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  1. WI: Oxford kills Albert and Victoria?

    What if, and I know its a stretch, Edward Oxford had managed to kill both Prince Albert and Queen Victoria in 1840? None of her children would have been born, (Victoria was born in November of 1840, the attempt took place in June) and since her predecessor had no heirs, I think it would pass to...
  2. WW2 breaks out in March of 1939?

    What if, the Romanian War Scare, combined with the annexation the Memelland, puts Chamberlain and France on edge. German movements near the French border set off an alert and on March 23rd, when Hungary invades Slovakia, French and German soldiers have a firing incident and things roll out of...
  3. What was Marcus Garvey's destination?

    I know that Garvey had massive success with his Back to Africa movement, but does anyone know where he wanted to go? Liberia? Ethiopia? Sierra Leone?
  4. AHC: Rif Victory in 1926?

    Basically the challenge is to have the Republic of the Rif survive the war and win its independence.
  5. A Confederate Navy after independence?

    Now just going off the idea of the CSA winning its independence, use whatever cliche you want, how would the Navy be able to develop?
  6. WI: An independent Azores after 1975?

    After the Carnation Revolution there was a movement to gain independence for the Azores, what if it had been successful?
  7. AHC: New England on the Don?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_(medieval) So basically according to this, English colonials founded a colony on the Don, or at least near it. Whether or not this is true is up to debate, but the point of this thread, is to have the nation survive separate from any other nation...
  8. DBWI: Would the United States have intervened in a war for the Falklands?

    Little known historical fact, in April of 1982, Argentina attacked the British arctic island of South Georgia. The Argentines apparently planned to take the island, but were defeated by the dispatched British ship from the Falklands. Apparently, the Argentines were edging to go war over the...
  9. Yelstin dosen't hesitate in 1995?

    What if, during the Norwegian Rocket Incident, Yelstin doesn't hesitate to activate the cheget and responds to the threat with force? With the Russian nuclear weaponry as it was in 1995, how badly would the world be effected? And who would be hit?
  10. Italian Civil War?

    Just after Italy unified there were some legitimate concerns over Garibaldi splitting the Kingdom between the Royalist North and the Republican South, but the death of Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour pretty much ended the possibility. So Im asking, what if Benso lived? Could Italy have gone into...
  11. What if Communism had fallen in 1989 in China?

    Basically, I would also like an explanation of how the PRC could fall by 1990 at the most, but what Im really interested in what would happen to the PRC after the fall of the regime.
  12. Could Bardas Skleros have taken the throne?

    So the question is, could Skleros have succeeded in his attempts to claim the throne of Byzantium? If he had what would be the long lasting effects of the establishment of the Skleros Dyansty?
  13. WI: The German Empire survives the loss in the Great War?

    Following the defeat in WW1, the German Imperial government was taken down after the Generals pulled their support as a result of the string of rebellions, they were unseated from power and the Weimar Republic was established. My question is, how can we have the House of Hohenzollern stay in...
  14. WI: Sidonio Pais lives until 1947?

    Basically, Pais is not assassinated and lives up until 1947. How do you think Portugal would be altered by a longer living Pais?
  15. WI: An Earlier ABA-NBA Merger?

    So basically I was watching Semi-Pro, and decided to look into the OTL merger. Apparently the leagues almost merged in 1970, but were held back by an anti-monopoly suit by the NBA Players association. So Im just gonna make a little set up of what the league would look like if they had merged for...
  16. AHC: Russians capture Berlin in 1915

    Your challenge should you accept it, is, using any POD after the start of the Great War, to allow the Russian Imperial Army to capture Berlin at any time in 1915.
  17. Worst possible result for Germany Post WW2?

    Well basically the idea is to have Germany be as weakened as possible following WW2. The only thing I could think of would involve the French annexation of the Saarland and the Ruhr (ala the Monnet Plan) and the Dutch Annexation of German territory (ala the Baaker-Schut Plan).
  18. AHC: Make this happen!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Ukraine Now looking at the Green Ukraine, Im am positively excited as all hell. The concept of an ethnic Ukrainian state based in the Russian Far East is just cool as shit. Anyway you can make this happen is acceptable.
  19. Newfoundland joins with the United States?

    What if Newfoundland had entered into an economic union with the United States, as an independent protectorate? How would life on Newfoundland have been altered? An just for the fun of the question, what if the West Indies Federation had become Canada's newest province?
  20. AHC: Stop the Russian Revolution from happening

    With any POD after 1900, stop the Russian Revolution from occurring or at least stall it until after WW1.
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