Alternative History:List of Althists

This is a list of Alternate histories existing on this site. Feel free to add your own!

See also:
 * Historical list of alternate histories: ordered by historical moment of POD or main difference.
 * Economic Alternative History
 * Satirical Alternative History
 * Presidential Alternative History: althistory with an alternate U.S. President.
 * Nuclear Alternative History: althistory with a nuclear or atomic point of divergence, used for military or peaceful purpose.
 * Disaster Alternative History: list centered in natural and human-made disasters, real, changed or complete created by the author.
 * Alternative History by Place
 * On this day in alternate history...: Lists alternate historical events on the day it happens.
 * World War II alternate histories
 * The Beatles alternate histories



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 * 1945 – Rise of the Werewolf
 * Against direct orders from Hitler, Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler makes preparations for an insurgency campaign against the Allied occupation. However, after his capture and subsequent suicide, the duty falls to SS-Standartenführer Joachim Pieper.


 * 1948: Berlin backfire
 * The British and American bombers take off to deliver aid to Berliners, only to be shot down by an increasingly annoyed Soviet Union. The Cold War turns hot.


 * 1962: First Strike
 * Attempts to bring a peaceful end to the Cuban Missile Crisis fail resulting in a nuclear confrontation between the two superpowers.


 * 1983: Doomsday
 * Stanislav Petrov is NOT the officer on duty at the Serpukhov-15 bunker near Moscow. A different officer on duty at the bunker misreads a computer glitch as an American attack, sparking global nuclear war between NATO, the Warsaw Pact, and China. This timeline is the story of mankind's re-emergence from the aftermath.


 * Now, 25 years later, mankind is seemingly securing its survival. New coalitions and alliances have emerged from the ruins of near-total nuclear destruction and the League of Nations foundation is the first sign a better future for mankind. But a new threat is rising in the heart of the Old World once more. :A lot of diverse content, maps, flags, country profiles in here


 * 1986-Soviet Russia attempts expansion of influence by force


 * 1989: Wipe-out
 * The outbreak of Ebola virus at the Hazelton Research Products office in Reston, VA is not the type non-fatal to humans, but a near duplicate strain to Ebola Zaire, which is. Unfortunately, it also has the capacity to be airborne. Within a week, the world is infected. Within three weeks, 90% of the Earth's population lies dead.


 * 1991: Longer Gulf War
 * On February 28, 1991, President George H.W. Bush refused to sign a ceasefire and instead swore to liberate Iraq from the menace of Saddam Hussein.


 * 2003: World War 3
 * After several years of deteriorating global relations Russia and China support Saddam Hussein against the United States prior to the invasion of Iraq. This in turn sparks World War III.


 * 2000: The Third War
 * After China halts an attempted coup, and investigation leads to reveal that the coup was planned by the Russian government. Russia invades China starting WWIII.


 * 2006: US Stays Red
 * "Abramoff-gate", "Macaca-gate", and "Foley-gate" fail to emerge and the Republicans keep Congress in the 2006 midterms.


 * 2009: 2nd American Revolution
 * In a shocking turn of events President Obama announces to the world during his inauguration speech that he is suspending all activities of the Republican, Libertarian and Constitution parties, essentially turning America into a one-party state. He then goes on to declare lartial law across and the nation and declares himself President for Life. Uprisings across the nation occur and several states, counties and even some cities declare their independence from the United States. Instead of banding together to form a strong central nation, several seccessionist groups seize the oppurtunity and take power, resulting in a weak alliance between several new nations against the USSA (United Socialist States of America, as declared by President for Life Obama).


 * 3-Year Term
 * The delegates to the Constitutional Convention decide to create a presidency with a 3 year term.

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 * Banana World
 * United Fruit (later Chiquita) and Standard Fruit (later Dole) maintained their strangleholds on the Latin American nations, bringing a quite literal definition to the term "Banana Republics".


 * Banat Republic
 * The tiny Banat Republic that emerged after WWI is not invaded by Serbia and remains independent until WWII and regains independence after the collapse of Yugoslavia.


 * The Barbarian Empire
 * The first part of A Thousand Russian Years, this alt-hist was based on a game of Crusader Kings. During the collapse of the Byzantine Empire under the Dukids, a young warlord - Vladimir Monomach - unexpectedly finds himself in charge of a small army that's about to create a big legacy. Follow the rise and fall of a medieval Graeco-Russian Orthodox superpower.


 * Basileus' Interference Timeline
 * An extremely involved, far-reaching and complex timeline of human history from the times of Jesus onwards, to a newer, stimulating possibile scenario. Its development can be followed at: the AH.com forum.


 * The Battle of Caldbeck
 * North of Hastings, 1066. This neglected footnote in the early career of Harold Godwinson could have turned out very differently indeed. It is perhaps best remembered today for the comical name of Harold's opponent, William the Bastard, Duke of Normandy. Had William triumphed, the horrors of the feudal system would have been visited on this island.


 * Bermudas United Nations
 * Winston Churchill with europe support made the Headquarter of United Nation in the middle north atlantic island Bermudas, in response to the build of World Bank/Internacional Monetary Fund in USA. That become in a notUSApuppet organization with more utopic result. Stub Open to adoption


 * Between Iraq and a Hard Place
 * Political turmoil in the UK means that the US is forced to go it alone in Iraq. It is militarily more than capable, but is left politically isolated...


 * Biden vs. Bush
 * Delaware Senator Joe Biden wins the Democrat nomination for President in 1988. What happens when Vice-President George H.W. Bush has to face off against the "common man" candidate for the Presidency?


 * Big Benito
 * Mussolini gets nicer and starts a new Roman Empire that is greater than Germany or Britain.


 * The Bishop Royal
 * Prince August Frederick (1773-1843) follows his youthful ambition of being ordained.


 * Black Pax
 * A much longer and more wide spread World War.


 * Black American Revolution
 * in the 30º, before WW2 start, in USA black/negro peoples are segregated, and someday a group of them take control of a military base in souther state, a civil conflict up, and that end with the acceptation of selfgoverment of a new republic in North America for the "enemies" of USA. (Open for adoption, preferent for a american citizen)


 * Blond Death
 * The blonde was a devastating plague pandemic that ravaged basicly Europe Northem America, Australia and New Zealand in the late twentieth century and caused, killing a quarter of the population of Europe, but was pesent in minus range in all the world. Was precent like a flu in many people but with the special that the flu kill a high range of the whites blondes clear eyes infected. The social scale of the world change forever.


 * Blue Mars


 * Bolshevik Bleeding
 * A wiser and more watchful Alexander Kerensky avoids the rise of the Bolsheviks and October Revolution never occured, making the way free for democracy in Russia.


 * The Boulanger Era
 * A proto-fascistic regime in 1890s France.


 * Brian Felled Brodir
 * Brian Boru wins the Battle at Clontarf and unifies Eire.


 * Breitenfeld and Luetzen
 * Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden leads his troops to victory in both Breitenfeld and Luetzen, and survives to carry the banner of The Reformation still further.


 * British Empire


 * British Empire Triumphant
 * The British do not enter World War One and remain the dominant power into the 21st Century.

British Empire Triumphant 2

British Empire Triumphant 3


 * Biggger British Empire
 * After some major wars, the british do not loose their colonies and as a result, the empire got larger and larger.


 * British Supreme Power
 * The British created the greatest empire by not joining WW1.


 * British Louisiana
 * Disease in 1762 prevents the British takeover of Cuba, preventing the Spanish loss of Florida. Britain takes Louisiana instead.


 * Brittanese-Speaking World
 * Anglo-Saxon Britain competes with the Scandinavian Vikings over the settlement of Vineland and eventually succeed in colonizing North America.


 * Business Plot
 * what if the Business Plot succeeded as originally planned?


 * Bull Moose
 * Former President Theodore Roosevelt wins the 1912 Republican Party nomination for President, after convincing President Taft to step down as the nominee. Roosevelt goes on to defeat Woodrow Wilson and reshapes the U.S. political landscape, the map of Europe and, consequently, world events.


 * Burgundy Survives
 * The kingdom of Burgundy survives to the present day, and becomes a colonial power.


 * Butterfly of Quebec
 * US forces win the battle of Quebec, leading to a butterfly effect which would change the world forever.


 * Bye Bye Belgium
 * Formation of the Belgian Leterme I federal government lasts even longer and is even more hopeless than OTL, leading to the RTBF-hoax scenario to become fact rather than fiction.


 * By Grace of God Protector of the Commonwealth


 * Byzantine Empire Triumphant


 * Byzantine Gunpowder
 * A trader inadvertently takes some gunpowder down the silk road, and into the Byzantine Empire. With new weapons, a new age of Byzantine rule begins.


 * Byzantine World
 * The conversion of Mohammed to Christianity prevents the Arabic conquests of Byzantine lands and allows the Eastern Roman Empire to flourish much longer. The shape of Western Europe is also changed considerably.

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 * Cabotia and Brasil
 * The Castillian queen does not support Christopher Columbus who is not lucky in France either. The English and the Portuguese discover the Americas before 1500, though.


 * Call Me Carter
 * Operation Eagle Claw is successful, and Jimmy Carter is elected to a second term.


 * Capitalists of the World, Unite
 * The German railroad car smuggling Lenin into St. Petersburg is intercepted by Tsarist forces. Russia bleeds itself dry by the end of the Great War, but Communism never takes root. Equally pulverized against the Russian anvil, Germany sues for peace in 1917.


 * The Capitol Burns
 * The September 11 attacks never take place. Instead, the Al-Qaida network chooses a bigger, and more deadly, target. On January 29, 2002, during George W. Bush's State of the Union address, an airliner dive-bombs into the U.S. Capitol building. 97% of the members of Congress are killed, and so are most of the cabinet, including the President and Vice President. The Presidency passes to Interior Secretary Gale Norton, who presides over the beginning of the end for American democracy.


 * The Cold War continues and is cancelled in 2001
 * Gorbachev's reforms work in the Soviet Union, so much that the Communist world would survive into the 21st Century, as well as the Warsaw Pact. Then when the September 11th Attacks come, the Cold War is cancelled as the Communist and Capitalist world unite in the face of terrorism.


 * Caeser lives
 * The assasination attempt of the Ides of March Fails.


 * Cecil's Society
 * Cecil Rhodes' secret society is set up to try and rule the world, but America is not so subservient to the society, which leads to a world war between the Old world and the New World/China. Now an open timeline.


 * Celebrity World
 * The election of Ronald Reagan as President in 1968 started the United States, and the world, off on a celebrity kick. From then on, every U.S. President has been an actor, musician or other non-political celebrity prior to entering politics, the entire U.S. Senate is made up of celebrities, and this craze has spread to other nations as well.


 * Celtic Empire
 * Celtic tribes are able to repel Roman invaders and afterword establish a very powerful nation though out Europe.


 * Celtic Rules
 * The Celtic tribes throughout Europe have never been suppressed by other peoples, yielding highly Celtic-influenced Europe with numerous Celtic nations and languages spreading all over the continent.


 * Central powers Shift East
 * Germany allies with Russian along with Austria-Hungary to form the Central Powers. Britain, faced with the prospect of war, blackmails the United States to join the Entente. With the major players shifted, World War One turns out differently.


 * Chamberlain's Legacy
 * Joseph Chamberlain, the father of Neville Chamberlain. In the real timeline, he was a footnote in history, an obscure radical imperialist who started as one of the rising stars of the Liberal Party and ended a man who split his party and joined the Conservatives.  Instead, he becomes Prime Minister in 1886.  The results today: a world with five Superpowers- the United States of America; the United Britannic Commonwealth; the United Federation of Europe; the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China.


 * Chaos TL - A world without Genghis Khan's conquests
 * This long, finished TL starts with the death of Genghis Khan in the year 1200 and goes until 1993. It has more than 350 pages in this wiki, of which more than 100 are about the nations alone.


 * Republic of China, circa 1970
 * The United States' George Marshall did not intervene to stop the Chinese civil war and there was no arms embargo on the Nationalists. Consequently the Chinese Communists, even with all the weapons of the Manchukuo Army and most of the Japanese Kwantung Army weapons and the increased size of its forces, was defeated in the Northeastern area in China in 1947.  The warlords gradually lost powers to Chiang Kai-shek and for the first time, central authority was established at Nanking that could lead the whole nation, and China modernizes - in the 1950s according to Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles of the People.


 * China's industrial-age space program
 * In 850, the Chinese alchemist who discovered gunpowder by accident, instead of adding honey to his concoction of sulfur, realgar and saltpetre, added animal dung, and subsequently discovered explosives.


 * Chinese America


 * Chinese Meiji
 * China starts a modernization program in the 1840s, overthows the Qing dynasty, and sets up a constitutional monarchy. The result is a drastically different 20th century, where Germany dominates Europe and the Middle East is one of the most stable regions in the world.


 * Chinese World
 * A divided China partially resists the Mongol invasion, while the Mongols devastate western Europe. At the downfall of the Mongols, the Chinese states are ready to conquer the unknown world.


 * Christ Dynasty
 * Jesus Christ takes a less peaceful approach, but still emphasizing himself as Messiah and as the son of God. He leads a rebellion establishing an empire.


 * Clausewitz Lives!


 * Cliche CSA Victory Timeline
 * The many cliches of a CSA victory timeline in one easy to use timeline. Watch as a victory of Gettysburg changes the destiny for North America...again.


 * Clinton Who?
 * Bill Clinton's disastrous 1988 Convention speech does more harm than previously thought. His bid for the nomination in 1992 ends disastrously as well, when the Jennifer Flowers tapes are released before Iowa and he ends up in single digits there and in New Hampshire. Paul Tsongas wins the nomination.


 * Clinton Assassinated
 * While campaigning in Iowa in 1996, Bill Clinton is assassinated by a religious zealot. Gore is sworn in as President and is nominated in his place.


 * Climate Change
 * The World has taken a blind eye towards Global Warming and many of the world's population believe it is a natural phenomenon because of this, when the Kyoto Protocol was suggested, many countries did not bother to sign it. in 2003, when the Larsen-B ice shelf collapsed, so did half of Greenland resulting in a flooded world. (Incomplete)


 * Cold Phoney War
 * Allied partial victory on Norway convinces Hitler of the near impossibility of invading the British Isles, keeps Chamberlain in power and gives the Allies a position to directly fight the Soviet Union over Finland.


 * Cold War actually slightly Chilly War
 * Stalin dies near the end of World War II causing a different Yalta Conference and post-war politics. Tensions between the Soviet Union and the west remain however.


 * Colón Pact Victory
 * Gran Colombia survives, Mexico keeps central America, and an alliance is made that will bring the Revolution to all the opressed proliteriat of the world, and not even the opressive Japanese Empire can stand in their way.


 * Commonwealth of America
 * The American Rebellion has failed. When Canada gains self-government in 1867, America follows suit as a free, democratic constitutional monarchy, consisting of the 13 original colonies plus the captured Louisiana territory. With no United States to threaten its existence, Mexico flourishes until torn apart by unrest and civil war.


 * Co-President
 * Gerry Ford's decision to prosecute Richard Nixon changes the Presidency for ever..


 * Communist Chile


 * The Compromise of 1856
 * Though having won a decisive plurality of the popular vote, James Buchanan fails to win a majority of the electoral vote. As the election moves to the House of Representatives, division occurs over the issue of slavery, with the representatives being equally divided between the Fremont and Buchanan. Eventually, a compromise is reached, today known as the Compromise of 1856.


 * Confederacy Survives


 * Confederate Provinces of Canada


 * The Confederate Utopia
 * The Confederates win the Civil War &mdash; with ironic results.


 * A Confederate Victory
 * General Lee makes a crucial decision at Gettysburg that alters the course of the Americas.


 * Conflict in the SouthWest
 * After being defeated in the short but bloody Mormon war, the citizens of the Deseret region of Utah, Nevada, Western Colorado, Southern Idaho and Wyoming, and South Eastern California, tempers simmer until they flare up in 2003, causing the Deseret Conflict.


 * Conservative Century
 * William McKinley survives Leon Czolgoz's attempted assassination and this would lead to over a century of peace and prosperity worldwide.


 * Controversy: A Universe in Parallel


 * Crescent & Cross - A Norman Egypt
 * A TL from AH.com exploring the consequences of Normans under Robert Guiscard conquering Egypt in 1083. The spiritual successor to Hauteville Empire


 * Cromwell the Great
 * Charles I was executed in 1649. He was Britain's last king. Following his death, Britain became a republic, known as the Commonwealth - governed ostensibly by Parliament but in reality by the dictator Oliver Cromwell. With the monarchy abolished, and the 'pretender' Stuarts never again to return to the throne, there is no revolution in the American colonies, and Cromwell and his successors lead a very different kind of British Empire.


 * Crusaders have an epthiany
 * The memebers of the peoples, and first crusade simply stop to think about it before charging half way around the world. Nearly a Million of lives are saved, the Middle East is now the most technologicaly advanced area of the world, and King richard stayed at home 200 years later.


 * Crusader World
 * Saladins forces are badly beaten at the battle of Hattin, and King Guys army recieves help from the landing Crusader armies of France and England. After besieging Jerusalem for 2 years, Barbarrosa's huge German army arrives and enters Jerusalem. Saladin surrenders, and retreats to Baghdad, but the Crusaders widen their claims until an early form of Colonialism takes place. Meanwhile, the Mongols are defeated by the Russians, and great power arrises in Eastern Europe.


 * The Curie


 * The Curie Bomb
 * After her children were killed in a German gas attack in 1916, Marie Curie took revenge by working with the French government to develop a dirty bomb which was dropped behind German lines in 1918, irradiating part of Northern France and decimating the German army leading to a surrender. With other discoveries in the 1920s, a new cold war begins with many more players.

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 * Dai-tō-a
 * The Japanese Empire decides not to invade Pearl Harbor, leading to a completely different world order.


 * Damned Marxies!


 * Dawn of Hope
 * Hitler sucessfully becomes a painter and a much more competent leader takes his place making his way to world leader and setting an dystopian version of the UN as world state.


 * Day of Glory
 * Starting with New-France never falling to the British, a domino effect create a timeline where the balance of power is held by the Gallican Republic and the United Royal Provinces.


 * Death of the old world


 * Death of a Queen
 * Queen Elizabeth II's plane crashes during the 2007 state visit to the USA, she survives but is very badly injured.


 * Death of a President - 2003


 * Decimalisation of the Shilling


 * Decimation at Dunkirk
 * Hitler never orders his armor to halt, and they obliterate the allied armies at dunkirk before they can be evacuated.


 * Defenders of the Fang- a Dinosaur Althist

Dinosaurs never went extinct. Civilization begins a couple hundred thousand years earlier, and a lot of other big changes.


 * Democratic Afghanistan
 * Ahmed Shah Massoud establishes a stable Afghanistan in the aftermath of the Soviet withdrawal, thus preventing the rise of the Taliban.


 * Democratic Century
 * Harry Truman, once again beats the odds, succeeding in winning a 3rd term in office, beginning a long period of Democratic dominanace in national affairs, and a great many events occur earlier or later then OTL. Operates jointly with "Republican Century".


 * Democatic Republic of the Balkan
 * The people in the ottoman rule gain independence and form a nation.


 * Die Deutschen Seigreich
 * Hitler thinks out his battle plans, gets superior technology, and WW2 starts in 1955 and has a much different victor....


 * Die Sonne geht im Reich nie unter...
 * The Central Powers win the First World War, and Germany goes on to become a worldwide colonial superpower.


 * Divergence Factor -0.229
 * The year is 1860. The point of divergence is 1784. The Republican Party is never formed, John C. Breckenridge is elected President and New England secedes from the union leading to civil war.


 * Divided Japan
 * Harry S Truman does not argue as forcefully for possession of Japan as he does in OTL, and he does not order the dropping of the Bomb in 1945. The war ends the next year and Japan is partitioned like Germany.


 * Doctor who isn't cancelled in 1989
 * What if the TV show Doctor Who wasn't cancelled in 1989? (in progress)


 * Domahn Ceilteach
 * The Angles form the Anglo-Burgundians. The Saxons invade Normandy, and all the British Isles remain a thoroughly celtic nation.


 * Downfall of the Old World
 * What if America never entered World War I? (WIP)


 * DSO (Demokrata Socialisma Organizo / Democratic Socialist Organization)

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 * Easternized World
 * The Tang Dynasty lasts into the late 10th century. After a new dynasty takes over, China takes over much of Asia.


 * Election 1952
 * Adlai Stevenson wins the 1952 Presidential Election after Robert Taft fights the Republican Nomination away from Dwight Eisenhower. Having a large impact on how history and future elections.


 * Emperor Belisarius
 * 540 - Belisarius accepts the title of Western Roman Emperor from the Ostrogoths.


 * Emperor George I(not done yet)


 * English Empire


 * l'Empereur Est Mort
 * 1812 - Napoleon dies during an unsuccessful attempt to conquer the British Isles. This causes the French Empire to survive to this very day.


 * Ericson's Vinland
 * Leif Ericson encourages Greenlanders to settle Vinland after he discovers the island and stays there for a winter. After the Greenlanders create several successful settlements, word gets out to Iceland that a more hospitable land than Greenland has been found. this encourages Icelandic settlement and the establishment of a permanent colony.


 * Erin Go Bragh
 * Ireland begins the fight for there independence one hundred years before it does in our time line.


 * Eryr Wen


 * Eternal Migration
 * 65 million years ago - A gigantic meteor hits the Earth. This kills off the dinosaurs and many other species... but not mammals. The meteor hit causes the Earth to change its speed of rotation, so it is almost locked with the sun (i.e. one side always faces the sun), however it is slightly off. Now, it takes 1000 years for one point on Earth to move all the way around to the same position relative to the sun. The human race evolves and coincidentally many OTL historical people appear, but all are subject to the ETERNAL MIGRATION.


 * Ethelred the Pious
 * 871 - Alfred does not take charge of Wessex forces at the Battle of Ashdown, and the Danes take over England, eventually making it a thorougly Scandinavian country.


 * Eurasian Alliance
 * 1921 - one year after the successful Kapp Putsch: Disappointed how she was treated by the allies after World War I, an authoritarian Germany seeks new allies for her revenge: the Soviet Union and the Nationalist Republic of China.

In 1919 a victorious Germany establishes a free trade zone in Central Europe, consisting of Germany, Finland, The Baltic Duchy, Poland, Austria-Hungary, and Ukraine. This lays the groundwork for future European integration and the European Confederation.
 * Europäische Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft 1919

In 1854, at the Eureka Stockade in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, the leader of the miners, Peter Lalor, is killed in battle. His martyrdom turns a small conflict into a big one, the Eureka Rebellion, aided by a charismatic and brilliant commanding general, and Australia is transformed into an American-style republic.
 * Eureka!


 * Even worse troubles
 * The USA and USSR ratify SALT 3 and significantly reduce their nuclear stockpiles. However, two warheads go missing and are used in the Troubles.  The Cold War takes a new turn with Ireland being divided just like Germany


 * Explorers and Empires
 * Columbus sails for Portugal in 1485, leading to Portugese domination of the Americas, a Venetian colonial empire, Inca survival, and a Jewish republic in the New World, among many other changes.


 * Eye of the Storm
 * The rise of the Confederate States of America following their victory over the Union in the American Civil War sees a new world order emerge without the presence of the United States.

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 * Failed Continental Congress
 * The 13 English colonies in North America manage their independence but they cannot agree on a common government.


 * Fall Grün
 * The Czechoslovak government refuses to abide by the Munich Agreement, sparking a German (and later Hungarian) invasion of Czechoslovakia on October 1, 1938.


 * Fall of the East
 * The eastern Roman empire falls due to barbarian invasions and most of the western empire survives unscathed.


 * Farewell My Canada
 * Quebec separate from Canada in 1995 leading to a wave of separatism.


 * Fascist USA
 * The early death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1921 means that in 1932, Al Smith becomes President of the United States. Smith proves just as incapable of pulling the United States out of the Great Depression and the result is that Smith is overthrown by a fascist coup in 1936. The fascist United States then allies with Hitler against the Allies in Europe, but conflicts with Japan in the Pacific lead to a very different World War II...


 * FDR Follows his Platform
 * Franklin D. Roosevelt follows his platform of 1932, repudiating the reckless big government policies of Herbert Hoover. America recovers from the Great Depression and enters a boom. America remains Isolationist, resulting in a longer World War II.


 * February's Legacy
 * The Russian Provisional Government is not overthrown by the bolsheviks.


 * Federalist Failure
 * The Federalists lose in their attempts to ratify the new Constitution and the United States falls apart, leading to the rise of a Virginian "empire".


 * Federalist Republic of Louisiana
 * Alexander Hamilton is never born, and thus is unable to stop Aaron Burr's plot to form a Federalist republic in the Midwest.


 * Federation of Nations


 * Field of Honor
 * Dueling still affects US politics in a parallel world.


 * First Contact: 1213


 * First One Hundred Days of the Obama Administration IN SPACE


 * Five Species of the Planet Earth
 * Humans are not just the only race evolve...


 * Five Nations
 * Although the Battle of Gettysburg is seen as the turning point in the American Civil War, it was actually much closer than it might seem. If Jeb Stuart had not gone off on a glory-grabbing raid and instead had provided intelligence to the Army of Northern Virginia; if the Confederates had been successful in getting artillery to the summit of Big Round Top to enfilade the Federal lines; if the second day’s plans had been executed properly on the Confederate side; then the battle -- and the war, and the world -- may have turned out differently. Here, then, is one way things might have gone.


 * Flak in the Falkland
 * An escalation in the Falkland War lead to the involvement of more countries.


 * Florida voted Blue
 * Some chads fell off in Florida and its 25 electoral votes went to Gore. Explores the first four years of a Gore Presidency - his responses to September 11, the invasion of Sudan and the prospect of four more years.


 * Flood Basalt Eruption
 * Massive Flood basalt eruption under Hawaii


 * Foreign Ambassadors


 * For Want of a Heimlich
 * George W. Bush chokes on a pretzel in 2002, drastically changing the next seven years.


 * For want of an Inch
 * Hitler dies in the trenches.


 * Four Policemen
 * The Grand Alliance of World War 2 continues through the 1950s as the Soviet Union and United States join together to end Imperialism.


 * Four-way Cold War


 * France + Germany = The Ultamite Power
 * France invades Germany and becomes a world power.


 * Franz Lives!
 * Gavrilo Princip's gun jams, thus delaying WW1 resulting with a constitutional Monarchy in Russia that lasts to the present day, a much more powerful USA and a very strong British Empire racing for the Stars.


 * Franz's World
 * Franz Ferdinand survives an assassination attempt in Sarajevo and goes on to see his dream of a United States of Greater Austria come true.


 * Frederick the Great
 * America's Empire


 * Free Catalonia
 * Prats de Molló uprising succeds. A newly independent Catalan State is procclaimed.


 * Free Polish State (1939-1991)


 * French Canada
 * Following the French-Indian War the French keep Canada while the British claim Louisiana instead.


 * The French invasion of Germany-1939


 * French Empire (CS-1)
 * Napoleon does not attack Russia and is not defeated in Europe... resulting in the First French Empire surviving to the present day.

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 * Galactic Federation of Soverign Antarctica
 * The United States is granted possession of Antarctica, only to declare it independent May 10, 1969.


 * Gate of Heavenly Peace:The Third Chinese Revolution
 * The Tienanmen Square massacre escalates into full-scale civil war.


 * Gaul survives
 * After Caesar conquers Gaul, an uprising a few years later permanently frees it from Roman rule.


 * Germany Waits
 * In this althist, Adolf Hitler waits five years,then Blitzkriegs Poland. Europe falls under his clutches, and America struggles against falling too.But a civil war is rising in 2009...


 * Gekim
 * The Gekíun Empire, known in the native language as Gekím, was originally founded as several, separate colonies and refugee sites from multiple independent countries, near the Bab el Mandeb Strait. This is the history of the culture of the artificial Gekíje language.


 * Gemeo
 * A pair of Mid-Atlantic islands, unknown in 'our timeline', exist.


 * Germanic Power
 * The Franks and Visigoths hold more staunchly to their languages thus developing Frankish, Hispagothic, and other germanic languages, eliminating Spanish, French and Portuguese, but allowing the Langue d'Occ and Catalan come to the fore as independent languages.


 * The Gipper Goes Down
 * Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th President of the United States, is shot dead in 1981 by John Hinckley Jr. His Vice President, George Bush, assumes the Presidency and is bombarded from all sides by the Iran-Contra scandal, which brings him down and his administration with it.


 * Give Them the Bayonet!
 * General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson is not shot by his own men at Chancellorsville. The battle becomes an even greater victory for the Army of Northern Virginia. The Northern desertion rate climbs. The two armies collide in Gettysburg in similar fashion to OTL, but with an outcome unlike our past's. The history of North America is rewritten.


 * Glenn McArthur
 * God eu Mac̉
 * The languages and religions of Earth never split up, leaving a few (slightly) peaceful nations, such as Usic̉uw.
 * The languages and religions of Earth never split up, leaving a few (slightly) peaceful nations, such as Usic̉uw.


 * Goddard's legacy
 * Robert Goddard gets more funding for his rocketry and the space race, the world, is forever changed.


 * God-King Era of Britain
 * A series of Kings, taking the name of Ancient Gods (hence this Era's name) rule Britain with ruthlessness and totalitarianism.
 * Castille invades Portugal during the Reconquestia. As a result, the history of Spain turns out more differentley than ever.


 * Goodbye Portugal
 * Great Alliance
 * The Wampanoag, the Aztecs, and the Incas and various tribes join together in the Great Alliance. From civil war to touring operas and "The War to End All Wars", histroy is changed forever. A Timeline


 * Great Germany
 * After the reunification of easter and wester Germany, the sucesibes presidents and Chancellor of Germany center her plan in unification with Austria and other official german speakers nation of europe. That result in a early euro currency develovmen, and a more germant centered European Union. In 2009 "The United Republic of Great Germany" have a gross domestic product more bigger that Japan.


 * Greater America
 * Greater Britain - All territories
 * Britain wins every single Independence war and keeps every territory it ever had. How would Britain look today?
 * Britain wins every single Independence war and keeps every territory it ever had. How would Britain look today?


 * Greater Colombia
 * San Martin manages to convince Bolívar he still has a role to perform in South America, giving Bolívar more room to prevent Venezuela seceding from Colombia, and concentrate in freeing the Caribbean.


 * Greater Russia
 * The assassination attempt on Alexander II fails and creates a stronger Russian empire which lasts to the present day.


 * The Great Utah War
 * Greka Democracy
 * Groß-Deutschland - Germany allies with Great Britain in the 19th century, and completes the Großdeutsche Lösung, taking a more moderate course than our history.
 * The Gulf Coast Alliance
 * Groß-Deutschland - Germany allies with Great Britain in the 19th century, and completes the Großdeutsche Lösung, taking a more moderate course than our history.
 * The Gulf Coast Alliance
 * The Gulf Coast Alliance
 * The Gulf Coast Alliance

H

 * Habitable Mars
 * As often imagined in science fiction, on July 14, 1965, the "Mariner-IV" Mars probe reveals that the Red Planet is truly habitable with a breathable atmosphere and moderately cool temperatures.


 * Have you heard about the Habsburgs
 * The Habsburgs' reign goes on much more better resulting in one of the largest empires in the world.


 * Hail Mighty Joan
 * Joan of Arc escapes from English captivity, returning to her countrymen and leading them to victory. But, even as France celebrates, the Pope declares her a heretic against the Catholic Church...
 * Under construction and open.


 * The Hanfstaengl Effect


 * Hanover- the millstone around Britain's neck


 * Hauteville Empire
 * A world where Norman Sicily survives. A reposting of the timeline from the AH.com discussion board.


 * Henry II Dies In 1100
 * The early demise of Henry II causes a drastic change in succession in the royal houses of Scotland, England, and France, greatly affecting the politics of western Europe.


 * Henry IX


 * Hephaestion The Conqueror
 * Alexander The Great's lover, Hephaestion does not die of a fever and is named by Alexander as his successor, keeping the Macedon Empire together and drastically altering the course of history. Vinnland is established and grows into a large empire in America. The Mongol Empire does not collapse.


 * Here we go again
 * The acception of the Albany Congress, and a renaissance in China leads to a world somewhat different to our own.


 * Historia Punica


 * History of Rome-After Ætas ab Brian
 * Taking the history of Ætas ab Brian way to far. Starting in 803AUC(50) and continuing on so far up to 2192(1439).


 * History of the Kingdom of the United States


 * The History of the Progressive Party of America
 * A America centric alternate history of an alternate political landscape. It focus is on Presidential and Congress elections. When the progressive Roosevelt and socialist Eugene Debs form a coalition in the 1912 election it causes a cascade of events that leads to a much different political landscape in America.


 * Hitan Republic
 * Hitan Republic, also Khitan Republic in English (Mongolian: Hitan Uls), is a country in Manchuria. Originally a nation-state designated for/by the Manchu nationality, it is also home to Mongolic and other Tungusic ethnic groups. It borders the Chinese Union to the south, Heilongjiang of Chinese Union to the north, Southern Mongolia of Mongolian Union to the west, and the Yellow Sea to the east.


 * Hitler Holds Back
 * After being informed by Britain and France that they would not tolerate an invasion of Poland Hitler decides against the move, keeping content with the occupation of Czechoslovakia and the anschlus of Austria.


 * Hitler an American Citizen
 * Hitler a British Citizen
 * Adolf Hitler is born and raised in England.
 * Adolf Hitler is born and raised in England.


 * Hitler is an American---Version 1
 * Adolf Hitler is born and raised in North America, thus, WWII as we know it does not occur, because Hitler is an American. In this version he is conservative.


 * Hitler is an American---Version 2
 * Adolf Hitler is born and raised in North America, thus, WWII as we know it does not occur, because Hitler is an American. In this version he is very liberal.


 * Hitler Dynasty: U.S Presidents Adolf Hitler and Charles A. Hitler
 * Adolf Hitler is born and raised in North America, thus, WWII as we know it does not occur, because Hitler is an American. He has a very large family, and adopts his last son, a young man named Charles Manson. In the thirties Hitler is elected President He grows up as Charles A. Hitler, and would continue his father's legacy.


 * Hitler's Mediterranean Strategy
 * In 1941, Hitler decides to attack the Brits instead of invading the Soviet Union.


 * Hitler's Almost Immortal
 * Hitler is almost immortal except for one weakness discovered at the end of his reign.


 * Hitler the artist
 * Adolf Hitler graduates art school and becomes a world famous artist instead of a world famous dictator.


 * Hoch Himmel Flotte
 * In 1848, a genius is born in Prussia. He is an orphan and starts small, but he has a huge destiny.


 * Homo Sapiens Idaltu Survives
 * Homo Sapiens Idaltu avoids extinction and survives into the modern era.


 * How Much Does One Vote Count?
 * The United States Presidential Elections from 1872-1888 were some of the closest and most controversial in American political history. This examines the presidencies of the “victors” of those elections, in each of their respective timelines.


 * Hunnica: The Barbarian Rome
 * The Huns win at the Catalaunian fields and conquer Gaul. Rome is absorbed by Attila's empire. But Hunnica undergoes a "Romanization" and Rome rises anew.

I

 * I am the walrus
 * John Lennon avoids his assassination.


 * If both Asteroids hit the moon


 * If You Want Something Done - Do It Yourself
 * East and West Germany defied the Allies and recognized each other as legitimate, independent, and foreign states.


 * Imperial glory


 * Impact Antartica
 * Part of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacts central Antartica


 * Imperial States of America
 * At the beginning of the 20th century, a newly empowered America begins a policy of overseas expansion that has world wide consequences.


 * India United
 * The long peaceful struggle of Mohatmas Ghandi leads to the 1947 Independence the entire Indian people wanted so badly. The religious in-fighting of Hindu and Muslim Indians is controlled, however, and a partition is never needed.


 * Interfaced Reality (Primary PoD 1940)
 * The 20th and 21st centuries were the home to some of humanities bloodiest wars. In no other universe is this truer than in that of Interfaced Reality 04, when forbidden sciences gave the Humans of the Interfaced Reality 04 access to extradimensional power. As a result, Hitler's Third Reich and the United States of North America stare each other down in a shorter Cold War, before the Reich eventually crumbles. The Freedom League emerges in the 1990s to police and protect the world, when a sinister undercover threat known as The Entropy Axiom (Backed by Axiom Technologies), emerges, and launches a full scale invasion.


 * Invasion
 * 1940. France has been defeated and Hitler turns his eyes to Britain. The RAF is completely destroyed in a daring raid. The invasion of Britain begins.


 * Island of east Africa
 * The Great African rift valley becomes part of the Red Sea.


 * Italy Victorious
 * A Genoese officer transforms a region of divided city-states into a world power during the French revolutionary wars. The Latin Empire eventually rules the Mediterranean and finds its place in the sun. Now an open timeline.

J

 * Japanese Alaska
 * William H. Seward does not survive the assassination attempt, April 14, 1865. As a result, the United States does not buy Alaska from the Russians, and it ends up in Japanese hands.


 * Japanese Victory
 * Japan wins World War Two and goes on to become a world power.


 * Japanese victory at midway


 * Jaredia
 * What if Earth was tilted in another way? If Africa was icy, but Antarctica was tropic?


 * Jazz Greats Who Didn't Die Young
 * Five legendary figures in jazz history did not die in their 20s or 30s. Instead, they went on to ever greater achievements, sometimes not in jazz.


 * Jesse and Elvis Presley - Kings of Rock and Roll
 * Jesse doesn't die at birth but lives on. - open for adoption.


 * Jewish Hitler
 * what if Hitler embraced his alleged semitic origin. The POD is funding by his Jewish grandfather's family which encourages him sufficinetly to pass the entrance exam in Vienna.


 * Joan of Arc Beaten
 * What if Joan of Arc lost, leading to the rise of Burgundy? Started at This Day in Alternate History, where Tom Veil also maintains the timeline.


 * John List Becomes President
 * What if John List had used his false identity to become president of the United States?


 * Journeymen
 * In 1982, President Ronald Reagan approves of a military applications program, meant to allow supplies to be deployed safely to locations all around the globe. However, unexpected problems occur, that in the end lead to large benefits. The Trans-Universal Research Project (TURP) is born.


 * JPK
 * In real life, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr, elder brother to JFK and RFK, was expected to fulfill the Kennedy family's political hopes. Unfortunately, he died in 1944, a victim of war. The JPK timeline supposes that he didn't, and did indeed become the American President his father so desperately wanted him to be.

K

 * The Kaiser's New Clothes
 * Britain never intervenes against Germany in 1914, leading to a German-dominated Europe, a weakened Russia, a more isolationist United States and a civil war in Ireland.


 * The Kazakhstan Meeting
 * A disease kills off the Huns during the rule of Diocletian, and the Eastern European tribes never have to move. The Roman Empire expands until they come into contact with China.


 * The King and US
 * Elvis Aron Presley does not die in 1977, and kicks the drugs, gets in shape and stages another comeback. But this time, the comeback leads him into a political career, winning the White House but finding the business of government harder than he thought...


 * The Killing Machine


 * K.A.: The Kingdom of America
 * George Washington accepts the suggestion to turn America into a monarchy. The Senate is dissolved, the Continental Congress has little power, and the king has more power than anyone in the country.


 * Kingdom of Puerto Rico


 * The Kingdom of Scotland
 * King Charles leads one last rebellion in an effort to reclaim the throne of England.


 * The Knights Resurgent


 * Kornilovshina
 * General Lavr Kornilov begins his coup earlier, and is successful. Russia fights on to the end of World War One, with various changes major and minor throughout the world.

L

 * La Republique Populaire
 * Victor Hugo leads France into Socialism and intensive industrialization in preparation for Revanche against the imperial Germans...


 * Latin American Meiji
 * After Portugal is removed from Brazil, they decide to modernize in order to consolidate their position, alongside Argentina, play a major role in world politics, from World War 1 to the present day. Thus, there are 3 superstates in South America: Gran Colombia, Argentina and the Brazilian Empire.


 * Later outbreak of HIV/AIDS
 * HIV jumps the species barrier in the 1980's rather than the 1950's.


 * The Lion of Britain
 * The British Empire reaches to some very new heights.


 * L'Europe Fédérale
 * The Allied powers Successfully repel Axis, Forces During the battle of France. World War 2 ends in 1943, after which France convinces the Allied powers of Europe and north Africa (including Ireland, and Switzerland which where both neutral during WWII) to unite and form a Federal Europe.


 * Lincoln Lives!
 * Abraham Lincoln narrowly escapes assassination and goes on to finish his term as president.


 * London Event
 * On June 30 of 1908, a meteor destroy London and kill almost her population, poppe say is a punished of god and europeans sacking London ruins and land ocupation start by decretation of German Emperor Wilhelm II. 1908-1912 almost a First World War. 1908-1917 english/british diaspora. (in OTL that meteor is "Event Tunguska" in a low populated zone of Siberia Russia).


 * London tornado swarm
 * December 2006 - a swarm of 8 tornadoes travel through downtown London.


 * Long Live The Czar
 * Czar Alexander II survived the attempt on his life, resulting in the passage of his reforms, gardually leading to a democratic Russia and a very different Geopolitical situation UP FOR ADOPTION.


 * Long Live the Qing Dynasty
 * China started to produce great technology borrowed from the West. They soon became an Asian power.


 * Long Live Kaiser Friedrich III!
 * Friedrich III lives, leading to a very different Great War.


 * Long live the Qing!
 * Lord Macartney's diplomatic mission was a great success - enamored with Western technology and innovation, Qing China modernises... but not politically. A powerful military could resist the Western powers, yet nonetheless, Great Qing is bound to fall. Various domestic tensions accelerate the process of the Chinese Revolution.


 * Long Live the Sultan!
 * The Turks win at Vienna, and remain a world power to this day.


 * The Louisiana Independence Timeline
 * What if Jefferson decided to let Louisiana become independent? How would that affect his career? What will Burr do? The U.S. and Mexico collapse into many countries. France and Prussia form an unbeatable alliance. The world is very different in terms of borders.


 * Lucus
 * The Arabs fail to conquer Persia, but discover America (or rather Almarevia).
 * The Norse colonize Vinland, and things go differently in Ingland after 1066.


 * Lysander the Great
 * The great Spartan general-admiral Lysander takes advantege of new ideas in both land and sea warfare and makes Sparta a superpower.

M

 * Magical race
 * A genetic mutation grants prehistoric man paranornal abilities.


 * The Many Nations of North America
 * After a victorious civil war for the South and a mysterious plague, the United States and CSA crumble during the 30's into a wide array of countries.


 * Maple Uprising
 * A successful uprising of the Canadas in 1840


 * The Maxim
 * A shipment of 2 steam boilers gets mixed up, resulting in the death of Hiram Maxim in 1865. He never invents the machine gun. Anthony Duram, a ship wright is not killed by his faulty boiler and advances naval technology greatly.


 * Maya Empire (So Many Differences)


 * Mein Furher, Albert Speer
 * Hitler is dead, and now his favorite Architect and Armaments Minister has been appointed to lead Germany.


 * Mexican Axis
 * 1917: The Zimmermann Telegram is never picked up by Britain intelligence, and Mexico, after negotiation with Germany, declares war against the United States of America. They are defeated, and later become an Axis power in World War II.


 * Mexican Empire
 * Agustin de Iturbide never abdicates and Mexico remains a monarchy that later goes on to become a major world power.


 * Mexico Grande
 * Britain's attempts to keep the North American colonies fail, and they eventually evolve into weak and loose confederation, while the Federal Republic of Mexico becomes the leader of the Western World.


 * Mid Century: 1933-1970: From The German Civil War to the Eastern War

Parallel universe of western ideas in China and Japan.
 * Mighty China, Bad Japan


 * The Mirror That Never Broke
 * Britain taxes the American colonies much more to prepare for an invasion of Spanish colonies in North America. The American Revolution happens earlier and larger, and the Imperial "Mirror" in the Americas never breaks...


 * Mission Un-Accomplished
 * President Bush dies in a plane crash on his way to the USS "Abraham Lincoln". Dick Cheney becomes President and runs for re-election with Condi Rice as his Vice-President.


 * Monkey Smashes Heaven
 * The mystical rebel Monkey God- Sun Wukong returns to earth in the form of Mao Zedong. He leads Sun Yatsen's People's Army in a Long March to Mongolia. His Godlike strength and intelligence radically shapes the Russian Revolution and 20th century science and technology leading to a World Communist Soviet Republic.

My God, you failed Me!

This tells what would happen if Washington got shot in Murdering Town and how the course of history will change.
 * Montezuma's Revenge
 * Cortez and Pizarro fail in their conquests of the Americas and to this day the powerful Aztec and Incan empires exist. The Mississippian Mound-Builders remained strong, and with the support of a technologically vitalized Aztec Empire fended off the attacking western cultures. Also, the enigmatic Anasazi exist to this day... somewhere in the Southwest.


 * Morgen die ganze Welt
 * Otto Ambros dies in an accident. Now there is nobody to stop Hitler from using nerve gas. this leads to a much longer and more bloody world war.


 * Mosley's Britain
 * Explores the rise and fall of the British Fascists under Sir Oswald Mosley. Examines in detail their rise to power in 1935, the London Pact between Hitler, Mosley and Hideki, the Anglo-German invasion of France and the carving up of Europe between London, Berlin and Tokyo. Describes the disintegration of the Empire, the American invasion of England and the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbour and San Francisco. Witness the downfall of Mosley at the hands of the United States and the crumbling of Europe in the face of a Soviet invasion. Visit England today, defeated but proud, carved up into her component parts and subjected to the whim of the United States.

Multiple American Republics

What if after the Civil War the United States is further divided?


 * Mr Madison's War
 * What if the British had executed Madison in additon to burning down the White House?


 * Much ado about Nonsuch
 * Explores a union of England and the Netherlands in the late sixteenth century, and the repurcussions of this.


 * Myers Way
 * Following the event of The Capitol Burns. September 11, 2001 attack not come, but in January 29, 2002: The Capitol building is destroyed when a Boeing 474 hijacked by Islamist terrorists during The State of the Union address. President Bush, Vice President Cheney, all but two of the Cabinet and most of Congress are killed in the attack. The survivors are Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton, who was not present, and Secretary of Veterans Affairs Anthony J. Principi, who was present but survived. Norton Become US President by Succession Line and elect Richard Myers to vice president.

O

 * One Small Step for a Socialist...
 * Wernherr von Braun is executed by the Gestapo in 1944; while Sergei Korolyov survives his hemorrhoid operation and leads the Soviets to a lunar landing in July 1969.


 * One-Term Limit
 * George Washington decides not to seek re-election and therefore sets the one term precident.


 * One World
 * A successful League of Nations manages to unite the world.


 * Orbis Romanum
 * Antonius arrives just in time to stop the assassination of Julius Caesar. Rome is spared the civil wars that would have resulted.


 * Oswaldia
 * John F. Kennedy wasn't assassinated, the shot missed and killed Governor Connally instead. Because JFK was around to see the Space Race to completion, and it took a very different route...


 * The Great Ottoman Empire
 * Osman I and other sultans created the greatest Muslim kingdom of them all.


 * The Ottoman Empire sides with the allies.
 * The Ottomans are won over by the Allies during World War I, as opposed the Central Powers, and reconquers the Balkans before the end of the war.


 * Out of One, Many
 * The United States disintegrates into several independent countries soon after the American Revolution.

P

 * Pac Never Got Shot
 * Tupac Shakur wasn't shot five times on the night of November 30, 1994. So there never was a feud between him and Christopher "Notorious B.I.G." Wallace.


 * Padenie Gruzii
 * Georgia does not give up after Russias invasion.


 * Papatlaca
 * A major fatal disease develops in precolumbian Mesoamerica. As the New World is ravaged by smallpox, the Old World suffers from papatlaca.


 * Parthian Europe
 * After Rome's fall most of Europe becomes dominated by the Parthians.


 * Pax Romana
 * Rome becomes a superpower


 * Peak Oil 1996
 * In 1956, Marion King Hubbert predicted that the peak of global oil production would occur shortly after the start of the 21st century. Unforeseen at that time was the tremendous economic growth in Asia. Thus, the Oil Peak occurred in 1996. More than 10 years later, civilization is in danger of becoming but a memory, as people now agree that Peak Oil was more momentous than the Black Death, Black Thursday, or the World Wars in human history, and much more devastating.


 * Penda Dies
 * In 642, Oswald of Northumbria kills Penda of Mercia at the Battle of Maserfield. Northumbria remains under one king, Oswald does not become a martyr.


 * Permian Extinction: Civilization
 * Sapient, or intelligent, life evolves shortly (some 90,000 years) before the Permian Extinction, which wipes out 95% of all life on Earth, like that extinction does in OTL (it is the biggest extinction ever to strike Earth). Civilization arises 11,000 years before the extinction, starting near the mountains in the middle of the Pangaean supercontinent. By the time of the extinction, airplanes ply the Tethys Ocean from and to the lands surrounding it and the larger Panthalassic Ocean is being explored, and there is a high level of technology. Then the Siberian Traps eruptions begin anew, releasing great clouds of methane (thus triggering the extinction)... how will the people react?

In preparation for the Great Game, the Shah begins modernising Persia. As a result, it not only gets a bigger slice of Central Asia, it also becomes a major power to the present day with the Shah still in control.
 * Persian Meiji


 * Planet of the Lemmings
 * Lemmings take over the planet led by Mr. I.M.A. Lemming


 * President Agnew


 * President Albert


 * President Blackthorne
 * San Antonio Millionaire Allen Blackthorne is arrested for assaulting his soon-to-be ex-wife, Sheila in 1986. After receiving a deferred judgment, he gets counseling and changes his life around. After a chance meeting with Newt Gingrich, he considers a career in politics.


 * President Blagojevich
 * Rod Blagojevich is elected President in 2004 in a close race over Bush. Discusses how the country is affected, his 2006 impeachment, and the makeup of the 2008 election.


 * President Bogart
 * After Casablanca flops, Humphrey Bogart is disillusioned with acting and considers a career change...


 * President Churchill
 * Lord Randolph Churchill, at the urging of his new and very pregnant wife, emigrates to the United States. His son, Winston, is born in New York, NY in 1874.


 * President Cobain
 * Kurt Cobain stays in rehab and eventually beats his drug addiction. In 2000 he enters politics by becoming the Governor of Washington and in 2008 is elected president of the United States.


 * President Colfax


 * President Dahmer
 * Jeffrey Dahmer becomes a born-again Christian after his father discovers one of his dissected cats. He becomes an ordained minister and later goes into politics.


 * President Dallas
 * Because of his name recognition as a former Vice President, George Mifflin Dallas is selected as the Democratic Party's nominee over Franklin Pierce in 1852. He would go on to defeat Winfield Scott and be elected President.


 * President Davis
 * Jefferson Davis against all odds wins the Democratic nomination for president in 1852 and wins the general election subsequently becoming the 14th president of the United States of America. Examines the impact on the civil war,slavery and the Republican and Democratic parties.


 * President Dewey
 * Thomas E. Dewey wins the 1948 presidential election in a landslide after Dwight Eisenhower agrees to become his running mate.


 * President Dobbs
 * Disgusted with the political scene on both sides in 2004, CNN anchor Lou Dobbs makes a presidential run of his own as an independent. He doesn't win because of his late entry, but after garnering a lot of grassroots support he vows to try again in 2008...


 * President Dole
 * In 1996 Bob Dole is elected president of the United States of America.


 * President Dukakis
 * Michael Dukakis wins the 1988 presidential election against George Bush and becomes the 41rst President of the United States of America.


 * President Elway
 * After losing the Super Bowl to the Atlanta Falcons in 1999, John Elway retires and runs for the U.S. Senate seat in Colorado as a Republican.


 * President Elbridge Gerry
 * After the shocking decision of James Madison not to run in 1812, Elbridge Gerry is elected president over DeWitt Clinton in 1812.


 * President Fremont
 * John C. Fremont wins the 1856 presidential election, and becomes the first Republican president.


 * President Gingrich
 * Bill Clinton and Al Gore are assassinated in 1995 therefore Republican Newt Gingrich must assume the Presidency.


 * President John Glenn
 * After a narrow defeat by Walter Mondale at the 1984 Democratic Convention, John Glenn becomes the frontrunner for the 1988 Democratic Nomination. Vowing that he will not run for the office again unless it is for reelection, he manages to win a narrow victory over George H. W. Bush.


 * President Gore
 * Al Gore narrowly wins the 2000 presidential election. Examines his presidency through the view of a news article in the New York Times.


 * President Fox


 * President Franklin
 * After Washington refuses to be the first president, Benjamin Franklin, despite his age, is drafted for the job. Examines his brief tenure in office and how America was affected.


 * Gaitan, President of Colombia
 * In 1950, Gaitán is elected president of Colombia. A populist leftish government, but supported by the CIA as a way to prevent true communism to become a major power in Latin America, Gaitan is neither one of the best or worst presidents. But butterflies from him surviving 1948, also prevented Castro to become leader in Cuba.


 * President Gary
 * After the tragic death of Vice President Al Gore when Air Force Two crashes in 1997, President Clinton appoints a new VP. When Clinton resigns in 1999, that man is elevated to the presidency.


 * President Goldwater
 * In 1964 Barry Goldwater is elected the 37th President of the United States.


 * President Hamlin


 * President Hendrix
 * After Jimi Hendrix survives an overdose in his flat in 1970, Hendrix decides to enter rehab and eventually meets Ron Paul, who suggests a new avenue of work...


 * President Holly
 * Because of his wife's misgivings about the flight, Buddy Holly cancels the next stop of the tour for a few days until the weather is better for flying. After playing a concert at Duke University in 1960 he meets a very young Ron Paul and becomes interested in politics...


 * [[President Kemp
 * Jack Kemp returns to California after football and runs for Congress.


 * President Long
 * Huey Long survives the assasination attempt, but still loses in the 1936 election against FDR. However, the division he creates in the Democratic Party causes their defeat in the presidential election to Republican Alf Landon. A recession begining in 1938 results in Democratic nominee Huey Long's election to the presidency. However will he be able to keep his promises to the American people, and enact his "Share Our Wealth" program?

In a bold move, Vice President Humphrey picks Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King as his running mate immediately after President Johnson decides not to seek another term. After King's near-assassination in April, the outpouring of support is enough to carry Humphrey and King to the White House. King would become the first black president after Humphrey steps down because of poor health.
 * President King


 * President Kerry
 * In the wake of a pointless, illegal war, George W. Bush is defeated for re-election in November 2004. Explores the American political climate six months into the Kerry Presidency.


 * President Lee
 * Robert E Lee fights for the north rather than the the south in this time line and is elected president of the United States in 1876.


 * President LeMay
 * When America is hit by a nuclear terrorist attack, the whole presidential line of succession is killed except for one: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Curtis LeMay.


 * President Lieberman
 * Joe Lieberman secures the Democratic nomination for President in 2004. He goes on to defeat George W Bush for reelection and thus becomes the first Jewish-American President of the United States.


 * President Limbaugh
 * After winning the Noble-peace prize over Al Gore in 2007, talk show king Rush Limbaugh enters the 2008 presidential race and wins in one of the most unconventional elections in U.S. history.


 * President MacArthur
 * Douglas MacArthur wins the 1952 GOP nomination as a dark-horse candidate, and goes on the become one of the most revered and hated presidents in American history.


 * President McCain
 * After Senator John McCain defeats Governor George W. Bush in the 2000 Republican primaries, he is elected President in November 2000.


 * President McEwen
 * Instead of withdrawing from his 1988 bid for the U.S. Senate, Congessman Bob McEwen decides to stay in the race and wins the election. He will continue to move higher and higher until he reachs the presidency.


 * President Manson
 * Charles Manson is more successful in his music career and eventually turns to politics.


 * President Mao
 * Mao Jen Sheng, interested in leaving China, moves to America with his heavily Pregnant Wife. Their son Zedong is born on December 26 1893, in Los Angeles. Now an open timeline.


 * President McCormack
 * Oswald scores a triple in Dallas and assassinates President Kennedy, Vice President Johnson, and Senator Yarborough. With the president and vice president both dead, Speaker of the House John McCormack is sworn in as president.


 * President McGovern
 * In 1971 President Nixon is killed when Air Force One crashes, Vice President Agnew is sworn in as president and soon becomes highly unpopular. After winning the Democratic presidential nomination George McGovern avoids his vice presidential pick fiasco and is elected President in 1972.


 * President Mondale
 * Most believed the 1984 presidential election would prove to be an easy victory for Incumbant Ronald Reagan. But Walter Mondale proved all doubters wrong.


 * President Nader I Presume?
 * The political suprise of the century would come with Ralph Nader won the election over the Democrats and the Republicans, breaking the "American Duopoly".


 * President Paul
 * With anti war moods growing within the Republican party and the economy beginning to go into a tailspin, Ron Paul manages to win the Republican nomination. When the primaries tak a different direction Democrats nominate Hillary Clinton. With the youth vote on his side in November Paul manages to defeat Clinton for the presidency.


 * President Pelosi
 * After President Bush and Vice President Cheney both resign over the Valerie Plame scandal, Nancy Pelosi is elevated to the oval office. Explores how effective (or ineffective) her administration would be. Now an open timeline.


 * President Perot
 * Ross Perot does not temporarily drop out of the 1992 Presidential election and after rising in the polls is elected President in November.


 * President Quayle
 * The press expects that it won't have Dan Quayle to kick around anymore after he is dumped from George Bush's re-election ticket in 1992, but it turns out to be the best thing that ever happened to him.


 * President Russert
 * This timeline is a tribute to the now-deceased Tim Russert, who truly was a prince among men and a fine journalist in OTL. In the timeline, the POD occurrs when he decides to stay in politics in 1984, instead of going into journalism.


 * President Scalia
 * After completing law school, Antonin Scalia decides to run for Congress.


 * President Smerconish
 * Frustrated with the Republicans going to the far right and concerned with the inexperience of Barack Obama, Radio talk-show host Michael Smerconish decides to run for President as an independent in 2008.


 * President Simpson
 * After getting arrested for domestic violence on his ex-wife and assault on her friend Ron Goldman, OJ Simpson receives a huge wake-up call. After getting off, he meets Ron Paul and considers running for office.


 * President Sinister
 * Max Sinister is elected President in 2000 and immediately nominates the country for deletion because it has been abandoned for months and has little or no content.


 * President Tsongas
 * James Carville gets a headache and never comes up with the "comeback kid" description for Clinton. Tsongas wins the nomination and beats Bush in a squeaker.


 * President Ventura
 * Governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura is elected President as an Independent in 2000.


 * President Wade


 * President Welles
 * After the failure of Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons and The Lady from Shanghai Orson Welles turned to politics instead of filmmaking. He won over Eisenhower and was elected President of the United States in 1956.


 * President Wirt
 * Attorney General William Wirt decides to run for President in 1828 instead of in 1832 and is elected.


 * Prime Minister Obama


 * Prime minister John Smith
 * leader of the Labour Party John Smith doesn't die of a heart attack in May 1994, No PM Blair and what could have happened?


 * Princip Arrest
 * Serbian terrorist Gavrilo Princip is arrested before his assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. WWI is delayed and results in a rich Africa; a democratic Socialist government in Russia; and an isolationist, agrarian USA.


 * Progressive USA
 * Roosevelt does much better in the 1912 Presidential election, not enough to win it but its enough to establish the Progressives as a viable party. This is in part due to a coalition with Eugene Debs. From 1912 to 1916 the Progressives make step by step gains in the House and Senate, and in both years get more votes than the Republicans, although they are defeated by the Democrats.


 * Project Cairo


 * Proud East Roman Empire
 * The Byzantine army won the battle of Manzikert.


 * Protectorate Paramount
 * England is Taken over by a Facist party called the 'protectorate of England' led by the 'Lord Protector', and a very differnt World War Begins.


 * Psychic America
 * In 1865, a psychic predicted and prevented President Lincoln's assassination. As a result, Lincoln created a Cabinet post called Harbinger-General. This Harbinger-General's job was to predict natural and man made disasters and he ended up being so successful that Americans came to believe in psychic abilities. Thus, the U.S. of this world has averted the disasters that befell alternate Americas and the so-called "harbingers" are highly regarded.


 * Publick Occurences
 * The first newspaper in North America is not scrapped after the first issue in 1690.


 * Pure Arabica
 * The Bubonic Plague decimates Europe, killing nearly 2/3 of the population and reducing the Renaissance to ashes. The world was ill prepared for the Arab aggression and resurgence.

Q

 * Republic of Quebec
 * October 30, 1995, Quebec. The yes vote is declared the winner with 50.80%. What happens to the newly-independent Republic of Quebec?

R

 * Richard the Lion Hearted
 * Richard creates one of the Most powerful empires the world has ever seen.


 * Ready for the Mother Country
 * Tsar Alexei II takes command of the White Army and rallies them to victory over the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War. The restored Tsarist government rules over the country which eventually comes to dominate the European continent.


 * The real Invincible Armada
 * The Invincible Armada left Spain but it was the English fleet which was destroyed by cannons and storms. The Spanish army managed the conquest of England. English people had to find another land to live.


 * Rebellion of 61
 * This althist has two primary PODs. In the first, the nascent Confederate States of America is defeated at the (First) Battle of Bull Run, ending the brief Rebellion of '61. In the second, the Komei Emperor of Japan lives several decades longer than in our time line.


 * Red Alert
 * Hitler dies in his attempted coup, altering the course of history.


 * Red Cold War
 * The Soviet Union emerges as the victor of the Cold War after an Italian Civil War changes the course of history.


 * Red Germany
 * Hitler dies in World War I and Germany becomes the Communist Republic of Germany, allies with the Soviet Union, and is much more successful at fighting World War II. They establish a large communist empire which lasts until the present day.


 * Red Guardian
 * A new leader brings an early end to the Cultural Revolution causing an early start to Chinese economic reform meanwhile China faces off a massive Soviet invasion


 * Red victory
 * When the Axis powers do not enforce Operation Barbarossa and invade the Soviet Union the Soviets convince the Allied Powers to invade and occupy Germany, so World War 2 ends in 1943. After a series of events the Soviet Union succeeds in the Soviet-Afghan war. In 1984 the United States admits defeat in the Cold war and dissolves in 1992.


 * Reoccupied France
 * France is occupied by the Allied following the Second World War


 * Republic of Rome
 * The Roman Empire never fell and grew into a large nation and still exists today.


 * Republican Century
 * Dewey wins in 1948, albiet narrowly,beginning a long period of Republican dominance in national affairs, and a great many events occur earlier or later then OTL. Operates jointly with "Democratic Century".


 * Revolution '68
 * The general strike and protests in May 1968 in France leads to the toppling of the French government, the first anarcho-syndicalist country, and a third front in the Cold War.


 * Rise of the Templar
 * The Knights Templar Revolt against the church.


 * Rise of India


 * Rising Sun
 * The Japanese manage to secure a victory over the Americans at the Battle of Midway in 1942, thereby crushing the American Pacific Fleet.


 * Roaring 'Thirties
 * The Wall Street Crash is prevented and the world enters a new age of prosperity. Without economic depression to propel him into power, Hitler remains on the fringe on Weimar democracy, and World War II is avoided, with serious repercussions.


 * Robert Kennedy Survives
 * Robert Kennedy is not assassinated in 1968 and goes on to be elected the 37th President of the United States.


 * Roma Invicta
 * Augustus conquers Germany, causing drastic changes.


 * Roman Printing
 * A lead pipe manufacturer invents single letter printing. This practice is taken up by Augustus and printing acquires an association with the Roman Imperium.

Althistory if the Roman Empire was never weakened and destroyed by barbarians (Coming Soon!)
 * Roman Superiority


 * Rome Slowly Dies Off


 * Ronald Reagan stays an actor
 * The Gipper decides to stay in his career as an actor, and there are far-reaching political consequences.


 * Rose and Chrysanthemum
 * After crushing Russia in the Far East, and sending it into the throws of revolution, the Anglo-Japanese Alliance is greatly expanded and the two island empires find their fates entwined.


 * The Roswell Incident
 * The US Army fails in its attempts to cover up the discovery of a crashed "flying saucer" and the government is forced to admit the existance of alien life.


 * Royal Christian Empire vs. Islamic Republic
 * Instead of accepting their home country, Christians and Muslims begin to unite the world under their respective religions. The two great alliances cannot co-exist, leading to the Great War of Religion, the last war on Earth.


 * Royal Prerogative
 * A timeline with many points of difference, beginning with James VI of Scotland being raised Catholic, continuing through Frederick the Great's unification of Germany, Alexander II surviving the attempt on his life and the Dutch failure to give independence to its Far East possessions. The world becomes a very different place, with different wars and the forging of new nations.


 * Royale: The Second Great War
 * In the most critical moment of World War I the United States are knocked out of the conflict by an unforeseen disaster resulting in a completetely different World Order.


 * RPFDan's Alternate History of Sports
 * RPFDan's collection of sports related alternate history scenarios.


 * Rule Britannia


 * Rule Byzantium
 * A timeline in which the Comnenus Dynasty never died out, ultimately leading the the Fourth Crusade never sacking Constantinople and Byzantium Surviving, causing major changes throughout all of Europe and, later on ,all of the world.

Ready for Africa Napoleon?


 * Russian Commonwealth
 * An althist in which the Russian Empire survives World War One, a Commonwealth like organisation emerges as Russia relinquishes its territories, it competes with the other world superpower; the USSSWE, United Soviet Socialist States of Western Europe.


 * Russian Georgia

T

 * Taiping China
 * The Puritan Revolution is successful in China, in 1850 leading to a resurgence of Chinese power.


 * Temujin's Failure


 * Texas World
 * When Texas secedes from Mexico, instead of joining the U.S. they manage to build a good form of government and get out of debt. Texas eventually becomes a superpower.


 * Tet Disaster
 * The US media report the Tet offensive as a Vietcong disaster and the USA is bolstered by this, thus leading the USA to win the Vietnam war.


 * The Assasination of Robert Mugabe
 * Robert Mugabe is assasinated shortly after being sworn in as president in 2002.


 * The American Empire
 * Franklin Roosevelt is killed by a bomb planted by an anarchist in 1919. A new man, William Ritterman, arises during the thirties and spells the end of American democracy. Allied with the Third Reich and the Japanese and Italian Empires, Ritterman creats an empire stretching from Tasmania to Tierra del Fuego, from Manila to Montreal, stopping on the way to implement a ethnic cleansing and a new Imperial dynasty. Now an open timeline.


 * The Capitol Burns
 * september 11, 2001 attack not come, but in January 29, 2002: The Capitol building is destroyed when a Boeing 474 bound for New York City is hijacked by seven Islamist terrorists. The State of the Union address by Goerge W. Bush in front to 107th United States Congress is in progress at the time. List of Survivors and follow event change between derivet timelines: Myers Way, North American War and others


 * The Eagle Lives
 * The Byzantines defeat the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Myriokephalon and survive to the present day.


 * The Eagle and the Rising Sun
 * Imperial Japan doesn't join the Axis of Evil, which thus hinders their drive to attack America. This causes the Attack on Pearl Harbor to never happen, but in the absence of Japan, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany remain allies, with Stalin adding a powerful head to this new axis. He initiates a massive assault on China and Japan, in retribution for the Russo-Jap war that helped spark the Revolution. With Europe, half of Africa, and now Asia overrun by the Axis by 1943, the Soviet Union makes a suprise and devastating attack on Alaska. Barely managing to push back the Russians, the neutral Americans declare war on Russia, then the rest of the Axis. Although they have a tough fight to win against the staggering odds, the US is now aided by Imperial Japan to halt the Soviet takeover of the Pacific, and later support in defeating the invasionary forces of Hitler.


 * The end of New Orleans
 * three major hurricanes in one year seals the end of New Orleans


 * The (early) death of George Washington


 * The Empire
 * The British Empire reaches a compromise with its surly North American colonies and together they go on to change the world.


 * The First Stone
 * Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee decisively defeats William Rosecrans' Army of the Ohio at the Battle of Stones River (Murfreesboro) and pursues them to Nashville, which he then besieges.


 * The Great Eastern Empire - A History of the World


 * The great black death
 * Deaths from the black death are far greater in number than in reality, with death tolls above 80%


 * The Great Global War
 * The Central Powers win World War I, they ally with the new French Empire and the UK against the new USSR led by Trotsky, who becomes a close ally of the Japanese and Mao's Chinese Marxists. The USSR invades many countries, leading to a Great Global War. Resume of the events leading up to the war, and about the fronts of the war.


 * The Haudenosaunee
 * In 1311 the New World was given a chance to survive.


 * The High King


 * The little ice age was not so little


 * The Old Right Victorious
 * Senator Robert Taft is nominated by the Republicans for president in 1948 instead of Dewey and wins in a landslide.


 * The Outbreak
 * The year is 1957 and United States scientists have developed something even deadlier than atomic weapons to use against the Soviets: an air-borne virus that causes horrible blistering, gangrene and insanity in its victims. The Russians get wind of this and attempt to steal the virus in order to create their own batch, but a botched theft causes the virus to spread over the entire Earth! Now the horrors of pulp fiction become reality as four-fifths of the population turn into terrifying zombies out to eat the flesh of the uninfected in what is now known as The Outbreak.


 * The New Map Game

Starting in the year 1205 this is a do it yourself history. Very fun and highly reccomended. Inspired by The Original Map Game. Play it now!

The empire of the pacific.
 * The Pacific Rise


 * The Punic Wars


 * The Rise of Civilization - 15,000 BC
 * Civilization arises in 15,000 BC not 4000 BC


 * The Sicans
 * The Sican tribes of Sicily disperse after their empire's collapse in 95 BCE...but that's just where it starts.


 * SNoa
 * This is the alternate history of World War II, which ends with an official German Victory


 * The Splintering of America


 * The Third America
 * A rich industrialist successfully wins the progressive party nomination in 1912.


 * The Third Rome
 * Ivan the Terrible controls his temper, resulting in the birth of a grandchild, and the life and rule of his heir, Ivan V. Russian history is forever re-directed and The Third Rome rises in the East.


 * The State of Israel v. Joseph Mengele
 * Mossad agents capture Eichmann like OTL. But a few days later, Joseph Mengele is caught as well in Paraguay. This TL is unique as it is laid out in the format of a trial transcript.


 * The Victory
 * France wins the Franco-Prussian war, thus stopping the rise of Prussia, therefore delayed German unity, no World War I, a stronger France, and a much different world! For the better?


 * The World without Alexander
 * Alexander is killed at the battle at the Granicus river, causing drastic changes in the course of history of all corners of the world over time.


 * Timeline (Baltimore Armistice)


 * Timeline Saratoga
 * General Burgoyne wins the battle of Saratoga, and his army escapes capture.


 * Timur the Zoroastrian
 * When Timur the Lame converts to Zoroastrianism (for political reasons), the political and ideological make-up of the world is drastically changed.


 * To Comrade Trotsky, The World
 * Stalin dies of TB in 1919. Lenin is assassinated in 1921. Trotsky comes to power and sets about making a democratic/meritocratic socialist state, and exporting socialism to the rest of the world.


 * Tooth and Claw
 * This timeline speculates what might happen if the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs c. 65,000,000 years ago failed to hit the Earth.


 * Toyotomi Japan
 * Japan did not become isolationist as it did here, and expanded to fill the Pacific Ocean, colonizing California.


 * Trade of the Century: John Elway for Joe Montana
 * John Elway of the Denver Broncos is traded for Joe Montana of the San Francisco 49ers in 1988.


 * Transbellum
 * 8 uchronies (alternate earths) learn of the existence of one another after the event known as the Grand Unveiling. They discover that the central empire of one timeline is little more then a backwater in another. Wanting to restore what they perceive as the natural place of their religious, ethnic or political groups but unable to have more then a limited presence elsewhere, they wage a transdimensional cold war.


 * Transmundi
 * A group of my Alternate Histories, similar to Transbellum and For I have seen many worlds


 * Triple Alliance is Honoured
 * Italy honours the terms of Triple Alliance and join World War I on Central Powers'side.


 * Trotsky Succeeds Lenin
 * Lenin's testament is published while he is still alive and Stalin is discredited. Trotsky leads the Soviet Union into the post-war era.


 * Tudor Rose
 * Among several other changes in course, Henry VIII and Charles V work together in the conquering of France, raising Henry as its new King. Jane Seymour also survives childbirth and produces more children.

U

 * UBR and USSR
 * The USA falls and Britain and the Soviet Union rules dominant.


 * UKend
 * Wednesday September 22 2004, 10 nuclear explosion blow up in the United Kingdom, only in the biggest cities of England. An empire without Queen whose brothers nation present herself to protected, the fall of the 5th economy and second military spender of the world. Suspicions of betrayal, suspicion of success and just facts of world reorganization.


 * União de Sul África
 * A Portuguese South Africa rebels against England and the US buys Canada and Cuba. Hilarity ensues. Now an open timeline.


 * Union of the Egliriate Sentia
 * After the United States goes to war with both the Spanish and British empires, a new nation emerges.


 * United Commonwealth
 * Australia, The Netherlands, Poland, Sweden and Tuvalu unite.


 * United Kingdom divided 2008
 * A failing economy and terrorist attacks cause the United Kingdom to collapse as the succession of Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland results in a collection of city states.


 * United Nations Reform
 * After years of change in the world, principaly the down of the Soviet Union, Kofi Annan finaly made the greater world organization become more realist, actual, multilateral, democratic. With support of the "vacational" president Clinton.


 * United Socialist States of America
 * Lincoln is assasinated in 1863, significantly changing the outcome of American history.


 * United States of Democratia


 * United States of New England
 * The War of 1812 goes from being a war against Britain to a full-flung civil war.


 * Unternehmen Seelöwe, 1941
 * The annihilation of the BEF at Dunkirk, followed by a successful Battle of Britain enables Nazi Germany to invade the British Islands, just before the attack on the Soviet Union. This is an open timeline. There are several possible scenarios after the German conquest of Britain. You may contribute to the existing scenarios or add new ones.


 * USA Kingdom
 * In order to replace the faulty Articles of Confederation, the Constitutional Convention chooses a king to head the government.


 * USSR Victorious
 * President Truman decides not to use nuclear weapons on Japan in 1945, which drastically changes the outcome of the Cold War.

V

 * Valkyrie Rides
 * The July 20 Plot against Adolf Hitler succeeds, and after a brief and bloody civil war, the Nazi regime falls in 1944. A peace is negotiated, but the shadow of the Nazis continues to plague Germany and hinder its post-war recovery.


 * Vegetarian World
 * India becomes a major world power. The Cathars survive the crusades against them and vegetarian Catharism becomes a major religion in Europe and later elsewhere.  Many other non-vegetarian related events occur, and this leads to a world not completely unlike our own, but quite different in many ways, too.  The Vegetarian World has over 90 pages (and counting, as of April 2007) and is fully fleshed out (or "veggied out", as the case may be) with demographics info, maps, flags, and even some photos!


 * Vereenigde West-Indische Provinci&euml;n
 * The Dutch win the First Anglo-Dutch War (1652) and keep their colony of New Netherlands (VWIP) and expand it by capturing New England. In 1772 the 9 Colonies of New Netherland declare indepencence and that is the start of the war of independence. New Netherlands succeeds, renaming itself to 'de Vereenigde West-Indische Provinci&euml;n' (United West-Indian Provinces).


 * Via Latina
 * Various points of divergence in OTL lead to a world of airship-utilizing Latin-named countries.


 * Victory Lives!
 * Queen Victoria of England does not die in 1901 living in a longer life expantacy and dies in 2009.(opened for adoption, so anyone can own this article and edit it)


 * Victorian Era
 * Under her, she created the most powerful and wealthiest industrial, commercial, and economic empire. She even bought the empire to a English Pax Romana.


 * Victorian Era (new version)


 * Victory at Gettysburg


 * Vietnam Victory
 * What the world would be like if the United States had won the Vietnam War.


 * Vikings Stay in Power


 * Vinland
 * Erik the Red refuses to adopt Christianity in 1000ce. Cut off from Europe, the Greenland colony relocates to Markland (Labrador) where they wipe out the Dorset peoples and befriend the Inuit.  By 1450, the pagan colonies of Markland and Vinland are strong enough to send ships back to Iceland and re-open trade relations.


 * Viva California
 * The Mexican-American War was a bust. The California Gold Rush causes a rush of American population to the valleys of California. The Mormons are all Spanish speaking and the US's sentiment of Manifest Destiny is turned northward, at least at first.


 * Von Schlieffen plan


 * Vow Of Revolution
 * A world where Korea threw off its monarchy and created a republic, The German Revolution of 1848 united Germany, America united North America and how these changes shook the world.

W

 * War of Die Welt
 * The Main point of divergence is 1942 with the beginning of world War 2 between Italy and Germany.--Jakezing2 23:56, 11 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Warring states


 * Washington Dynasty
 * George Washington accepts the offer to become the first King of America. Unlike in Kingdom of America the throne passes to his stepgrandson, George Washington Custis.


 * Washington Shot at Murdering Town!
 * George Washington killed in his very first military mission. (An Open Time Line)


 * Watergate? The hotel?!?
 * Bernard Barker, Vergilio Gonzales, Eugenio Martínez, Frank Sturgis, and James McCord succeed in their third break-in attempt of the DNC Headquarters, and leave without being caught by security guard Frank Willis.


 * Weimar World
 * Hitler is deported in the 1920s and there is no Second World War. (An open timeline)


 * Welcome Back Teddy
 * Theodore Roosevelt Wins The 1912 Presidential Election over Woodrow Wilson and Robert Taft, he goes on to be reelected in 1916. His election leads to a very different american political landscape, as well as an expanded america.


 * Welsh History Post Glyndwr
 * Owain Glyndwr won the 1st War of Welsh Independance in this ATL, follow Wales' path through history, from the 2nd English Occupation through to Nazi allied Wales and the Communist Republic put down by the American's in the 1950's


 * Western Union


 * "We Want Willkie!"


 * What if Sonic the Hedgehog began in 1929?


 * What Might Have Been
 * An "althist within an althist" at which Kennedy lost the 1960 U.S. Presidential election to Richard Nixon who subsequently drew the U.S. into a limited nuclear exchange with the Soviets over Cuba. The difference between this althist and others is that it is written from the perspective of someone in that timeline, in which our timeline is the real althist.


 * What Could Have Been
 * Lyndon Baines Johnson manages to lose the 1964 Presidential Election to Barry Goldwater. However, the althist is written in the reverse, in which someone in “that universe” is trying to write a timeline on what happened in “our universe.”


 * When None Heard the Cathedral Choirs
 * An sad, yet important message, of an althist where the National Parks never exsisted. John Muir, the gospel of Yosemite, dies in 1872. Now no one spearheads the conservationist movement soon enough, and the National Parks System is all but forgotten. Between 1873-2009, the US forgoes the idea of preserving areas of tranquility and majestic beauty, the main priority is progress. The Yosemite is all but flooded to make a large resevoir, the Grand Canyon is gutted and mined, and the mighty Sequieas are chopped down to lumber. While minor a factor, these parks are considered, the loss of National Parks holds dire ramifications on the US history itself.


 * Whims of Fortune
 * Fates of nations, empires, religions and cultures are mere playthings to Fortune; some rise to greatness only to be brought low, and some fall, only to rise to breathtaking heights again. In this ATL, follow the successes of the Kushans, the Vandals, the Rus and the Turks, contemplate the lost glories of Carthage, Babylon and Khazar, and weep for Rome and Mecca, whose greatness was denied by Fortune's fickle hand.


 * White Dawn
 * An althist in which the Whites prevail in the Russian Civil war, leading to the reinstatement of the Romanovs, which leads to a very different Europe.


 * White Star Jupiter
 * Jupiter is a white dwarf star instead of a gas giant. Jupiters four main moons combine with three others and becoming planets the same size and having the same conditions as Earth.


 * Wicked World
 * A mirror of our own world where the forces of evil hold sway.


 * With All My Heart
 * Hannibal succeeds in defeating the nascent republic. Thus ended the dream of Rome.


 * World War I: Germany and America


 * World War I: Split Decision
 * By 1918 the results of the war are split. Austria-Hungary and Germany have beaten the Russians on the Eastern Front and Austria has defeated the Italians and Serbians; the Germans, however, have been defeated by the French, British and Americans. What will happen?


 * World War III-1956
 * Lester Pearson's UN solution fails and the Soviets aid Nasser repel the British, French, and Israeli forces. Escalation leads to World War-III.


 * World War III-2012
 * A US-led invasion of Iran results in a showdown between Russia and China against the United States.


 * Wrong War
 * Hitler delayed in the invasion of Poland until mid-September 1939. The Russians invade Poland on September 17th and Britain is forced to declare war on the Soviet Union before Germany invades.

X
XI: Serica & Romanum

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