If you could go back in time to do one thing that would change the course of history, what would it be?

Question

No prehistoric answers please, like "Kill the first homosapien". And nothing religious either, like "Kill Mary before she could give birth to Jesus".

For me, I would somehow ensure the Persian Empire defeated Greece, so that they would continue to expand into Europe. No Roman Empire, no European countries, it would be a very different world.

Answer 1

Go back and warn our navy that the Japanese were planning to bomb Pearl Harbor ..... And warn the Unites States Department of Defense that the terrorists were going to hijack our planes and run them through the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and White House ...... And warn the CIA that President Kennedy should skip going to Dallas that day ....

Answer 2

If given the opportunity, I would go back to the Civil War in the United States, and prevent Southern General Robert E. Lee from ordering 25,000 Confederate soldiers from marching across a wide open field toward the Union lines, while under constant enemy artillery and cannon fire, which cut them to ribbons before they were even able to get within musket range of the enemy positions. I would have deployed my 'squirrel hunters' as snipers along the tree lines facing the Union positions and while they were pinned down and unable to move, send horse mounted raiders into the enemy positions to disrupt their chain of command and communications systems, and capture a few high-ranking Union Officers to interrogate for information.

I think General Lee was a fine leader, but I think because he was very tired of the war, he had been leading the South for a few years by then and he just made a bad judgement call that cost the South the War.

I would also bring back with me, a copy of the entire Civil War in recorded copy so that General Lee and his advisors could read about future battles before they became engaged in them, knowing the recorded history of what happened at that particular battle, ahead of time, could have turned the tide of battle in the favor of the South, and not the North.

My sole purpose for going back in the first place would be to make sure the South won the Civil War, Abe Lincoln would be removed as President of the USA and the slaves would be sent back to wherever they were brought from.

I don't believe in having slaves, either, so they would be removed from the USA. Men should always be free regardless of the color of their skin.

I think that by being able to do this, and win the war for the South, there wouldn't be so many serious problems in the world today, and that the USA would still be the most powerful superpower in the world.

Thank you,

Answer 3

If you could go back into time and were able to kill Hitler when he was a baby, would you do it?

You wouldn't dare kill him, haven't you learned not to mess with the space time continuum? Consider the possible consequence. You kill Hitler as a young child, years later, say 1933, Ernst Roehm instead becomes dictator, in mid 1930s, HE decides to begin 'heavy water' experiments which lead to the first nuclear bomb built in 1939. With that device, he easiliy defeats mother russia and the allies, and the Final Solution is 'completed.'

Your mistep in the space time continuum caused the death of ALL European Jewry and enslavement of half the planet...way to go!....you should'a stayed home in bed where it was safe and leave the living to others..

Answer 4

Gadds there are so many options // // going with my old stand by - - - Traveling back to England in 1066 I would befreind Harold of Wessex early on, to gain his trust, then I would spend several months training about five hundred archers, I would let Harold go do his thing at the Bridge (to lazy to look up, and I hate it when people critisize my spelling errors).. Then on Harold's herocic race to Hastings, I woul d shout, "WHOA, Dude, Chill for a day or two, rest your army," and after Harold's Army had that vital two or three day 'weekend,' then I woud support Harold's fights with my battalion of archers and since History demands same sacrifice, it would have been William with an arrow in the eye not Harold dying leaving England to the mercy of those 'frog eaters.' Then as Harold pal I would bring the Renaissance to England early, promoting a quasi Liberal nation state with really cool fortifications and religious equality and vastly improve the quality of life several hundred years ahead of the 1700s (dating quality from the time of flushable toilets and toilet paper)...

Peace...................

Answer 5

Absolutely nothing. There's no way of telling whether the changes made would be for the better or for the worse. Best to leave history as is and try to learn from it rather than try to speculate on what would happen if we were given the chance to make a change that might or might not make things better.

Answer 6

I'd go back to 19th century America and supply the Indians with AK47's so the white mans expansion west never happened. You Americans would have to put up with just the original 13 colonies as your landbase. Americans would have land and Indians would have land. Everyones happy.

Laura J nice idea but slight problem- Israel didnt exist until 1948! OOPS! LOL

Answer 7

In the trial to decide which criminal was going to die on the cross, i would chose Barabbas instead of Jesus.
This is not a religious answer, but a political one.

Answer 8

I would have stopped Booth from assassinating President Lincoln

Answer 9

I would warn everyone of 9/11 and stop it before it happened.

Answer 10

Remove the letter "I" from the alphabet. It would eliminate
the most boring recitations, speeches and conversations,
and promote a more compassionate American citizen.