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This thread is inspired by the original Kaiserreich pop-culture thread which can be linked here: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/pop-culture-of-the-kaiserreich.475922/, it's also an inpiration of this here...

In 1931, a book titled "If It Had Happened Otherwise" was published. It was a series of essays written by various people imagining alternate histories. One of these essays was "What if Lee lost Gettysburg?" by Winston Churchill. It is from the point of view of a Confederate historian living in...

In a scenario where the Central Powers won WW1, how and what will the world think of an Entente victory? Will the world think of an Entente victory as impossible as the Central Power and Axis victory threads criticized as impossible here or something which is possible? Does it matter if the...

Tom Cat Films was a film company founded in 2007, that eventually became popular for producing and distributing hit superhero films such as “Captain Battle”, “Rise of the Black Bat”, “Avenging Force: The Scarab”, “Metal Man”, and “Agent Beetle”, which all became recognized for being clever mock...

During the French Revolution Louis XVI and his family attempted to escape to the fairly young French colony of Australie, (barely 70 thousand people strong). But during his escape one of the shipwrights identified him and his family, and alerted the Authorities, eventually leading to his...

Major League Soccer (and by extension, the United States Soccer Federation) has been one of the biggest success stories in worldwide sports over the past few decades. The momentum from hosting the 1994 World Cup carried on to the new upstart league in the United States, with the last few games...

So as we all know the rather misnamed American Civil War, which almost led to the disintegration of the American Republic (though even then it's arguable that's also a misnomer, the structure being closer to a confederation) from which it did not really recover until the latter half of the 20th...

We all know how President Reagan resigned from office at the start of 1987 after it was announced that Congress would be launching an investigation into the Iran-Contra affair. After that, Vice President George H.W. Bush was sworn in as the new president, but his part in the affair completely...

for those who knows the isfahan bombing was often cited as the turning point of the middle east politic. as since the killings of iranian diplomats in 1999, the country had growing hate of the talibans. and by then they supported, even though secretly, the anti taliban movements across...

How about we reverse the fates of Germany and America: What if the Union had decisively defeated Confederate forces at Antietam in September 1862 (maybe Order 191 gets lost or something), and eventually won the War Between the States, while Prussia failed to bring the South German States into...

As we all obviously know, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a politician who was elected the 32nd president of the United States, and died in 1933, just weeks before being sworn in as president. On February 15th, 1933, as FDR had just finished giving a speech in Miami's Bayfront Park from the back...

We all remember where we were on June 17th, 1994, the day we saw OJ Simpson in that infamous car chase with the police on live TV, right after his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman were murdered. And we all know what happened when the driver of the car, OJ’s friend Al...

In 1999, two years after the disaster that was Batman and Robin, Warner Bros. and Joel Schumacher had decided to "go back to basics" for the Caped Crusader's next try on the big screen. Wanting to get something closer to Tim Burton's first two films in tone, Schumacher optioned to adapt Frank...

As we all know, James II, count of Urgell succeeded to the throne of Aragon as King James III after the death of his cousin Martin. Although it looked like a close run thing for a moment (due to parliamentary debate over which claimant had the best claim) James ended up winning the most votes by...

After the Davis Besse reactor melted down in early 2003, it was discovered that a persistent leak of berated water from cracked control rods had gradually eaten away at the reactor head, resulting in the failure that damaged the other control rod drive mechanisms and inhibited the safe shutdown...

We all remember how back in 2016 NBCUniversal purchased Valiant Entertainment right? and we all know how that led to the Valiant Movie Universe and it’s big success against the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Well what if Valiant was never bought out? surely Universal would still go through with the...

Instead of being a mostly ceremonial role elected by a supermajority of Congress, what if the President was elected by a separate Presidential Election and held far more extensive executive powers? e.g the Cabinet of Secretaries being directly appointed by the President rather than the Primary...

Ranking among the biggest and most recognizable post-Cold War swords-to-ploughshares programs is Russia’s conversion of its Soviet-era Typhoon and Delta ballistic missile submarines into underwater cargo ships & hydrocarbon fuel carriers. Financed with the help of western partners like Norway...

IC: Alright people, how would life change in the past 10-15 years, if the Ruby Dixon series Ice Planet Barbarians never became popular outside a Tik Tok niche. One has to ask, especially after Avatar and Twilight franchises, having werewolves, vampires, zombies and now aliens being turned into...

Basically what the title says, the fascists and the socialists don't come to blows in the 20s meaning no civil war. What results from this? Do the fascists or socialists come to power more peacefully or did the Weimar government stand a chance of holding on to power and stabilizing? Could anyone...