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  1. THE BLACK AND THE GRAY

    Why? Until Atlanta falls the South thinks it has a prayer of a chance and it wouldn't send such a mission if they had a prayer of a chance. There was A REASON why it wasn't sent in 1864, namely the South wasn't going to give up slavery except under two conditions 1)Northern force of arms or 2)...

  2. Stalin dies Feb 1945

    Let's say things get so uncertain that the West winds up with all of Germany, a third of Poland and all of Czechloslavakia.

  3. 1943 Invasion of France

    Not enough, with the Luftwaffe very much still around the Germans drive the Allies back into the sea.

  4. Military overthrow

    Certainly much more likely then a military coup. The rank and file soldiers would never support it en masse.

  5. Stalin dies Feb 1945

    Do you think there could be a long period of uncertainty where the party has no idea of what to do?

  6. Stalin dies Feb 1945

    Sounds likely, who do you think would finally take over once the dust settles?

  7. 1864 "The South by a nose"

    What incentives could outweigh giving up a good portion of the country? There are no realistic incentives that the Brits could give that would outweigh that.

  8. If the south won the war....

    That and the fact that allowing the South just go its own way would weaken the government, probably fatally.

  9. Stalin dies Feb 1945

    I think Molotov would get the nod as Beria would be the one most blamed by the army for the purges of the military since Stalin is gone. I don't think the army would trust Beria enough and their support is needed.

  10. Stalin dies Feb 1945

    I guess that is possible but military coups are fairly rare in Russian history.

  11. The Japanese lose two carriers at Pearl Harbor

    Let's split the difference and make it Soryu and Akagi.

  12. Stalin dies Feb 1945

    Stalin dies in the shower by slipping on soap and cracking his head open. Of course the war doesn't change much, maybe the Germans lose 2 weeks later or so then OTL but not much else. How does it effect the post-war though? Who would replace Stalin? Molotov? Beria?

  13. AH Challenge: France in the ACW

    It would have to be REAL whacko aggressive to try and pull that stunt. Sending thousands of troops thousands of miles overseas and keeping them supplied is far from cheap.

  14. If the south won the war....

    Maybe not forever but for a long, long time. Also US support of Prussia earlier (If only to pay back the French) would make Germany that much stronger by the time WWI comes around.

  15. If the south won the war....

    The only one of the three mentioned that might have money to invest is the Netherlands. Brazil and Portugal together have squat and it matters little if they invest in the Confederacy or not. Without a rich nation like France or England the South is going to be chronically short of cash. As...

  16. If the south won the war....

    Cotton isn't going to do it. GB isn't going to import cotton in the late 19th century when Eygpt and India are supplying particularly if the South still has slavery and it would until at least 1900.

  17. If the south won the war....

    Why in God's name would it? Why would the Union hand over land to its enemy? You might as well think France would hand over land to England in the early 19th century.

  18. If the south won the war....

    Which still boils down to , it was about slavery. Also you are wrong about world wide bycott, if they changed their laws over that it would look like giving in to blackmail both at home and abroad. It would only strengthen the pro-slavery groups as even those more lukewarm about slavery don't...

  19. If the south won the war....

    Maybe, but that isn't the point. The point is the South seceded because they didn't like the man who was the freely elected president of the US. They didn't like him because he would limit slavery to where it already existed. IOW, slavery was the root cause.

  20. If the south won the war....

    Wrong, even South Carolina seceded AFTER Lincoln's election.http://americanhistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.historyplace.com%2Fcivilwar%2Findex.html
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