1980

With May 18th approaching fast, my locality once again remembers the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens. This volcanic event had massive ramifications on global flight and climate due to the huge ash cloud. The eruption claimed less than 60 lives due to the efforts of the USGS resisting public...

Assuming that the Watergate break-in never occurs or is never brought to light, I think it is fair to say the GOP wins in 1976; but is it possible for them to also win in 1980, if a large chunk of the hardship endured by the Carter administration also never occurs? Moreover, if we can devise a...

Flash Gordon and Popeye are both considered cult classics but bombed in 1980 But let's make a world where both movies were as successful on release as Superman 2 and the three movies started a comic book/strip movie boom in the 1980s causing various failed comic movies (& possibly TV shows) to...

Just before the 1980 Ugandan elections, a group of Idi Amin loyalists known as the Western Nile Front ambushed former and future Uganda president Milton Obote as he was touring the West Nile sub-region of Uganda. Obote was nearly killed, and so was Tito Okello, a high-ranking military commander...

In this timeline, Reagan works things out with Gerald Ford to be his running mate in 1980, then after victory, Reagan is killed in Washington, D.C. on March 30, 1981 by John Hinckley. Ford now enters office for a second non-consecutive term as president. How does this change public policy in...

Just for simplicity, assume that we are talking about an Able-Archer-gone-hot scenario, which is conventional for the first few days then escalates to WMDs. What would be the fate of Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia/Oceania? I assume that countries like Israel, Australia...

In the 1979 election in Canada, Joe Clark and the Progressive Conservatives narrowly beat Pierre Trudeau of the Liberal Party and won a minority government. However it fell soon after after his first budget failed, which many say failed because he attempted to govern as if he had a majority...

A meeting of Ba’ath Party ministers is assembled in the Presidential Palace in Baghdad. Foreign minister Tariq Aziz and defense minister Adnan Khairallah sit adjacent to President of the Iraqi Republic, Saddam Hussein, who after making one last puff on his Cuban cigar begins to speak...

"There is the Son of Man and there is the son of the Son of Man. The Lord is the Son of Man, and the son of the Son of Man is he who creates through the Son of Man. The Son of Man received from God the capacity to create. He also has the ability to beget. He who has received the ability to...

In the 1970s and early 1980s, the US economy slowed largely due to what has been called "stagflation", a combination of high unemployment and high inflation. IOTL, Ronald Reagan and Conservatives at large responded to this with Supply-Side economics, and despite the criticisms of "Reaganomics"...

The Carter administration is usually seen as a failure. I am aware that Iranian hostage crisis contributed to this. What could Carter have done better (especially with Iran) during his presidency in order to win 're election?

Clashes and Changes - Chapter One Introduction: From One Tragedy to Another It has been argued both at the time and in decades since that the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 left a tragic scar upon the national psyche, with the event being seen as the beginning of the period...

POD:Robert F Kennedy sits out 1968 leading to Eugene McCarthy being assassinated instead of RFK. From the book Number 40-2006 After becoming senator in 1970 and a failed run at the presidency in a razor thin loss in the primaries to Jimmy Carter Robert F Kennedy finally in 1980 followed in his...

The secular opposition was actually in control of Iran's revolution before Khomeini stepped in. Butterflies resulting would be no Iranian Hostage Crisis, obviously, as the Iranians wouldn't be so fanatical. However, I saw that the oil crisis was caused by the protests that started even before...

POD:The Chappaquiddick scandal never happens and Ted Kennedy is the runner up for the 1976 democratic nomination but ends up challenging the democratic nomination in 1980 and gets it which ends up in a Kennedy victory in 1980 against Republican George Bush. November 4th 1980:Ted Kennedy and...

A second shot at an old story I did, with a different format. ... 1. November 7, 1980 “BBC News, at six o’clock. Good evening. It’s been a day of counting losses and gains following yesterday’s dramatic election result. Though the calculations of final results are still underway in some...

Is there a POD for a Bush victory in 1980? Who would he have picked as a running mate? He would probably have been elected, so how would he have governed differently than Reagan? How different would the Republican and Democratic parties be today? Who would run against him in 1984? Who would run...

"I will not run for the GOP nomination in 1980" -Governor Ronald Reagan, in an interview. January 15th, 1979 This is collaborative, so you can add on if you want to. Just make sure to be plausible