It took 3 revolutions to get the most extreme sect of the radical extreme into power. Even if you apply a tight butterfly net to Europe if Russia can make it to 1914, or any other alt Great War without a Revolution the likely result is an agrarian socialist government led by the SR's if the...
The big butterfly isn't Japan it's Russia. No defeat means no 1905 Revolution and almost certainly no 1917 Revolution. The October Revolution and the creation of the Soviet Union was the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century. No Soviet Union not only saves tens of millions of Russians it also...
Putting a 10 year old plane back in production is also fairly unlikely but I can certainly see this world pushing more resources into short take off planes of all types including transport planes. For example here the USAF's Advanced Medium STOL Transport will almost certainly be carried through...
The Do-31 would need a lot more development before it would enter service, as it was at the time of cancellation it was a transport plane that couldn't carry a payload.
There is no scenario where this ends with an independent East Germany or anything other than the reimposition of a Soviet approved government. First of all the balance of military force is overwhelmingly on the Soviet side with about 600,000 troops in the occupation army (it didn't become the...
The M35 Stahlhelm and M36 Field uniforms were both the product of Weimar era programs and bar some minor details e.g. the Doppellitze (embroidered white parallel lines on the collar) will remain exclusive to the Prussian Guards are plausible developments of pre-PoD German military "fashion"...
Once again I think this is a somewhat implausibly successful result for the Iraqi's. The Iraqi's do have Frog-7 SRBM's which will get through but they are very inaccurate and while the Iraqi Air Force was better than the Syrians they did not perform very well in OTL against Iran considering the...
I think you are confusing two separate questions which have very distinct answers;
Q1.) Which regions have the geographical features (coal, iron ore, fertile agricultural land, usable rivers, convenient sea ports) that under the right circumstances they could have supported an industrial...
It's like Brits calling American Southerners Yankees. To Europeans Russia has never been part of the West, but to non-Europeans as a Christian country that was part of the European state system since the 17th century it is.
Hellenistic era Greece was a long, long way technologically from an Industrial revolution, moveable type printing is an absolute prerequisite for one thing.
You've got the cart before the horse, Britain looted Bengal dry because that is what conquerors do. British industrialisation was...
It's not just a question of having the idea of steam as a force and having the metallurgy to make a pressure vessel, if that was all that was required dozens of society could have seen an industrial lift off. You require a labour shortage so businessmen who want to expand production are forced...
If all of North America had stayed British I think you would eventually have seen some larger intercolonial entities created, probably not called Dominions as that name had a bad reputation in New England but it wouldn't map onto either OTL or Turtledoves NAU. It makes far more sense for New...
There's a very good reason for that, Arabic is a more difficult language to print using movable type as a cursive language with more characters than the Latin alphabet and Devanagari (Hindi) is harder still. The Latin alphabet is very print friendly.