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  1. AHC: Have a US state secede in the 20th century

    Just as it says, can a US state secede during the 20th century? For purposes of this thread the place must be state at the time of secession (eg Alaska or Hawaii seceding only count of they do so after achieving statehood).

  2. Does the first country to industrialize necessarily become a global hegemon?

    Clearly this describes OTL Britain, but does this follow? If some other place is the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, be it another country in Europe, or perhaps somewhere in Asia, would they become the world dominating power in the way the British Empire became? Industrialization...

  3. How easy/hard was it for colonial subjects to go to Europe?

    This is just a general history question I'm curious about. (Mods feel free to move this to another board if you see fit.) I'm mostly curious about the early 20th century. Was it possible for the average Indian or Nigerian, for example, to travel to Britain at the time, and what kind of...

  4. Latest plausible POD war between USA and Britain

    Just as it said, what's that latest plausible POD that would result in a war between the United States and the United Kingdom? (I put this in after 1900, but you can discuss earlier PODs if you believe that's the latest that's plausible.)

  5. WI Columbus sailed north?

    This may be implausible but... What if instead of the idea of going west to reach the Orient, Columbus had the idea of going north to reach the Orient, following the logic of using shorter circumpolar routes? I admit the main problem with this idea is tolerating the Arctic cold during the...

  6. DBWI: Modern State of Israel?

    I recently read a TL that has a majority-Jewish State of Israel that included most of Palestine. This seems rather ASB to me--Palestine hasn't had anything close to a Jewish majority since the time of Christ, and while I am aware of the Zionist movement of the late 19th/early 20th century, the...

  7. Can Christianity spread deeper into Africa in ancient times?

    Since Ethiopia was Christian since the 300s, why didn't it spread farther throughout East and Central Africa from there in the following centuries? How easily could this happen, and what would be the effects?

  8. Which empire had the best chance of surviving?

    The Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire, and Qing Dynasty China. All were widely perceived as backward by contemporaries in the early 20th century, and all three collapsed within ten years of each other. With a POD of 1900, which one had the best odds of successfully dealing with its internal...

  9. WI US annexed Dominican Republic in 1870

    This is something that was seriously considered in 1870. The Dominican Republic voted for US annexation, but the US Senate voted against annexing Santo Domingo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Santo_Domingo What if this had gone through?

  10. AHC: Re-create the Roman Empire

    Here's the idea: Long after the fall of Rome in 476, and preferably after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, is it possible for a new state to arise in the Mediterranean claiming to be the successor of Rome? This state/empire should include at least the whole northern Mediterranean (stretching...

  11. Could Saddam Hussein have "peacefully" annexed Kuwait?

    In a manner similar to US annexation of Hawaii? Or to Germany's annexation of Czechoslovakia?

  12. AHC/WI: Someone invades China during Great Leap Forward or Cultural Revolution

    Kind of a random idea, but I'm interested what would have happened if China, or just part of China, was invaded by a foreign power (take your pick which country) during one of these periods of, to put it nicely, dysfunctional leadership.

  13. Earliest possible Puerto Rican statehood

    What is the earliest possible date for Puerto Rico to become a state? Could it happen around the same time as Alaska and Hawaii?

  14. WI Washington made himself dictator

    WI after the American Revolution Washington, instead of resigning as commander, took control as a dictator (possibly king, doesn't really matter)? How would this affect the US?

  15. Can Nazi Germany invade Switzerland?

    Just as it says, can the Nazis successfully invade and occupy Switzerland?

  16. AHC: World's first communist revolution in Latin America

    Can the world's first successful communist revolution take place in Latin America instead of Russia. Looks ripe for it to me--largely poor, heavily unequal society. Not Marxist industrial revolution, but similar to what happened in Russia. Bonus points if long term result is "North-South" cold...

  17. AHC: Colonial subjects "take over" a colonial empire

    What I'm asking for here is for one of the European colonial empires to be gradually "taken over" by the colonial subject populations. For example an Indian Empire that claims to be successor of the British Empire, with Indians gradually having taken control of it. The European metropole doesn't...

  18. AHC: SE Asia independent immediately after WWII

    Is it possible for the European colonial powers to accept independence of SE Asian countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam etc.) in 1945 instead of trying to reclaim their colonies after the Japanese defeat?

  19. China divided in half during Cold War

    WI Chinese Civil War ends in stalemate. China is divided roughly in half between ROC in the south and PRC in the north, I'm thinking roughly along the Yangtze river. Is this possible without decades of violence? Does Tibet remain independent in such a scenario? How does this affect Korean War...

  20. Communist revolution in India?

    Could there be a communist revolution in India, against the British Raj?
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