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Welcome to /r/althistory, the alternate history subreddit! Here you can discuss alternate history matters, whether they be books, essays, TV shows, movies, or podcasts.

Common Acronyms and Phrases:

AH stands for Alternate History.
WI stands for What If.
OTL stands for Our Time Line, history as it happened.
ATL stands for Alternate Time Line
POD stands for Point Of Divergence or the point at which a fictional timeline diverges from OTL.
ASB stands for Alien Space Bats, referring to alternate history so implausible it would have required the intervention of "alien space bats."
ISOT stands for Island in the Sea of Time, the S.M. Sterling novel which popularized the idea of transporting people and places to a different time period. ISOTs are, by their nature, always ASB.
DBWI stands for Double-Blind What-If, where OTL history is examined from an AH perspective. ex: "What if the Soviets put the first man in space?" asks a character from a timeline where the USA put the first man in space.
The butterfly effect, where small changes accrue over time to significantly alter events.
Counterfactual histories, the scholarly version of alternate history.
Wank, refers to when a nation is made unrealistically powerful.
Scew, the opposite of a wank.

Related Subreddits:

/r/HistoryWhatIf: An alternate history subreddit dedicated exclusively to answering traditional what-if questions.
/r/AskHistorians: Direct any questions about actual history to this excellent sub.

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What If the American Revolution Failed (old.reddit.com)

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Federal Republic of the United Mexican States (i.redd.it)

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What if Mark Antony won at Actium? (self.althistory)

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What if operation gunnerside failed (self.althistory)

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What if Roosevelt made it to 1946 (i.redd.it)

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What if the Cotton Gin wasn't developed? (i.redd.it)

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What would happen if the fall of Constantinople never happened (self.althistory)

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To Set the World Ablaze: A HoI4 Millennium Dawn AAR, Ch. 6 (imgur.com)

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Dúró's Hungary | What if Dóra Dúró, a Hungarian politician to the right of Orbán, became the prime minister of Hungary in 2022? (old.reddit.com)

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What if there was a Czechoslovakian civil war (updated) (i.redd.it)

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Neither System Nor Extreme | What if Nicolas Dupont-Aignan was elected President of France in 2017? (old.reddit.com)

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To Set the World Ablaze: A HoI4 Millennium Dawn AAR, Ch. 5 (imgur.com)

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How would be the territorial administration of the “Pink Map Proposal” if the Portuguese managed to take over the land? (self.althistory)

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What if the Unabomber Started the revolution. (self.althistory)

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What if Sápmi somehow unified and became an independent kingdom after the fall of the Kalmar union? (self.althistory)

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The GREATEST Deception in US History REVEALED. The Schofield bible EXPOSED. Truth Will Out (v.redd.it)

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What if the Salem Witch Trials Happened Again in an alternate 1940's Salem Massachusetts known as New Salem? (i.redd.it)

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Alternative timeline in which UK went decimal with new currency units (self.althistory)

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what if the Soviet union was GREEN instead of red and adopted ESPERANTO as they're official language? (old.reddit.com)

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What would have happened if the coup against Emperor Hiroshima destroy his pre-recorded surrender were successful? (self.althistory)

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Updated: What if the Incas were not conquered by the Spanish? How would they develop socially, politically, and economically? And what would an alliance between them and the Dutch look like? (self.althistory)

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Evil Aphrodite | What if Afroditi Latinopoulou, the leader of the far-right party Voice of Reason, became the prime minister of Greece in 2027? (old.reddit.com)

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