Top 10 of the Biggest “WHAT IF” Scenarios in History
0The world is full of “what ifs?” What if JFK hadn’t decided to go cruising through Dallas in an open-top car? What if Gandhi had never got teed-off with the British Empire? What if we’d been wearing pants that time the cops pulled us over? That’s the nature of things: we can never truly know. But we sure as heck can speculate. And, thankfully, Earth’s long, long history has given us plenty to speculate about.
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Source/Further reading:
https://youtu.be/dL59M53VJWY
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/ff7_vweapons.shtml
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gavrilo-Princip
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/19/archduke-franz-ferdinand-lives-richard-ned-lebow-review
https://www.britannica.com/event/War-of-the-Spanish-Succession
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/11/24/the-last-korean-meltdown-bill-clinton-on-the-brink-of-war
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-ambush-that-changed-history-72636736/
http://io9.gizmodo.com/10-shocking-ways-the-second-world-war-could-have-ended-1558135375
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005164
http://www.history.com/news/napoleons-disastrous-invasion-of-russia-200-years-ago
https://books.google.cz/books?id=teAr_z1oVLEC&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=%22If+Rommel+had+been+with+us+instead+of+in+Germany,+he+would+have+disregarded+all+orders+and+taken+action%22+holding+juno&source=bl&ots=oaKzdJdR8x&sig=r2hkW9MDCNoUYBWKDHeB5Aj6j1M&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjy37qvjIbUAhULbxQKHQEPCTUQ6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&q=%22If%20Rommel%20had%20been%20with%20us%20instead%20of%20in%20Germany%2C%20he%20would%20have%20disregarded%20all%20orders%20and%20taken%20action%22%20holding%20juno&f=false
https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=BxsnAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT16&dq=flight+to+varennes+slow+carriage&hl=en&sa=X&ei=BO8IU47KJeq8iAfwkYHoCg#v=onepage&q=flight%20to%20varennes%20slow%20carriage&f=false
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/mar/23/usa.september11
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/What_if_I_ask_for_help.JPG
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Flickr_-_Laenulfean_-_crossroads.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Sonnengewehr.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1981-147-30A%2C_Hochdruckpumpe_V-3.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69Bcce-ogQQ
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/DC-1914-27-d-Sarajevo-cropped.jpg/905px-DC-1914-27-d-Sarajevo-cropped.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Assassination_of_Archduke_Ferdinand.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Richard_Ned_Lebow_IMG_1882_edit.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Vickers_machine_gun_in_the_Battle_of_Passchendaele_-_September_1917.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Ebensee_concentration_camp_prisoners_1945.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_map_of_the_Austro-Hungarian_Empire.svg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Russian_Revolution_of_1917.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Vendome-and-PhilipV.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Europe_c._1700.png
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/The_British_Empire_Anachronous.png