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  1. AHC make the Canadian Commonwealth Federation one of the two largest Canadian federal parties

    What has to change to make the Canadian Commonwealth Federation (CCF) one of the two largest Canadian federal politics by 1900? This means a Conservative/ CCF duoopoly, like in the UK, or a Liberal/ CCF duopoly, like in Australia, instead of the Liberal/ Conservative duopoly at the federal...

  2. WI second term for James Buchanan

    This is another alt USA Civil War situation, but one that hasn't been explored here before. I just thought of it, and it falls into the unlikely but could have possibly happened bucket. So what if President Buchanan decided or was prevailed upon to run for a second term in 1860, was...

  3. Should this timeline be here, or in ASB?

    Not my timeline. Not low effort, because there are Wikiboxes. It can't be low effort if it includes Wikiboxes.

  4. Could the Greek community in Asia Minor have been saved?

    Saw this what if speculation on Quora: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-greatest-examples-of-the-butterfly-effect-chaos-theory-in-history Search for the author Eleftherios Tserkezis if the essay doesn't come up on the top. I noticed that the blurb under the link I posted was something about...

  5. WI No Nazis. Who starts World War 2?

    Inspired by another thread. If no movement like the Nazis take power in Germany, who starts whichever big war in Europe happens after World War 2?

  6. AHC Enoch Powell as PM of the UK

    What is the most plausible way to get Enoch Powell the job of Prime Minister of the UK, avoiding personality transplants and brainwashing as much as possible?

  7. WI Axis Switzerland

    Lets say, for reasons entirely internal to Switzerland, that Switzerland gets a fascist dictator who declares war on France in 1940, making Switzerland part of the Axis. What would be the effect on World War 2? The Nazis lose their banks, but then they really do get the Alpine redoubt at the...

  8. WI the conspirators kill Anthony as well as Caesar

    I just got finished that when Caesar was assassinated, the conspirators detained Anthony outside of the Senate house so he couldn't assist Caesar. What if they decided to assassinate Anthony as well, to further decapitate Caesar's faction? This is not a topic where I have a lot of knowledge...

  9. DBAHC have France get a world class cuisine

    Having been to France, I think you need a pre-1900 POD to pull this one off. Any ideas?

  10. WI major league baseball leagues do nothing about gambling

    After the Black Sox scandal, the major league baseball owners appointed judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis as Commissioner, with absolute power to clean up the game. I will link to the Wikipedia summary of Landis' tenure, since his effect on the game was more extensive than I had thought...

  11. WI both JFK and LBJ fatally shot in Dallas in November 1963

    What would have been the result of Lyndon Johnson being killed in Dallas as well as Kennedy? From accounts of the assassination, the secret service agent in the vehicle in front of Johnson's vehicle was waving his rifle erratically, so something as mundane as friendly fire. According to the...

  12. WI Gerald Ford elected president in 1980

    I thought of this while reading this thread: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/reagan-loses-big-to-ford-in-%E2%80%9876-primary-challenge-isn%E2%80%99t-a-factor-in-1980.513595/#post-22140109 What would happen if Gerald Ford ran for President in 1980, won the Republican nomination...

  13. WI Antigonus wins the battle of Ipsus

    What would have happened if Antingonus and his followers decisively defeated Lysimichus and Seleucus at the battle of Ipsus? Relevant wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ipsus

  14. WI Spain never allies with France during the 1790s and 1800s

    Spain broke its alliance with France over the execution of Louis XVI and briefly went to war against France, but later allied with France. getting defeated by Britain at Trafalgar, and letting the French army through Spain to attack Portugal. The only reasoning I found as to why Spain allied...

  15. DBWI the Turks defend the Straights

    What would have happened if the Turks had actually defended the passage up the Dardanelles instead of letting the British and French fleets sail right up to Constantinople?

  16. Best President USA never had (20th century edition)

    As with the similar poll I just posted in the before 1900 forum, the options listed are near misses, not necessarily the most interesting politicians who ran or were strongly considered. Politicians who could have run interesting administrations, but who didn't come close enough, such as...

  17. Best President USA never had (19th century edition)

    I thought of this after seeing the Accidental President poll recently posted in this forum. Of the politicians who legitimacy came close, who would have made the best president? The six choices listed above are six near misses. Three of them lost really close elections (Clay, Tilden, Blaine)...

  18. WI no Suez Canal built before 1900?

    The Suez Canal is in the news. What if the Suez Company was not able to get its project of building a canal between the Red Sea and Med completed? I am putting the question this way because there seem to have been other waterways connecting the Red Sea and Mediterranean in ancient times, and...

  19. WI Napoleonic France one century earlier

    Supposing we got the closest possible version of post-Brumaire 1799 France, with radically remade institutions and ruled by an administrative and military genius, in 1799? The double PODs are that Louis XIV dies in in 1799, and his son, the Grand Dauphin, instead of being a non-entity (taking...

  20. DBWI Alexander III of Macedon victorious at Gaugamela

    There were several Greek invasions of the Persian invasion, but I think the most successful was that of Alexander III of Macedon. He didn't get to Babylon like some of the others, but he defeated the Persians twice, and conquered Phoenecia and Egypt, before his defeat at Gaugamela. Suppose the...
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