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  1. AHC: A closer Anglo-German Medieval relationship, version of 100 years war, that England wins, and greatly influences Germany/northern HRE

    The challenge, should you chose to accept it, is to alter medieval history, starting any point between 550 AD and 1400 AD, so that there is a much greater political and cultural interconnection between England and Germany from that time, at least as intimate as England and France's relationship...

  2. What could and would Newton Baker likely have done with his Presidential term starting in 1933?

    Ohio’s Newton D. Baker is every now and then cited as a potential Presidential for the 1932 Democratic ticket if FDR had not been available or had not succeeded and he had qualifications going back to service as Secretary of War in the Wilson Administration during WWI and Mayor of Cleveland...

  3. Alternate Israel-like pariah states - Liberia and Singapore?

    Every national situation, and regional dynamic around a national situation, is unique to a great extent. There can be analogous features one can identify across countries and regional dynamics in different parts of the world, but analogies drawn will be imperfect at best, and highly flawed to...

  4. What if Japan attacks the USSR in 1941? What about the British factor?

    For this TL/discussion, I want to take a somewhat commonplace WWII what-if, Japan attacking the USSR in 1941, and bring some less than common focus on the reaction of the USSR’s then coalition partner, Britain, to such a Japanese move. That will necessarily involve consideration of how the...

  5. How early would you need to change American colonial history to guarantee an Anglo-American sovereign relationship close as Anglo-Canadian in 1883?

    Alright folks, 5 days only for this poll, 5 days - How early would you need to change American colonial history to guarantee an Anglo-American sovereign relationship close as Anglo-Canadian in 1883? Or to phrase it differently: How early must (the situation of)13 Colonies change to...

  6. What if the German western campaign of 1940 does not invade or occupy Netherlands?

    What if the final campaign design the Germans adopted and launched in spring 1940, avoided invading and occupying the Netherlands? What happens as a consequence? Does respecting Netherlands neutrality (at least on the ground and most of the airspace) simply make it impossible for Germany to...

  7. The concept of the Nazi takeover of South America (& Argentina in particular) was a ridiculous distraction before, during & after the war

    See interesting historical article here: https://read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article/64/1/81/148566/The-United-States-the-German-Argentines-and-the Basically, the TLDR is: The concept of the Nazi takeover of South America (& Argentina in particular) or Fourth Reich resurgence from there was a...

  8. Hitler's Gamble by Brendan Simms

    https://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-American-Gamble-Harbor-Germanys-ebook/dp/B08Y8LSKD4/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=q8uxt&content-id=amzn1.sym.c3fcbb7c-339f-45ab-80dc-facbe5841fce&pf_rd_p=c3fcbb7c-339f-45ab-80dc-facbe5841fce&pf_rd_r=7E13Y4QG248EWQH0H86G&pd_rd_wg=8tfA4&pd_rd_r=de62da6d-a324-4590-8183-6a4fd...

  9. Would Asia/the world of the twentieth century have been better off if Japan lost the Russo-Japan War, was stalemated, or deterred from attacking?

    Would Asia/the world of the twentieth century have been better off if Japan lost the Russo-Japan War, was stalemated, or deterred from attacking Russia in 1904 or later? Why so, or why not? In our world Japan, although regarded as an upstart, and the underdog, won this war, taking northeast...

  10. What if Japan attacked the Dutch East Indies in 1936?

    What if Japan had attacked the Dutch East Indies in 1936, based on lobbying from the Navy to gain the valuable archipelago located at the strategic maritime crossroads of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, offering Japan a position outflanking Singapore and Manila Bay, and providing already...

  11. If the Triple Entente lost WWI, it is likely that Britain, not France, would have been the most revanchist of the three

    There is a what I think is a "trope" in popular alternate history imaginings and speculations, written into a few different novels, and games or game settings like GURPS alternate earths, where if Germany wins WWI, it inverts Germany and France in the postwar years, France instead of Germany...

  12. WI Operation Rösselsprung in 1944 is successful at killing Tito?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_R%C3%B6sselsprung_(1944) Operation Rösselsprung (German: Unternehmen Rösselsprung, lit. 'Knight's move') was a combined airborne and ground assault by the German XV Mountain Corps and collaborationistforces on the Supreme Headquarters of the Yugoslav...

  13. What if a Kennedy Administration without a Castro Cuba?

    What if there is no Cuban revolution of 1959? How will this impact not only Cuba, but the United States, a presumed Kennedy Administration, and global geopolitics of the early 1960s? That's where I want to go with this speculation. But of course, I need to rewind things back, to illustrate...

  14. How much could Thailand be plausibly boosted up in its war with Vichy French Indochina?

    With Japan not directly occupying Tonkin, northern Indochina as in OTL September 1940, but Thailand still invading French Indochina in October 1940, to reclaim lands lost in the early 1900s and 1890s, and Japan selling the Thai arms for influence, and not, like OTL, mediating an end to the...

  15. AHC: Accelerate the Union conquest of Atlanta and march to the sea by a year

    How could the break-out of the Union western front in the American Civil War through Atlanta and across the Alleghenies and Appalachians to the Atlantic seaboard have been significantly accelerated, by like as much as a year, in some politically-militarily plausible way? If that is bit too much...

  16. From a 1750 AD p.o.v., what were the multiversal odds that the PLC would partitioned out of existence by 1850 AD?

    The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1750 AD was a weak state. It had been for awhile. It was kind of a de facto puppet state of Russia's as well. It was subject to heavy foreign influence in general. It had weak executive powers. But it had existed for quite awhile, nearly a century since...

  17. What if Prince Sihanouk was not ousted from power in Cambodia 1970?

    Information borrowed heavily from wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_campaign As of early 1970, Cambodian discontent with the heavy Vietnamese presence in the eastern portion of the country had built up to explosive levels, leading to mass demonstrations by urban and educated...

  18. Alternate history challenge - 19th century USA Northern Secession "Hat Trick"

    Here is an alternate history challenge for you, and it is in my view perhaps an implausible, or impossible challenge, requiring the conquest of three thresholds to score "Hat Trick" and win a "Triple Crown". It is to replicate some of the most basic features of the American Civil War, but in...

  19. What if Chiang Kai-shek was killed in his last flight out of China, Dec. 1949? Implications for US Taiwan Straits Policy

    What if Chiang Kai-shek was killed in his last flight out of China, in December 1949? He took several long-distance flights that year, including one in July and August to and from South Korea to meet with Syngman Rhee and Elpidio Quirino to discuss and Asian security pact, and his final flight...

  20. What if Florida had been organized into two territorial governments instead of just one upon its annexation?

    What if Florida had been organized into two territorial governments instead of just one upon its annexation? The logical point of division would have been to use the Suwanee river to divide west and east Floridian sections, as the Spanish had done in their period of occupation, like this...
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