History Forum / General / What If / February 2010

Or could it even happen?

Presume that during WWI, say in 1944 the manpower numbers are crunched
and they come to a conclusion that they could free up the bulk of the
men in support work by drafting women into the non-combat
wings(cooking, cleaning, paperwork). The decision to bring in women is

With a POD after September 1, 1939 and Germany and the USSR going to
war while the UK is still at war with Germany, how bad can the
relationship between the UK/USSR and the US/USSR be?
Points given for

Feminism is a vial philosophy in which any man accused of being a
sexist, stalker, harasser etc. is guilty until proven innocent (one
reason why conservatives don't bash them anymore.....they both wish to
imprison men)

The Korean National Myth, which was written down in the 1200s, states that
Once Upon a Time during the reign of the Chinese Emperor Yao (2200s B.C.) ,
the child of the Sun and Moon Deity came down from heaven to found a city,
then began to look for a spouce among the wild ...

Gents,
I've been reading "Preemptive Strike" by Alan Armstrong (2006) wherein
he states that FDR had indicated his approval for B-17s being sold to
China (and operated from bases there by ex-military American aircrews

The recent disastrous collapse of the United States housing industry
and the accompanying collapse of lending banks was preventable. Time
and again a consumer protection agency with real powers has been
suggested for the United States and time and again it has been turned

All sorts of questions can be raised about *Marbury v. Madison* 5 US (1
Cranch) 137 (1803) http://laws.findlaw.com/us/5/137.html quite apart from
the Supreme Court's assertion of the power of judicial review (which was
*not* the most controversial aspect of the case when it was ...

Napoleon turned conquered European nations, especially Germany and
Italy, but also other areas like Poland, into a hodgepodge of areas
directly annexed to France with hardly a French in them (which fueled
nationalistic resistance) and separate vassal states, some entrusted

In OTL, a common truism you hear about American politics is that
America has a far-right party and right-wing party and that America is
a center-right country.
  Is there any POD that takes place after the Allied Victory in WWII,

What if the Cactus Hill, Virginia, USA archeological dig which be took place
between 1988 and 1998 instead took place between 1920 and 1930?  The site in
Cactus Hill, Virginia contains two distinctive sets of stone culture tools,
at a layer 10,900 years before present are Clovis ...

An ASB scenario.  Taking Eric Flint's 1632 as inspiration, a chunk of
modern Britain is scooped by cosmic forces and swapped in time and space
with an almost deserted area of land in the early 1800s which would have
become the California/Oregon border.  Given the distance ...

My nomination...
Dirlewanger Brigade ISOT (Nazi unit made up mostly of Criminals
responsible for multiple war crimes)

In the United States, lawyers and doctors are self-regulating
professions. That means that both groups get to control who gets to
practice law and who gets to practice medicine. They also get to
police their own members. If a lawyer or doctor commits any type of

The good Colonel becomes enthralled with Adolf Hitler and extends every
courtesy to him, ending up as the head of the Wermacht in the same way
Goering was the head of the Luftwaffe.  He has influence with the Fuehrer
over equipment and tactics for the Wermacht and the common ...