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  1. AHC: "Communist Japan"

    This morning, one of the co-hosts on Fox and Friends mistakenly spoke of the United States's defeat of "Communist Japan". So, for a challenge today: how would we get a Communist Japan, and one that wars with the United States? My first thought would be a fall to Socialism/Communism before...

  2. WI: Magnus Hirschfeld's research was not destroyed by the Nazis?

    The recent discussion over on the HOI led to @Ashtagon linking this article concerning Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld's research in sexual reassignment surgery in the 1920s. From the Article: So, there's at least two scenarios to explore. In one, the Nazis simply don't rise, and whatever does come to...

  3. Longer Separation between Bull Moose Progressives and Republicans?

    The Progressive Party under Theodore Roosevelt split from the Republican Party in 1912, but by the 1914 elections, Progressives were starting to drift back, and Theodore Roosevelt himself put the nails in the coffin of the party in 1916 when he refused to accept another presidential nomination...

  4. F-117s for the RAF?

    A recent posting on the UK Defence Journal states that Reagan explicitly offered the British government the chance to partner on the F-117 program in 1986. They declined. If the British had instead participated, what might have resulted from it? What gets cut in order to pay for it? Less...

  5. AHC: Different balance of power in the US Government

    The three branches of power in the United States government nominally serve as check and balance against each other, presumably keeping one from getting stronger than the other, and within each branch there's a variety of power: the Senate's filibuster, the varied levels of power of the Speaker...

  6. AHC: Prevent the Warlord Era in China

    The challenge: With a POD no earlier than March 10, 1912 (when Yuan Shikai assumed the Presidency), manage to stop China from dissolving into warlordism. Bonus points are awarded if there manages to be peaceable transitions of power throughout the 1910s and 1920s, and China is more able to...

  7. The Colonels' Standoff: Gunfight at the Wheelus Corral

    Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr., first black American to reach the rank of four-star general, was wing commander at Wheelus AFB in Libya during the coup. In early 1970, as the base was preparing for handover to the new Libyan government, then-Colonel James had an encounter with Col. Muammar Qaddafi...

  8. ...And what of Woodrow?

    If Woodrow Wilson were not to win the Presidency in 1912 -- either because he fails to win the Democratic nomination or due to some sort of miracle victory by Roosevelt at the polls -- what may become of him? He presumably finishes his term as Governor of New Jersey (which ends in January of...

  9. AHC: Gandhi's words are backed by nuclear weapons.

    For those of you who may not be aware, in the famous Civilization series of computer games, the first game included a glitch that the Indian Civilization, as led by Mohandas Gandhi, is a warmongering civilization that gleefully wields nuclear weaponry, due to a bug in the code. The Challenge I...

  10. Austro-Hungarian-Romanian Union?

    In his memoirs, In the World War, Ottokar Czernin, the last foreign minister of Austria-Hungary, writes: Assuming there was no Great War, is there actually any chance of such a union ever proceeding under an Emperor Franz II? It seems ridiculously unlikely, even with what little I know about...

  11. Hamilton dies in a duel... with James Monroe

    So, in 1798, Alexander Hamilton and James Monroe danced around dueling each other, and were only stopped by the intervention of Aaron Burr, in what may be one of American history's more morbid jokes. So let's say they do have a duel -- and Hamilton, cursed with ill luck with pistols no matter...

  12. WI: Prolonged Bull Moose/Progressive - Republican Split

    The Progressive Party under Theodore Roosevelt split from the Republican Party in 1912, but by the 1914 elections, Progressives were starting to drift back, and Theodore Roosevelt himself put the nails in the coffin of the party in 1916 when he refused to accept another presidential nomination...

  13. AHC: Earlier Decolonization

    Exactly what it says on the tin: What would it take to get earlier independence for the European colonies in Africa and Asia? More expensive or earlier great wars to exhaust European power? A stronger holding of the idealism of the Wilsonian position on self-determination (even if the actuality...

  14. Alternate United States Federal Reserve Systems

    Back in the early 1910s when the Federal Reserve Act was passed, there were various alternative plans that had been proposed. The "Aldrich Plan" or the "Jekyll Island Plan", which was put forth following the secret gathering of bankers in 1910, for instance, called for a central banking...

  15. Replacing Souchon at Mittelmeer-Division?

    In 1914, the Imperial German Navy was planning on replacing SMS Goeben and SMS Breslau with their sisters SMS Moltke and SMS Magdeburg. Was Admiral Souchon, then commander of the Mediterranean Division, also due to be replaced? If so, does anyone know who was scheduled for that? My German is...

  16. AHC: Japanese Force US to Negotiating Table (1907-1941)

    The Japanese war plans against the USA always basically relied on the idea that the American will would break and the American government would agree to negotiate if a significant enough blow was delivered against them. Is there any point between the first major war scare in 1907 and the attack...

  17. WI: Huerta regime recognized by US

    Assume, for instance, that in 1913, Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson's memos urging recognition of the Huerta regime are heeded, either by a President Wilson distracted by other events, or by a different US presidency entirely (a re-elected Taft, for instance); at any rate, the US, instead of...

  18. No Washington Treaty: Battleships for Sale?

    While I've seen multiple threads on the Washington Naval Treaty of '22 leading to increased construction among the signatories, I've not seen as much on the sale prospects of the older battleships, that was forbidden under the treaty. In a world where the WNT isn't signed and the nations need...

  19. Early End to WW1: Reduced Spanish Flu?

    If World War One ended earlier -- probably in 1917, perhaps without American entrance -- would the "Spanish" influenza epidemic have been nearly as severe, particularly in Europe, without the breeding grounds of the trenches and the spreading of the travelling soldiers? The second wave of the...
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