Interesting AH ideas that aren't commonly used

[cmakk1012]

An alternate conclusion to the Turkish War of Independence that sees Greece do slightly better (more of Thrace and a strip of Ionia, probably), leading to enosis a few decades later.

On a tangentially related but at the same time wildly different (and pre-1900) note, a clear successor to Menandros I Soter establishes a strong and lasting Indo-Greek state

 

[lerk]

An alternate conclusion to the Turkish War of Independence that sees Greece do slightly better (more of Thrace and a strip of Ionia, probably), leading to enosis a few decades later.

Speaking of which, a larger Greco-Turkish conflict because of the Cyprus ordeal in the 1970s would make for a fun TL.

 

[Alcsentre Calanice]

* J. Edgar Hoover doesn't go into law enforcement. A POD? Maybe he gets drafted on completion of college 1916 and gets sent to Mexico with the Pancho Villa Expediton.

In the army, he then gets a dishonorable discharge for "sodomy" and achieves nothing of interest in his life.

 

[Tales Weaver]

In the army, he then gets a dishonorable discharge for "sodomy" and achieves nothing of interest in his life.

Or.. He is killed in action during the pancho villa expedition and is awarded Medal of honor posthumously.

 

[KuboCaskett]

Seems like something you'd need to construct rather than launch off the bat as a PoD.

Well having a post-1900 POD to ensure Taisho democracy holds on would count; that and China somehow being in better shape to take on Japan at least, basically almost 2 PODs in one scenario.

 

[Driftless]

In the army, he then gets a dishonorable discharge for "sodomy" and achieves nothing of interest in his life.

Hmmm,.... Maybe he re-invents himself with a new name and becomes a tabloid reporter, digging up/creating dirt on the rich and famous...

 

[Deleted member 67076]

Abdul Salam Arif wins the power struggle against Abd al-Karim Qasim during the Iraqi Revolution of 1957, and the pro Nasserist Arif joins Nasser's Arab Union of Egypt and Syria. The results would be immense, since Arif was a staunch Nasserist and Iraq's economy would be more suitable for Nasserist economic policies than Syria was, while Iraq's much larger population, size, and military would allow the Syrians to effectively be subsumed by Egypt and Iraq with little issue.

 

[unclepatrick]

6. The Cuban missile crisis leads to an all out war.

I seen a number of Cuban Missile Crisis that turn into full blown Nuclear War.
What I never seen is a timeline were the US invade but no one choses to lunch Nuclear Weapons.
Would the USSR really have been willing to risk full destruction for Cuba?
Remember that The Soviet were the people in charge of the Nukes in Cuba.

 

[The Red]

Well having a post-1900 POD to ensure Taisho democracy holds on would count; that and China somehow being in better shape to take on Japan at least, basically almost 2 PODs in one scenario.

The Taisho democracy holding on is an interesting idea but it feels a bit contrived after that. Too many steps for it to really be an idea rather than a scenario.

 

[Amadeus]

An Earl Warren Presidency. The best option for him would be Dewey winning in 1948 and 1952 (provided that a change in defense policy butterflies the Korean War), and Warren is elected in 1956.

 

[historybuff]

That would be a nice TL.

It would One I don't think is covered that often, is FDR having another VP besides Truman in '45, like James Burnes, I believe his name was.

 

[BigBlueBox]

Mass repression of Slovenes and Croats is what happens, especially since that already happened IOTL

It wouldn't be as bad as OTL though, because while Italy would still be nationalist, it wouldn't become fascist.

 

[cmakk1012]

It wouldn't be as bad as OTL though, because while Italy would still be nationalist, it wouldn't become fascist.

It’s the nationalism that’s the real issue, though. And the ethnic picture in the region was genuinely complex—Fiume/Rijeka, for instance, was IIRC majority Italian in the city proper until WWII, which just boosts the Italians’ attempts to “Italianize” the rural population.

 

[Kodoku]

The Left-Wing Kuomintang taking over instead of rightist elements is an idea that thoroughly interests me.

 

[Amadeus]

like James Burnes, I believe his name was.

Right. During FDR's third term he was known as the "Assistant President." He wanted to be VP in 1944, but received little real support because he was an anti labor segregationist who was raised a Catholic but became a Protestant when he got married. Essentially he was hated by a supermajority of Democrats and he was never going to be made VP unless FDR wanted to lose the election.

 

[Zhukov]

The Left-Wing Kuomintang taking over instead of rightist elements is an idea that thoroughly interests me.

This is part of a timeline I've been working on actually. It still needs more work and research into it though. So far I have Liao Zhongkai being wounded during his attempted assassination in 1925, but narrowly surviving. Hu Hanmin is still arrested which leaves the KMT executive committee dominated by its left-wing. More left and communist figures are appointed to command positions so they are able to overcome the Canton Coup in 1926, furthering weakening the right. Unfortunately there seems to be a lack of good English language sources on this era in China which makes it harder to write.

 

[The Militant Doberman]

There are a few scenarios listed in this article but I am particularly fascinated by this one:

A Copyright Claim Could Have Balkanized The Internet

Imagine living in a world where “the” Internet had been replaced by multiple Internets, where competing browsers were completely incompatible, information was kept on strict, closed loops, and getting online meant choosing which company’s vision of the web you wanted to buy into. There’d be no vast, shared experience like Twitter, no popular list-based websites, and no Internet as we know it. In 1992, this world nearly happened.

In an interview with Time magazine in 2001, Tim Berners-Lee revealed that he seriously considered patenting the webnot long after its launch. He and a friend consulted with lawyers about going the money route and setting up their own company, something which potentially could have made them both millions. Ultimately, Berners-Lee rejected the idea, preferring to focus on the tech side of things and keep the web open to all. That decision could have easily gone the other way.

Had that happened, you wouldn’t be reading this now. In 2011, TechDirt compiled a list of potential differences if the web had been patented, and the results were insane. You’d have no Google. Search would be abysmal. Everyone would be restricted to tiny, walled gardens, only able to communicate and interact with those subscribed to the same company. Smartphones would have probably never come about. Our whole world would be less connected and more technologically backward.

Just imagine: no internet as we know it. No social media. No Facebook, no Twitter, no Tumblr and no toxic online cultures arising from them. No Western attempts to institute regime-change via SMs.

 

[joho6411]

Hmmm.... how about in 1948 the King of Jordan does not interfere with General John "Pasha" Bagot-Glubb's tactics and as a result, the Royal Jordanian Army captures Jerusalem, divides the Israeli's forces in half, and the infant nation of Israel is strangled in its' cradle shortly after its' birth in 1948.

Joho .

 

[Evil Crusader]

Italy receiving all the promised territory at the end of the WW1.

No strong revanchism > no fascism uprising > no nazi uprising either > the f is going to happen.

Fascism is born in Serbia, under a different name; maybe Draža Mihailović gets the honor, or maybe Ante Pavelic does.

I mean, it's not like Yugoslavia was particularly stable, and that settlement would make the main raison d'être of the state a moot point. I can definitely see it happening there.

 

[KuboCaskett]

Fascism is born in Serbia, under a different name; maybe Draža Mihailović gets the honor, or maybe Ante Pavelic does.

I mean, it's not like Yugoslavia was particularly stable, and that settlement would make the main raison d'être of the state a moot point. I can definitely see it happening there.

Hmm, that's pretty interesting, talk about a serious case of "in spite of a nail" here.