alternate 20th century

"There is no easy way from the earth to the stars." -Seneca the Younger (4 BCE-65 CE) 1919-1949 (The first thirty years) Setting the Stage Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points were idealistic and perhaps exceptionally foolhardy, but the text's substance implies a utopian vision for the future. In...

What would have happened if the assassination of franz ferdinand still happened, but ferdinand survived? Let's say the gun jammed or he was shot in the shoulder or something. Would his survival change anything? Would ww1 still happen? And if it did, would ww1 play out the same way?

I reflected on the first TL I ever posted here, a silly ASB Ameriwank. Here I try a more antagonistic U.S. in a different mid-20th century onwards, decade by decade. 1940's: America Wins World War 2, the fall of the USSR and the -"Ica" phenomenon. The Second World War was the most significant...

So in this scenario, a Christian Socialist movement led by Father Stalin takes over Russia instead of the Bolsheviks. After WWII, America and the Christian Soviets get into the Cold War as usual. The Reds win the Greek civil war and bring Greece into the Warsaw Pact, having gained a decisive...

"Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier understands that it is HE guarding his country" Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim - Marshal-President of Finland - 1867-1943 C.G.E Mannerheim in the 1940s - - - - - The tension that had been brewing for...