History Forum / General / What If / July 2009

Edward decides to keep his situation the best of both worlds, he will have
Ms. Simpson as a mistress on the side but will keep the throne of the UK and
British Dominions and Emperor of India.
If he survives as long as he did OTL he will reign from January 1936 until

    I know, this has been done to death here, but it was just the 65th
anniversary, so why not again...
       Say von Stauffenberg's bomb kills Hitler immediately.  
       ISTM it will be difficult for the July 20 plotters to get full

Challenge - bring about the above Province.
One possibility - 1783/4 - Spanish participation
in the American Revolutionary War is less successful,
and they do not capture Florida.  As a result, Britain

Instead of the severe heart attack that kills him, Adlai Stevenson has
a mild heart attack while visiting London in 1965, and stays on as
LBJ's UN Ambassador through his death in early 1968.
With the retirement of Earl Warren, LBJ nominates Brennan to become

who does? effects?
an interesting scenario is an american australia.......

Was just reading up on Mosley, and the extent to which he was seen as
a future prime minister at the beginning of the 30s.
So WI after his resignation from the MacDonald government in 1930,
he's a bit more patient.  He continues to criticize the government for

I have recently been reading Andy Thompson's *Cars of the Soviet Union:  The
Definitive History* (2008).  One thing that occurrred to me when reading it
is, Can anyone see a scenario where Soviet cars would be popular in the US?  
After all, the Lada http://en.wikipedia ...

Mondale was always going to lose in 1984. Thus, his Vice Presidential
Selection turned into a sort of 'First'/'high road' or 'hail mary' of
the Palin distinction.
The final contestants to join the glorious Mondale ticket were

WI instead of only being able to bare two children four years apart in 1926
and 1930 both of whom were daughters Elizabeth had additional children in
1932 and 1935?  Odds are at least one of the additional children would have
been a boy, and all of the children born to George VI ...

One reads of the various norms and expectations of what makes a good
what if and what breaks "the rules".
I'm looking for a post here that lays those all out. I don't see any
FAQ posted?

After having a little too much wine on the evening of April 1st of
1939, slips and falls down the stairs breaking his neck and there by
killing him.
What happens next? No invasion of Poland? No WW2? Germany gives back

1.    Someone born in a place which was not then under US
sovereignty, but later became so.
WI someone born in Texas before it became part of the US in
1845 subsequently runs for the Presidency?  Are they barred

In the US, for the most part, you can't live a normal life without a
car. While in most other developed countries/regions, car usually
isn't something people use everyday for mundane chores like commuting
to work or grocery shopping. The unique set-up of national

In case you don't know who the heck Blagoje Adžić is, he was the chief
of staff of Yugoslav People's Army during Slovenia's bid for
independence, at that time, he advocated massive use of military force
to take out the independence-supporting Slovenian government and

It might be difficult to generate such an early version
of Abolitionism.  Perhaps he picks up some ideas from
some fringe Levelers and outlaws slavery in both the
British isles and its colonies.