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Alt History ideas, rec and general dicussion thread

Daedwartin said:
Thing is...that STILL fails the initial prompt. They still end up the poorer half of Germany 30 years later and in any ways just turns them into German North Korea in the meantime. The prompt is to see what the GDR needs to switch that fate around and be at least as wealthy per capita as the west. Reforms NEED to occur decades earlier and they have to happen in both the GDR and the Soviet Union(otherwise the soviets likely just crush the reform attempt anyways) if the GDR wishes to last and to also be prosperious.
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Some like Barbarossa fizzling out rapidly and the war wrapping up sooner, leading to the Soviet occupied chuck of Germany being larger, (relatively) less harshly treated, and less severe border adjustments with Poland might help.

Also Truman dies in a tragic bathtub related accident a week into his presidency, leading to POTUS Henry Morgenthau Jr
 
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Vague idea: Conan revisited with modern pseudohistory about pre-Ice Age civilizations.

Inspired by Howard's national mysticism, occultism, Graham Hancock, the Dawn of Everything, and John Michael Greer.

Actually include really bizarre and alien cultures but none of them are just copy and paste cultures from antiquity. A advanced but non-industrial world with no "flattening" of cultural norms by one civilization curb stomping the others.
 
Dab master said:
Vague idea: Conan revisited with modern pseudohistory about pre-Ice Age civilizations.

Inspired by Howard's national mysticism, occultism, Graham Hancock, the Dawn of Everything, and John Michael Greer.

Actually include really bizarre and alien cultures but none of them are just copy and paste cultures from antiquity. A advanced but non-industrial world with no "flattening" of cultural norms by one civilization curb stomping the others.
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If you expand this to include weird esoterica, you'd also get Agartha and Shambhala in addition to Atlantis and Hyperborea. I bring this up mostly because having all of the science-flavored bs of Handcock and co encounter mystical-flavored bs would be very funny.

You also get to play around with either a Hollow Earth or an underground civilization, which is very fun.
 
Could Ronald Reagan have won the 1976 U.S. presidential elections against Jimmy Carter if Gerald Ford had not won the GOP nomination? Or is public perception of the GOP still tainted by the Watergate Scandal?

(Ford in this scenario is either convinced by the GOP to concede or is killed/wounded by one of the 1975 assassination attempts in California.)
 
Mazeka said:
Could Ronald Reagan have won the 1976 U.S. presidential elections against Jimmy Carter if Gerald Ford had not won the GOP nomination? Or is public perception of the GOP still tainted by the Watergate Scandal?

(Ford in this scenario is either convinced by the GOP to concede or is killed/wounded by one of the 1975 assassination attempts in California.)
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He had a decent shot of it, yeah. Even back in '72 Reagan was considered the party's future and had the aura of the heir-apparent around him. While he didn't go quite as hard on the libertarianism in '76 as he would in '80, being the standard-bearer for the Goldwater wing of the party would've given him "Washington outsider" cred not terribly far off of Carter's. I won't claim he would've swept, but Reagan had advantages over Ford - which is why he did the anathema and primaried a sitting president.
 
Have the USA not actually form after the revolution and keep all the original 13 ones independent of each other.
 
Space Murica said:
They would still need to cooperate for Indian Wars, I don't believe in the states odds one on one.
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Expect a lot more of a patchwork deal and far reduced ability to renege on relatively favorable deals/alliances.

Technological sophistication and agricultural production does matter, but those things can be learned and in situations with multiple states on the Eastern Seaboard traded for.
 
king of hybrids said:
I'm not even American, but a Virginain great lakes offends me somehow.
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Blame King James II and his administration, they wrote the charter that gave Virginia the claim to pretty much the entire Midwest east of the Mississippi.

But then for that matter New England also used to be Virginia charter claimed territory at one point which is why the Jamestown colonists made a naval expedition to the north to make sure the French didn't make any settlements up there and burned that were there.

OF course, I think the Stuarts might well have been pretty much responsible for almost every conflicting claims that existed between the 13 colonies which carried over to independence 13 states except for the conflict that later arose between North Carolina and Goergia over the so-called orphan strip.
 
Connecticut and Pennsylvania actually went to war with each other due to this. Connecticut claimed the northern half of Pennsylvania. The claims also used to be sea-to-sea but after a treaty with Spain before independence they terminated at the Mississippi river.
 
Maryland and Pennsylvania also had a little war in the colonial period because of conflicting charters, its why the Mason-Dixen Line ended up being created between the two complete with border stones to make it clear just which side of the border was which.
 
Anyone have any good sources on the Battle of Vienna 1683? I'm trying to plot out a TL outline where the Ottomans win, but I want actual reasons for why they would win, not just "they win lol." Jstor and Google scholar aren't really helping in regards to the POD.
 
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