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  1. Japan does not attack Pearl Harbor or the Philippines

    We're seven pages in, so I'm not reading them all, but page 1 is mostly a fantasy scenario. Here's how it really goes: Japan attacks Dutch/UK holdings, steaming past the Philippines in doing so. The US (especially Roosevelt) goes ape, but can't openly declare war; so don't. The US sends lots...
  2. Curtis LeMay as president, what would it look like?

    "Oh, Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed; but I do say no more than 10 to 20 million killed..... uhhh. depending on the breaks!"
  3. AHC: Have Japan as the First Major Axis Member to Surrender Unconditionally

    Yes. Everyone's gone, "Oh, only needs to be a few months earlier. That's easily doable." and forgot about poor old Italy. Prior to 8th September 1943 is going to be hard, with a POD after 7th December 1941 (or perhaps, prior to Italy's surrender). You'd have to have the Allies adopt a 'Japan...
  4. Tunisia joins Free France 1940

    We're most French colonies simply ran by a French administrator de facto, even if not de jure? If the monarch of Tunisa didn't join 'Vichy' then I think they'd fall out of a window pretty fast. If the governor didn't, then we might have an interesting point, but Tunisia would be surrounded by...
  5. Iain Duncan Smith fights 2005 GE

    Keeping it as one line, What if Iain Duncan Smith is not deposed in November 2003 and is allowed to fight (and almost certainly lose) in May 2005's General Election? Background: Hague had fought and heavily lost the 2001 General Election, making a net gain of just one seat (from 165 to 166). I...
  6. WW2: What could the British do if the USSR was defeated and the US remained neutral?

    Willkie was at LEAST as interventionalist as FDR, possibly more so. Just saying "Willkie wins" doesn't get you what you want. In fact, a Willkie win won't. Turning to the scenario, as ever, its the usual two sentences and no background and OP has run off. How and when is the Soviet Union...
  7. Scottish Independence a history 1918 to 2022

    Goodness, this was hard work. Although some spelling can be overlooked, I really don't like it when you don't understand the country you're supposed to be writing about. Scotland was (and still is) an integral part of the United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Ireland) in 1913 and moves towards...
  8. UK German peace in 1940

    Hmmmmm... Assuming the UK Prime Minister is Churchill then, as you say, no 'offer' was made so Churchill will counter with: Military withdrawal from all occupied territory, and restoration of European borders as at 31st October 1937. Reduction in size of armed forces, Versailles treaty back in...
  9. Would the USSR have survived if they lost WW2?

    I like it, though I think the Soviet Union will get 1938 borders in the west of the country and be told to like it. Truman is the President in this TL and he'll not allow them an inch. In his mind giving them THAT much is probably too much. In the east, I could see them losing the Kurile...
  10. WI: Stalin throws the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact out the window and declares war on Germany

    Saying it twice doesn't mean it'll happen. Germany cannot beat Poland and the Soviet Union in the east whilst holding off France and the UK in the west. Germany has lost in the above situation. There only 'hope' (non-existant) is to defeat Poland then find some natural barrier in the east...
  11. Queen exercises her reserve powers?

    It isn't what you want, but the failings of the UK electoral system do allow such a thing to happen. If there were a lot of parties in a GE, and support broadly evenly split, then it might be possible for a lunatic party to form a government by winning just the needed 326 seats. So a left...
  12. Doenitz Gets His Way

    Yes, because there won't be a Battle of the Atlantic as Germany will be defeated by France in early 1941; and Poland will be far closer than it was OTL. (We've done this to death before, and as a member of ten years I'm surprised you've not seen it)
  13. Italy enters WW2 in '41.

    Exactly when? If in October 1940 (as OTL) then it will be forced into the Axis anyway as Greece is going to ask for, and get British support (and join the Allies). If you mean they attack Greece on 22nd June 1941, just after joining the Axis, Hitler is going to go even more apeshit than he did...
  14. Minimal goal Barbarossa

    August 1945, same as all the other TLs that try to have Germany do better post 1943 (albeit this is a 1941 POD).
  15. No Hitler & the butterflies

    People HAVE done this before, and quite some time back: https://johnnypez9.blogspot.com/2009/07/drowned-baby-timeline.html (My main problem with DBTL is that its both clearly a bit of a Poland-wank, and pretty much gives up any pretence of being a serious timeline when it has Enoch Powell being...
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