1980s

Tanah Air An Indonesian timeline Welcome to the Portal Page for the Tanah Air alternate timeline By Bakso Joko Widodo Coat of Arms of Indonesia Foreword The following timeline is my very first one the site. I’ve worked on it, drafted it stopped working on it, and finally, it reached a...

Inspired by @Mad Bad Rabbit's post on the Any Conceivable Way to Prevent Reagan Revolution in the 1980s? thread from a few years back. So suppose that in a admittedly rather unlikely chain of events the United States accidentally nuked itself and is effectively dealing with something akin to...

In 1981 the show came close to being canceled following Fear's controversial appearance on the show and Charles Rocket's infamous use of the F word live on the air; WI it had been?

If you grew up in the 80's you might remember a short-lived series called Other world that aired on CBS in 1985: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherworld_(TV_series) The show was about a contemporary American family-Mom, Dad, two teenaged kids, and a younger son-who find themselves in what...

Even as an Anti-communist I think America enacting laws taking away rights from Communists or people being suspected of being Communists during the Red Scare. America did kind of go too far about that. We should all have equal rights no matter what our political ideology is. However, what if in...

What it says in the tin. Just as long as the conflict in Afghanistan is today. What POD is needed and what will the butterflies be of the 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2010s?

As it says in the title, How can you break stagflation without Volcker? The base cause for stagflation was, of course, oil prices. They were so high that the price of everything went up. Volcker had many policies that sought to rapidly bring inflation under control, including limiting the...

The '87 crash was probably the worst since the Great Depression; in OTL it had a relatively limited impact on the US economy but WI it had been worse? How is the economy of the late 1980s/early 1990s affected?

Leonid Brezhnev was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964-1984. During his leadership, the liberalisation policies of Khruschev were reversed. The USSR entered a period of social, cultural, and political repression which, while not on the scale of Stalin, was...

A reboot of Holiday in the Malvinas Table of Contents: Introduction/Prolouge Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Part VI Part VII Part VIII Part VIV Part IX Part X

The 1980s saw the big boom of financialization, which was a massive part in the shift in manfacturing in America, the rise of corporate raiders and the various decisions that led to the decline of various major chains along with aligning with the trends of Wall Street and so on. What would've...

The Gilded Age was certainly an interesting era. It saw a great amount of industrialization the United States, but saw large-scale corruption, with Trust monopolies, called Robber Barons, or Captains of Industry, able to influence government policies, and become giant monopolies. It also saw...

In the autumn of 1985 serious consideration was given by the Conservative government to joining the Exchange Rate Mechanism, Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe, Chancellor Nigel Lawson and Deputy Prime Minister Willie Whitelaw were all in favour of joining but Margaret Thatcher was opposed and...

This is a collaborative timeline with a special POD: What'll happen if Jimmy Carter had beaten Ronald Reagan in the 1980 election? When Jimmy Carter was elected president in 1980, things becoming a little different. There'll be different effects on politics, pop culture, technology...

Basic PODs 1. Glenn doesn't injure himself in 1964 and goes on to win the Ohio Senate Election 2. Glenn's speech at the DNC is better received 3. Carter chooses Glenn as his running mate due to the above-mentioned reason 4. The Iran-Contra Affair is much more damaging to Reagan and Bush 5. The...

“These are the basic Socialist values and principles – individual liberty, equality, citizenship, the diffusion of power, the importance of collective and social action…these principles may not have the satisfying certainty of Marxist analysis, nor may they constitute quite the same stirring...

TEACH YOUR PARENTS - A WALTER MONDALE 1984 TIMELINE BASIC PODS: Reagan fires Volcker appoints Greenspan to chair the Federal Reserve in 1980. The economy doesn’t recover like it does OTL, because the Early 1980s recession, having levels of unemployment nationally of 15%, roughly 5% higher...

While "The Godfather" and "The Godfather Part II" are commonly cited as two of the greatest movies ever made, "The Godfather Part III" is often looked upon as a flawed and disappointing sequel. After putting himself heavily in debt following a series of box office disasters, director Francis...

So just an idea I had. What if Martin Luther King Jr survived his assassination in 1968, and against all odds, he becomes both a Democrat and president during the 1980s instead of Reagan?

Times Square December 7, 1980 Joey Watts was a man in desperate need of money. A problem gambler, he owed a not insignificant amount of money to the Gambino family. Lately, the Bergin crew, headed by rising star John Gotti, had been getting impatient with his excuses. Not wanting to sleep...