Alternative History:Point of Divergence Ideas

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Free Ideas

 * Hinge moments - Alternate histories caused by single isolated decisions or events.
 * Alternate trends - Alternate histories caused by many small changes to OTL resulting in a general large scale change.
 * Counterfactualities - Alternate histories caused by introduction of completely alien element to OTL.

Projects in development

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 * POD

Free Open Ideas

 * In xx century, a pandemic disease goes on to kill many people... but only whites with blond hair and light eye colours. A large part of the population of Europe, USA, USSR/Russia and Australia die, and widespread immigration rates try to "conquer" those nice, now-unpopulated lands. A possible name is BlonDie or Blond Death (for the old "Black Death").
 * In 1921 promising German theoretical physicist Albert Einstein dies in his first visit to the USA. He never makes contact with Ernest Rutherford or Leó Szilárd and the Manhattan Project never born. A world without useful atomic energy or Nuclear Bomb, a world without the Person of the Century. Nein


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 * Herbert Hoover vetoes the Smoot-Hawley tariff act, and this leads to a different WWII.


 * 9/11 does not happen because of CIA warnings being heeded by Bush, which leads to a different war on terror.
 * On March 2nd, 2008, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela sent 10 Armed Forces Batallions to the border of Columbia. What if this had sparked a Colombian invasion of Venezuala (with US backing?)?


 * The 1973 coup d'etat in Chile fails & President Salvador Allende makes Chile a communist country.


 * The Far Eastern Republic, Abkhazia, Poland, & Tuva are made into a Soviet Socialist Republics & The Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic wasn't merged with the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.


 * The Battle of the Alamo was won by the Texans.


 * Belarus, Ukraine, South Africa, & Kazakhstan have nuclear weapons.


 * The Nazis win World War II.

OTL Thatcher survives, but if not?
 * 12th October 1984 - A bomb planted by Irish Republican terrorists explodes in a hotel in Brighton,

What if things got nasty, and police end up killing a protester?
 * 4th April 1984 - At Greenham Common a Peace Camp is evicted, OTL thing went peacefully,

rubber bullets. What if they were used?
 * 1st May 1999 - A protest in the City of London descends into a riot . OTL police did not resort to

had to be fixed moments before the BBC evaluators arrived. Assuming the circuit failed during the demonstration what is the outcome for UK computer history?
 * Early 1980's - In computing circles there is a myth that a key timing component in the BBC Micro


 * Late 1940's - US refuses to grant 'aid' to the UK. (OTL The US eventually relented).

resulting in the first use of the replacement of the Riot Act..
 * 1984 - Miner's Strike - A clash at a pit descends into a pitched battle, and things get very ugly,


 * Mid 1970's - By a quirk of logic the Great Central is mothballed rather than closed.

the West Coast Main line. 1500v dc becomes the de-facto rail voltage in the UK. It's not unusual to see dual voltage locos switching from pantograph to third rail at speed..
 * Mid 1960's - The London Extension of the Great Central, is electrified at 1500v DC rather than


 * King Edward VIII decides to put his country before his love for Wallis Simpson, he does not abdicate - A different ending for WWII?


 * 1980's - The IRA gets hold of a 10 kilatonne nuclear bomb, where would they plant it and what would have happened?


 * Napoleon Dies after being wounded at Toulon, How would history pan out then?


 * Ramses II dies at the Battle of Kadesh.


 * Apartheid leads South Africa in to a bloody civl war.


 * Patton doesn't die in 1945, how would the Korean War turnout?


 * Canada is annexated by the US in 1867.


 * Chris Curry and Clive Sinclair do not fall out in 1978.


 * Hitler doesn't kill himself, but hides on Switzerland? That's a classic.


 * The Christians win the Cruzades.


 * Spanish are defeated by Aztecs and then Mayans colonize Spain.


 * The Mongol Hordes invade and conquest Western Europe and most of Northern Africa.


 * Taking advantage of the oil crisis, the USSR invade the United States and Japan in 1973.