China if it had a political, religious or economic motivation. Paul Kennedy in the Rise and Fall of the Great Powers argues that the conservative Confucian bureaucracy during the Ming Dynasty made China a less vigorous and enterprising land than in previous eras like the Song dynasty...
If the POD is only the 1920s, and if Japan is not aggressive towards China then you have basically butterflied away the Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific War.
China wasn't in a state to be involved in a world war, with the KMT trying to consolidate their control and develop China. There was no...
Nasser might get overthrown from the humiliation of losing control of the Suez Canal. This would lead to less Soviet influence in the Middle East. If a pro-Western government comes to power in Egypt, you basically fast track what happened IOTL in the late 1970s to this TL in 1956. The Soviets...
The Japanese leadership believed they were in a position of strength in mid 1941, with the Allies preoccupied in Europe and their colonies vulnerable for the picking in SE Asia. This, coupled with their own racist views against both whites and other Asians, where they held their opponents in low...
Maybe the USA and CSA get caught up in the world of late 19th/early 20th century Great Power diplomacy.
Post Civil War, the CSA has friendly relations with Britain and France.
While Russia, which was hostile to Britain, maintained good relations with the USA as a counterweight against them...
Lenin was born in 1870, so if he lived until 1949, that would make him 79 when he dies ITTL. If he somehow stays in power until then, clearly there will be massive butterflies within and outside of the USSR. You might even butterfly away WWII, or at least the way it happened IOTL.
The Mongols obliterated the great Arab/Islamic civilisation and also destroyed the economic powerhouse that was the Song Dynasty. If the Mongols are butterflied away as a major force, perhaps if these two civilisations could continue to thrive, they would overshadow Europe and butterfly away...
I can see the Weimar Republic and the USSR both invading and occupying Poland. While London and Paris will be unhappy, this would not necessarily lead to a World War or British or French involvement at all.
The Weimar Republic had limited objectives, and wasn't as diplomatically incompetent as...
It's suicide for China and Thailand. The CP have no ability to project power in East Asia to support them. They will be over-run by Japan, Britain, France and/or Russia.
Russia probably could have achieved this, but colonies in the Pacific would be far away and difficult to defend, especially in the 1890s when Britain was a hostile power. Hence why they got rid of Alaska in the 1860s. Also, the colonies in the Pacific that Germany controlled IOTL wouldn't offer...
Were the Qing really that different from the Han Chinese dynasties? I mean, other than their dress and unusual hairstyle, didn't they adopt most Chinese customs and traditions in an attempt to legitimise themselves as rulers of China under the "Mandate of Heaven"?
As above, the Ottomans and the Japanese would be their primary targets. They would want Constantinople from the Turks and Port Arthur from Japan (even though it was actually Chinese territory).
If they are no longer friendly with Britain ITTL, they might try to extend their influence in...
I'm not sure if this post is serious or not, but I will answer.
Germany was a republic when Hitler was in power, Wilhelm II was living in exile in the Netherlands and had no power in Germany.
The only person that could theoretically have dismissed Hitler was President Hindenburg. However, this...