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  1. WI: Instead of Phillips, it’s Sony who gets the rights for Nintendo characters in the 90s?

    There was a thread last month about screwing both Sega and Nintendo in the 90s, to the point where both would leave the console market. In there I had an idea that I thought would be interesting for a thread of its own: In retrospect, it seems Nintendo really dodged a bullet with their...

  2. WI: Instead of declaring war on France, Mussolini invades Greece in May 1940?

    So IOTL Mussolini declared war on France and Britain in June 1940, after it was obvious that France was finished. Then, a few months later, in October 1940, he started his disastrous invasion of Greece, which eventually led to British and German interventions. But what if Mussolini decides to...

  3. WI: Soviet-Japanese war... in 1940?

    The USSR and Japan fought a number of border skirmishes in the 30s, culminating in the battles of Khalkhin Gol in the summer of 1939. After getting a bloody nose, Japan decided to sign a ceasefire with the Soviets in September 39, and the two countries didn't clash again until the Soviet...

  4. AHC: Expand and combine the American Revolutionary War and the War of Bavarian Succession into a major European/global conflict

    Is there a way that the War of Bavarian Succession (a relatively minor dispute between Austria and Prussia) could have turned into a major war between the European great powers? A war that could then become entwined with the already ongoing American Revolutionary War? I'm talking about something...

  5. WI: Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor before Barbarossa?

    Let's say Japan occupies the entirety of Indochina after the fall of France in 1940, and US-Japanese relations go south much more quickly. Consequently, the US enacts its oil embargo in 1940, a year earlier than OTL. Japan then starts preparations for the conquest of South-East Asia much...

  6. AHC: A Soviet-Japanese alliance in WW2

    This is a possibility I see rarily discussed. Is there a plausible way to bring such a scenario about (with a PoD after 1933)? Especially so that their alliance remains intact even after the German invasion of the USSR, and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (if it still happens)? As an...

  7. WI: WW2 expands early (and goes in a weird direction)

    I just had an interesting idea when I saw that other thread about Romania apparently offering Poland assistance in September 1939. Here’s what I said about it: As many of you most certainly know, France and Britain actually did consider an attack on the USSR in the early stages of the war, so...

  8. WI: Germany invades France before Poland?

    Is such a scenario plausible? As far as I know Hitler was (correctly) convinced that France and Britain wouldn’t do much to help Poland; apparently he wasn’t even certain that they would declare war at all. But what if he was convinced that the Entente would launch a full scale invasion of...

  9. AHC/WI: An alternate Cold War… between Fascism and Communism only

    Alternate Cold War scenarios are fairly popular, but all the ones I’ve seen deal either with a Cold War between fascism (usually Nazi-dominated Europe) and liberalism (the US and its allies), or with a three-way Cold War between liberalism, fascism and communism. But I don’t think I’ve ever...

  10. The fate of the Balkans if the Ottomans lose their European possessions a century earlier?

    Let‘s say the Ottoman Empire gets dismantled by a Franco-Russian alliance in the early 19th century, or they suffer a major defeat against the Austrians and/or Russians in the late 18th century and are forced to give up all their European territories - it doesn‘t matter how, the point is that...

  11. Would some kind of ‚World War‘ sometime between 1860 and 1870 be possible?

    The 1860s saw a number of major wars between the Great Powers of Europe, from the Franco-Austrian War of 1859 (okay, a year before the 60s, but still) to the Wars of German Unification between Prussia, Denmark, Austria and France, to the American Civil War. Is there a plausible way to...

  12. WI: German Emperor Wilhelm I lives a few years longer?

    One of the more popular AH scenarios regarding 19th century Germany is one where Frederick III lives longer. But what if it is his father, old Wilhelm I, who lives longer instead? He was already very old of course, but another five or six years shouldn‘t be impossible. So lets say he dies in...

  13. WI: Hindenburg dies in February 1933?

    What if the German Reichspräsident, Paul von Hindenburg, suffers a stroke in the wake of the Reichstag fire on 27 February, and dies shortly after? This means Hindenburg is not able to pass the emergency decree the next day, or the infamous Enabling Act of 23 March. In the case of the death of...

  14. Why did Japan‘s population grow so much during the 20th century?

    I‘ve known that Japan experienced rapid population growth over the last 100 years, but having looked up some data, i had no idea just how rapid Japan grew! Japan‘s population grew from 50mio in 1910 to 128mio in 2010. That‘s an increase of more than 250%, with basically no immigration! Such a...

  15. AHC/WI: The fates of Germany and Japan post-WW2 are switched

    The fates of Germany and Japan after WW2 share lots of similarities – both were ruled by brutal regimes, both were were defeated and occupied by their enemies, both were utterly destroyed, only to rebuild afterward and turn into stable democracies and economic powerhouses. But there are some...

  16. Is there a plausible way for Nato to be disbanded at the end of the Cold War?

    IOTL the Warsaw Pact was disbanded, and Soviet troops were recalled from eastern Europe and elsewhere. But Nato continued, and the US maintained its military presence all around the world. Is there any plausible scenario where Nato and Warsaw Pact are disbanded at the same time, and the US...

  17. WI: Western Imperialism in Africa and Asia is more ‚soft‘ and indirect?

    In OTL western countries colonized most of the globe, ruling much of the world‘s population within their empires. Even places they didn‘t conquer outright were usually divided into spheres of influence or had one-sided treaties imposed on them. This was also usually followed by a deep cultural...

  18. Is it possible for a new Christian denomination to attract large parts of Christendom post 1700?

    Similar to Protestantism after the Reformation? Or was it too late at that point for these kinds of large scale religious changes in the West? There is Mormonism, for example, which only came into existence in the 19th century, but it never attracted more than a relatively small minority in...

  19. WI: The February revolution fails narrowly, and the Tsar makes peace with Germany in March/Apr 1917?

    Is something like that possible? Let‘s say the February revolution fails, and Nicholas II retains power by the skin of his teeth, but there is still unrest in the country. Could he then decide to try make peace with the Germans, focusing on his internal enemies to keep the crown, even if it...

  20. Which European countries were the most likely to descend into civil war in the interwar period?

    Other than Spain, of course. Was there ever a chance that it would happen to France, or Germany? Edit: I‘m talking about the period between the two world wars (1919-1939), and only countries that didn‘t experience civil war, of course.
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