====== Points of Divergence : The United States of America ====== Points of divergence concerning alternate historical developments within the modern day territory of the United States. ==== Pre-Columbian ==== * **[[pods:Native Americans|Native American PODs]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=266417|DBWI: The Clovis people survived ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=155466|Discussion on more advanced Native Americans (1)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=13010|Discussion on more advanced Native Americans (2)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=191552|Ideas about more developed medieval era Amerindian civilizations]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=307876|Discussion on a more advanced native civilisation in the Pacific Northwest]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=191552|Amerindian Middle Ages]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/would-it-be-likely-to-have-a-stronger-native-population-in-the-us.437315/|Would it be likely to have a stronger native population in the US ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=258202|WI: The Knights Templar colonizing North America (like according to some legends)]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== Early Modern history ==== * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=155466|Discussion on more advanced Native Americans (1)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=13010|Discussion on more advanced Native Americans (2)]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/would-it-be-likely-to-have-a-stronger-native-population-in-the-us.437315/|Would it be likely to have a stronger native population in the US ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=264446|PODs for a non-US-centric North American union or major power]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=266398|Challenge: The Roanoke colony survives and succeeds]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=350031|The renaming of Connecticut]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/new-guernsey-not-new-jersey.27562/|New Guernsey, not New Jersey ?]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/could-new-jersey-be-a-country-on-its-on.370419/|Could New Jersey be a country on its own ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=351646|Plausibility check: California is settled by the French]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=234535|Iroquois Nation ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=263106|Plausibility check: Kingdom of Virginia]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=256807|Challenge: An earlier British America]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=102206|How likely is a balkanised America ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=282613|Alternate terms for New England ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=347344|The renaming of Maryland]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=269488|Dominion of New England lasts longer]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=270272|Russian California]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=290389|Challenge: Independent California]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=13501|Maryland absorbed into other colonies, 1692]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/wi-france-takes-new-amsterdam-new-netherlands-instead-of-the-english.221485/|WI France takes New Amsterdam/New Netherlands instead of the English ?]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== 18th century ==== * **[[pods:Seven Years War|Seven Years War Points of Divergence]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=234535|Iroquois Nation ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=302718|How could the Iroquois survive to become a US state ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=287213|Native Americans as landlords for white settlers]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/wi-plains-indians-had-sheep-in-addition-to-horses.417844/|WI Plains Indians had sheep in addition to horses ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=93057|Challenge: Very large Asian American population]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/american-frontiersmen-use-longbows-as-well-as-muskets-rifles.63923/|Challenge: American frontiersmen use longbows as well as muskets/rifles]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/no-disappointment-alternate-pacific-northwest-history.121075/|Alternate geographic exploration of the Pacific Northwest and its repercussions]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=8233|Earlier American canals]]** * **[[pods:american revolution|American Revolution Points of Divergence]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=295341|Challenge: No new slave states]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=174426|WI: The Constitutional Convention failed ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=262491|City states in the USA with a POD after 1788]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=335839|Challenge: Make German as widely spoken in the US as Spanish (with a POD no earlier than the ratification of the Constitution)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=61133|WI France hadn't sold the Louisiana territory ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=30596|Challenge: A Louisianian Revolution and secession from France (similar to the American Revolution)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=257110|Vexilology in a United States with a Hohenzollern Monarchy]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=102206|How likely is a balkanised America ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=258729|Challenge: Make every US state a separate country]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=259987|If the 13 colonies never unified, how would native confederacies fair ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=307032|WI: Vermont Republic remains independent]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=270517|A proper name for the American (US) South ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=284662|Challenge: Unitary USA]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/challenge-us-speaks-swedish.211770/|Challenge: US speaks Swedish]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=293398|WI: An 'American Republican Calendar' (as in revolutionary France)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/no-steam-how-extensive-is-us-canal-network.403148/|If steam power didn't take off, how extensive would the US' canal network be ?]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== 19th century ==== * **[[pods:United States Presidents|United States Presidents Points of Divergence]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=77512|West Point never established]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=343205|Challenge: Large French-American population (with a POD after 1803)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=35771|Challenge: Louisiana War of 1804]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/wi-independent-louisiana.405388/|WI: Independent Louisiana]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=315833|Challenge: Dissolve the USA during the XIX century]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=316370|Plausibility check: Groups who were angry about America's earlier government ?]]** * **[[pods:War of 1812|War of 1812 Points of Divergence]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=260977|Plausible size of an "Indian Barrier State" established on the Great Lakes, as per OTL British plan ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=93057|Challenge: Very large Asian American population]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=266143|Which Indian tribes would be good candidates to become states ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=347389|The USA without a Pacific coastline ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=352048|Plausibility check: US and Spain go to war over Louisiana Territory before 1840]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=267383|WI: Pensacola in Alabama ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=127105|Alternate US expansions]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=162462|The US becoming the owner of Greenland and parts of the Carribean instead of Alaska and Hawaii (with a pre-1900 POD)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=269329|Challenge: Nova Scotia a part of the USA]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=39696|West Florida stays independent (1)]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=25648|West Florida stays independent (2)]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=217280|West Florida admitted as a separate state (1)]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=265837|West Florida admitted as a separate state (2)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=158252|Kentucky abolishes slavery in 1824]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=77793|No Nat Turner Rebelion: Virginia outlaws slavery 1832]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=67400|Virginia abolishes slavery 1832]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=274189|WI: South Carolina leaves the Union during the Nullification Crisis of 1832]]** * **[[pods:Texas|Republic of Texas (or other Texan) Points of Divergence]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=164471|Avoiding the Mexican-American War (preferrably with a POD after 1835)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=260684|Challenge: Independent California]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/realistic-independent-california.300678/|Realistic independent California]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=245989|Divided Californias]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=59270|British California and/or Texas]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=266084|Effect of earlier discovery of gold in California on negotiation at Guadalupe-Hidalgo]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/effects-of-larger-jersey-city.162670/|Effects of larger Jersey City (1)]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/hudson-country-new-jersey-merges.170030/|Effects of larger Jersey City (2)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=261219|Challenge: USA gets Cuba before the American Civil War]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=21695|Delaware ends slavery in 1847]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=240632|Missouri abolishes slavery]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/a-liberia-in-north-america.224443/|A 'Liberia' In North America]]** * **[[pods:Liberia|Liberia PODs]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/ahc-wi-texan-liberia.271258/|Challenge: Texan "Liberia"]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=270898|WI: Bourbon Democrats retain control of the party ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=337942|WI the entire Pierce family dies in a train crash in January 1853 ?]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/ahc-adopt-the-broad-gauge-in-the-us.329401/|Challenge: Adopt the Broad Gauge in the US]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=22038|WI SCOTUS abolishes slavery in the Dred Scott decision (1)]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=22039|WI SCOTUS abolishes slavery in the Dred Scott decision (2)]]** * **[[pods:Deseret|Republic (or State) of Deseret Points of Divergence]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=315410|WI there was a Pig War ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=323036|WI: Larger and more successful Sioux Uprising in 1862]]** * **[[pods:American Civil War|American Civil War Points of Divergence]]** * **[[pods:csa|Confederate States of America Points of Divergence]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=8218|Jesse James killed in Missouri in the Civil War]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=270423|Freedman California]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=254287|WI: "Indian Territory" further east]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-reconstruction-prairie-liberia-and-negro-carolina.130960/|Alternate Reconstruction: "Prairie Liberia" and "Negro Carolina"]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=284537|Challenge: Christian Socialism popular in the US]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=254999|Discussion on name changes to US states]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=102206|How likely is a balkanised America ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=88918|What would a USA without highly protectionist trade policies look like ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=259283|WI the US gets the Baja Peninsula in the Mexican Cession ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=158531|Why didn't the US become socialist ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=258729|Challenge: Make every US state a separate country]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=259611|WI US States could buy and sell land from each other ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=162462|The US becoming the owner of Greenland and parts of the Carribean instead of Alaska and Hawaii (with a pre-1900 POD)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=261301|Challenge: American Iceland]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=258964|Plausibility check: Could Spain narrowly win the Spanish-American War ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=270898|WI: "Bourbon Democrats" retain control of the Democratic party ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=136245|Alternate Statues of Liberty]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=22020|One-party American political system with a POD in the late 19th century]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=214727|Challenge: A world war in the Western Hemisphere]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=338561|Highway system in a larger USA]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== 20th century ==== * **[[pods:United States Presidents|United States Presidents Points of Divergence]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=204498|A bigger United States]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=298110|Plausibility check: Roosevelt plan for a US Summer Capital (in Colorado)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=254999|Discussion on name changes to US states]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=110878|Challenge: Weakest possible United States in the 20th century]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=360036|Was a military coup possible at all in the US between the 1930s and the 1940s ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=157639|WI: American Auto Wank]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=308390|WI: No M1911 semi-auto pistol ?]]** * **[[pods:WWI|World War I Points of Divergence]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=258010|Challenge : A serious Cascadian (Pacific Northwest) independence movement with a 20th century POD]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=280853|Challenge : The OTL post-WWI Alaskan independence/autonomist movement becomes more succesful]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/ahc-pc-filipino-cuban-statehood.275734/|Filipino and Cuban statehood ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=227570|Effect on US banks if the Central Powers win WWI ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=249143|If the US did not enter WWI, would Germany win ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=177937|No US entry into WWI - does the Entente still win ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=258671|Rough Riders on the Western front ?]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/wi-bessie-coleman-doesnt-die-in-1926.411115/|WI Bessie Coleman doesn't die in 1926 ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=151982|Organised crime in America without prohibiton]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=255885|American organized crime PODs and TL ideas]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=256899|Challenge: Create Native American Mobsters]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=320556|Nationalist/Fascist America vs The World]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/ahc-spanish-civil-war-analogue-in-1930s-us.198432/|Challenge: Spanish Civil War Analogue in 1930s US]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=274043|US Armed Forces in a world without WWII]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=274987|WI no Air Mail Scandal of 1930 ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=187209|USAAF never gets transformed into the USAF or undergoes different developments within the US armed forces]]** * **[[pods:WWII|World War II Points of Divergence]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=5641|WI Germany had not declared war on USA]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=25530|WI: America considering joining the Axis]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=248522|USA joins the Axis]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=89378|Japan chooses not to attack Pearl Harbour. What do Americans do ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=300461|WI the U.S. Navy had put torpedo netting around their battleships at Pearl Harbor ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=322716|Alternative attacks to Pearl Harbour ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=331046|WI: Pearl Harbor Had Been a Sea Battle]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=275114|Japanese invasion of Hawaii succeeds, but ends in disaster]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=244520|Plausibility check: How bad could the war have gone for the US when it was fighting Japan ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=271461|Plausibility check: Large-scale American anti-war movement in WWII ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=271461|Plausibility check: Large-scale American anti-war movement in WWII ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=226481|Plausibility check: American intervention in the Chinese Civil War ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=313683|How would politics in the US develop without the Cold War ?]]** * **[[pods:Cold War|Cold War Points of Divergence]]** * **[[pods:Korean War|Korean War Points of Divergence]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=280623|Challenge: Prevent the Great American Streetcar Scandal]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=313848|Challenge: Prevent the extinction of the jaguar in the US]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=176971|Challenge: Conservative Counterculture]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=159165|An ATL 1960s counterculture in an USA which lost WWII]]** * **[[pods:Vietnam War|Vietnam War Points of Divergence]]** * **[[pods:Spaceflight|Spaceflight Points of Divergence]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=251213|Why hasn't Handball caught on in the US ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=82313|Challenge: Keep the US from being a superpower after 1945]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=213266|Challenge: Save American cities from badly thought out urban renewal]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/ahc-less-anti-feminist-postwar-us.303562/|Challenge: A less anti-feminist postwar US]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=215051|Challenge: Avert the Long Hot Summer of 1967]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=258285|Would a non-existent Vietnam War casue less riots in 1967 ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=4096|Challenge : US force projection in Gulf as uncontroversial as in Europe & Pacific]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=223337|WI the US military retains the M-14 rifle ? (1)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=143144|WI the US military retains the M-14 rifle ? (2)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=183243|WI the US adopted the FN FAL ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=257467|SIG 226 beating out the Beretta 92 as the US service pistol]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=256148|WI: CVLs for the modern US Navy]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=337846|Non-US designed Aircraft in servive with the USAF/USN/USMC]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=266154|What if Charles Manson didn't exist ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=252011|Challenge: Keep Detroit from dying]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=178716|Challenge and WI: No War on Drugs]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/challenge-feminist-female-president-late-70s-usa.210594/|Challenge: Feminist female president in late 70s USA]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=11269|WI the Conch Republic seriously gains independence ? (1)]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=9963|WI the Conch Republic seriously gains independence ? (2)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=296502|Plausibility check: Last chance to save Detroit]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/angola-and-mozambique-mid-late-1970s-direct-us-military-involvement.11191/|Plausibility check: Direct US involvement in Angola and Mozambique during the mid-to-late 1970s ?]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/fords-folly-the-us-war-in-angola.332651/|US war in Angola during the presidency of Gerald Ford]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/ahc-who-lost-angola-or-yemen-or-congo-and-the-3rd-american-red-scare.408912/|Challenge: A Third American Red Scare caused by communist takeovers in Angola and elsewhere]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/wi-hovercraft-passenger-ferries-on-the-great-lakes-and-mississippi-river-system.508895/|WI: Hovercraft passenger ferries on the Great Lakes and Mississippi river system]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=188472|M1 series cancelled, M60A4 project instead]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=236746|America's fighting women: A search for good PODs on women being admitted as frontline troops]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=316325|WI: Apple goes under in the 1990s]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=273957|WI: The first black president was a Republican ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=201229|Challenge: Metro Expo Line in LA underground]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== 21st century ==== * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=273957|WI: The first black president was a Republican ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=201229|Challenge: Metro Expo Line in LA underground]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=267794|WI: Capitol destroyed on 9/11]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== Miscellaneous ==== * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=152074|American cities that could have been more prominent]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=333495|Underused American political PODs/scenarios ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=349692|How would American culture be different with the draft ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=260088|Challenge: Unite the Third Party Tendencies of the US in 1890s-1930s]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=262435|Supreme Court Cases as PODs]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=284927|Alternate people on US dollars (primarily non-politicians)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=146789|Unbuilt America : Forgotten architecture from Thomas Jefferson to the space age]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=247430|How many people can live in Alaska ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=259586|Great Lakes fortifications]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=331772|Alternate American cultural capitals]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=351938|Challenge: New York City not the largest US city in 2100]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/ahc-independent-alaska.214329/|Challenge: Independent Alaska (with POD between 1799 and today)]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== ASB / ISOT / Geological ==== * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=241407|U.S. Military ISOTed to 1900 United States]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/wi-1998-unted-states-kenya-and-tanzania-isot-to-1961.264324/|WI: 1998 United States, Kenya and Tanzania ISOTed to 1961]]** * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/us-with-the-population-of-the-vatican-city.295395/|US gets its population proportionally rescaled to that of Vatican City]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ---- ==== See Also ==== **[[offtopic:USA]]** **[[timelines:USA|United States of America Timelines and Scenarios]]** **[[resources:USA|Useful Resources about The United States of America]]** ---- ==== Navigation ==== **[[Specific Countries|List of Countries by POD]]** **[[pods:pods|Points of Divergence Main Directory]]**