This would be an American idea proposed at the height of American influence. Also having a model city would be a feather in the cap and a source of a lot of jobs.
Under these circumstances the international city would be built in North America. The reasons I think are obvious.
1) North...
In our world, the UK had Lend Lease and US naval help (indirect), and also England out organized Germany.
With US neutrality, Britain strangled by the blockade (this and not invasion is what Churchill feared), and with the UK running short on funds, it becomes quite realistic for Nazi Germany...
I get that SeaLion is the in-house joke, but I felt the OP question was meant seriousily.
Yes Hitler deciding in June 1940 (POD Hitler wins Battle of Britain) it was time to invade Britain in a few months was hopeless endeavor. Thus SeaLion working out even if Germany won the Battle of...
The US Military once wrote its own Alternate History for its Wargames
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-u-s-army-once-created-a-whole-alternate-history-for-its-war-games-e733acd8438d
The premise is that in the late 1940s the Circle Trigon Party rises in the ruins of Western Europe...
I think it would be hard, but not impossible, to send the Ford team to Prison. All cars are compromise designs. To make a really safe car with pre-airbag technology it would have to look like a tank and go 30 miles per hour max.
Of course that car would get terrible gas mileage, be really...
Because of his current reputation, people forget how accomplished Hoover was and how he was admired by people in both parties.
He was actually a very strong and very moderate choice for the Republican Nomination. In a different time he could have been an effective President.
However, he...
Good sleuthing for this article.
I think the US would have offered a Brits a lot of under the table support even if there was a British reversal, but I think Reagan was trying to avoid anything that would strike Latin America as 'Yankee Imperialism'. In the eyes of many Latin Americans...
Yes, that is eactly what I was talking about. With its large crowds and mild security it would be the place to try some spectacular act of terror. If you tried something like that in a big city there would be a SWAT team responding within the hour. There are no big city SWAT teams hanging out...
The organization would need some sort of concrete goal that they can rally behind, like the destruction of Israel (PLO) or the restoration of Muslim greatness (you know who).
Unlike in Vietnam or Iraq, American arms were no longer propping up a government that couldn't stand by itself without...
Hard to say. Malcolm was becoming more moderate and King was becoming more radical, but they were far from being on the same page.
First the idea of them both surviving an assination attempt is not far fetched. Most assinations fail and neither killers were professionals.
Malcolm X was a...
Thanks guys for showing me the German Torpedo Bomber. I agree it would be very tough to pull this off. Suppose the Germans some how succeeded. Is anybody familar enough with London geography to tell how much damage this would do?
I am going by East Coast America cities which are above sea...
Consolidating industries do go through these types of mergers, but the decline of soda has been slow, and I believe Coke has heaviy invested in alternate drinks like teas, sports drinks etc. Maybe Pepsi has done this as well, but is better known for investing in fast food like KFC, Taco Bell...
I assume you are talking about in the context of WWII.
If you have ever seen the movie Dam Busters (about destroying dams in Germany) you know how tricky this can be.
Did the Germans have any torpedo bombers? I never heard of them. You would need good torpedos, or a very specialized...
Oh, please feel free to criticize, this is a very low probability outcome that the UK would lose. However it is hardly ASB espcially if the Brits suffered through some bad luck or made some bad decisions.
You accuse the british subs of being useless. Yet, the British SSNs are hardly useless and...