Search results

OTL, the Sino-Russian border goes from the Mongolian-Russian-Chinese tripoint along the Argun river, stops at the confluence of the Ussuri river, then runs south along the Ussuri until it reaches the Tumen river. This border was determined by a series of Sino-Russian border agreements throughout...

In OTL, the WAllies were able to push the Germans north of Rome by summer of 1944 and pushed as far north as just south of Bologne by winter of the same year. The challenge is that the Winter Line stays the main battlefront of the Italian theatre until winter of 1944-45, by which time the...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1068950.stm Basically this except much more institutionalized. What if an African empire secures regular trade centuries before Europeans set foot on the New World.

In one of the more bizzare beginnings and conclusions of a war, the small country of Paraguay once declared war on all of its surrounding neighbours: Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. The country was completely decimated in the quick onslaught of foreign armies. The challenge is that Paraguay is...

This is a slightly lazy AHC but hope you'll bear with me. The challenge is to have massive, industrialized warfare in the 1880s, 1900s, 1920s, and 1940s (or roughly in that timeframe) that involves significant power shifts and border changes. The POD is wherever around the 19th century it seems...

the current western United States is geographically dominated the Central Valley, one of the most fertile valleys in the world. OTL it comprises 160,000 sqkm and dominates the state of California. For reference here is a picture of the Central Valley compared to the Japanese Home Islands: With...

With a POD in 1914, and without significantly changing the military course of war, make it so that during the Russian Civil War the Emperor and his troops flee to resettle in Istanbul(perhaps redeclared as Constantinople?) and secure a defensible perimeter against both Turks and Soviets...

The challenge is that, with a POD in 1900, alliances between great powers are already in place that when a Russo-Japanese conflict occurs, major powers are dragged into it. Relevant documents of OTL, before the 1904-1905 conflict: Treaty of London 1839 1839 - Britain guaranteed Belgian...

Either due to the anti-conservative backlash of the Scopes Monkey Trial and/or the Great Depression leading to a widespread resurgence in Christian fundamentalism or other reasons, make US Christian fundamentalists spearhead another crusade where they colonize and occupy Jerusalem and Palestine...

I know Sealion is considered ASB but I never got around to completely understanding why it was so. If anyone could write under 1000 words and give 10 main reasons (strategic, tactical, technical or otherwise) why the operation would fail under almost all circumstances (including changing...

As the title says. POD is 1868 when Japan begins the Meiji Ishin. AHC a non-Japanese power takes Formosa from China.

With a POD in 1900, make Second City's economic/financial power grow even further than its OTL heights and make them a true global city. Screwing NYC or London is not accepted. Possible ideas: High-speed railway becomes developed over highways in the US, leading to Chicago's railway...

With the POD in 1931, if the Empire of Japan focused all their military and diplomatic efforts to capturing and administering as much Chinese territory as possible, instead of going after Southeast Asia and the Pacific as per OTL, can they both topple the KMT government and effectively govern...

With a POD in 1941 (purely a US domestic POD so to not influence the course of the war), make US policies in Japan fail to the extent of the country falling to civil war. WWII/nuclear apocalypse is not accepted

With a POD during WWII, have Japan retain Taiwan while losing Korea after the war. This needs to remain even after the ROC government has evacuated to Taiwan.

I need a POTUS that is both capable and willing to ramp up the US military-industrial complex and anti-Communist aggression, leading to full escalation of an early proxy war such as the Chinese Civil War, Greek Civil War or Korean War into WWIII. POD starts in 1941 but must be strictly limited...

With a POD from after Stalin came to power, change the USSR from a federation of states to one unitary state. (Timeframe of 1930s~1950s) How will this affect things? Will foreign powers find this as another form of aggression? How will the Cold War change?

With a POD in 1939, make the UK submit to peace terms with Nazi Germany and end the European War in the western front - essentially, the operation succeeds because it was diplomatic, not military. Bonus if the peace terms leads to a British civil war, in which the Nazis are "forced" to intervene

I'm thinking of a TL where Taiwan goes full pariah/extremist along Israel/North Korea levels, such as: continuing and supporting anti-PRC terrorism genocide and segregation of Taiwanese Aborigines testing of Nuclear weapons ...into the 2010s. Can this be achieved with a post-1945 POD? (NOTE...

Interested but not knowledgeable enough. Through coup, revolution or otherwise, have one of the Scandinavian states (Sweden/Norway/Finland/Denmark, may include Baltic States if it's eaiser) become Fascist during the Interwar Era and survive WWII. Bonus points if it also survives the Cold War. If...