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  1. DBWI: Terrorists Attack the USSA!

    People's Journal of New York (27 February 1993) The World Trade Center, world-renown symbol of the power and influence of the United Socialist States of America, was attacked yesterday by terrorists. Residents of New York City watched in horror as the North Tower of the WTC was knocked into the...

  2. WI USA "Loses" the Cold War

    AFAIK it'd be very unlikely for the US to lose the Cold War either by economic or governmental means. However, there were several instances throughout the Cold War that could have gone either way in my book. I'm interested in seeing how people think the world would look like if the US had not...

  3. AH Challenge: Make Leclerc the AH DeGaulle

    In OTL, DeGaulle is often the most remembered and most celebrated French general of WWII. However, Philippe Leclerc commanded French forces in Africa and, after D-Day, in Europe, and AFAIK seen as a very good commander. Is there a way to make Leclerc as politically and militarily successful as...

  4. AH Challenge: Drag WWI Out

    I'm interested in seeing how long WWI could go on--feasibly, of course. The war must start as it did OTL, but after that most anything is fair game except ASBs. Bonus points for intelligently adding new countries or new campaigns to the conflict.

  5. Americas Beseiged

    Unlike OTL, the United States is slow out of the gate in the first few years of the Cold War and there is no Marshall Plan or Berlin Airlift. In short, America pushes itself back into isolationism until much later. By the time the US enters world affairs, President Adlai Stevenson finds a world...

  6. AH Challenge: Morgenthau Plan

    I'm sure that this has been picked up as ASB a few times before, but I'm interested in what the Morgenthau Plan would have looked like if it had happened. What would the long-term effects be, etc.?

  7. AH Challenge:Chadian-Sudanese War Goes Hot

    Chad and Sudan have been involved in a tit-for-tat war for a few years now, I think. How could we get that war to explode beyond what it is right now? The bigger the better, maybe, perhaps with France deploying a significant military presence into the area and getting dragged into a quagmire.

  8. WI George Washington Was Killed?

    WI George Washington was killed, perhaps in combat, during the Revolutionary War? Assuming that his death was late enough in the war to not damage the Americans' hopes too badly, who becomes the first POTUS? Does Washington's legacy of Presidential humility disappear?

  9. WI Truman Assassinated

    WI Torresola and Collazo, two Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to assassinate Truman in 1950, had succeeded?

  10. WI Japan Surrenders After Famine

    Using the other Japanese WWII thread as a jumping off point, let's posit that for whatever reason, the American atomic bomb doesn't work as planned or Japan decides to keep fighting. An initial attempt at invasion is hampered by a typhoon, leaving the US to wait the Japanese out. The naval and...

  11. WI No Black Hawk Down

    Somalia, and the events surrounding it and the USA during the early 1990s, are often used as a prime example why Americans were often hesitant about getting down and dirty around the world at least until September 11. How would have history have changed if there was no "Black Hawk Down"...

  12. WWI Dunkirk

    WI the Germans were able to inflict enough damage on the Allied armies in the opening months of WWI--perhaps through a devastating victory or two--that the British would feel it necessary to evacuate the BEF, a la Dunkirk in WWII? The British are still in the war, but have evacuated France due...

  13. American Military Interference

    In many countries throughout the world (Pakistan being the most current and obvious example), the militaries and intelligence services are very active in internal and domestic issues. The army in Turkey, for another example, tends to overthrow the civilian government whenever they decide they...

  14. WI Chris Hani Lives

    Chris Hani, the leader of the South African Communist Party and the head of the armed wing of Mandela's ANC organization was assassinated in 1993. His assassination nearly derailed the negotiations to end apartheid, and has had a marked affect on South Africa since. WI Hani had somehow avoided...

  15. Football WI: United Kingdom Football Association

    WI there was no division between Northern Irish, English, Welsh, and Scottish football (soccer) in the United Kingdom, with all UK teams playing in the same league? While I'm not familiar with the history behind the split, I think the idea is interesting. I would assume that there would have to...

  16. WI Shipwrecked Culture Found in New World

    WI the Spanish or another nation came upon a Native American population that had integrated with a previously shipwrecked crew during the exploration of the New World? Exempting the possibility that the crew has integrated to the point where they would be unrecognizable, what would happen?

  17. WI McCain Brought Down By Keating Five Scandal

    WI John McCain was shot down, in the political sense, by his involvement in the Keating Five scandal of 1989? Let's say that his involvement was greater, or the Ethics Committee decided to be a lot harsher on everyone. What PODs and/or butterflies would this cause?

  18. FDR Assassinated

    WI Franklin Delano Roosevelt was assassinated in the early days of his term by, say, some die-hard anarchist or a plain loony? Where would the PODs happen in the US? What about WWII?

  19. Trinity Is A Dud

    WI the Trinity nuclear test turned out to be a dud? Let's say the gun mechanism misfired or the plutonium sphere wasn't compressed equally. Given the lack of available uranium at the time and general consternation about the atomic bomb in general, how would a dud have changed US policy?

  20. AH Challenge: Bow and Arrow Survives

    What is the most feasible way for the bow and arrow, including types such as the crossbow, to be accepted, useful military weaponry for as long as possible? Maybe it's just a pipe dream, but I'm having fun imagining ranks of English longbowmen fighting the French in the 1700s...
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