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  1. Central Powers Romania

    At the outset of the First World War, Romania was neutral and divided between a nominal alliance with Austria-Hungary and a Hohenzollern king on one side, and a generally pro-Entente political class on the other. Carol died later in 1914, and his successor favored the Entente, with the country...

  2. What would a 1910s Mexican-American War look like?

    A lot of World War I alternate history timelines and scenarios use the idea of the US getting more deeply embroiled in the Mexican Civil War, usually involving a direct conflict with the Carranza government rather than just Villa, as an easy way to get the US out of World War I, but fewer...

  3. JFK living - what does he do in Vietnam?

    Very contentious topic! Assume that Kennedy isn't assassinated and serves two full terms as President. Will elaborate later but I'm of the mind that, while he was elected as a hawk, he became less of one during his presidency and especially after the Cuban Missile Crisis, and probably would...

  4. WI: American Hippo Bill

    In 1910, Louisiana congressman Robert F. Broussard proposed the "American Hippo Bill" to introduce imported common hippopotamus from Africa to the Lousiana bayou, both to clear out the invasive water hyacinth and as a source of meat (the US being in the midst of an ongoing beef shortage at the...

  5. WI: President Irvine Lenroot

    In an effort to balance the ticket with the conservative Harding, the party bosses at the 1920 Republican National Convention favored progressive Irvine Lenroot of Wisconsin to become Harding's runnning mate. However, the conservative-leaning delegates wrested control of the nominating process...

  6. Newfoundland remains an independent dominion/country

    While today part of Canada's Atlantic provinces, Newfoundland was an independent dominion from 1907 to 1949, though from 1932 it fell under the rule of a joint Newfoundland-British commission after defaulting on its debts, which lasted until unification with Canada in 1949 after a 1948...

  7. New Orleans and the Mississippi River in a Confederate victory timeline

    In the unlikely but distinctly possible event of a Confederate victory in the Civil War, which I suspect would involve a better-enough performance that Lincoln loses to a peace Democrat in 1864, one contentious issue that often goes overlooked in Confederate ATLs is that of the Mississippi...

  8. AHC: The Coming War with Japan

    In 1991, just before the Japanese asset price bubble burst and at a point where Japan was still regarded as a rapidly rising economic force and rival (albeit a military ally) to the United States, geopolitical analyst George Friedman authored The Coming War with Japan, forecasting a further...

  9. WI: Biden nominated in 1988

    As you might know (and without getting too into the specifics of his current presidency or his 2020 bid), Biden's first of three runs for the presidency occurred in 1988. As a youngish but experienced moderate with both foreign policy expertise and blue-collar bona-fides, he was formidable in...

  10. How long can Republicans hold the Black vote?

    When freedmen gained the right to vote with the 15th Amendment, they overwhelmingly backed the Republican Party for obvious reasons. While most of them lost their right to vote in the South when Reconstruction ended, Black voters in the North continued to support the Republican Party as the...

  11. WI: Democratic Party splits in 1924

    The 1924 Democratic National Convention was the longest and one of the most contentious in American history, and took place at the height of the Ku Klux Klan's influence in both parties. The pro-Klan faction, led by former Treasury secretary William G. McAdoo (who was also Woodrow Wilson's...

  12. DBAHC: Democratic Party survives to the present day

    After the Civil War, the Democratic Party was never able to fully recover from its association with secessionism. Grover Cleveland (1884, 1892) and Woodrow Wilson (1912) were the only two Democrats to win presidential elections between 1860 and the party's final dissolution in 1955. Was this an...

  13. WI: 1952 Stalin Note leads to early German reunification

    The so-called Stalin note was a proposal offered by Joseph Stalin in 1952 to reunify Germany under a liberal democratic government on the condition that said Germany would not be allowed to join a military or economic alliance, and could only have a military to defend its own borders. The West...

  14. AHC: Sustained European presence in Africa with post-WW2 POD

    With A POD after World War II and the formation of the United Nations, what's the maximum plausible number of possessions (whether colonial or incorporated into the metropole like France's OTL modern overseas possessions) that European colonial empires could retain in Africa? The only ones that...

  15. WI: Jerry Brown wins 1992 Democratic nomination, endorsed by Perot

    Along with Massachusetts senator Paul Tsongas, Jerry Brown was the runner-up to Bill Clinton in the 1992 Democratic primaries, and combined an opposition to NAFTA with surprisingly conservative positions on taxation. Let's say his surge takes place before New Hampshire rather than after it...

  16. October 1980 release of Iranian hostages--does Carter win re-election?

    Or does stagflation still do him in and lead to a narrower Reagan victory? A bare-minimum Carter victory looks like this, by the way--Reagan won the PV by about 10% so I gave Carter every state closer than that. 297 electoral votes, coincidentally the exact same as his 1976 victory with Texas...

  17. WI: Flora MacDonald wins 1976 PC leadership contest

    Would she have been a more successful Tory leader than Joe Clark?

  18. AHC: White Dawn

    With a POD after 1905, have a war in the 20th century that takes place between a monarchist Russia as the aggressor and a coalition of all other major European powers. Do whatever you want with Japan/China/USA.

  19. How would a defeated CP Italy be treated?

    Italy joins the Central Powers in 1914 or 1915 but suffers from a British blockade plus its colonies being seized, and fails to make much of a dent into the Western Front and surrenders in the fall of 1918 after several things go as OTL (Russian Revolution, American intervention). We can assume...

  20. DBWI: Carter elected in 1976

    In perhaps the greatest political upset in American history, incumbent Gerald Ford, who was considered dead in the water after pardoning Nixon and after the 1974 midterms, narrowly defeated Jimmy Carter, the outsider governor of Georgia who endeared many but ran a vague, inept general election...
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