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  1. What if Nader and Buchanan hadn't been excluded from the 2000 presidential debates?

    What impact, if any, would those two candidates have had on both the American political culture and the 2000 election? How might this have affected the election, and public opinion?

  2. 1859: California joins the Confederacy

    Scary thought, California came close to becoming a Confederate State, had it not been for a duel between senator David Broderick, a one time stone-cutter from NY., and Senator David Terry. David Terry, a Southerner and former supreme court justice of the California supreme court was a staunch...

  3. WI the Akagi Had Been Sunk Off Ceylon....

    ...Might that have altered the Midway Plan? Several twin-engined Blenheim bombers based in Ceylon managed to sneak in undetected and released bombs at the Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi in April of 1942. None hit. Had a few bombs hit, or maybe only one in the right place, the Akagi (largest...

  4. WI TJ captured by the British?

    In 1781, when British troops were raiding Virginia, they took a shot at capturing Jefferson at Monticello. While TJ was leaving Monticello via a back road with his immediate family a British soldier held a gun on one of his slaves and demanded to know TJ's whereabouts. The slave told the soldier...

  5. If Japan Invaded Canada..

    I know it sounds very far fetched but in the summer of 1940 FDR in a speech stated an attack on Canada or any other nation in the New World by an outside power would be considered an attack on the US. While aimed at Germany and designed to protect Danish Greenland, Dutch and French Carribean...

  6. WI No Monty at El Alamein

    Unlike most of the desert generals before, Monty had learned a many lessons from Rommel, and unlike the previous British commanders who had a penchant for attacking or defending with unsupported individual brigade sized units, Monty ordered all of his commanders to keep the divisions operating...

  7. WI Hitler’s Ardennes Offensive was successful

    Germany was trying to recapture Antwerp during the Battle of the Bulge. What would have happened if they did? I'll post my thought s later...working on "Benidict Arnold-Father of his Nation" in writer's forum....

  8. If the Germans had treated the Russian people better....

    How big a mistake do you think it was the way russian people were treated after being "liberated" by the Germans. My own thouhgts are that the brutal treatment that was wrought onto the Russian people went a long way toward Germany losing the war. If they had been treated as if they were free...

  9. What if the SS were in North Africa?

    What if one SS division was sent down to Africa to aid the DAK, let's say the "Leibstandarte", hypotheticly. Now, do you think the presence of the Leibstandarte, Hitlers own if you may, would make Hitler more concerned about the African campaign? Would more supplies possibly have been sent down...

  10. WI Custer Wins the Battle of Little Big Horn

    What if Custer had kept his entire command, pack train included (with all the ammo) together and only sent out his scouts. The Indians would have seen a much larger force coming against them and may not have reacted as they did. Custer may have been able to avoid the thousands of warriors, and...

  11. Stalin's Second Holocaust

    Second Jewish Holocaust I remember reading that not only did Stalin hate the Jews, and he also planned to exterminate all the Jews of the Ukraine. This was known as the 'Doctor's Plot'. Stalin's paranoia led him to suspect that all Jews in higher positions were spies of the US. It seems he...

  12. Spanish Further Colonizing N America

    The Spainards did colonize parts of North America. First they explored much of South Florida under Ponce de Leon and Navarez but were meet by the very hostile Indians around Tampa who kill deLeon and drive off the Spanish. In the 1560's they establish the oldest settlement in the North America...

  13. WI Harness Horse Racing Becomes Popular in US

    How about doing a show on Harness Racing in the US (not thoroughbred). George Morton Levy promoted a revolution in this sport after WWII. What POD could make this hoppy popular in the US. Maybe it would take getting this story out? This sport requires a great more skill than regular running...

  14. What if Reynolds had accepted command?

    We all know that George Meade was given command of the Army of the Potomac just before Gettysburg because General John F. Reynolds turned it down. What would have happened if Reynolds had assumed command of the army? Take this beyond Gettysburg if you want....Would he have pursued lee? Would...

  15. iIf the 'divine winds' never came

    Kublai Khan tried to invade Japan in 1281AD. They succeeded in conquering the island of Iki.The Eastern army (40,000 men) then tried to invade Japan's mainland at Hakata Bay, but once they embarked onto the beaches they were immediately attacked by samurais so they would retreat back to the...

  16. What If....

    What if General Pershing and staff of about 190 men sailed from New York (May 1917) aboard the USS Baltic heading for Britain to 'show the flag' as it were, and the ship was sunk by a German Uboat. Granted it was suposed to be a super secret but according to 'Make the Kaiser Dance' by Henry...

  17. 1984: Jimmie Carter Tried With Treason

    I have just completed reading "Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism" written by Peter Schweizer. While the book was of course focused on Reagan it has some interesting tidbits on Jimmy Carter and his efforts to defeat Reagan in both the 1980...

  18. WI MacArthur had NOT been recalled

    Let's say Mac had been given a free hand in Korea after the Chinese invaded, what would he have done and what would have been the Chinese response? We know from his address to Congress that he wanted to bomb Chinese facilities beyond the Yalu and to blockade the Chinese coast. His most strident...

  19. Hitler escapes Berlin and goes to Austria as planned...

    Hitler's plan was to flee to Austria (using an automobile, I think) and continue the war from there. The USSR bocked the road that Hitler was going to take, so he had to stay in Berlin. If he had left two days earlier, he could have made it. I read about it in the excellent book "The Unknown...

  20. Greatest Guerrilla generals

    The German general in East Africa during WWI. He held out until the end of the war and tied down Allied forces more than 10 times his strength. Never defeated at operational level. His force of German officers, NCOs and African Askaris was superbly trained and motivated. They lived off of the...
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