While in the popular consciousness the assassination of Abraham Lincoln is framed as the actions of a lone fanatic, in reality John Wilkes Booth was the only successful assassin out of a small group. The plan was to launch a decapitation strike of the United States government: Booth would kill...
Suppose that in the wake of India's successful military takeover of Portugal's colony in Goa 1961, China decides to try the same with Macau at some point in the next few years.
How would the actual military situation look, on both a strategic and tactical level? How will Britain react to this...
I feel like "Cuba as the 51st state/ a Confederate state" shows up once in a while in AH but it's usually as an afterthought with little explanation.
To your mind, what's the most likely time for Cuba to be admitted into the United States? Something like Hawaii, where it's claimed as a...
If you are not familiar, the "National Crime Syndicate" was a rather sensationalist name given to a loose alliance of Jewish and Italian mobsters in the 50s and 60s. Most organized crime historians agree that while there was some degree of collaboration between gangs based in different cities...
Boxing and organized crime have always been linked- Don King used to run number rackets in Cleveland before getting into promoting, just for one example. However, I'm talking more about the general public perception as an honest sport- where wrestling is acknowledged even by fans to be fake...
Apologies if the title is confusing, it's a little difficult to put this concisely.
Basically, what changes need to be made for wrestling to be a serious, legitimate, respected sport like boxing is IOTL? The match is not choreographed nor is the outcome predetermined, two wrestlers simply meet...
Since my other thread about which alternate Axis Powers led to some really interesting discussion, I thought I might make a version for WWI. What countries could be wrangled into joining up with the Central Powers? This might be a bit of a trickier question due to the tangled web of alliances...
I've been idly kicking around the idea of a larger Axis in WWII, though I don't know if that's necessarily a path to an Axis victory. What countries can be plausibly cajoled or bullied into joining the Axis?
I feel like I see Spain and Turkey floated the most, though both are in unenviable...
On the 9th of November, 1989, the border crossing at Bornholmer Straße in Berlin was mobbed by East German citizens. Excitement had grown after announcements of impending easings of passport regulations, which had evolved into rumors of the borders between East and West Germany being opened...
Germany did do a little perfunctory saber-rattling at the beginning of tensions but nothing really came of it. Maybe a little added diplomatic pressure from European power, a few more banana peels in the already poor mobilization.
I feel like reversing the outcome of a war is pretty basic AH, but I can't recall seeing this particular question ever floated before.
Suppose Spain successfully defends its colonial holdings from the US- I don't pretend to be a military expert so I'm afraid I don't have a specific POD in...
What if rather than the often labyrinthine system of municipal, county, and state police agencies the United States adopted a single federal service for policing? A designated uniformed branch responsible for everything from routine patrol and traffic all the way up to investigating serious...