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  1. Battle of France - WI?

    POD is failure of German invasion of Norway. British get the order of battle and send aircraft out to spot the German invasion fleet is where it is said to be, the subs lurking outside the British naval harbors are where they are said to be, etc. The British navy destroys 90% of the German...

  2. AHC/WI: Prevent the decline of American heavy industry

    America goes full Swiss on it's balance of payments problem and starts paying negative interest on overseas holdings of Tbills. No imports without exports and we get our heavy industry back, though we would still lose quite a bit of light industry to imports, that loss would be balanced by...

  3. Lack of spread of Potatoes

    chilis to chocolate Read "Chilis to chocolate", a book about American crops that did and did not make the Columbian Exchange to the Old World. South America had many tuber crops. Cassava, sweet potato, and potatoes made it across rather easily, but the others did not. Oca made it to New...

  4. WW1 Cliches

    All ATLs will assume that German has Haber-Bosch process nitrogen fixation and will not run out of ammunition after three months (six if it conquers Belgium) and surrender.

  5. American naval decisions in the 1930's

    The Akron encounters a downburst and crashes with most of the dirigible happy Lighter Than Air mafia aboard. Their replacements build an N class 1,500,000 cubic foot blimp instead of the 6,000,000 cubic foot Macon (scaling up the C class blimps by twice in each dimension). This proves to work...

  6. What if there was no winter war.

    If there is no Winter War, one million people don't starve to death in Leningrad from the Finnish blockade.

  7. No Puritan immigration to North America?

    Then we have a multilingual America, Spanish in the south, British in the Georgia to Maryland center, Swedish to the north in Philadelphia, Dutch north of them in New York, and French in what is now Canada, with more British in Newfoundland. No pilgrims settling New England and conquering New...

  8. plausible ways of getting Great britian out of WW2?

    Russia invades Romania in 1940, and Germany will sign any armistice, peace, or surrender terms the British give them.

  9. More Populous and Powerful New Zealand

    Kindertransport Oops, this was for before 1900. Not after 1933...

  10. WI: Pre-Columbian contact possibilities combined.

    Horses, cattle, pigs, bees, sheep, are the big changes. European seeds would help. Smelting is next in importance. Horses are the big deal. Horses give you trade and kingdoms.

  11. WI: No Axis Slovakia

    If Germany fights the Czechoslovaks, the Hungarians aren't going to be much in the way of the Allied (Rumania, Yugoslavia, France, Britain) troops attacking Germany. Poland will wind up fighting against Germany, or against the Russians rolling over them like in 1939 on their way to Germany...

  12. AHC: Curb Slavery in American Colonies (w 1670's PoDs)

    The first slaves in New Amsterdam (now New York City) were captured Morrocans, IIRC.

  13. A Normandy WI

    The Germans still have their troops pinned down in Normandy and Calais and Norway when the Allies land in the south of France.

  14. A more lethal 1969 Sino-Soviet border incident?

    This would have been a small scale test of nuclear winter.

  15. No Greco-Italian War

    The Germans invade Russia four weeks earlier, and forty percent slower because the dirt roads are still wet. The Russians use their railroads to move their troops around faster than the Germans can use their horse drawn wagons and the result is that the Russians don't lose more troops to...

  16. What If: He Keeps Us Out of War?

    1. The Entente stops attacking because without American support in the form of loans, they have to fight a more limited war. This is actually better for them in that the morale of the soldiers isn't ruined by insane over the top use up their ammunition banzai charges as in OTL. On the defence...

  17. Irritating clichés about Pre-1900 AH

    And the rest are in the even more extremely wealthy state of Luxemburg.

  18. Irritating clichés about Pre-1900 AH

    The confederate constitution specifically forbid confederate states from abolishing slavery. I suppose the states could have seceded from the confederacy and then abolished slavery.

  19. Boll weevil 50 years earlier

    California is the land of white gold. Good weather for cotton, no boll weevil. You can also control the boll weevil and other cotton pests by switching back and forth on a county basis between corn and cotton, or beans and cotton, or whatever. Crop rotation was known.

  20. How do massive population die-outs effect technological advances?

    90% die off, no big deal. You can shut down 90% of the factories, mines, oil wells, and farms, because the most profitable, richest, newest, etc, ones are left, and still have lots and lots of third world people who would be delighted to move into our jobs as we upskill into more lucrative...
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