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  1. Eisenhower & McCarthy clash in '52

    During the 1952 election campaign Eisenhower toured Wisconsin with Joseph McCarthy in September. Neither were friends of the other and the tour was held to cement a pivotal Republican state in '52. A speech that was to be delivered by Eisenhower originally included an tribute to Marshall...

  2. North Vietnam implodes after the Tet Offensive

    In OTL North Vietnam whilst admitting the Tet Offensive was a failure then rededicated itself to the conflict and got the North Vietnam Army (NVA) far heavily involved than it had been. In fact, if I remember my history right, one of them stood up in parliament and declared themselves...

  3. WI Israel uses the 'nuclear option' in 1981

    In OTL Israel sent F-15 and F-16s to the Osirak nuclear site in Iraq on June 7th, 1981. There they bombed the site to smithereens claiming it was being used to research and potentially manufacture nuclear weapons. What if, either due to faulty intel from the CIA or Mossad or fearing...

  4. WI: Saddam Hussein doesn't nationalize Iraqi oilfields?

    As you'll know as VP of Iraq Saddam Hussein led the fight to nationalize the Iraq Petroleum Company's existing production fields in 1972 (new production fields had already been nationalized in 1961) which helped garner enough support for him to become president in 1979. What if, early on...

  5. The Roar of the White Lion - A vision of South Africa

    April 2nd, 2007 23:35hrs Captain Niall van der Knaap stared out from the parapet of their walled compound into the dark Zambian night. Past the regulated clearance boundary that was lit by motion and thermal tracking sensors and protected by mines and claymores was the jungle. This part of the...

  6. 1936: Blum and Baldwin decide to supply the Republic

    In 1936 after the Nationalist coup had failed and it was apparent that Spain was going to be locked into a civil war Republican Spain initially sought arms from France. Blum, feeling that he was under pressure from the right in France refused to supply arms and eventually even refused to...

  7. Severe weather Spring 1945

    Rather than the bitter cold winter of 44/45 in Eastern Europe, I wonder what would have happened if there had been localized severe weather in Eastern Europe. Say in early February 1945 a warm air low-pressure system settled in over eastern Europe covering most of Germany, Poland, Hungary...
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