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  1. What if the US Air Force was subordinated to the Army?

    Random thought: What if the United States Army Air Corps had never become independent, or had only become independent from the army many years or even decades later than it did IOTL? The first idea to get this done is that Major General Oscar Westover, commander of the Army Air Corps and...

  2. Grand List of South American PODs

    A new and improved version of the old version, this time in list format to encourage more participation. Post a link to a thread, internet page or wikipedia article if you can, or post the idea as it is if you can't find a thread or proper info on it. So, What if... 1. What if Simon...

  3. A World Without Heroes: What if Superman had never existed?

    Simple, clear-cut Cultural POD: what if Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster had been unable to get Superman published? IOTL, they struggled between 1933 and 1939 to get their project done, starting with the famous "Reign of the Super-Man", in which the "Super-Man" is a villain bent on world...

  4. What if General Malet had overthrown Napoleon on October of 1812?

    General Malet, a discontent republican general that opposed Napoleon becoming an Emperor, and under arrest between 1810 and 1812, planned a Valkyrie-like operation against Napoleon on October of 1812, following the disaster that was the Russian Campaign. This is of course had to pull off...

  5. The Realm of the Mountain

    OBLIGATORY ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUE: Go here to see the original version of the TL and discuss it; all comments must go there. *** The Realm of the Mountain 風林火山 Swift as the Wind, Silent as a Forest, Fierce as Fire and Immovable as a Mountain Part I: The Tiger of Kai...

  6. WI: Mussolini Assassinated in 1926?

    April 7 of 1926: one Violet Gibson , an Irish Woman daughter of a British Baron, opens fire on Mussolini's car and murders the Italian Duce. What happens next? The only previous thread suggests that Italo Balbo would be the immediate successor, but I'm skeptic. Thoughts, Comments...

  7. WI: Nehru and Gandhi switch places?

    Simple scenario: Nehru is assassinated in 1948 and Gandhi survives. I don't expect Gandhi to become Prime Minister or anything, but what happens to India without Nehru? does that kill his political dynasty? And what does Gandhi do with his life? Retire and write his memoirs? Get a seat...

  8. If Chiang Kai-Schek's Northern Expedition of 1926 had failed.

    Random thought, but what if the Kuomingtang had fallen into disarray or Chiang Kai-Schek had not risen to power or had fallen down some stairs and cracked his skull just a few days before the Northern Expedition against the Warlords? I imagine the Kuomingtang being reduced to Guangdong...

  9. WI: Alexander I of Yugoslavia no assassinated in 1934?

    Alexander I of Yugoslavia was not exactly taking a turn for the better after the Great Depression and the rise of European Fascism, but he was nevertheless more or less competent. What if Vlado Chernozemski is unable to go through the crowd to shoot at Alexander or something? This of...

  10. Crazy idea: The Prince of Conde joins the first Fronde in 1648.

    Now, the first Fronde was a conflict between the Parliament and the Bourgeoisie, who rose in arms against the machinations of Cardinal Mazarin, Richelieu's successor and drove him, the Queen Regent Anne of Austria and the Nobles from Paris in 1648, barricading themselves at Paris. Luckily for...

  11. What if: de Gaulle does not return?

    By 1958, the French Fourth Republic was utterly disgraced and on the edge of collapse. Indochina, Suez and Algeria were disasters which the Republic could not survive, and in May 13 of 1958 the last nail on the coffin of the 4th Republic took form as the Algiers Putsch, in which nationalist...

  12. What if: Hungary without Miklos Horthy?

    Miklos Horthy* was the quintessential cartoon tin-pot strongman: an admiral without a navy, a regent that did his best to keep the King out of the country. Horthy took over in 1920 after the failure of the Hungarian Democratic Republic and the subsequent Romanian occupation. Now, what if...

  13. Alternate First Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

    As we know, Robert Walpole became the first recognized Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1721, I think as a result of having to deal with some sort of financial crisis, and remained in that post until the poor handling of the War of Jenkins' Ear brought upon his downfall. Now, my question...

  14. Scottish Devolution in 1979

    What if the Scottish Devolution Referendum of 1979 had met with the necessary criteria so as to allow for Devolution to come to Scotland in 1979 instead of 1997? What would this do to British Politics? Would this help or damage the Scottish National Party? And what would it do to the...

  15. WI: Kurt Schumacher was elected Chancellor in 1949?

    In the elections of 1949, according to the infallible source that is wikipedia, the Socialdemocrats came first, but Adenauer was able to form a coalition between the CDU, CSU, the Free Democrats and the German Party. So...what if either the Free Democrats under Theodor Heuss or someone else...

  16. Li Zicheng strikes South: Two Chinas in 1644?

    Chinese Rebel leader Li Zicheng, who IOTL led a rebellion in the western provinces during the years of the lateMing Dynasty and established the short-lived Shun Dynasty in 1644, controlling the provinces of Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hebei and the capital of Beijing, before the Manch invaded in 1644 and...

  17. If Lord Palmerston had lived a few years longer...

    So, there's the possibility that had the Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister between 1855 and 1855, and 1859-1865, lived a bit longer, the Reform Act of 1867 might not have passed. I say this because the Reform Act was first introduced in 1860 but failed due to Palmerston's opposition, and it...

  18. What if Charles George Gordon had not died in 1885?

    General Charles George Gordon is the character most of us would dream of and love to have invented. British born Mercenary and General, he served with the British at Crimea, as a mercenary officer in the Taiping Rebellion and would eventually meet his maker at the siege of Khartoum in 1885...

  19. Rump Second Reich: WI Germany was only Northern Germany?

    The idea of this WI is simply...what if German Unification had 'stopped' before 1870? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_German_Confederation In this Scenario, unified Germany is the yellow nation, and it'd be referred to as Germany, the German Reich or the North German...

  20. Religion WI: Shinto and Buddhism remain amalgamated

    Little do people know, although few would doubt, that when Buddhism was introduced to Japan in the 6th century AD they simply assimilated and reconciled it with their own belief system rather than discard either the new or the old altogether. This is sycretism, IOTL under the form of Shinbutsu...
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