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    NATO stops short of the Yalu

    Firstly, it is important to note that forces fighting in Korea did not come under NATO command and were not activated as part of the North Atlantic Alliance. Forces in Korea were activated by the United Nations and came under a unified UN command; that's why countries such as Thailand, the...
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    WI the WALLIES invade Switzerland?

    Interning airmen was in accordance with International Law, and prevented them otherwise ending up in German POW camps, or being shot trying to make their way through occupied Europe. The Allies did have valid grievances however; the Swiss exported arms to Germany and Italy, and allowed German...
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    NASA goes ahead with super-heavy Nova rockets: Impact on Space Commercialization?

    Just call it a tonne or a metric ton for god's sake!
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    Alternate Large US Cities

    You don't even need to do that; just have the Union army or navy seize Charleston without a prolonged siege and use the city as the main logistics hub for campaigning in the Carolinas and Georgia.
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    Space Shuttle Challenger in-flight aborts

    The SRB's couldn't be jettisoned while still firing?
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    Impact of Axis Norway and Sweden?

    When the Norwegian government fled to Britain, it took with it almost the entire Norwegian merchant navy, one of the largest merchant fleets in the world, including some 242 oil tankers and more than 400 ships of over 2500 tons dry weight. In this scenario almost all of them would remain out of...
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    WI: The FDA doesn’t approve oral contraceptives in the 1960s?

    There would be a thriving market for illegal oral contraceptives smuggled in from Canada.
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    Interesting AH ideas that aren't commonly used

    LBJ is the 1960 Democratic presidential nominee.
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    Second Peninsular War: Hitler invades Spain

    Franco didn't refuse to enter the war at Hendaye, just the opposite in fact; he stated what he wanted Spain to gain from the war, and stipulated the military and economic assistance he expected Germany to provide Spain in order for the them to effectively fight and cope with the disruption to...
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    Interesting AH ideas that aren't commonly used

    The problem with this is that, unlike the atomic bomb, the jet engine didn't require any radical scientific breakthroughs; it was just an inevitable extrapolation of existing ideas that became possible once mechanical engineering and the metallurgy made it practicable; that's why it was...
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    WI: The Allies Advance into Germany in 1918

    Had the allied rejected the German appeal for an armistice, then history would have condemned the men concerned for their bloodlust; needlessly prolonging a war that had already gone on far too long and consumed far too many lives. It needs to be pointed out that the allied armies, of which the...
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    If Mussolini is assassinated on July 4, 1934, what happens to the Austrian Nazi putsch on July 25th?

    No-one in the Fascist Grand Council was at that time, including Mussolini. And Italy had guaranteed Austrian independence the year before.
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    Amy Winehouse alive today

    And of alcohol poisoning; toxicology showed that she had no drugs (other than the alcohol) in her system.
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    Amy Winehouse alive today

    Funnily enough, I heard Rehab on the radio at lunch time today. And that brings me to the only significant change I can think of; Rehab wouldn't sound so ironic if she were still alive.
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    If Mussolini is assassinated on July 4, 1934, what happens to the Austrian Nazi putsch on July 25th?

    While it is true that there was a significant personal factor in the Italian response to Drollfuss's assassination (Mussolini and Dollfuss were good friends and Mussolini had to personally break the news of the assassination to Dollfuss's widow Alwine, who was holidaying at his villa when the...
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    No M/R Pact - could the Wallies have intervened militarily in Poland?

    And the Romanians had just seen what that was worth; so no, no more likely than was historically the case.
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    How Long Would Kerensky's Government Have Lasted if He Withdrew From WWI?

    It's not a valid assessment; had the SR and Mensheviks in the Petrograd Soviet responded to the overwhelming evidence that Lenin was about to stage a coup, the Bolshevik putsch would have been dead in the water. As to a fascist style coup, it was never on the cards. Militarily the best option...
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    How Long Would Kerensky's Government Have Lasted if He Withdrew From WWI?

    The Bolsheviks seized power from the Soviets through an armed coup. That they did so while proclaiming the slogan "All Power to the Soviets" should not disguise the fact that they were taking power from the established multi-party Soviets. It would have fallen immediately; the overwhelming...
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    Reform Party McCain in 2000

    Gore would have been sworn in as the 43rd president of the United States and McCain would be remembered forever as a spoiler who split the conservative vote and gave the Democrats the White House for a further four years.
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    Effects of Population Crash

    The vast majority of flu strains come from ducks, where the virus resides in the bowel.
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