.

  6. Could a Union general coup Lincoln during the Civil War?

    "Seizing the capital" is only the endgame for a coup or putsch if taking the capital denies the likely potential opponents of the would-be new regime the means to effectively resist. This can be the case if everyone with more political legitimacy than the plotters are killed or captured in the...

  7. Ming China without the Americas

    I think most of the silver got to China the other way around, getting shipped to Europe (mostly Spain) and filtering through to China via Eurasian and around-the-cape trade routes. The main exception being the Manilla Galleon trade directly between Spanish Mexico and the Philippines, which fed...

  8. WI Spain declares war on England over Henry VIII Divorce in 1533

    There's also the de la Pole branch of Yorkist claimants, who despite the similar name are only related to the Poles on the Plantagenet side of the two families (the Poles via descent from George Duke of Clarence, middle brother of Edward IV and Richard III, and the de la Poles via descent from...

  9. A USN without Battleships; Discussion

    Without battleships, the US would be extremely vulnerable to rival naval powers (especially Japan) until carriers became dominant in fleet engagements. Even as late as WW2, BBs had substantial operational value as a fleet-in-being, AAA gunnery platforms, and shore bombardment gunnery platforms...

  10. Verdun in the Spring Offensives

    There were two supply routes into Verdun: a broad-gauge rail line through St. Menehould in the North/East and a road (dubbed "the Sacred Way" for its essential role in supplying the French defenders in 1916) with a parallel narrow-gauge line built to supplement it in 1916. There's another...

  11. Germany launches Manned V2 (or Woman) into space in 1944

    The first big challenge for using a V-2 rocket to perform the office of a Mercury-Redstone is size and payload capacity: the latter is more than double the size of the former for a roughly proportional increase in capacity on the same mission profile. Even on a reduced trajectory to match the...

  12. Verdun in the Spring Offensives

    I think Amiens and Hazebrouck in the North were the best objectives. The problem was Ludendorff in planning the Spring Offensives wasn't specifically targeting the supply hubs: the first two offensives (Michael and Georgette) came close to capturing Amiens and Hazebrouck respectively, but...

  13. Germany launches Manned V2 (or Woman) into space in 1944

    Long-term, we'd likely see bad AH timelines about Germany using tens of thousands of manned V2s to invade England in 1944.

  14. Verdun in the Spring Offensives

    The big disadvantage of Verdun as an objective is that there's nothing strategically vital in or behind it. Verdun isn't a transit hub, nor is it a big population or industrial center, not is any of the above immediately threatened if Verdun falls. The main direct strategic benefit to Germany of...

  15. Northern Victory in 1862 Peninsular Campaign

    Joseph Johnston and Albert Sydney Johnston were both Brigadier Generals in the US Army in 1860, Joseph was a permanent BG, having recently been promoted to that rank to fill the role of Quartermaster General. Albert was a brevet BG in charge of the Department of the Pacific. Both had recent...

  16. What If: Double Vacancy in 1790?

    And legislation could still be passed (including legislation to call a new election or otherwise fill the vacancy) since bills passed by Congress automatically go into effect after 11-12 days (specifically, 10 days excluding Sundays) unless the President signs it earlier, it's vetoed, or...

  17. WI Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949 and House of Lords 1999 never passed

    It could also have been butterflied away by delaying the death of Edward VII by a few months. OTL, King Edward died following a series of heart attacks in the midst of the People's Budget crisis. The new King George V was not prepared to step in and allowed Asquith to bully him into granting a...

  18. Most plausible WW1 German Victory?

    They did this IOTL (source), and what motorized logistics they had was critical to the initial offensive getting as far as it did. It sounds like the limiting factors were lack of an efficient system for dispatching trucks to armies on the move, mechanical breakdowns, and France's road network...

  19. Ship-based nuclear deterrence

    Historically, the US did use surface ships as a platform for nuclear forces, albeit in the form of bombs dropped from carrier-launched planes instead of ship-launched ballistic missiles. This was a major part of the US strategic nuclear force from the 1950s through the early 70s, with the...

  20. Elizabeth I dies in 1584

    Yes, it sounds like Huntingdon did have quite a bit of support (to his chagrine, as he was loyal to Elizabeth but having his name advanced as a candidate for the succession mad her suspicious of him). My main sources are "Heretics and Believers" by Peter Marshall and "Mary Queen of Scots" by...
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