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Vichy France (the "free zone" and its full theoretical colonial empire) are teleported from Noon French metro time on July 11, 1940 to noon on July 11, 1970. Thoughts? Effects?

German Emperor Friedrich III doesn't die of smoking-caused throat cancer. German and European history will be very different. Australian politician and ALP leader Ben Chifley. He doesn't smoke so he doesn't die of heart disease. Unlike H. V. Evatt, he might be willing to negotiate with the...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Monster_Raving_Loony_Party Can something dramatic or interesting happen with the Raving Loonies?

Australia at this moment in 2019 is ISOT'd to the same moment on August 31, 1939, Australian EST. Our Prime Minister is Scott Morrison, who is somewhat crass and gittish, and i am not sure how he will handle being a wartime leader. Our Opposition Leader is Bill Shorten, a former union leader...

Imperial Japan and its various controlled territories as they existed at noon local time on January 1st, 1937 are instantly teleported to noon local time on January 1st, 1997. "Oh, dear!" will sum it up.

WI Vichy stays recognised as the French government?

Shirley Temple ran for Congress... in 1967... as a Reaganite... in a Liberal Republican district... at the height of the anti-Vietnam War movement... on a pro-war platform. Needless to say, The Good Ship Lollipop was torpedoed. Some Democratic Party high-ups tried to persuade Andy Griffith...

What would be the effects of Italy - and importantly, its colonial (Libya, Somalia, Dodecanese) and conquered (Albania) empire, being ISOT'd from say July 1939 to the present? Trump reacting to the actual Benny the Moose would melt Twitter.

If Australia, or even an individual Australian state was ISOT'd from today to the Cold War, how would the Soviets react?

POD: John Gorton has an attack of sense, realises that in a double dissolution election with the lower quota, it is much smarter to run for a Senate seat in one of the states, rather than in the hopeless Australian Capital Territory. He probably would would have won a Senate spot had he done...

As we all know, the Austrian Corporal was a bit more in touch with reality in 1933-34 than in 1944-45. *handwave* What if he had somehow stayed that way? Effects?

the background: The Me-262, designed by Dr Waldemar Voigt and built by the Willy Messerschmitt company, was the world's first operational jet aircraft. (The first jet aircraft ever to fly was the Heinkel He-178, test-flown in August 1939, but it was never put into production.) The Me-262 first...

Well, aside from Edith Wilson not being able to hijack the Executive Branch for 2 and a half years, how will Thomas Marshall handle that period? the desire for "a return to normalcy" as that Ohio Senator put it, will see Marshall's defeat in 1920 if he chooses to run. Despite what The Other...

let's just say down to simple bad luck and health, JFK dies early in his term, before the Cuban Missile Crisis. How does LBJ handle Cuba? Under the 22nd Amendment LBJ is term-limited so can't run in 1968, which sets the butterflies a-flapping.

Jim Callaghan was widely expected to call an election in 1978. By his failing to do so, we got the Winter of Discontent and, ultimately, Maggie T. But, what if he *had* gone to an election?

What happens if the three musicians survive? When this came up on the newsgroup, a certain SHWI poster decided to stick the knife in by stating that Buddy wouldn't have had much chance against Bob Dylan because "[Dylan] had the good looks and Buddy didn't".

If Reagan is not available in 1976 to primary Ford or in 1980 to become President, who takes his place as the figurehead of the pushback against the liberalism of the sixties and seventies?

There's limited room for maneuver, but there's no reason that Carter couldn't have been a bit smarter as president. I was born during the Carter administration so I'll hand it over to you as to what happens.

There was a lot bitterness left over from the defeated Miners’ Strike for many years, including bitterness that Mr Scargill hadn’t had the guts to put strike resolutions to secret ballots of miners’ union members. Preserving your democratic credentials would have helped you and your members a...

Say there is no Norway disaster, or Chamberlain doesn't develop cancer?