1970s

WI Australia had become a republic in 1975?

WI Powell had stayed with the Conservatives; could he have had a shot at becoming PM instead of Margaret Thatcher in the 80's?

I don't intend this to be a long story (unless something radical happens) but I had a funny little idea recently while listening to one of my favorite songs and imagining what it would've been like if this band existed in some alternate plane. Is this realistic? Not particularly. This is the...

What it says in the tin. Just as long as the conflict in Afghanistan is today. What POD is needed and what will the butterflies be of the 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2010s?

In late 1979 China briefly invaded Vietnam; WI that war had lasted longer, into the early 1980s?

Wotcher, So many people are dead. So many 30 years rules have passed. So many NSW Police have retired. The Iron Law of Disco has fallen before the Iron Law of New Wave which rapidly looks to be threatened by the Iron Law of Party Rap leading inevitably towards the Iron Law of Grunge. It may...

So who do you think is the most likely to win out of these? Assume things go middle of the road/reasonably well: Vietnam having been stabilized, Nixon/Kennedy able to come to an agreement on healthcare in 1974/1975 among other events to indicate it goes smoothly. My top three for most likely...

Tony Crosland was one of the most influential thinkers on the socially democratic right wing of the Labour Party from the 1950s onwards. A protégé of Hugh Gaitskell, he served as Education Secretary, President of the Board of Trade and Local Government Secretary in the first Wilson government...

For example in OTL, the 1960s saw huge advancements in both technological and social arenas, which made things like the Moon Landing and Woodstock possible. The early 70s were okay-ish, but later things started getting worse and the last progressive product of this rapidly advancing...

Welcome to Give Peace Another Chance, the revised and updated version of the Turtledove-nominated Give Peace A Chance: The Presidency of Eugene McCarthy. Give Peace A Chance, my first timeline, started on May 23rd 2018. After about a year and a half of weekly posting (more or less), the timeline...

Hello everyone! This is an idea that I've had for a long time now. In the 1970s, there was a plan devolved by ICC lawyer Nathan Klitenic to use the UP-RI merger to reshape the western railroad map into four mega systems. Burlington Northern, Union Pacific, Santa Fe, and Southern Pacific. Most...

Alright, so I did do some research and lurking on this site and on Wikipedia and I found out that in 1974, Richard Nixon briefly considered replacing then Vice President Spiro Agnew with Massachusetts Senator Ed Brooke, who would lose re-election to the Senate in 1978. The only times i've seen...

OTL, it's pretty much an open secret that in 1978, Deng Xiaoping ordered the summary execution of all perpetrators of the Cultural Revolution, purging just about the entire Pro-Maoist faction of the Communist Party. During the purge, official sources dictate that over 600 thousand died, while...

Hello everyone, this is my first TL here, so please go easy on me. Red Wave: A World Bathed in Crimson asks the question, "What if the Soviet Union 'won' the Cold War?" Yes, I am aware that TLs that take place during the Cold War are a bit overdone here, but this period of history is my area...

Stanley Kubrick's "Napoleon" swept the 1972 Academy Awards winning Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Costume Design, and Best Actress for Audrey Hepburn - who came out of retirement to do the film. Starring Jack Nicholson as Napoleon, Hepburn as Josephine, and Malcolm...

Hi everyone, good to meet you all. I'm active on Quora, and there was a recent question posted: In an alternate universe where all the successful 1970s and 1980s TV pilots failed, and the ones that failed instead succeeded, how would this have affected the TV stars' careers? For example...

After the release of his massive hit "Star Wars," George Lucas considered giving up directing. He hated the pressures of making "Star Wars," and making films only as a producer and writer seemed like an attractive option. But Lucas wanted to maintain creative control of his films, so he...

When he entered office in 1977, Jimmy Carter was a widely popular President. But his hostile relationship with Congress, the faltering economy, the Iran Hostage Crisis, and his poor communication skills caused his support to plummet. In the end he lost the 1980 election in a landslide, leading...

It often comes as a surprise that Rudy Giuliani, one of New York's most influential Democrats, once considered switching parties. In the 1970s, Giuliani flirted with joining the GOP in order to move up the ladder as a federal prosecutor. However, Giuliani decided against this and remained a...

There have been many threads on this site about RFK's last campaign (some of them by me), and whether or not he would have been nominated and/or elected President in 1968. But one thing that's sometimes glossed over is 1972: if (narrowly) elected in 1968, would RFK have been re-elected in 1972?