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* ForWantOfANail: Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto dreaming of a collapsed Japan forced him to act and devise a face-saving plan for his country. He was not alone.
* ItBeganWithATwistOfFate: Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto dreaming of a collapsed Japan forced him to act and devise a face-saving plan for his country. He was not alone.
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* WhoShotJFK: Averted with John F. Kennedy surviving but killing Jacqueline Kennedy instead. He and his brother Robert deduced that a mafia syndicate was responsible and Lee Harvey Oswald was just a scapegoat. A series of murders of mob leaders occurred in the 1970s and some claim that John F. Kennedy did it as revenge. However, the innocence or guilt of the murdered mobsters were still being debated today.
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* WhoShotJFK: Averted with John F. Kennedy surviving but killing Jacqueline Kennedy instead. He and his brother Robert deduced that a mafia syndicate was responsible and Lee Harvey Oswald Lyndon B. Johnson was just a scapegoat.arrested for being accused as an accomplice. A series of murders of mob leaders occurred in the 1970s and some claim that John F. Kennedy did it as revenge. However, the innocence or guilt of the murdered mobsters were still being debated today.
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* AbdicateTheThrone: Puyi gives up power, abolishes the monarchy, and let Zhang Xueliang, who was rescued from Chiang, become Manchuria's first president.
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* WhoShotJFK: Averted with John F. Kennedy surviving but killing Jacqueline Kennedy instead. He and his brother Robert deduced that a mafia syndicate was responsible and Lee Harvey Oswald was just a scapegoat. A series of murders of mob leaders occurred in the 1970s and some claim that John F. Kennedy did it as revenge. However, the innocence or guilt of the murdered mobsters were still being debated today.
* WhoShotJFK: Averted with John F. Kennedy surviving but killing Jacqueline Kennedy instead. He and his brother Robert deduced that a mafia syndicate was responsible and Lee Harvey Oswald was just a scapegoat. A series of murders of mob leaders occurred in the 1970s and some claim that John F. Kennedy did it as revenge. However, the innocence or guilt of the murdered mobsters were still being debated today.
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* DecisiveBattle: attempted by the Japanese navy to force America to back off from the Pacific. It partially works for their favor, but the Americans were still persistent.
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* AlternateHistoryWank: downplayed for Japan, who keeps only Taiwan. However, this is played straight at the Western Bloc during the Cold War, as they were able to defeat Castro's Cuba and North Vietnam due to Japanese help.
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* AlternateHistoryWank: downplayed for downplayed. For Japan, who it only keeps only Taiwan.Taiwan after the war. However, this is played straight at the Western Bloc during the Cold War, as they were able to defeat Castro's Cuba and North Vietnam due to Japanese help. The Soviets annex Iranian Azerbaijan.
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** The Korean War still happens.happens, with similar results.
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* ElvisLives: the fate of Subhas Chandra Bose is still being debated, with many impostors coming out claiming they were Bose.
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* ElvisLives: the The fate of Subhas Chandra Bose is still being debated, with many impostors coming out claiming they were Bose.
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* ForWantOfANail: Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto dreaming of a collapsed Japan forced him to act and devise a face-saving plan
for his country. He was not alone.
for his country. He was not alone.
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* ForWantOfANail: Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto dreaming of a collapsed Japan forced him to act and devise a face-saving plan
plan for his country. He was not alone.
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** Nixon still resigns due to the Pentagon Papers.
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* NuclearWeaponsTaboo: zigzagged. While Japan was not nuked, the 1951 nuclear test ''by Japan'' still triggered anti-nuclear sentiment in Japan.
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* NuclearWeaponsTaboo: zigzagged. While Japan was not nuked, the 1951 nuclear test ''by Japan'' still triggered anti-nuclear sentiment in Japan. This taboo is broken in ''Vietnam'' by America, where it was used against the North Vietnamese.
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* BalkanizedMe: India was partitioned into Hindustan, Pakistan, Bengal, Sikkim, Kashmir, the Indian Princely States of the Deccan, and Dravidistan. Subverted with China, where Mao managed to conquer most of the mainland except Manchuria.
* BalkanizedMe: India was partitioned into Hindustan, Pakistan, Bengal, Sikkim, Kashmir, the Indian Princely States of the Deccan, and Dravidistan. Subverted with China, where Mao managed to conquer most of the mainland except Manchuria.
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* BalkanizeMe: India was partitioned into Hindustan, Pakistan, Bengal, Sikkim, Kashmir, the Indian Princely States of the Deccan, and Dravidistan. Subverted with China, where Mao managed to conquer most of the mainland except Manchuria.
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During the Second World War, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto had a bad dream of Japan losing the war and being destroyed by atomic hellfire. Knowing that Japan lost, he tells like-minded officers in the Japanese military to consider a different plan, a plan that would surely change the world as we see it.
Thomas Diana's ''At The Edge of the Abyss'', is a scrapbook story originally written in French and is available both in print and online, with the first two parts already online, and the third and final volume being produced as of this writing.
!!Tropes include:
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*BalkanizedMe: India was partitioned into Hindustan, Pakistan, Bengal, Sikkim, Kashmir, the Indian Princely States of the Deccan, and Dravidistan. Subverted with China, where Mao managed to conquer most of the mainland except Manchuria.
*ElvisLives: the fate of Subhas Chandra Bose is still being debated, with many impostors coming out claiming they were Bose.
*ForWantOfANail: Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto dreaming of a collapsed Japan forced him to act and devise a face-saving plan
for his country. He was not alone.
*GovernmentInExile: The Kuomintang becomes this because Japan still held Formosa. And they engage in drug trafficking.
*HeelFaceDoorSlam: Germany attempted this after Operation Valkyrie, but the Allies refused, knowing that the new non-Nazi German Republic is little better than the previous Third Reich.
*InSpiteOfANail: The Allies still win World War II, but the manner of the defeat of the Axis is different.
** The Korean War still happens.
** The Soviet Union still falls.
*MilitaryCoup: Several occur in the story.
**Japanese hardliners like Tojo attempt a coup against Hirohito, but it was stopped.
**Operation Valkyrie succeeds and Ludwig Beck becomes the new leader of Germany.
**Manchukuo experiences a military coup as well, ending the monarchy and turning it into a republic.
*NuclearWeaponsTaboo: zigzagged. While Japan was not nuked, the 1951 nuclear test ''by Japan'' still triggered anti-nuclear sentiment in Japan.
*ScrapbookStory
Thomas Diana's ''At The Edge of the Abyss'', is a scrapbook story originally written in French and is available both in print and online, with the first two parts already online, and the third and final volume being produced as of this writing.
!!Tropes include:
*
*BalkanizedMe: India was partitioned into Hindustan, Pakistan, Bengal, Sikkim, Kashmir, the Indian Princely States of the Deccan, and Dravidistan. Subverted with China, where Mao managed to conquer most of the mainland except Manchuria.
*ElvisLives: the fate of Subhas Chandra Bose is still being debated, with many impostors coming out claiming they were Bose.
*ForWantOfANail: Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto dreaming of a collapsed Japan forced him to act and devise a face-saving plan
for his country. He was not alone.
*GovernmentInExile: The Kuomintang becomes this because Japan still held Formosa. And they engage in drug trafficking.
*HeelFaceDoorSlam: Germany attempted this after Operation Valkyrie, but the Allies refused, knowing that the new non-Nazi German Republic is little better than the previous Third Reich.
*InSpiteOfANail: The Allies still win World War II, but the manner of the defeat of the Axis is different.
** The Korean War still happens.
** The Soviet Union still falls.
*MilitaryCoup: Several occur in the story.
**Japanese hardliners like Tojo attempt a coup against Hirohito, but it was stopped.
**Operation Valkyrie succeeds and Ludwig Beck becomes the new leader of Germany.
**Manchukuo experiences a military coup as well, ending the monarchy and turning it into a republic.
*NuclearWeaponsTaboo: zigzagged. While Japan was not nuked, the 1951 nuclear test ''by Japan'' still triggered anti-nuclear sentiment in Japan.
*ScrapbookStory
