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If Japan could completely eliminate all US forces and capture Hawaii, and later bomb and destroy the Panama Canal, then it could fare better, but it would eventually be defeated.

1904 with the Russo Japanese war. France and Britain were allied with Russia and Japan respectively, and you'd probably have all of Europe joining in the fight in order to reap as many benefits as possible. WW1 should have been a war limited to Austria-Hungary and Serbia, instead a long network...

Operation Barbarossa that's why. Stalin was really friggin worried that the Japanese would invade Siberia after Barbarossa.

So before Japan attacked the United States there was a fierce debate between the Army and the Navy on whether to attack the United States and expand into the European dominated South (Navy supported) or the Soviet Union and the sparsely populated by mineral rich coastal north (Army supported)...

French dominate Maine (near Quebec) and Louisianna (where French was common) and you have two French states. Increase the number of Cubans and Puerto Ricans in Florida, and bring in more Mexicans to Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, and Spanish becomes a bigger language. Bring in a ton of...

Italy suffered from overpopulation. What would have happened if Italy managed to relocate enough Italians (I'd guess some 3 to 5 million) across the empire to keep the majority of it. Italy keeps: Italian Somaliland, Eritrea, Libya Italy loses: Tentsin, Ethiopia, Dodecanese, and the border...

So is there any way that Zoroastrianism, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Sufi Islam, and Buddhism could have become the dominant religions in the Non-Arabian portion of the Abbasid caliphate after the sacking of Baghdad by the mongol Empire?

They could never keep control of China entirely. At best it could keep what it had before the war, take control of a few ports, peninsulas, and Islands, and carve out a very nice sphere of influence. It also could keep Manchuria and support an independent Tibet and East Turkestan Islamic...

it's called the European union.

What if China, Afghanistan, and Romania were to have joined the central powers? The Sino-German cooperation had been signed in 1911. Germany had proposed a German-American-Chinese entente in 1907, but it failed due to how obviously stupid it was. Germany also gave a 6 million German Goldmark...

Sorry, to clarify I meant the land that made up the British Raj (India, Pakistan, Maldives, Sri Lanka, and Burma) remaining unified independent from Britain as a communist state.

So is there any way that the British Raj could have held together as a single state? Supposedly as a full blown communist nation, although with its own distinct Indian brand of the ideology?

Let's suppose that on January 1st 1956 Sudan's control was ceded entirely to Egypt by the British in exchange for the Sinai and Suez. What sort of butterflies would result from this?

Constantinople was only just a little over half Turkish. The rest was Greek, Jewish, and Armenia. Also I point out that the Turks are expelled from the surrounding countries: Greece, Armenia, and Kurdistan. I admit that Wilsonian Armenia is a bit of a stretch, but leaving Armenia alone could be...

Stupid me, I meant to write Italy. Whoops.