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  1. Thalmann Survives WWII, leads East Germany

    OTL KPD leader Ernst Thalmann was executed in Buchenwald in 1944, what if he survived to the end of the war? How would East Germany develop in the early years under his leadership as opposed to Walter Ulbricht?

  2. Dzerzhynski Ousts Stalin 1925

    In Stephen Kotkin's biography of Stalin he talks about a letter that Felix Dzerzhynski, then head of the OGPU (formerly the Cheka, later to be reorganized into the NKVD), sent to Stalin in October of 1925, describing a plot against him by, among others, Zinoviev and Kamenev to remove him (Kotkin...

  3. AHC: Partisans Liberate Italy

    What would it take for, without Allied ground troops landing on the Italian mainland itself (let's say they still take Sicily), for the Italian partisans to overthrow the fascist regime mostly on their own, a la Yugoslavia/Albania?

  4. Cheney a Democrat

    I was flipping through a biography of the infamous ex-Veep, and came across this interesting nugget of information. While studying for his masters, young Cheney was offered an internship with the Wyoming state legislature, through a program which took two students, one who would work for the...

  5. Dewey Killed by Dutch Schultz

    In 1935 New York gangster Dutch Schultz, under pressure from investigations led by then-US Attorney Thomas Dewey, appealed to the Mafia Commission for permission to kill the crusading prosecutor. The idea was turned down by the Commission, and when it became clear that Schultz was going to...

  6. AHC/WI: President Bill Bradley in 2000

    Alternative outcomes to the 2000 election have been discussed many times, mostly centered on what would happen if Gore or McCain were elected. But what of the other major Democratic candidate? OTL, Bill Bradley was defeated fairly decisively by Gore in the 2000 primaries, but what would be...

  7. Goldwater Doesn't Run in 1964

    What if Barry Goldwater passed on running against Lyndon Johnson in 1964, waiting to try for the Presidency at a time when he feels like his conservative ideas can get a better hearing from the American people. Without being tarred with the 64 landslide defeat, is he able to continue on as...

  8. WI: The House of Saud Overthrown

    I have become interested lately in this potential POD, as it would have enormous implications for the Middle East, yet never seems to come up around here. What could cause the Middle East's most famous monarchy to go the way of its counterparts in Egypt, Libya, Iraq, etc? I know that given the...

  9. Emperor Maurice not Overthrown: No Byzantine-Sassanid War?

    Maurice was the Emperor of the Byzantine Empire who reigned from 582 to 602 A.D. Generally a very competent ruler, he made the mistake of ordering his army to launch a winter offensive beyond the Danube. Already alienated by his decisions to not ransom 12,000 prisoners from the Avars(they were...

  10. California not a Mess

    The state of California is today widely considered an ungovernable mess(I'm a Californian). What could be a POD that would prevent such an unfortunate state of affairs from coming about? No Prop 13 perhaps? Something else?

  11. Nixon President in 1955.

    In September of 1955, President Eisenhower suffered a heart attack that had him in the hospital for several weeks. What if his heart attack is more severe and it kills him, leaving Tricky Dick as President in the 50s? I'm guessing he wins a full term in 56 due to the sympathy vote for Ike. A...

  12. Valkyrie Fails, but Stauffenberg Escapes

    There have been quite a lot of threads on the impact of a successful Operation Valkyrie plot. I thought of this as an interesting twist on the day's events. The bomb still fails to kill Hitler, the coup still fails, but somehow, Stauffenberg manages to get out of the War Ministry before the SS...

  13. President Gary Hart

    The POD here is that Gary Hart doesn't have an affair with Donna Rice, and as a consequence goes on to win the Democratic Nomination and defeat George Bush Sr. in 1988. What is his Presidency like? How does he respond to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Reunification of Germany? What does he...

  14. Would British America include all the Continental US?

    I was wondering about this one. Would British America's expansion necessarily include all of the lower 48 from OTL? What would cause a war with Mexico and subsequent annexation of California and the Southwest? I'm guessing that once the inevitable next war with France comes around the...

  15. Russian Civil War without Trotsky

    In a timeline in which Trotsky is never born, or dies in childhood, or for whatever reason is not around at the time of the Russian Revolution, this would have major effects on the Russian Civil War. Trotsky was the one who organized the Red Army from a rabble into an effective fighting force...

  16. East Prussian Jewish State: ASB?

    As we know, after the end of WWII the German population of East Prussia was expelled from that territory. What if the Allies decided that as compensation for the Holocaust the Jews be given this former part of Germany? Now, the Western Allies wouldn't like this I don't think because such a...

  17. Polish Tsar

    I've been reading up on Russian history lately, and it has proved ripe ground for alternative history scenarios. Here's a very interesting one I found. During the Time of Troubles when Muscovy was in total disarray, the boyars were planning to invite Wladyslaw, Crown Prince of...

  18. Major War Criminals at Soviet Nuremberg: mid-1940s

    I was wondering who, if for whatever reason(no Nazis and WWII fought against Soviets or WWII for whatever reason turns into a fight against the Soviets), and the Soviets were defeated and a Nuremberg-type trial was held for their leaders, who would be the Major War Criminals. My preliminary...

  19. Surviving House of York

    What would be the most plausible POD to have the House of York win the Wars of the Roses and keep power? What changes would result from this? My apologies if this has been done to death, or is considered ASB or whatever. I serched for threads on this topic and didn't find anything.

  20. Ogedei Lives

    What if Ogedei had survived longer than he did OTL, and the Mongol invasion of Europe continued?
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