douglas macarthur

I've been wondering what would it look like had if the Imperial House of Japan (or House of Yamato) - especially its family, kazoku and noble laws had left mostly untouched after WW2. This could apply to OTL without much change to everything else in TTL, to ATL where Japan conditional surrender...

President Franklin D Roosevelt was close to running for a record 4th term in 1944 before he of course decided not to due to the advice from his doctors. FDR’s popularity of course led Vice President Henry Wallace to get the nomination despite a strong challenge from Missouri Senator Harry...

The purpose of this thread is not discussing how the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command managed to fend off against the invasion of the Southwest Pacific including but not limiting to the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines i.e. Bataan successfully holding out until, say, the fall of...

1948 was seen as the year that the GOP would finally reclaim the White House after sixteen years of Democratic domination. Not only was Truman seen as a weak incumbent, but it was also assumed that Wallace and Thurmond would further hurt him with their third-party campaigns. However, the...

Hey, guys! So I tried an alternate history timeline before and it didn't go as well. So this is my retry and this time it's about where basically America turns into a fascist state. The POD starts in 1933. This thread was inspired by Kaiserreich and Phillip Roth's The Plot Against America...

Assume that some sort of highly unprobable event (maybe Harry Truman had a heart attack and Alben W. Barkley decided to trust UN forces Commander) allowed Douglas MacArthur to use nuclear devices against both North Korea and China (Manchuria). Lets say its a January 1951 and American strategic...

Old Soldiers Never Die: America After MacArthur In which an old soldier refuses to fade away and it doesn't end well. Then-General MacArthur oversees the final push that would end the Korean War in early December of 1950. Douglas MacArthur is one of the most fascinating, and most...

Hey, I'm new here. This is an idea I've been mulling in my head for a while that I want to write at some point--the idea of Douglas MacArthur becoming president as a more extreme Eisenhower. I mostly need to figure out the PoD for this. Anyone have ideas?

As the title says, how would history have changed if Douglas MacArthur had never been born? And yes, I know that the POD is before 1900, but considering that he doesn't really do anything important until after 1900 I figured it doesn't really matter.

"The uncertainty of the world and the difficulty of his task strengthened his resolve, and we called him Caesar then and gave him our allegiance." - Augustus by John Williams Prologue: October 1st 1928 “I’m sorry, Al. I’ve discussed it with my doctors and with Eleanor.” “You can't really be...

What if the United States use the bomb within ten years of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, i.e. in the Chinese Civil War, the Korean War (especially in late 1950!), the Suez Crisis, or another war or conflict before 1955/56? Would this defuse the Cold War? Would the USSR "conquer Western Europe", as was...