united states

What if the Bolsheviks never take over Russia? Thus preventing the Soviet Union from ever existing, and more than likely preventing the spread of Communism to any other country of significance. What I'm interested in is how this specifically effects American politics. Would socialism or...

In September 1847, the Battle for Mexico City was raging. During the attack on Chapultepec Castle, a young American officer was wounded. That officer was Captain Robert E. Lee. What if Lee had been killed instead of just wounded? What impact would it have had?

We all know how things went for the USA IOTL. Your challenge is to make it far more successful.

Is it possible, with a post-1900 PoD, for there to be an US city east of the Mississipi River which could replace Las Vegas, or compete with her, as the country’s “capital of vice”, whose economy is very dependent on the gambling industry?

During the American Civil War, there was a lot of suspense over whether the remaining slave states would stay in the Union or join the seceding states. Virginia was no exception. Things were touch-and-go for a while, but as we all know, Virginia ended up staying in the Union. What if Virginia...

So, yeah, I think we can agree that life has sucked for the Native Americans over all after being absorbed into the United States. Between the Indian Removal Act to the Trail of Tears, relations haven't been the beast between American settlers and the Natives, either. So, I challenge you...

There's no dean scream here folks, he wins it and takes the White House by storm. His foreign policy is unprecedented, and so are his domestic policies for an entire eight years. Then McCain swoops in with his own agenda just as Islamic extremist terrorism is bearing its ugly head once again in...

Is it at all realistic or plausible for the American War of Independence to radicalise itself into a manner like that of the First French Republic? Would Thomas Paine ever be able to gain enough traction himself to directly challenge Congress? Are there others like him who would likely side...

With a POD of 1935, how many states could an alternate United States achieve and what would they be? As of then, the 48 contiguous states had all been admitted with the OTL states of Alaska and Hawaii still left to go. Some ideas: Absaroka goes big? It had a decentish following but it died...

So far, there has yet to be US States that begin with the following seven letters: B, E, J, Q, X, Y, and Z. So, your challenge is to the complete alphabet with US states that begin with those same exact letters.

March 1847 "Workingmen of all countries unite!” It was those simple words etched onto paper that sent Europe into revolt. While some historians argue that the social unrest and liberal desires in Europe were building since the ages of Napoleon, it is hard to argue that the release of Karl...

One of my favorite works here is 1983: Doomsday and that hinges on a Soviet false alarm being acted on by someone who isn't Petrov. Something that it's made me think of is something like this happening more recently, and thought about Russia getting a false alarm a couple weeks after MH 17 was...

https://www.history.com/topics/space-exploration/moon-landing-1969 Seeing as the Moon landing is coming up in a few weeks (about 18 more days if I recall) I had an idea for an alt-history. What if instead of placing a US flag on the Moon, Neil Armstrong plants a United Nations flag. Would this...

As we all know, South America is one of the most powerful regions in the world. Home to one of the only superpowers that survived the Cold War, Brazil. It has in the South of the continent some of the most developed nations of the world like Argentina, Chile that together of the Nordic...

Synopsis Suppose, if only for a minute, what if the longest serving president in America had served a little longer? Welcome to Long May He Serve, my timeline on that what if. We'll follow events starting off from April 12, when FDR actually died, and go on for as long as I can. So sit back in...

I’m writing a TL, where essentially the United States sort of breaks up before the constitution is ratified. New England, New York, and Carolina (NC, SC, and GA) break off around 1789 and a rump US remains. At some point in the 1910s or 1920s I want these countries to come back together to...

What would United States politics, in both internal and external matters (but principally the question of the North-South Divide), look like if the Atlantic Slave Trade had never been suppressed by Britain, either through her not managing to wrest control over the Atlantic Ocean from France and...

Following the Declaration of Independence, the United States did not initially use the Stars and Stripes design we know today, and instead used a design known as the Grand Union Flag: What if, for whatever reason, the Continental Congress decided to retain this flag? What would be the...

*What would TV shows be like if this were all a country? *How would they watch the news? *How many time zones would there be?

Say that Britain in the 1840s has strategic or economic interests in California and sees it as best for them to prevent a wider, violent conflict between the U.S. and Mexico over the region. Could they possibly act as a mediator over the situation and prevent the Mexican-American War? Could...