Title says it all. I think it's pretty common to see America wanks in the alternate history community or just timelines in general where America has better standing. These might be timelines where standard of living/quality of life is better, America has better relations with other nations, or the US holds more territory. I'm wondering how many PODs the community can think of, whether it be an election turning out different, a war turning different, some domestic agenda being more successful, or something else.
I've compiled a few more common ones but it'd be interesting to hear about the more obscure PODS.
I've compiled a few more common ones but it'd be interesting to hear about the more obscure PODS.
- Canada is incorporated into United States during the Revolutionary War or War of 1812
- Reconstruction is more successful because Lincoln lives or some other reason
- TR wins 1912 and institutes New Deal style reforms decades earlier
- FDR lives out his 4th term, instituting his 2nd Bill of Rights and changing geopolitics post-WWII
- Democrats win in 1968 or 2000
- New Deal reforms aren't cut down in latter half of 20th century
- Space race escalates further
- Federal-Aid Highway Act is more limited, protecting American communities and public transport.
- Jones Act never passes
- Nuclear energy embraced much more
- Polk's desires post Mexican-American War are realized.
- US honors Treaty of Fort Pitt
- US participates in Congress of Panama (1826)