vietnam war

Otl, Lyndon B. Johnson didn't escalate military measures in Vietnam, favoring to negotiate with Ho Chi Minh. He opted for a second referendum, and that if the south voted to unite with the north, he wouldn't stop Ho, so long as those who wished to, had a year to leave. He focused on the...

Something I have been thinking about for years is the following. What if the China - USSR conflict which OTL began in 1969 happened 10 years earlier? Maybe do to an earlier death of Stalin? With the USSR and China locked in a bitter cold war 10 years earlier than OTL. That would mean less tech...

THE IRON CURTAIN Speaking before Petrograd University in 1946, Winston Churchill first used the phrase "Iron Curtain" to describe what at that time was already becoming readily apparent: the division of Europe following the conflagration of the Second World War into an communist-dominated West...

Nixon's victory in the 1968 US Presidential election is known as one of the great comebacks in American political history: after narrowly losing to JFK in 1960 and being humiliated by Pat Brown in 1962, Nixon defeated Hubert Humphrey and became the 37th US President. But Nixon won only narrowly...

Military Assistance Command: Vietnam was not a proper theater-level command, it was only ever an assistance and advisory group that was given far too many responsibilities. One possibility to avoid the infamous administrative muddle, would be to completely reorganize the US Forces in South...

We have all talked about it, but it has been done. Chip Zdarsky has written a nifty comic mini-series which details what would happen in Marvel characters didn't maintain their same age in a "sliding time scale". As such, the series details, "On this Earth, many Marvel heroes such as Spider-Man...

Following his brother Ted's advice, RDK decided not to run for President in 1968. Instead he endorsed Eugene McCarthy after the New Hampshire primary. In his autobiography, Ted Kennedy said that the endorsement happened only after a crucial meeting with McCarthy, who agreed to support RFK's...

The 1972 US Presidential election was a wipeout for President Richard Nixon, who defeated Senator George McGovern with 49 states to 1. This outcome was far from preordained: the US had gone through a recession in Nixon's term and the continuing Vietnam War and civil unrest were unpopular. In...

There have been many threads on this site about RFK's last campaign (some of them by me), and whether or not he would have been nominated and/or elected President in 1968. But one thing that's sometimes glossed over is 1972: if (narrowly) elected in 1968, would RFK have been re-elected in 1972?

What if, instead of running for President himself, RFK decides to endorse Eugene McCarthy in the 1968 Democratic primaries? Who wins the 1968 Democratic nomination and ultimately the general election? Assuming that RFK's assassination is butterflied, how does his career pan out from 1968?

In 1954, President Eisenhower wanted to intervene in Vietnam after the French lost the First Indochina War. However, the Democrats in Congress made their support for intervention contingent on British policy. Prime Minister Winston Churchill opposed intervention, so the Congressional Democrats...

In response to the US support of the South Vietnamese government,a faction of the Viet Cong hijacked three commercial airliners to attack the US in 1963.Two crashed into the Empire State Building while the third one crashed into the White House,successfully killing then president John F Kennedy...

Your challenge, with a POD no earlier than January 1, 1961, is to maintain the Republic of Vietnam as an independent state (even if only nominally so) up to at least 2000. It can re-integrate with the North by diplomatic means any time after that, but should not lose independence by means of...

Hubert Humphrey served as the 37th US President from 1969 to 1973. Your challenge is to evaluate Humphrey's administration. Was Humphrey a good or bad President? Was he somewhere in the middle?

The POD is Humphrey decides to actively contest the 1972 Democratic presidential primaries from the beginning and he ultimately wins the nomination. After picking his running mate at the convention, Humphrey faces President Richard Nixon a second time in the general election. Who might Humphrey...

Similar to another recent thread of mine on Truman and Korea, I'd like to ask about how Truman might have handled Vietnam. In 1950 Dewey gave extensive aid and military advisers to the French in order to help them reclaim their colonies in Indochina. This effort failed as Vietnam defeated France...

Recognizing that the Vietnam War was unwinnable, LBJ continued JFK's de-escalation of US involvement. While some advisers told Johnson to initiate a bombing campaign and unleash American ground forces, LBJ took the counsel of Vice-President Hubert Humphrey and refused to intervene militarily...

Had Hubert Humphrey been elected in 1968, would he have won a second term in 1972?

The legendary journalist was an extremely heavy smoker and died of lung cancer at the age of 57. In the years before his death, however, he'd moved from journalism into government service - JFK put him in charge of the US Information Agency, and he was appointed to the National Security Council...

The POD is Humphrey reveals Nixon sabotaged the Vietnam Peace Talks before the 1968 election. Humphrey wins in a surprise upset and becomes America's 37th President. Humphrey scores an early victory when he negotiates an end to the war in 1969, but the 1970 midterms and the fall of Saigon in...