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  1. 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...

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

    ...UK and Canada had in 1883, in an alternate 1883, one century after their real-world divorce settlement. If, among the multiple choices, there is *no way* from that point in time, the 13 Colonies/pre-USA could have stayed together that close, that long, *do not* vote for it But, if you think...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

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

    ...border, closer than the metropolitan Netherlands is to France, making any concept of Paris or London extending deterrence out to a distant Dutch *colony* less credible and more of a stretch. 5) All West European powers showed preoccupation from July 1936 onward, with the Spanish Civil War...

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

    ...aspect of that concept. Germany, with almost twice the population of France, and the leader in any coalition it is in, not a highly dependent* partner like France, is free, ready, willing and able to stomp on France as soon as it has any "remilitarize the Rhineland" equivalent moment. It...

  9. 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...

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

    ...Three starting in Berlin on the one hand, and not building the wall at all, on the other, it seems to me like the East Germans have a relatively *easy* option to still have their interzonal wall, *and* avoid escalation with the the Western Allies. That is simply to mark the interzonal...

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

  13. 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...

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

    ...Sihanouk to do a complete 180 in his attitude toward the Khmer Rouge, who had killed members of his family previously. The difference in this ATL* is Lon Nol, while still pushing his anti-North Vietnam agenda as far as he can take it, ultimately accepts Sihanouk is an indispensable figure...

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

    ...Trick" and win a "Triple Crown". It is to replicate some of the most basic features of the American Civil War, but in reverse, starting with a *Northern* Secession. So, hurdle #1 Northern secession versus southern - qualifying entries involve the secession of multiple northern states. A...

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

    ...risk, the chances of American intervention, retaliation, and a broader war are too high - we will keep fortifying your defenses. Of course, that *might* not be the case, and Stalin and Kim and Mao might reason America is fearless on the water but frightened on land, so it its puppet should...

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

    ...Mississippi barring New Orleans and Baton Rouge, prior to 1783 and the Spanish takeover from British, the West Florida-East Florida borderline was *not* the Suwanee river, pictured above, but the Apalachicola river, a bit to the west of it, which is also part of Georgia's western border.]...

  18. WI the Truman Administration prevented the politicization of the PoW issue in Korea? War ends summer/fall 1951?

    What if the Truman Administration prevented the politicization of the PoW issue in Korea? Specifically, meaning what if it prevented the emergence of the dispute, especially the public dispute, over only having voluntary PoW repatriation, instead leaving the default assumption and policy...

  19. What if the Japanese overthrew the Vichy French administration in Indochina shortly after occupying it?

    ...the devil they know, they often really do hate the devil they know more, and need to get to know the new devil in person or have people in *their* national group experience the new devil before they start to hate that one too. I imagine many Vietnamese would sign up with the...

  20. AHC: A US Civil War, war of secession, happens NLT 1869-1873, with no annexation of Texas, nor Mex-American War beforehand

    Here is the challenge: Have, in parallel to OTL, the rise to Presidential. House and possibly Senate majority power the rise of a Party (like the OTL Republicans) drawing support from the northern, "free" states only, and none from the south, that panics the southern states, and leads to their...
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