1982

Though Wales has since qualified for the 2022 World Cup, their first since 1958, they have had a few close calls before hand with teams that should've played at a World Cup with the Welsh team of the 1980's being perhaps the team the most unlucky not to qualify for a major tournament and they...

Twilight Zone: The Movie is one of those films that has a heavy pall hanging over it. When the first segment was being filmed, John Landis made a number of decisions that came together in the worst possible way. First, he hired two child actors, Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen, without the...

Westminster, 31st March 1982 Pausing only to make a quick phone call to get an update on the disposition and readiness of his fleet and having found the defence secretary not in his office in the Ministry of Defence but at an emergency meeting to discuss the emergent situation the fully...

Bear in mind this Argentina (and Uruguay also included) was basically taken over by Britain during Napoleonic War and it ended up becoming part of the British Empire afterwards. I am not looking for answers on how it be realistic for it to happen. Basically instead of a Falklands War in 1982...

In 1970s Belgium face Economic crisis and political problems that increased there national debts 1982 they faced national bankruptcy like Greece in 2008 They manage to prevent this with brutal tax rase and other actions. But what if Belgium goes into national bankruptcy ? Would the bankrupt...

Story only thread: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/hms-eagle-in-the-falklands-story-only.506141/ 31st March 1982 Whitehall Pausing only to make a quick phone call to get a quick update on the disposition and readiness of his fleet and having found the defence secretary not in...

What if the events of 1982's First Blood (Based on the book by David Morrell) did in fact take place, in the late 70s or early 80s, a former Green Beret and CMOH winner was harassed by local police in a small Oregon town and snapped, leading local and state police alongside the National Guard on...

By my count there are five and a half winnable Senate races. The scenario is simple: with the economy doing worse and/or a big Reagan screw-up of whatever sort, Reagan tumbles to his OTL January 1983 low of 35% a few months earlier ITTL during early November right at the 1982 midterms. This is...

We could plausibly do 1984 or 1980/1986, but 1982 adds the Mayoral race for fun and seems like a reasonable date. I'm not too worried about a specific scenario as to why it passes, but a plausible example timeline could centre on a more effective Democratic President who also gets luckier than...