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  1. WI: Europe dominated space exploration from the 50s onwards, instead of the US.

    In 1956 the combined GDPs of Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Greece, Portugal, the UK and West Germany was 87% of that of the USA and that improved over the next 20years. This suggests that the economy of western Europe was large enough to have a space program that could...

  2. WI: Spain joins the Allies in WWII

    Franco did try to join the United Nations before the Japanese surrender and was rebuffed, since the war was still going on any nation joining the UN was in effect declaring war on the Axis powers. Spain wasn't actually accepted as a member of the United Nations until 1955.

  3. WI: Moon Landing Schedule Botched

    There were a lot of people who thought the Apollo program was a waste of money and I suspect that the Nixon administration would have cancelled the project if there was no moon landing by 1970. The failure could be placed on the democrats who conceived the idea in the first place and the money...

  4. Australian WI: Malcolm Fraser Calls A Snap Election In 1982

    The year 1982 started with the retirement of former Prime Minister McMahan which saw Labor win his former seat of Lowe in a by-election. A month later the second largest state elected a labor government for the first time in 27 years. A month later the smallest state elected a Liberal government...

  5. WI: Atomic Bomb Ready in June 1944

    An atomic bomb on Hitler's mountain retreat on the 6th of June 1944 would eliminate the head of the Nazi government and several members of his inner circle, although not Himmler. A second atomic bomb two or three weeks later on whoever replaces Hitler would paralyse the Nazi government and might...

  6. Would the Nazis ever moderate in time ?

    I don't believe that Nazism was an economic theory, it was a social theory. Unlike Soviet Communism that used repression as a tool to support their economic theory the Nazis used the economy to support their social theory. I say social rather than racial because pure Aryan Homosexuals and those...

  7. Why were battles decisive in the Napoleonic Wars and not the Civil War?

    The battle of Austerlitz, was fought after the French had captured the Austrian capital, if the Army of Northern Virginia had fought and lost a battle after the loss of Richmond, would future generations refer to that battle as decisive?

  8. How Long Could Lettow-Vorbeck Have Kept Fighting?

    With the exception of two Royal Navy cruisers deployed to the East African coast there would be no affect on the greater extent of the war. The black Africans who fought ( called Askari ) would not have been recruited into the military at all while those from India would have returned to the...

  9. AHC: Make dog, cat and generally pet meat an acceptable foodstuff in Europe.

    Dogs and Cats are eaten in societies that have low rates of pet ownership, you can't go to a restaurant to eat a meal that includes braised dog and then return home and play with your own dog in your back yard. From what I have been told, it takes at least two days for the odour of what your...

  10. WHEN would an young officer just miss WW1

    Harold Abrahams completed his officer training in the British Army and never saw combat and Heinrich Himmler completed his officer training in the Bavarian Army and also never saw combat. So I would say between 15th December 1899 and the 7th of October 1900.

  11. AHC/WI: The Boxer Rebellion Succeeds

    So if Herbert Hoover dies in Peking, who becomes President in 1928 and does that reduce FDR's chances in 1932?

  12. Scotland Votes Yes: First Forty-Eight Hours.

    If Scotland became a separate country, then the 800,000 or so Scots living south of the border would become aliens. Does that mean that they would have to return to Scotland to apply for Scottish Passports and then apply for working visas so they could live and work south of the border?

  13. Weirdest plausible sports

    The good old days, before helmets.

  14. AHC: Coup d'état by Wellington

    The reason this is so unlikely is because Britain had already had a military dictatorship in the seventeenth century and they didn't like it. You could say that the interplay between politics and the military since then was designed to prevent Wellington or someone like him from staging a Coup...

  15. Galland's "Big Blow"

    A huge do or die battle with the last of their resources in a battle that doesn't stop the Russians from reaching Berlin, I'm surprised they didn't do it.

  16. France allied with germany ww1

    If Germany realised in 1875 that the occupation of Alsace-Lorraine was the impediment to a lasting peace between France and Germany then they might decide to trade land for peace. And if it occurred early enough then they might become allies before a general European war. The real problem is...

  17. WI: Atom Bomb On Tokyo Kills the Emperor

    By the end of the war in the pacific there were still about 97000 POWs still living, giving a survival rate of 73%. I don't remember the source, so it could be false, but I remember hearing that the third atomic bomb was actually earmarked for Tokyo on the 19th of August. From this I had...

  18. So really, what would have happened had the Boxer Rebellion been successful?

    So if Herbert Hoover dies before he goes into politics, who becomes President and could anyone else have won against FDR in 1932?

  19. WI the British expulsed French Canadians?

  20. Alternate Olympic sports

    20/20 Cricket was played at the 2010 Asian Games held in China and the Chinese fielded teams in the men's and women's competitions, the women came fourth. As for the USA, they were represented at the 2004 champions trophy, the 2010 and 2006 under 19 world cups. Russia have made no impression on...
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