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  1. 1972: Much bigger Derry massacre

    In January 1972, British Red Berets blew away 20 Catholic Hooligans and Colleens in Derry, N.Ireland, with many ramifications. WI the Paras had really lost it and gone medieval and shot dead 200, with liberal use of FN SLR bayonet-work on the wounded? UN sanctions and troops? Brits pull out in...

  2. 1945: No UK Welfare State

    In 1945 the UK Labour government's Attlee & Bevan implemented something new in world history:the first welfare state in the world (originally a Conservative plan), that promised to give NHS health care, state housing, schooling, dole and pension: caring for society's members from cradle to...

  3. No Heroes of Telemark: London nuked 1945

    The sabotage of the German Heavy Water plant in Telemark, Norway, set whatever German A bomb ambition there was right back. WI the sabotage had failed, & the Germans really had been able to make 3 bombs and nuked London in early 1945. Threatening to use more on the UK, would Churchill (if he had...

  4. Bismarck sinks Hood, POW & Rodney

    In OTL Bismarck sank only Hood. But she badly damaged Prince of Wales and if she had pursued, could have deep sixed her as well. In addition even when surrounded, she straddled Rodney & could have sunk her as well. WI in addition to sinking three RN capital ships, Bismarck had made good her...

  5. Hitler vs the Falashas: humanity culled

    Hitler had plans to exterminate 10 million non-Aryans annually from 1946 had he won the war. Would this have included the Negroidal nations? In WW1 the Germans recruited Askaris as excellent troops. Presumably the first on the list would have been the Black Ethiopian Jewish Falashas of Ethiopia...

  6. Coresh survives Waco conflagration

    WI Coresh and a few others had survived Waco. Would he have gone to jail? Would he have been a hero or a villain? Would McVeigh have still let off the OKC bomb? Would his devotees have tried to spring him?

  7. 1960s world tobacco ban

    Tobacco is responsible for millions of deaths & huge medical costs & suffering per year worldwide. Yet it is the only certifiably dangerous substance legally & freely available to all. WI with its dangers being proven in the 60s, it had been banned then as being illegal, akin to marijuana?

  8. Only one Twin Tower hit

    WI only one of the Twin Towers had been brought down, and the other three hijacked aircraft had crashed eg into the Hudson & Potomac, but not on their targets? Would the loss of only one Tower have been sufficient for Bush to invade Afghanistan and then Iraq? And if only the Pentagon had...

  9. 400 BCE: Haman's Final Solution succeeds

    c400 BCE all the Jews were under King Ahaseurus. His vizier, the Amolekite Haman, came close to exterminating the entire Jewish race, if not for the intervention of Esther. WI Haman's plan had succeeeded, & the Jews had been totally eliminated? What would have been the immediate...

  10. All 10,000 paras of British 1st Airborne annihilated on landing

    The 10,000 paras of British 1st Airborne landed simultaneously a whole 10 miles from Arnhem, one of the reasons for its failure. Some say the Germans had got wind of the Allied plan. WI if the Germans had ambushed and obliterated the entire 10,000 men of 1st Airborne immediately as they landed...

  11. Argentinians deep-six the QE2 1982

    The Cunard Queen Elizabeth II was used by the British to carry 10,000 troops to the Falklands. WI the Fuerza managed to do a "Sir Gallahad" on her as she pulls into Bluff Cove, or she's hit by 3 Exocets well out in the Atlantic? If she's sunk & all 10,000 are lost, is Maggie overthrown by Tony...

  12. TV side-effects result in legislation against it

    Further to the thread "How to bring down the US": Television has recently been shown to affect the eyesight and brain development if watched by children under 3. There is no doubt that hours of television watching affect the thought processes and ability to think of adolescents. Let alone...

  13. Pedestal fails: Malta taken out

    When the Ohio, the sole survivor of Pedestal, pulled into Valetta on August 13 1942, the last chance for the Axis to decommission Malta had passed. WI Malta had been removed as an effective Allied air & sub base? With much more of Rommell's supplies able to get through, what effect would...

  14. Reagan with earlier Alzheimer's

    During the 1984 television debate with Mondale, Reagan lost his way in what was probably the first premonitory signs of his Alzheimer's. WI he wasn't able to recover with his famous quip, & had actually gone completely gagga on TV, requiring his replacement? Would Bush have automatically...

  15. Greeks vs Romans vs Zulus vs Highlanders

    Ceteris paribus, if one faced off in close combat alternatively 1000 Greek hoplites with their phalanx and spears, 1000 Roman legionaries with their locked shields and short swords, 1000 Zulu impi with their iklwas and bull-horn tactics, 1000 Japanese Samurai with their razor sharp samuarai...

  16. No Ulster

    If William III had lost the Battle of the Boyne 1690, would there still be a Protestant presence, independent or otherwise in Ireland today? With what result on subsequent history? If the British had left totally in 1922 to let the Catholics & Protestants fight it outn to the finish, what...

  17. No Belgium

    In 1830 after the Belgian Revolution against the Protestant Dutch, Belgium became a separate Catholic country, with help from the French. WI the revolution had not happened, and Holland today would include all of Belgium, including the strategic port of Antwerp. How would WW1 & WW2 have...

  18. No Western Desert and No Afrika Korps

    WI after getting a drubbing from the British in 1940, the Italians had fled North Africa in toto. There is no Afrika Korps formed or sent, and the one million Empire troops that the British eventually had to send to the Middle East are freed up, though the Royal Navy still loses heavily in the...

  19. WI the world still drove on the left

    To drive on the left side of the road is more physically natural. The change to driving on the right dates back to Napoleon. Those countries, except Japan, that still drive on the left are a legacy of the British Empire. Is there any conceivable difference from OTL if all countries still drove...

  20. Omdurman 1898: The Nile runs red a 2nd time

    WI the Khalifa & his 50,000 whirling Dervishers catches Kitchener's 8,000 British & 17,000 Egyptians on the hop, massacring the entire force, a la "Three Feathers", but on a vaster scale? What is the effect on the Empire & history, if any?
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