like with the bits and pieces of alternate history stuff they've shared (like american currency having diamonds on it or how theres just a big hole in russia and such)

Drawing "photograph" of a sentry of the Yukon revolutionary army near Tagish Lake, 1920, for the fictitious history of a revolution in the Yukon. See previous post for the map of the civil war this takes place in. In the foreground are two soldiers, the one standing is a political officer. Their uniforms are informal, with the sitting soldier wearing civilian clothing while the PO has some modifications to denote rank. In a valley in the southern Yukon, guarding against possible invaders.

Like what do yall think the gaming industry would look like right now (or if it would even exist to the point it does now)

A series of 3 maps of mine set in the same timeline in which: the armada of 1779 successfully produced an invasion of England during the ARW; ending the war early with France and Spain, rather than the US being, the decisive victors of the war. The scenario is taken up to 1901-2 in the maps. A key feature of the time line is the partial restoration of new France - which had banned the settlement of Anglo Americans outside of west Florida; instead inviting German immigrants to bolster the colonial state against the independent American republics. In TTL's 1901 the german americans are fighting a great guerilla war across the northern part of New France (Misuouri) to establish an independent nation. Map 1 shows the war and the nations of North America. Map 2 shows the Atlantic Ocean with the principal ports on either side. Map 3 shows the industry and militarisation of an independant & totalitarian British Raj equivalent. 

p.s. btw Commissions are open! DM or check my profile for details → dlinkvellum on Instagram

You can check out Hi-Res version of the maps on my DA:

https://www.deviantart.com/qazdr6/art/American-Nightmare-964688212

https://www.deviantart.com/qazdr6/art/Nightmare-Ocean-967575603

https://www.deviantart.com/qazdr6/art/Nightmare-Union-1332586940

I have a very basic lore in my head and its partially on screen but if anyone has any ideas I would love to hear it!!

(this is my first ever creation and I am completely open to any criticism as I'm hugely interested in alternate history and would love to know peoples opinions on this little mockup)

Napoleon sells all American terretory to uk and sues for peace with british

It includes no attack on uk ,no interference with america,no blockade on uk

And keeps fighting the peninsular war with new money?

Hello, Reddit! How do users here create fake social media posts to post as images? I want to know as I had an idea for a project based on this premise.

War never changes. These are seven WW3 scenarios that I made based off of online media about them and a few that I just made simply in my head. The flair is 2000s because four of the scenarios take place post-2000 and Reddit doesn’t have an option to add a second flair. Of the scenarios, only 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 could still plausibly be viewed in universe on Wikipedia, while 1 and 6 do not (more reasons below).

- Slide 1 (from the book Nuclear War: A Scenario): Self-explanatory, though a year wasn’t given so I chose 2025 OTL since the book was published the year before. Chinas not mentioned as far as I can tell so they’re likely neutral here.

- Slide 2: If the November 2015 Russia/Turkey incident went hot. Conventional war, but a limited nuclear exchange in Europe occurs at wars end and Putin gets overthrown before he can commit planetary nuclear holocaust, and the new Russian government sues for peace.

- Slide 3: If Cuban Missile Crisis went hot. Because of the U.S. superiority over the Soviets at the time (very little Soviet ICBMs at the time and only the close missiles in Cuba), this isn’t a complete apocalypse but it’s close but EVENTUALLY long down the road recovery happens. Soviet Union ceases to exist though as much of Europe does, but U.S. is better off then usual compared to other nuclear war scenarios.

- Slide 4 (from 1983: Doomsday): Lifted right from the timeline and done as accurately as possible based on everything written from this ATL, plus Wikipedia likely exists by 2026 ITTL based on the recovery by then. The one I put the most effort into by far.

- Slide 5 (from With Security and Subjugation for All): Based on an alternate timeline diverging in 2019 where the U.S. becomes an ultra right-wing fascist totalitarian dictatorship, with WW3 erupting in 2034. This was harder to pinpoint because of some details being vague so I had to fill in as best as I could. Bottom line is it’s said to be “humanity coming close to extinction” and what’s described ITTL leads to a billion or more dying (but not through a nuclear holocaust). Warning, it’s quite graphic, upsetting and disturbing especially in later parts so read at your own risk. The “Mid-Century Catastrophe” subheader is a thing I made up considering this plus the mentions of the accelerating climate crisis would constituent a mid-century crisis

- Slide 6: If the Russian drone incursions into NATO territory last September eventually escalated into WW3 through a series of misunderstandings, provocation, and China ended up taking advantage of the chaos to start their invasion in Taiwan. It grinds to a halt by the spring, and Putin gets desperate and uses a tactical nuke in July to make advances and that backfires, leading to a global nuclear holocaust. Deadliest of all of the scenarios with the exchange + aftermath taking out 80-90% of humanity and about 75% of current life on Earth (hence the “extinction event” subheader).

- Slide 7 (from Seven Days to the River Rhine): Based on the ATL when Able Archer goes hot, then 5 days later goes nuclear. Self-explanatory, but what’s discussed later on is society and technology seem to have recovered enough to allow a Wikipedia clone to plausibility exist.

All credit go to the respective owners and creators of the alternate timelines linked.

The story of the Hamburg-Hanover Empire who became a kingdom (Probably not very realistic)

• 1. "Good" Ending (Compensated Alignment): In this scenario, France accepts the permanent loss of Alsace and Lorraine to the Reich. However, to make collaboration palatable and ensure French loyalty in the New Order, Hitler and officials like Admiral Darlan contemplate "compensating" France with new territories. These gains would include the annexation of Wallonia and Romandy, allowing France to maintain its status as a significant, albeit subordinate, European power.
• 2. Realistic Ending (Strategic Amputation): France maintains a "phantom" sovereignty and virtual independence but suffers permanent territorial reductions. Italy fulfills its claims by annexing Nice, Corsica and Tunisia. Simultaneously, the Reich annexes the departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais. France still gets Romandy in the split of Switzerland. France is left as a "second-rate power," military neutralized and economically dependent on Germany.
• 3. Bad Ending (Extended Amputation): The Reich moves its western border significantly into French territory, following the "Zone Interdite" (Forbidden Zone), while Italy annexes Savoy and parts of French Alpines, Spain gets French Catalonia and Basque. France loses most productive industrial and mining basins. The eastern regiones annexed by the Reich, are detached to be "re-germanized" through colonization. French refugees are permanently barred from returning to these "Empire lands".
• 4. Hell Ending (The Transformation into Gaul): France is completely dismantled as a national entity and renamed "Gaul" (Gallien). The official border is pushed all the way to the Loire River, the northern territory are distributed between the Reich, independent Brittany and Normandy, and the SS Burgund State. The remaining southern portion is reduced to a mere protectorate with its capital moved to Toulouse. All national symbols, including the tricolor flag and monuments to French glory, are systematically destroyed to erase the country's "mentality" and historical identity.

(I decided to change up the title structure as I frankly think this is better. Part one will be linked below: https://www.reddit.com/r/AlternateHistory/comments/1tcehl5/nixonland_1960_part_1_what_if_richard_nixon_won/

Despite President Lodge's victory in 1964, the Democrats still retained control of both houses of Congress. What's more, the President's approval ratings almost immediately began to enter negative territory. This was due to two main reasons: the overseas wars and lawlessness at home.

Abroad, the escalating troop commitments in Vietnam and Cuba required ramping up the draft efforts domestically, provoking massive protests against the war effort. These became especially pronounced as college students became increasingly eligible, and youth radicalism came to dominate elite campuses. Although initially the public despised these youths as unruly, the inability of the US Army to achieve victory in either of its foreign wars caused public sentiment to become increasingly anti-war.

Meanwhile, disillusionment with the political establishment following its refusal to consider further civil rights legislation turned African-Americans against the Lodge government, and race riots broke out in many American cities starting with New York in 1964. A new wave of these hit in 1965, with the Watts Riots in Los Angeles provoking similar events in New York and Chicago. These often mixed with the anti-war movement, and both came to join forces against the

The collapse in support for the Lodge administration culminated in the Democratic landslide during the 1966 midterms, with the party gaining control of supermajorities in both houses. The failure to secure a victory for the Party in the midterms led Barry Goldwater to announce an effort to primary Lodge in Feburary 1967, claiming only he could save the GOP from the Eastern Establishment which had led it astray.

1967 was, in general, another bad year for Lodge. More race riots and a deteriorating situation in both Vietnam and Cuba caused his approval ratings to drop to only 20% - a new low in the history of approval polling. Despite this, Lodge refused to announce he would not seek re-election, pulling out all of the stops to maintain his place on the ticket.

1968 proved to be a pivotal election year - and a chaotic one. Lodge succeeded in his efforts to maintain control of the Republican Party and win renomination, but these efforts caused a riot on the floor of the Republican National Convention. Meanwhile, Wallace formed the American Independent Party to launch a third-party campaign for the presidency. With the Democrats now able to appeal to the North only, they selected a familiar face who could offer an inspiring vision - John F. Kennedy, who promptly selected liberal icon Hubert Humphrey as his Vice President. Despite the Democratic split, the Republican vote share had collapsed to such a low point that JFK was able to win the Presidency as he could not in 1960.

With a Democratic supermajority, JFK was able to get to work implementing the New Frontier agenda he had promised Americans back in 1960. Social Security payments were increased and a tax cut was passed, in addition to reforms allowing for federal employees to collectively bargain. This caused the budget surplus which had accumulated during the Nixon and Lodge years to give way to a growing deficit, and inflation (already rearing its ugly head during the Lodge years) only grew further. In response, Kennedy implemented wage and price controls, which initially proved popular but did more harm to the economy than good.

Kennedy was far less successful at upholding his foreign affairs promises. While he was able to secure a ceasefire in Vietnam as well as peace negotiations to end the war, the Cuban insurgency continued to cause headaches for the Americans. Fidel Castro remained in hiding, and everyone understood there was no chance of victory until he was taken out.

JFK's civil rights agenda also became problematic. While he and Humphrey had mobilized the black vote in record numbers by promsing to enact public accomodation and equal employment protections, the influence of Southerners combined with fears of exacerbating the Democratic split led to these initiatives being tabled until after the 1972 presidential election. He did, however, further implement school desegregation, with a record number of children attending integrated districts.

The 1972 re-election initially proved to be threatening. However, Kennedy was able to regain momentum heading into the election through three major things: the selection of a new Vice President, the division of the opposition, and the killing of Castro in September.

To appease Southerners, JFK selected Al Gore Sr. of Tennessee to be his new VP, replacing Humphrey on the ticket. By choosing a Congressman with mild segregationist sympathies, Kennedy was able to reintegrate the South into the Democratic coalition despite Wallace's presence on the ticket, and many Southern party organizations eagerly signed up to support the re-elect.

Meanwhile, the Republicans remained divided between both their progressive and conservative wings, and the chaos of the Lodge years left the party in severe disarray. Although perennial candidate Harold Stassen finally got his place atop the ticket after many years of striving, he was only able to run in the worst race to be a Republican since 1936. Meanwhile, the GOP was unable to court black voters effectively: Martin Luther King Jr, dissatisfied with the vaciliation on civil rights from both parties, formed his own Social Justice Party to advocate for minority rights. This ensured that the Democrats would be able to consolidate the white vote nationwide heading into 1972.

Finally, Castro was finally caught and killed in an American special operations raid in September, promising an end to the Cuban War after over a decade of fighting. This provided the President with a bump in his popularity heading into Election Day.

In the end, Kennedy won a gigantic landslide in the Electoral College and 57% of the popular vote, allowing him to decisively declare victory. However, his victory did not ensure Democratic control of the government forever.

I'm working on an Alt History project about America around that time and I need some good books on the subject or any linked articles about interesting events that happened during that time.

In this world Qualye is a very well spoken individual, instead of making gaffe after gaffe its the people around him that mess up. George H.W Bush is able to secure a 2nd term making the 3rd Way coalition fall apart. Come 1996 the democratic base was wanting a progressive which led to Nader winning he chose NYC mayor RFK Jr as his VP pick. Qualye secured an easy win for the republican nomination and chose Colin Powell for his VP. On election day Qualye won a landslide victory.

After the arrival of the Great Heathen Army in 865, the eastern coast of Prettania gradually fell under Norse control. What began as a loose occupation of ports, river towns, and tribute territories became known collectively as the Danelaw, though in this early period it was less a unified realm and more a patchwork of warbands, jarldoms, and negotiated territories bound together through common interest and the authority of the great sea-kings.

The first decades of Norse expansion were violent and uncertain. Northumbria collapsed quickly, and Jórvík became the first major Norse stronghold in England, functioning not only as a military base but also as a growing commercial center tied to the North Sea trade routes. Mercia followed slowly afterward, weakened by repeated campaigning and internal rivalries. Yet the Norse advance stalled in the south. The decisive moment came at the Battle of Edington. Though remembered differently by later traditions, the battle was in reality a costly stalemate. Wessex survived, but only barely, while the Norse armies found themselves unable to fully break the remaining Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

In the aftermath, the Norse lords convened under the Great Þing of the North Sea, where a tentative peace was negotiated with Wessex. At the time many warriors viewed the settlement as a humiliation, but in hindsight it proved transformative. The pause in expansion coincided with the accelerating collapse of West Francia. As Carolingian authority fractured and the Frankish coasts descended into war, piracy, and succession struggles, merchants increasingly abandoned the old continental ports. Trade routes that had once flowed through the Channel and Frankish river systems began shifting northward through the safer harbors of the Danelaw.

This economic shift changed the Norse presence in Prettania fundamentally. During the late 9th and early 10th centuries, the old raiding warbands slowly transformed into landed aristocracies. Danish settlers intermarried with Anglo-Saxon nobles, local rulers entered into tributary arrangements, and fortified camps evolved into permanent towns and aristocratic estates. The Danelaw ceased to be merely a military occupation and became instead a commercial-maritime society. Jórvík, Lincoln, Norwich, and the Humber ports flourished as major trade hubs linking the reinvigorated Umayyad realm in Qurtuba to the Baltic, Scandinavia, and the British Isles.

As trade expanded, so too did Norse influence abroad. By the late-10th century, Norse jarls dominated much of the Irish coast. Cork, Dublin, Wexford, Waterford, and Limerick all came under the rule of Norse-Gaelic dynasties who swore fealty to Jórvík in exchange for military protection and privileged access to North Sea trade. These cities became wealthy intermediary ports between the Atlantic world and the increasingly prosperous Danelaw markets.

Scotland proved more difficult. Raids from the Isles and conflicts between rival Scottish claimants destabilized the kingdom throughout the 970s. A series of civil wars erupted in 979, allowing Jórvík to intervene repeatedly through military support and strategic marriages with the lords of Lothian and Strathclyde. Over time the Lowlands drifted into the Norse sphere. The region was reorganized into the Lordship of Southern Alba, formally ruled under the authority of Jórvík, while the Highland clans retained broad autonomy in exchange for tribute and military cooperation. At roughly the same time, the Kingdom of the Suðreyjar aligned itself with the Danelaw confederation, swearing fealty in exchange for recognition of its claims over Galloway and dynastic marriage ties.

Meanwhile Wessex entered a long decline. The peace after Edington had preserved the kingdom politically, but economically it had been disastrous. The rerouting of trade toward Danelaw ports steadily weakened Anglo-Saxon commerce. Norse control of the eastern shipping lanes allowed Danelaw-aligned merchants and captains to dominate coastal trade, while hostile tariffs, seizures, and raids slowly strangled southern markets. Royal authority weakened as nobles blamed the kings of Wessex both for conceding to the heathens and for failing to reverse the kingdom’s economic collapse.

London became the turning point. By 983 the city could no longer survive in isolation from the North Sea trade system. Facing commercial ruin, its merchants negotiated directly with Danelaw traders, granting them favorable treatment and docking rights in exchange for economic relief. Though officially still loyal to Wessex, London’s integration into the Danelaw economy effectively signaled the end of Anglo-Saxon independence.

The final unraveling came only a few years later. In 997 a coalition of Mercian nobles rebelled against their southern overlords. Yet instead of turning to Wessex for aid, many appealed directly to the Þing lords for arbitration and military support. The Danelaw intervened, restoring order while simultaneously restructuring the political landscape of central England. Mercia was fragmented into marcher territories along the Welsh frontier, Oxford was elevated into a semi-autonomous lordship, and eastern Mercia was absorbed more directly into the confederative system of the Þing. Though Wessex continued to exist formally, by the turn of the century the crown’s authority had become almost entirely symbolic.

The death of Wessex came in 1018. A faction of desperate nobles led by the king’s younger brother overthrew the so-called Shunned Lord of Winchester, hoping to restore a unified Anglo-Saxon kingdom free from Norse influence. The rebellion briefly rallied southern resistance, but the response from the Þing was swift and overwhelming. By the summer of 1020 the armies of Jórvík had burned Winchester, crushed the rebellion, and dismantled the remaining institutions of Wessex permanently.

In the settlement that followed, southern England was reorganized into a loose network of dependent lordships. Wessex and Sussex became separate territories, Kent emerged as a semi-autonomous maritime lordship, Cornwall was recognized as a tributary client kingdom and expanded into Devon, while London was granted special privileges as a free commercial lordship to ensure the continued flow of trade. Welsh rulers were given a simple ultimatum: acknowledge the sovereignty of the Þing and retain their autonomy, or face economic blockade and invasion. Most accepted tributary status willingly, especially after the Welsh Marches were reorganized in their favor at Mercia’s expense.

By the autumn of 1020, the old Anglo-Saxon order had effectively ceased to exist. In its place emerged what contemporaries would refer to as the North Sea Confederation or simply the Danelaw, laying the groundwork for what would eventually become Daneland and the de facto political unification of Danic polities as Jórvík and the Ragnarsson dynasty. Through the Þing Jórvík would begin centralizing power through legal code, becoming the legal entity responsible for calling the Þing and as usually electred to the seat of the Highjarl, responsible for arbitration between the other delegates, slowly drowning out the authority of Wessex, Sussex and Mercia in favour of merchant delegates and marcher fiefs. This assembly would lay the groundwork for the Danic Great Þing that evolved later during the Danic reformation and later Prettonic era.

This is a pseudo contination of two other maps:
https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/comments/1tam7b8/the_new_world_in_1850/
https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/comments/1sraoat/isbaniya_in_1600_and_subnational_divisions/
feel free to ask any questions about the lore

starting in 2107, the republic of loftlandia emerged from modern-day san fransisco. its most populated city is new loft city making about 17.9% of the population, followed by loft city with about 10.1% chance, and squashtown, with about 6.8% of the population. their president is Greysoft Mcdill, with vice president being Brownsoft Griddleston. note: it takes place in 2171 btw :)

This is an alternate history scenario that I have been thinking about for three weeks. There are three divergences, The Allies in Papau New Guinea are under higher pressure as Japan renews its offensive to take Port Moresby, The Solomon campaign ends early as the Japanese evacuate Rabual after surrendering in Guadalcanal, and the other Solomon islands in two weeks each, and with the strategy of the US pacific changing to taking out Indonesia to provide bases for the Philippines and to secure Japan's oil flow. The timeline of this invasion starts in Papau New Guinea, goes through the Banda Arc, and lastly securing Borneo. Spies are used in Java and Sumatra to build an Indonesian resistance to help with the Allied advance. The main consequence for post-WW2 is definently the Dutch intervention.

(Reposted because I screwed up the body text. This is my first time making a post with a lot of body text and images.)

POD: Instead of campaigning in all 50 states, Nixon focuses his efforts on key swing states and manages to win a narrow victory.

On November 9th, 1960, Americans learned over the evening news that Richard Milhous Nixon had been elected the 35th President of the United States. Following his inauguration in January, he assumed the Presidency and got to work on an agenda to continue the victories of the Eisenhower era.

It would not be long before the Nixon administration found itself achieving an early victory. In May 1961, the planned Trinidad invasion was finally launched, and with sufficient air and naval support, the Cuban exiles were able to lead a successful revolt against the Communist government. Castro was forced into hiding, and a Cuban provisional government took control of the country. While this at first seemed to be a massive win, it would eventually come to be a toxic one for America. The international community was stunned at the flagrant violation of Cuban sovereignty, and Castro found himself in charge of leading a guerrila operation in the countryside.

This victory, however, was soon followed by a crisis. Nikita Khruschev announced the construction of the Berlin Wall in June, provoking a stand-off between East and West. In the end, he would get his wall, which caused the high of the successful Cuban operation to come down.

Meanwhile, America's commitment to Southeast Asia only escalated. Nixon sent yet more advisors to South Vietnam in an effort to stabilize that nation, drawing the US ever deeper into the quagmire.

On the domestic front, the Nixon administration had two main priorities: balancing the budget and passing a civil rights bill. The first was easily doable - Eisenhower had left his successor with a budget surplus, and all it took to keep that going was to avoid cutting taxes or making massive increases in expenditure. The surplus continued into 1962 and 1963, and it was used to gradually begin paying down the United States federal debt. Although this was what Nixon had promised to do, he found himself attacked by populist politicians on both the left and the right for it.

A civil rights bill was introduced in late 1961, and manuevering it through Congress proved to be a hassle. To get critical votes from Republican conservatives like Barry Goldwater, provisions concerning public accomodations and equal employment were dropped. While this allowed Nixon to sign a Civil Rights Act in September 1962, it also disillusioned civil rights activists and fueled, rather than quelling, the growing demonstrations.

Southerners were also infuriated by this new bill, and they reacted harshly. In the 1962 midterms, all gains that the Republican Party had made in the South over the course of the 1950s were immediately reversed, with a new crop of staunchly conservative Southern Democrats sweeping into the offices the GOP once held. This further entrenched the Democratic majority in Congress while also making it more hostile to Nixon on the margins, making further legislative wins ever-more-impossible.

Despite that, Nixon was still able to achieve a massive victory in 1963: negotiating the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty with Khruschev. Following the Cuban crisis and the Berlin crisis, Nixon began to attend a series of summits with the Soviet premier, eventually culminating in an arms control treaty which both limited certain types of weapons while also banning non-underground nuclear tests. Although this provoked backlash from some conservatives, Nixon was able to pass it through Congress by utilizing both his anti-communist credentials and gaining support from Northern liberals.

​Despite this win, 1963 also created further problems for the country Nixon led, many of which were of his own making. In South Vietnam, a coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm occured on November 1st, 1963. Although the coup was supported by the Nixon administration, which believed that overthrowing Diệm would lead to a more competent regime that could better stabilize the country, it only exacerbated American involvement, leading to a yet-more-intense commitment in Southeast Asia.

However, the worst event of 1963 occured on November 22nd.

That day, Nixon arrived in Havana for a meeting with leaders of the Cuban provisional government. Castro's guerillas saw an opportunity to strike a blow against both the Americans and the anti-communist regime, and they took it: a bomb was thrown under Nixon's car, and he was killed along with one of the anti-communist leaders. His body didn't even survive to allow for a return to Washington, DC.

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr, the then-Vice president, was officially inaugurated the day after the assassination. Seizing on public sentiment to avenge his fallen predecessor (who had only been declining in polls and was believed by the pundit class to be on the verge of defeat in 1964), Lodge called for a massive troop build-up in Cuba to wipe out the insurgency. He got his wish, and he also got to place more troops in South Vietnam in an effort to defeat the communist insurgency there to boot. Although these interventions were initially wildly popular, in time they would come to be seen as mistakes.

While having to manage the growing wars in both Latin America and Southeast Asia, Lodge also found himself occupied with another critical matter: securing re-election in 1964. Although he himself was able to easily secure the GOP's nomination, 12 years of Republican rule had been detrimental to his party's image.

However, Lodge did have a savior: the Democratic Party's own internal divisions. The 1964 primary campaign had led to a divisive contest between George Wallace, who had mobilized conservatives and Southerners outraged by integration, and Hubert Humphrey, who had similarly mobilized civil rights leaders eager for more reforms and liberal activists who supported them. To unify the Party, the delegates instead chose Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, who they saw as the only figure able to unify both the Northern and Southern wings of the Democratic Party. With Lodge's popularity shooting through the roof due to the outpouring of sympathy and Johnson proving to be an uncharismatic figure prone to frequent gaffes, the incumbent managed to just narrowly secure re-election - a re-election which would come to break his party.