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  1. King Umberto Lives

    On July 29, 1900 King Umberto of Italy is shot and killed at the age of 56 leaving Italy to his son, Victor Emmanuel III. But what if he survived? While Franco-Italian relations vastly improved after the fall of Crispi, Umberto remained faithful to the Triple Alliance His son allowed the...

  2. The Italians win at Adowa

    The Italian defeat at Adowa ibrings to an end her ambitions in Africa until the Libyan campaign. It also guarantees the independence of Ethiopia and brings the French to hatch their Fashoda expedition. It also brings down the government of Crispi and indirectly the reconciliation of Italy and...

  3. China wins the 1st Sino-Japanese War in 1895

    The Sino-Japanese War is one of the more important developments in the late 1800's. It resulted in the crushing defeat of China, the Triple Intervention and later the scramble for concessions and latter the Russo-Japanese War But what happens if the Chinese win? Obviously, the rise of...

  4. Entente after quick victory

    Assuming everything goes right for the Entente in August 1914 and the French pour through the gap and pin the Germans against the Rhine while the Russians win decisively in the East and can pour their army unmolested into Germany and Austria how does the Entente breakdown (which it inevitably...

  5. The Dutch Fight WWI

    What happens if the Dutch decide to join the allies in 1914. The most likely PODs for this are: 1) The Germans don't modify the Schifflen plan and go through the Netherlands as well as Belgium. 2) The Belgians put up enough resistance at Liege that the Germans decide they must go...

  6. The Dutch choose to fight

    In the run up to World War I, the Belgians made numerous inquiries of Dutch intentions (really the Belgians were trying to get Dutch help). The Dutch are rather cool to these but what if they aren't? Using the 1905-07 Belgian discussions as our POD, what if the Dutch decide that a...

  7. Bjorko two years earlier

    During the Russo-Japanese War the Kaiser and the Tsar (who latter renounced it) signed an alliance at Bjorko pledging defense against any European aggressor. This was a bad time for Russia having been involved in the Japanese War but what would have happened if the Kaiser had made the offer two...

  8. Saudis take the Gulf States

    What would be the impacts if the Saudis took advantage of the Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq war to grab the Gulf States (Oman, UAE, Qatar and maybe Yemen) They should have been able to take them all rather quickly (except for Yemen) They might leave Kuwait alone or take it as well...

  9. Triple Intervention

    This is one of those maddening things that straddle our divide- I put it here for "after 1900" because the biggest effects are in this era (I think) After the Sino-Japanese war (1894-95) Russia, France and Germany join in the triple intervention forcing Japan to give up Port Arthur in...

  10. Stalin's best play in 1940?

    What if Stalin had in 1939-40 tried this: First building up his forces in the West near the old border out of range of a German strike. Then once the Germans start attacking France in May 1940 he begins moving them forward to await events letting the Germans and the Allies slug it out...

  11. Russia beats Japan in 1904

    This was the first big war of the century and so plays a big role in the course of the rest. How do you think the world would change if the Russians had defeated the Japanese in the Russo Japanese War? For the thread, let's assume its a relatively quick Russian victory, There are a lot...
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