Not the Turtledove version (but it's been a long time since I read those so if I repeat any of his TL points it's not my intention).
Probably no battle of Sharpsburg/Antietam as McClellan does not know where and in what strength Lee is.
Lincoln finally forces McClellan to move after Lee when...
Suppose a Southern military staff officer/administrator realizes the eventual effects the disparity in manpower and resources on their chances for victory and has the connections and force of personality to get the leadership to comprehend these facts. This leads to a radical change in Southern...
If the end comes as a White Peace after a massive loss of life, the cultural and civic cracks which manifested in Germany and AH during the war, and those that existed in OE from before the war, would lead to almost no territory exchanged or demanded. Everyone involved would have had so much to...
One of Otto von Bismark's tenets in European diplomacy was not to be on the 'small' side of any grouping of the five great powers (Germany, AH, France, Britain and Russia). If you make Russia neutral that leaves four powers. OTL, AH and Germany allied in 1879 with various iterations of the...
The French would not have gone to war with Germany again (1870) without the alliance with Russia. Even with British support the manpower numbers favored Germany to such an extent that France very likely gets crushed and loses more territory and/or colonies in the aftermath. France counted on...
of Douglas MacArthur and his older brother who died of appendicitis in 1923. If Douglas died in 1923 and his brother had lived would Douglas leave a positive legacy based on his WW1 service, still be a controversial figure or just a footnote in US history books?
POD could be Kaiser Wilhelm II never reading Mahan's book or von Tirpitz, and his ability to get what the Kaiser wanted pushed through the Reichstag, having other interests or not being born at all.
Prior to the JU 87 being adopted, if Udet had listened more closely to his flight breifing for a flight in the HE 118 (competitor to the JU 87) he would have flown the aircraft within its specified limits not causing a crash which cast the HE 118 in a very negative light in Luftwaffe circles...