civil war

  1. Challenge: Stop Spain's slide into chaos

    Is there a way to stop the political upheaval that overwhelmed Spain in the 1930s? I mean no fascism and no Civil War The PoD can be whenever you want from 1900 to 1930.
  2. WI Jefferson Davis killed in Seven Days battle?

    On the first day of the "Seven Days" battle that drove back McClellan from Richmond - June 25, 1862 - President Jefferson Davis rode out to see the fighting. Lee rebuked him, saying "Any exposure of a life like yours is wrong"; a few moments later, a soldier nearby was killed by a Union shell...
  3. Consequences of a quick US civil war.

    Say Virginia didn’t secede, resulting in the second wa e of successions not happening. And also the confederacy get really unlucky in the first few battles resulting in the war only lasting a year or two. What long term consequences does this have?
  4. saluto

    AHC: US slavery ends without Civil War?

    The experience of how the US ended slavery was very unique. The rest of the America’s were able to end the practice without Civil War largely through free womb laws. Was the US relationship to slavery so unique that only mass violence and civil conflict could end it? Or is it possible to end...
  5. A New Birth of Freedom: The Consequences of President Hannibal Hamlin

    A New Birth of Freedom: The Consequences of President Hannibal Hamlin May 23, 1864 President Abraham Lincoln was not in the best of moods at the moment. The battle at Spotsylvania had delayed Grant and Meade's advance into Virginia, and would buy the rebels some time to try and mount another...
  6. History of the CSA

    Attached below is a link to my new book. MOD EDIT
  7. What if George McClellan was able to win at Antietam?

    What if McClellan got an actual victory at Antietam instead of a stalemate?
  8. WI: Karl Marx moves to America and becomes part of Lincoln's cabinet

    What if Karl Marx moved to America and became part of Lincoln's Cabinet? Would socialism become more popular even earlier than Jello's Reds! TL? How would this effect the Civil War?
  9. Cdoug96

    WI: Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley Are Killed at Antietam

    What if Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley are killed at the Battle of Antietam during the American Civil War? What direction does the U.S. take?
  10. Aaaaasima

    Have a civil war happen for the stupidest of reasons

    What could be the stupidest reason a civil war could break out in any country?
  11. Next President of the Confederacy should Lee be unable to serve

    The general and probably accurate assumption is that Robert E. Lee becomes the President of the Confederacy after Jefferson Davis in Confederate Victory Tls. He much like Washington, for the young USA wins more or less unopposed and for a time at least keeps the internaldivisions in the young...
  12. German Monarch Coup After the death of Hindenburg

    What if Wilhelm the II starts are coup or his son the Crown prince how would it affect Germany would Hither still rise and make a possible 3 way civil war or communists rise up for a Wiemar republic V German Empire V Nazi German V Pro commie germans
  13. Whiteshore

    AHC: Have Apartheid South Africa collapse in a civil war

    With a POD after 1960, create a scenario where Apartheid South Africa, instead of the largely peaceful fall which it went through in OTL, "goes out with a bang" proverbially, ending in a bloody civil war. Bonus points if you either get nuclear weapons used in this civil war or the superpowers...
  14. JonasResende

    WI: Nikolai II (and Family) Rescued

    OTL, a week after the Imperial family was murdered (17 July 1918) the town of Ekaterinburg fell to the Whites (25 July 1918). Is it possible for the Czechslovak Legion to get there early. I don't say that they would ncessarily rescue the emperor etc (as the Bolsheviks falsely believed), but I...
  15. True Blood in an alternate Confederacy

    Now I'm referring to a what if scenario of Charlaine Harris ''The Southern Vampire Mysteries'' novels (aka ''True Blood''). What if we were to place the characters, mythos, and setting of Bon Temps, Louisiana within in a modern-day Confederacy?. Here are the rules: * I'll allow you users to...
  16. Longstreet's Deviation

    This is my first try, I also posted on Reddit. Let me know what you think, inaccuracies, or any other complaints/ feedback. I am doing this for my own enjoyment and yours, but would like to become a better writer. Alright, here we go. After the 2nd day of Gettysburg both sides are demoralized...
  17. American and Confederate pop cultures in a Confederate victory scenario

    Now I'm not talking about just one entertainment related thing (i.e. film) instead we're going into how pop culture in the United States and the Confederate States would be in a Confederate victory scenario. Personally, I think that the both American and Confederate pop cultures in the rest of...
  18. Blessed Be the Fruit

    (like numerous people I loved Hulu's take on "The Handmaid's Tale." I wanted to see how such a story could actually come about, though. That led to the creation of this thread.)...
  19. Saoirse

    Irish Civil War - best POD for an early ending

    Which of the following could be the best way of ending the Irish Civil War before it became the bitter conflict that reflects in Ireland's politics to this day? Supposing that the shelling of Four Courts and the Battle of Dublin did happen. 1) The Free State government accepts the "treaty"...
  20. WI: Pakistan implodes into a Civil War Post-1960?

    If the internal situation in Pakistan gets so bad that a civil war erupts, how would it likely go? Could India use this to their advantage and pick up the pieces by occupying parts of the country? Could Afghanistan and/or Iran maybe participate to a degree? And what does China, the US, and other...
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