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How plausible would it have been to have sizable contingents of the US Army and Marine Corps supporting Chinese forces against the Japanese military on the Chinese front in World War 2? Would such operations have produced a more favourable situation for the KMT in the postwar period?

Park Chung Hee (1917-2017) not being assassinated and continuing to rule as President would be interesting, though I doubt he'd still be in power today.

With a POD of sometime after 1867 and the establishment of the Dual Monarchy, how could you get an Austro-Hungarian colony in North Africa? Seems to me one potential scenario is a more outward looking Austro-Hungary seeking to justify its fairly sizable navy as well as pursue a pan-imperial...

This is why I'm annoyed by people simply condemning Huey Long as a dictator with minimal historic context. This ignores that his authoritarian, populist style emerged in a political context of a de facto one party state where an entrenched oligarchy enforced its dominance through a mixture of...

Not sure where to ask this but this is an odd logistics question that I've seen little explanation of up to now. Given that Pakistan before Bangladeshi independence consisted of two non-continguous areas how did the Pakistani military move between them, especially since it seems they deployed...

With a POD of after 1945 or so, how do you minimize the bloodiness of the Mexican Drug Wars as well as the power and influence of that country's drug cartels? I do prefer more plausible and limited divergences rather than something along the lines of the US suddenly ending the Drug Wars and...

Seems to me the key is for whoever the Dem nominee is to keep support in the North, especially immigrant-heavy urban areas to win key states such as New York. I guess Republicans getting the blame for the Panic of 1893 might be enough to retain urban working-class support for even Bryan. Also...

Great map! I do think a DPRK that managed to take most of the Korean Peninsula would move the capital to Seoul due to its historic connotations and central location. At the very least it would certainly be a separate metropolitan city from Gyonggi Province if Daegu is.

What if Hitler was captured by the Allies during combat in the First World War when he was serving in a Bavarian regiment and remained a prisoner for the duration of the war? Would this make it less likely for him to believe in a "Stab in the Back" myth or at least prevent his involvement in...

I'm guessing its a joke? Nonetheless, I love this scenario. Hopefully we'll see more follow-ups and I can't help but wonder if other parts of the Southern Hemisphere won't also be threatened.

I imagine its politics being closer to certain "semi-colonial" Latin American nations like Argentina, thus making a populist-nationalist movement with authoritarian tendencies similar to Peronism extremely likely. I see it as very likely that such a regime would ally with Germany against the...

Quite an interesting thread here! I find it kind of ironic that Benjamin Butler is pushing hard money policies given he ran as a Greenback candidate IOTL. I know that President Butler is mentioned but is it stated he implemented deflationary policies? I think your US segments could use more...

Jack London's Iron Heel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Heel) has significant parallels to Turner Diaries in being an in-universe autobiography of a "martyr" for the socialist revolution. It is highly probable that London's novel inspired the later work given many white nationalists...

I've been developing a compromise theory that reconciles the two-namely that the "Big Three" of Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia exist but that they are all isolated totalitarian states that feed lies of world power. This theory was piqued by reading about the Japanese novel Battle Royale sometime...

Maybe some large military bases being established there during the Cold War?

Which war? When does it happen?

What is the one FDP constituency in the Rhineland?

Even if Ethiopia somehow backed the Axis, they'd be quickly overrun by British, French, and/or Italian forces and end up as a curious historical footnote at best like the pro-Axis governments of Iraq or Thailand.

Bumped...

1) There's virtually zero chance Goldwater would have won against LBJ though there are scenarios where he could have done somewhat better and 2) while Goldwater's stances on civil rights issues were pretty bad, he *was* a civil libertarian and would not have instituted a de facto police state