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My idea was to create a timeline with Puyi Yi tutored by a Japanese tutor who would introduce him to Meiji theories and to the idea of Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere. It would lead to a modernized China and an alliance with Japan.
The second possibility is to see Pu...
I know it can seem stupid, but somehow I think that Pu Yi's decision to set himself in the path of personal westernization weakened his power on the old administration and broke all his lasting links with the population. It's perhaps idiotic, but I feel that Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston...
I think that Europe was lucky and saved by a few events:
- The sudden death of Grand Khan Ogodei.
- The Mongol families/clans feuds and infighting.
- The stupid feud between Grand Khan Guyuk and Batu Khan, which led to Subutai conquering Song China.
- The decision of Batu Khan not to become...
Chinese double hull aircraft carrier: Zheng He
Name : Zheng He
Type : Treasure ship class
Designed : 2011
Laid down (officially) : 2014
Launched : August 1 2017 (as hospital ship)
Commissioned : October 1 2018 (as aircraft carrier)
Capacity (rumored) : 120 J-20 fighter jets
Displacement...
I may have a stupid question, but weren't the immigrants to Canada and the settlers of the 13 colonies very different from each others (religion, nobility, origins) and weren't the two territories differently administrated? It could perhaps explain a lot of things, including the...
The shooting order was issued if somebody was trying to cross the border illegally. Unlike what many people still think, Border guards were asked to shoot at legs and weren't required to kill. As the citizens weren't doing anything illegal and were just asking questions, there were no reasons to...
School textbooks affect Japan’s identity
It's important to understand :
- how the very nationalist Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform was created in the nineties
- how neo-nationalists have slowly infilitrated the "Textbook Authorization and Research Council" since 1955
- how...
Indeed, I have always been sceptical about the permission of the King.
According to Thomas Weber in Hitler's First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War, RIR 16 was not a volunteer regiment and was made of individuals refused by other regiments. He also tells...
As you probably don't know, Adolf Hitler dodged the Austrian military service and fled to Munich to avoid Austrian draft. He was later caught and had to go to Salzburg. In February 1914, he was finally exempted from Austrian military service.
Hitler volunteered immediately at the beginning...
In 1899 Frederick Simms developped the motor-war car. It had a German Daimler engine, a bullet proof shield and two maxim machine guns mounted on rotating turrets. He presented it to the British but they were not interested. This was the first vehicle made that was armored, self...
I think that the key event was the post-war choice to administer Lybia with the same administrative system than the Italians used, basically cutting the country in two big provinces as the Ottomans did. From 1943 to 1951, Libya was under allied occupation, the British military administered the...
I sum up a few interesting threads on Axis History forums :)
In my opinion, you need a POD to change Caporetto or to introduce a new doctrine after this battle. Caporetto was a national trauma for a country and led to the Italian army of WWII, as much of the doctrinal and strategic changes were...