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    National sales tax during the Great Depression

    During the Great Depression, conservative politicians in the United States wanted not only to slash spending but also to launch a national sales tax. What if that had happened? I think a national sales tax would have had a disastrous deflationary effect which would have delayed economic recovery.
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    The Spanish Empire without the Peninsular War

    Without the Peninsular War, for how much longer would the Spanish Empire in the mainland Americas have survived? For how long can Latin American independence be delayed? Is it possible that the Spanish colonies would become monarchies in personal union with Spain, like the British dominions?
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    Smaller Lebanon

    Let's say that either Lebanon is never expanded or it's partitioned in the 1940s. Either way, it's limited to the former Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate and Beirut with the rest of the territory in Syria. Such a Lebanon would have remained majority Christian forever. Such a Lebanon would have been...
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    The United States declared war on the Ottoman Empire in 1917

    This was a scenario proposed by the late David Tenner in 2015, https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/us-declares-war-on-ottoman-empire-in-1917.350402/. What if the United States had declared war on the Ottoman Empire, either in April 1917 or in December 1917 when they finally declared...
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    Russia continues in the 2008 Russo-Georgian War

    What if Russia had continued in the 2008 Russo-Georgian War, captured Tbilisi and overthrown Mikheil Saakashvili? Who would Russia have installed as puppet President of Georgia in his place? How would the international community have reacted?
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    No Russian expansion south of the Caucasus

    Let's say that in the late 18th century, Russia decides that expanding south of the Caucasus is not worth it. What would have happened to the Ottoman Empire, to Qajar Iran and to the Georgian Kingdoms? Keeping what's now Azerbaijan and Armenia would definitely benefit Iran. Azerbaijan has oil...
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    Ottomans keep Egypt

    What if the Ottomans had kept Egypt, with Muhammad Ali never getting power? Merely losing to a provincial ruler was a huge blow to the Ottomans' prestige and showed that they were in a very bad spot. Egypt could have become a source of cotton and cheap workers for Ottoman factories elsewhere in...
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    Different Gran Colombia

    https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/how-realistic-were-peru-bolivia-inside-gran-colombia.533915/post-23619398 argued that Simon Bolívar made a mistake in including Ecuador in his national project for Gran Colombia. The problem is that Guayaquil would always have been a cause of...
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    No Aswan Dam

    What if Nasser had decided not to build the Aswan Dam, building instead a smaller dam? This means the Suez Canal wouldn't be nationalized as Nasser nationalized it in order to get money to build the Aswan Dam. That means the Suez Crisis doesn't happen.
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    Senate Majority Leader Ted Stevens

    At the end of 1984 and the beginning of 1985, with Howard Baker's retirement, there was a race between Republican Senators for Senate Majority Leader. In the final ballot, it came down to Bob Dole, from Kansas, and Ted Stevens, from Alaska. Dole won by a narrow margin, thanks to Jesse Helms...
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    East Tennessee becomes a state in 1841-43

    The late David Tenner showed at https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/east-tennessee-becomes-a-separate-state-1841-3.532633/ that East Tennessee came close to becoming a separate state in 1841-1843. What if it did? As David noted, despite having few slaves, East Tennessee would be a...
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    Successful 1972 Salvadoran coup

    What if the 1972 Salvadoran coup had succeeded at overthrowing Fidel Sánchez Hernández and proclaiming José Napoléon Duarte as President? Could this have prevented the Salvadoran Civil War?
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    Georgia under Ottoman and Safavid rule

    Let's say that in the 17th and 18th centuries, the Ottomans and Safavids are more successful in establishing control over the Georgian Kingdoms. How many Georgians would have converted to Islam? FWIW, the Ottomans were very successful in Islamizing Tao-Klarjeti and Adjara. If most Georgians...
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    Christian Circassians

    Most Circassians converted to Islam late, only in the 18th century. What if the Circassians had remained Orthodox Christians? Presumably, relations with the Russians would be much better than in our timeline. Indeed, the Russians may use the Circassians in the same way they did the Ossetians...
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    Japanese Empire with surviving Taisho Democracy

    In a world in which Taisho Democracy survives, what would have been the fate of the Japanese Empire? The Micronesian islands had a large Japanese population and would certainly remain Japanese. Korea would be unsustainable by the 50s or 60s and would probably become Japan's Algeria with an...
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    Austronesian Mauritius and Reúnion

    Strangely, Mauritius and Reúnion were not settled by Austronesians unlike neighboring Madagascar and remained uninhabited until the Europeans arrived. What if Austronesians had settled Mauritius and Reúnion along with Madagascar? Presumably, the dodo would be hunted into extinction even earlier...
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    United Marianas in 1969

    In 1969, referendums were held in both Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands on unification as a single US territory. The Northern Mariana Islands voted for unification but Guam voted against it. What if Guam had voted for unification? Could the United Mariana Islands have become an US state?
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    Taiwan if the Kuomintang gets obliterated during World War II

    Inspired on https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/fate-of-taiwan-if-the-kmt-gets-obliterated-during-wwii.409780/: Let's say the Kuomintang gets obliterated during World War II. What does the United States do with Taiwan? I don't see them either handing it over to the People's Republic...
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    Norse Greenland survives and Danish-Norwegian colonization of North America

    Let's say the Eastern Settlement in Greenland survives and Denmark-Norway later uses it as a base for the colonization of North America, starting with Newfoundland. How successful would the Danish-Norwegian colonization of North America be? How much territory could they colonize beyond...
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    No Hundred Days and France keeps more colonies

    Let's say the coalition keeps paying Napoleon and he doesn't flee Elba. This would have resulted in France keeping more colonies. Before the Hundred Days, the British were willing to return Saint Lucia, Tobago, Mauritius and Seychelles to France. How would those colonies have developed...
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