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  1. loneranger

    AHC: Swap Cold War outcomes

    Just a random idea that occured to me as interesting. With a POD during the Cold War, have the United States and not the USSR ”collapse” in the same manner. Definition of collapse and what it would look like for the Western Bloc (ranging from no NATO to US balkanization) is up to the reader
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    Alternate Roles for early deceased or failed career actors?

    There's plenty of actors in modern history that make you ask - what could have been? Maybe they appeared to be very promising at first, but after one bad film were relegated to a smaller spot in Hollywood (e.g. - Brandon Routh). Or perhaps they were a well acclaimed actor who did died before...
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    Lü Wende survives - Fate of Song?

    Lü Wende was a Chinese general during the 1200s, one of the only to defeat Mongol forces in battle. He was reportedly planning an attack to dislodge the Mongols from Xiangyang when he died in 1270. He was replaced by his less influential brother and the Mongols ultimately took over the Song...
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    A Split China?

    Just kind of a general question from someone unfamiliar with the finer points of Chinese history - what are the odds of getting some kind of split China by the 21st century? Something like a North / South split between Kai-Shek and Mao? Or something else? Or is China destined to be reunited?
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    Second Verse Same As The First: Another Civil War Over African Americans

    I’ve been reading David Blight’s biography of Frederick Douglass recently. Many quotes from Douglass seem to attribute the backsliding of civil rights from early Reconciliation to the 1880s being due (in his opinion) to “white conciliation”. Basically a lack of northern will to enforce federal...
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    AHC: Haitian Revolution Spreads To New Orleans

    The Haitian Revolution led to the sale of Louisiana Purchase territory from France to the United States. I was thinking it would be interesting if that territory was somehow instead held by the Haitians. In OTL New Orleans had an influx of white refugees escaping Haiti and there was the...
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    AHC: Turn Bolivia into a “second Vietnam”

    As it says on the tin. Apparently Che wanted to engineer a second and third Vietnam and saw his chance to do so in Bolivia. Of course things ended up going different, but what if he had succeeded?
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    What are the pre-requisites for a democratic revolution?

    Hello all, I personally thought this was an interesting thought. What are the sort of things that need to happen, societally, for a democratic revolution to take place and be successful? For example - are literacy rates important? A middle class? Tell me your thoughts, based on history.
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    No Cold War: A Collaborative Timeline

    April 12, 1945: Joseph Stalin collapses due to a cerebral hemorrhage. His death is announced to the world three days later. April 17, 1945: The Central Planning Committee meets following Stalin's death and reinstitute collective leadership. April 21, 1945: A funeral is held for Stalin in the...
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    Reconstruction Realized

    I am working my way through Chernow’s new U.S. Grant biography and I just arrived at the portions where Johnson allowed former southern plantation owners to reclaim their property that the government had confiscated during the war. The book points out that this pretty much killed a chance for...
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    Wonder Woman VS The Comics Code (EC Comics WI)

    So this is an idea that really interests me, but that I don't feel like I have the knowledge to pursue. So I am crowdsourcing ideas out to you guys. :D Now; All-American Publications was a group that would eventually merge with a few other sub companies to form DC Comics. All American had a...
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    Earlier Disney / Marvel

    Just a random thought as I was reading earlier. Marvel filed for bankruptcy and sold off it's movie rights about the course of 1996-1999. Meanwhile over at Disney, their Animation Renaissance kinda tapered down right around the same time. So inspired by modern day, what if Disney had bought...
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    More Activist Reconstruction Court

    So this is just something I became recently interested in, but I was wondering if a more active Supreme Court could help maintain the rights that briefly existed during Reconstruction but were then stamped out by organizations like the Red Shirts, White League, and Ku Klux Klan (and of course...
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    Sino-American CoDominium

    As AH nerds, I assume most of you are familiar with the concept of CoDominium. For those who aren't, it's an AH story wherein Russia and the United States work together to control the world and IIRC (it's been a while since I read it) they end up merging into one country. Now I don't necessarily...
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    Stephen Spielberg's Return of the Jedi

    I've personally always found this quite an interesting POD, but one that's never been very deeply explored. Stephen Spielberg was reportedly George Lucas's first choice to direct the third installment in the Star Wars franchise : Return of the Jedi. The rumor goes that Spielberg was not allowed...
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    Radical! A Reconstruction WI

    POD: On April 15, 1865, John Wilkes Booth shoots and kills President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater. George Atzerodt shoots and kills Vice President Andrew Johnson at the Kirkwood House. Under the Presidential Succession Act of 1792, President pro tempore Senator Lafayette Foster is then...
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    U.S. Slave Insurrection (HBO edition!)

    Alright, so without going too much into it, there's a bit of controversy on the creators of Game of Thrones wanting to make an alternate history show about a surviving Confederacy once they complete Game of Thrones. While I'm very happy for any form of Alternate History to leak into the main...
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    Successful Market Garden

    Hello! I was wondering what the effects would be of a successful Operation Market Garden? From what little I know of it, it seems that if the Allies had moved quicker on the various bridges they might've been able to pull it off. However it is done, let us assume that Market Garden is...
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    President Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

    In honor of the 45th birthday of the Man of the Century, pitch me a timeline relatively similar to our own, but with a key difference: The Rock is the President as of 2017. Maybe he crashes into the Democratic Primary in late 2015 following uninspiring performances from Bernie Sanders and...
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    President Vasconcelos?

    What would it be like if Jose Vasconcelos was able to win the Mexican Presidency in 1929? And if he was succeeded by Cardenas (who served starting in 1934 anyways).
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