Gavrilo Princip Fucking nuts to think that one fucking 19 year old basically changed the course of history by touching of WWI which lead to WWII, then the Cold War, and basically all of life as we know it today.
*false, Russia still puts missiles in Cuba regardless of Kennedy getting elected. Bay of Pigs is still on the table, depends on Nixon's willingness to execute. Most likely still occurs. *false, Kennedy did not commit combat troops to Vietnam during his presidency. Combat troops were only committed under Johnson. In addition, the commitment to all-out war in Vietnam was orchestrated by the Chiefs of Staff and heavily influenced by the falsification of battlefield data by MACV under Colonel Winterbottom and General Harkins. Arguably, full-scale warfare was more likely to occur under Nixon than under Kennedy. Kennedy stuck to a strong position of not committing combat troops throughout his presidency. *yep *probably
If George Washington Carver had never thought to research peanuts, we might lose some 300 of their applications. Also, Black History Month would be 28 days of people looking at each other and shrugging sadly.
If Hitler got into art school: -Never would have done time in Lansberg -Therefore never would have written Mein Kampf -Never would have joined the Nazi party and assumed control -Holocaust never would have happened However... -USSR would have never been drawn into a war and would have grown unchecked -Would have developed nuke first and quickly would have become sole world super power