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For alternate history, historical, and whatif conjecture!

r/HistoryWhatIf

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Posted by3 hours ago

What if the 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash resulted in a nuclear explosion?

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Posted by2 hours ago

What if 9/11 never happened?

Let’s say like a year into the preparation the terrorists are caught and apprehended, meaning that 9/11 never happens.

How does this change the course of history?

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Posted by10 hours ago

If Japan lost the Russo-Japanese war, how bad would it have been for them in the long run?

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For instance, I saw this one alt history post which claimed had they lost the war in decisive fashion, Japan would have never been able to become a developed nation come the mid-late 20th century like OTL.

How likely is it?

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Posted by14 hours ago

If you could bring any modern invention to a historical era, which would you bring, to which time period, and why?

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Posted by17 hours ago

what if franz joseph was killed instead of franz ferdinand

Let's say franz joseph is in serbia instead and is killed what happens next?

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Posted by1 hour ago

[Challenge] Without keeping a version of Rome alive today, make Latin the global Lingua Franca today

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I think this is a really interesting proposal. How would you make a world where people learn Latin and speak it for foreign diplomacy and business, while having no modern Roman nation? What would have to happen?

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Posted by13 hours ago

What if the Union crushes the Confederacy in less than a year. Would slavery be abolished much later? What changes?

I’m currently reading history about the American Civil War and I learned that because the war was not going well for the first two years, Lincoln was persuaded to pass laws to allow confiscation of slaves and other “property” being used by the enemy war effort. Ironically, it seems had the war been as quick as predicted, there would have been no practical need or political will to free the slaves.

How would history be different if the North crushed the South and did not emancipate the slaves? Does slavery eventually still end? How long would it take? Does another uprising occur next election?

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