civil war

Because there were a lot of internal tensions in Turkey during the Cold War period of the country, could it been possible a civil war could’ve broken out? I’d imagine that the left-leaning faction(s) would be supported by the USSR why the opposing faction(s) by the US and the Kurds would be...

What it says on the tin. The Panic of 1857 briefly collapsed the industrial Northern economy and left the South comparitavely untouched, boosting the South's feelings that the North would be crippled without them and would give in more to their demands. So would a President Frémont have caused a...

Andrew Johnson is the only senator of the states that would secede to join the Confederacy that did not resign to join the Confederates. What if Andrew Johnson was more loyal to his state than to the union and he decided to join the Confederacy? How would Andrew Johnson not being president...

Could the USSR have, instead of breaking up peacefully, dissolved violently in a Yugoslavia-style bloody mess?

Among my favorite PODs related to the Civil War are those related to Kentucky. So let's suppose that in 1861 three of the ten congressmen elected are Democrats (other than the 1st district, there was Southern support in the 2nd, 3rd, and 10th as well). In the elections for the state...

The PoD is that one of the officers that took part of the Beijing coup during the second zhili-fengtien clique war decides to betray the putschists and reveal the details to Cao Kun, and so he aborts the coup and this cements his position as the chinese leader. In the following months Fengtien...

Just curious as I am not exactly the most well-versed when it comes to Indonesian politics or history. So past the declaration of independence in 1945, was there any point in time when Indonesia could have exploded into civil war? If so... 1) Who would've been the belligrents? Communists...

What if gold was discovered say in 1849? (15 years later than OTL.) As we know because gold was discovered early it allowed for southern migration and eventually becoming a slave state after becoming independent (like our sister state Texas.) Would the Mexican American War have gone differently...

I was thinking of a workaround for the Dredd Scott decision. In any state, if you have something illegal, it is confiscated without compensation. If you are a smuggler with smuggled goods, and the state catches you with them, you lose them; no compensation, even if the goods are legal...

So I've recently stumbled upon this place and woe is me for not finding AH.com earlier. I have a timeline or more accurately, a story about someone surviving this timeline and wanted to just put out some feelers to know how well it will be received and how plausible it seems. Here's the basic...

Would Somalia be more stable today if Mohamed Siad Barre remained in power?

On 22 August 1922 Collins set out from Cork City on a circuitous tour of West Cork. He passed first through Macroom then took the Bandon road via Crookstown. This led through Béal na Bláth, an isolated crossroads. There they stopped at a local pub named 'Long's Pub', now known as The Diamond...

In this timeline, Franco and the Nationalists lose the Spanish Civil War on January 3 1937.

This is my somewhat fanciful scenario of bringing Liberal Democracy to all the people of the world by the 1960s March 3, 1861 St. Petersburg, Russia Peasants gather to hear of their new freedom Tsar Alexander II issued a proclamation declaring all privately owned surfs are to be emancipated...

What if the redeemers had been stopped and freedmen weren't denied the right to vote? How would politics be different? I'd assume blacks would be a very left wing group as IOTL. I think that with a south that worked to support rather than block progressive reforms, we'd be more like Canada or...

I was recently reading a book for class called A History of the American People(ISBN:978--0-06--093034) by Paul Johnson. On page 516 on the second paragraph, Johnson makes a claim about the effects of barbed wiring being available early in the civil war. Now Johnson isn't a military...

IOTL, post Civil War, this was presented as a serious proposal by Benjamin Butler: So then, what if Abraham Lincoln had elected to implement Benjamin Butler's proposal, and the states of the defeated Confederate States had been relegated to territories, renamed, divided and merged in the...

Hi! I'm new to AlternateHistory.com, but not new to alternate history. I recently heard that shortly before he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln invited African American leaders to the White House and urged them to encourage the soon-to-be freed slaves to relocate away from the...

Hello all. I'm still preparing the details for my finished Fringe alternate universe scenario coming in the next few months. In the meantime, here's another off-the-wall scenario for the board to consider: with a POD after 1783, is there a possibility that South Carolina's statehood could be...

I'm looking for a PoD to cause a fourth attempt at a carlist takeover in the Kingdom of Spain, specifically after the Spanish-American War. I also ask: if Spain is going through a civil war, then how are the Moroccan Crises affected?