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  1. What if the evacuation of Dunkirk had failed?

    Look at how "successful" where the Panzerdivision to take Calais before saying they can attack Dunkerque where the Allies had 20 or 30 more troops. And yes the troops evacuating from Dunkerque can still fight if they need to, they left their heavy weapons and stocks of ammunitions literally on...

  2. President Reagan assassinated in 1981

    Maybe the Republicans will accept some kind of gun control as their President was murdered. It will be interesting to calculate the number of US Presidents assassinated to evaluate if it not represented their first cause of death.

  3. What if the Japanese overthrew the Vichy French administration in Indochina shortly after occupying it?

    The Vietnamese will quickly learn that the Japaneses as colonial masters are one hundred time more awful, it was the words of an Indonesian Independantist leader when he compared the Dutch and the Japanese. And they will quickly began to rebel and the Japanese will pacify the rebels and the...

  4. What if Japan declared war on the Soviet Union after Pearl Harbor?

    If you look at a map, you will that the USSR is very very huge. And the Japanese can only attack Vladivostok region and not the Ourals or Central Siberia that are thousands of miles in the west.

  5. Would an isolationist US post-WW2 cause the Soviets to expand?

    I'm not aware of any US intervention in May 1968. Can you please provide reference about this idea ? At this time, De Gaulle was clearly on a path where he act completely independant of the USA and the NATO. It was his policy since 1958. May 1968 was first a far-left (Maoist and Troskyst)...

  6. Would an isolationist US post-WW2 cause the Soviets to expand?

    Even if in France, the PCF (French Communist Party) was the most powerful party in 1945, it loose its ministerial positions in May 1947. And it began to be very impopular at it was responsible for sabotages of the railorads and massive strikes that disrupt a French economy still recovering from...

  7. Can Austria-Hungary survive defeat in WWI?

    A lot of people inside the "prison of peoples" wanted to be free or reunited with their brithers and sisters on the other side of the border. So Austria-Hungary will only stay united if independance or reunification were worst that being under the Habsbourg rule.

  8. Japanese kamikaze policy in 1942

    Even this idea is used by the Japanese in 1942, I will say after the defeat of Midway. The only place where it can be used is the Campaign of Guadalcanal. And the only thing that can changed the battle of Guadalcanal is the possibility for the Japanese to land enough troops to destroy the 1st...

  9. How might a modern baby boom occur?

    In countries with enough social services helping family with day nurseries and kindergarten, you don't need "single-income" households to have big families. "Single-income" families are something that don't "exist" in a country in France since a lot of time. Women in France born in 1945 have a...

  10. WI European powers in the age of Napoleon kept archers in an axillary usage?

    The problem is that in Europe, the sword was never the arm of the priviledge class and in fact bows were not the peasant weapon, because peasants were armed with easy to use and easy to produce weapons, such as axes, reinforced sticks, and lances. Peasant were not usaually using bows because...

  11. What could Austria Hungary could of done to fix its Over Diversity and National instability in its Ethnic army, and government.

    France don't stamp minority language, they stomp over dialects of French than even have no writing form. except of course Flemish, the Occitan language don't existed, you have 5, 6 or 7 different dialects (linguists don't even agree) in Southern France and it was spoken by illiterate peasants...

  12. What could Austria Hungary could of done to fix its Over Diversity and National instability in its Ethnic army, and government.

    Austria + Hungary were able to raise armies of that size during the Napoleonic wars. Here it is Austria vs Hungary. With various parts of the non Hungarians parts of the Empire supporting actively or passively Hungarian Independance, because they knew if the Hungarians won, they will also be...

  13. What could Austria Hungary could of done to fix its Over Diversity and National instability in its Ethnic army, and government.

    I agree that I'm not a specialist of the Hungarian War of Independance of 1848-1849, but the high numbers of Russian troops involved, 200 000 men according to Wikipedia is for me a proof that without the Russians, the Hungarians can win.

  14. What could Austria Hungary could of done to fix its Over Diversity and National instability in its Ethnic army, and government.

    The lingua franca in the XIX century was the French, English was spoke by very few people in Continental Europe, and only in the British Empire through the world. Basically if a Russia met a Spaniard and a Turk, they will speak French.

  15. What could Austria Hungary could of done to fix its Over Diversity and National instability in its Ethnic army, and government.

    Austria-(Hungary) only survived the Hungarian War of Independance of 1848-1849 because the Russian army crushed the Hungarians. So without the Russians, you have no Austria-Hungary. And if Austria is alone to face the French-Italian alliance in 1859, Austria loose the Italians regions...
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