Political Events
Scenarios involving elections, revolutions, treaties, and political movements with alternate outcomes
What If The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Never Passed?
Exploring the alternate timeline where landmark disability education legislation failed to become law, dramatically altering the educational landscape for millions of Americans with disabilities.
What If The INF Treaty Never Happened?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the United States and Soviet Union failed to reach the 1987 agreement to eliminate intermediate-range nuclear forces, dramatically altering Cold War dynamics and nuclear proliferation into the 21st century.
What If The International Criminal Court Never Formed?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the Rome Statute failed to gain sufficient support, leaving the world without its first permanent international criminal tribunal and reshaping global justice and accountability.
What If The International Debt Crisis of The 1980s Never Occurred?
Exploring the alternate timeline where developing nations avoided the devastating debt crisis of the 1980s, potentially transforming global economic development and North-South relations for decades to come.
What If The International Monetary Fund Was Never Formed?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference failed to establish the IMF, fundamentally altering the post-WWII economic order and global financial stability mechanisms.
What If The International Space Station Was Never Built?
Exploring the alternate timeline where international cooperation in space collapsed after the Cold War, preventing the construction of humanity's most ambitious orbital laboratory and permanently altering the trajectory of human spaceflight.