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  1. AH Challenge: Another Juche State

    As it says in the title; with a POD after the end of the Korean War, make another country adopt North Korean Juche as its official state ideology. I suspect that the best candidate would be an African country.

  2. 1914: Russia holds in Poland/Lithuania and throws the kitchen sink at Austria-Hungary

    Here's a question for all you WWI buffs. What if in 1914, Russian war plans did not revolve around an offensive to cut off the German armies in East Prussia, but instead positioning only holding forces along the German border sufficient to contain a German offensive while mounting a large-scale...

  3. AH Challenge: Earliest possible European discovery of the Americas

    The challenge is to have the existence and some knowledge of the geography of some of the warmer than subarctic parts of the American continents widely known in Europe as early as possible. Note that this could be by any means - for example if the Chinese discover it and the Europeans then...

  4. Testing for plausibility/thoughts on effects: More Machiavellian Guangxu Emperor; TL?

    A More Machiavellian Guangxu Emperor Resident China experts! What do you think of this little scenario of mine? Does it make some amount of sense? What happens after? (I'm a bit loath to make it into a full TL just yet, without gauging plausibility). June 11, 1898 Emperor Guangxu surveyed...

  5. KAL 007 Reversed

    So lets say the KAL 007 pilots don't fall asleep and don't fly over the Soviet Union. Let's also say that for (insert reason here) the US accidentally shoots down an Aeroflot jet on the same day. What happens?

  6. DBWI: Archduke Ferdinand assassinated in 1914

    In 1914, Austrian police arrested a group of Servian terrorists in Sarajevo, and to their horror found out that they had been planning to assassinate Archduke (later Emperor) Ferdinand when he visited the city in June. Not only that, but they were found to have links to Servian military...

  7. Holy Roman Emperor Otto III survives

    In reality, the capable and strongly Romanophile Holy Roman Emperor Otto III (son of the Byzantine princess Theopanu) made it his mission to make the Holy Roman Empire live up to his name. He controlled the papacy by installing his cousin as Pope Gregory V, then his brilliant advisor Gerbert...

  8. Asking Otto/Byzzie guys: When did the Ottoman population first exceed the Byzantine?

    Exactly what it says in the title. When would you estimate the population of the lands ruled by the Osmanli family first exceed that of the Palaiologos family? Going by the figures reported by Wikipedia (I know!) for the Byzantine population in 1282 (c. 5 mil) and the Ottoman population in...

  9. Alternate History Challenge: Tory-Labour coalition post-Thatcher

    Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to adjust British politics some time after Margaret Thatcher's resignation as Prime Minister (Nov 28, 1990) such that a hung parliament results in a coalition between the Tories and Labour (and possibly other parties, though it must include...

  10. Presidential Elections from Alternate Worlds

    Blue is for Republicans and red is for Democrats because I made them on that US Election Atlas site. I assumed that the states in which a candidate got the highest share of the vote but did not win were the most likely to swing their way, and that third party candidates always took votes...

  11. AH challenge: Pakistan recovers Bangladesh

    Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is for (West) Pakistan to recover sovereignty over East Pakistan/Bangladesh, after the 1971 war, preferably without the use of nuclear weapons.

  12. Oh my! I seem to have entered an alternate universe . . .

    OOC: Yes, another lame rip-off thread. Hey everyone - I need your help. I wake up in this very strange place that seems to both be very much like Boston, but not really very much like it at all. I've heard about people who suddenly lose years of memory - could that have happened to me? As far...

  13. States which were destroyed at the height of their power.

    There was a discussion of CF.net about ducal Burgundy surviving, which got me thinking about other countries that ceased to exist, either through wars inheritance, or revolution, just after the point when they reached the peak of their peacetime geopolitical power. For example, the Soviet Union...

  14. Napoleonic Partition of the Hapsburg Empire

    A sequel to my previous thread, inspired by certain discussions people have recently had about a Napoleonic partition of Austria. How would this look? Here's my proposal: Upper Austria annexed to Bavaria, remainder of Austria plus Slovenia reorganized into a "Duchy of Vienna" and placed under...

  15. Alternate Presidential Speeches

    A thread for these. Set the scene, the give the speech! November 7, 1967: The occupants of the Oval Office were in a hushed silence, huddled around a small television screen, specially wheeled in for the occasion. They were joined by hundreds of millions all around the world. The...

  16. DBWI: Harshest Treaty of Vienna Possible

    As we all know, the Great Powers' War of 1914-1915 ended on rather harsh terms for France, leading to an even greater revanchist sentiment (exacerbated by the Germans "unfair" treatment of them compared with Russia, on whom the only terms were slight reparations and the return of Kars to the...

  17. Plausibility Check - Britain declares independence from America

    Consider the following scenario: ARW comes to a negotiated end, the terms of which include the American colonies getting proportional representation in the British Parliament. The population of British America exceeds that of Great Britain by the mid-19th century, and the British Parliament...

  18. When did the Roman Empire become Byzantine?

    Historians and members of this site often refer to the late Roman Empire in the east as the "Byzantine Empire." However, the division between the Empire of antiquity and its medieval "successor" is unclear. At what point would you consider the [Eastern] Roman Empire to have become more...

  19. DBWI: The Fall of the Berlin Wall!

    I just turned on the news, and demonstrators in East Berlin have been tearing down the wall that has separated the two halves of the city for 28 years. After the end of the regimes in the Nobles' Monarchy of Polonia and the Nobles' Monarchy of Hungaria, could the end of the Holy Roman Autocratic...

  20. Napoleonic Partition of the Ottoman Empire

    Lets say that Napoleon successfully invades the Ottoman Empire for whatever reason. What I'm interested in is what the final peace deal would look like. Here's what I think possible peace deals might look like - feel free to tell me if I'm wrong. 1. Limited peace (i.e. Austria, Prussia)...
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