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The challenge is to see to a Lord Protector, or some equivalent, launch a self-coup to bring himself to power - only to be toppled quite quickly. Must be done in a modern context, bonus points if in Europe.

Or if the Soviet Union became less totalitarian. On multiple levels "Stalin bolshevism" has often been quoted for the rise of fascism and why it was left alone for such a long time - due to hope that it'd help contain Stalinism. Many Nazi German soldiers and other soldiers who joined them truly...

Just thought it was an interesting concept. What if wars that involved modern military equipment in Asia decided to employ pigeons for communication in times of desperate measures? Would it be feasible? Would it be seen as "farcical copying from the West"? Or could it be enough to change the...

With a POD in 1890, make the US join WWI by the end of 1914. Bonus if the UK remains neutral. EDIT: FRENCH. They have to be on the FRENCH side.

I'm bored and have nothing to do better than to make worst case scenarios. POD is fall of Goguryeo, but the more recent the POD the more bonus points you get. AHC is Korea becomes completely assimilated to China by the present day, as a core province or Tibet/Xinjiang-like entity - ultimately...

(note: originally wrote "PODs for Korean history", but thought both PODs can have implications beyond Korea and can be better for discussion as Asian history.) POD 1: WI Lee Bong-chang killed Emperor Hirohito Lee Bong-chang was a Korean who, while young, was adopted to a Japanese family. After...

Operation Mars is an interesting part of WWII history and definitely an outlier in how we understand the course of the Eastern Front. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mars Was its OTL failure fated to happen or could it be fixed by a POD within the time period of the operation? How...

With a POD in 1900, make a second- or third-generation Italian-American become president. Bonus if before 1950.

OTL the declaration of war was made by the US 1 day after Japan attacked Pearl Harbour. What If there isn't a Pearl Harbour attack though? Does the rest(i.e. invasion of the Philippines, etc) become seen as bad as an attack on the US mainland? (Assume the rest of the Japanese invasion plan...

NOTE: This is centered on logistical, military, technological matters, which it does touch on some political aspects. Please understand my lack of knowledge on the former topics and I'll be glad if you could share any general knowledge upon the topics at hand. This thread is a continuum of the...

Kibbutz is a term used for collective farming communities in Israel. While they never were a dominant form of agricultural or industrial production, they remained a significant minority throughout and always represented the "Zionist Utopia" that Israel sought to become; furthermore many have...

It's a terrible idea, I'm sure of it, but hell, I'm gonna ask about it. The wadden sea is a flatland that covers the entire German coast that's open to the North Sea. From there lies Bremen, Hamburg, and further in Hannover and such. The AHC is to have the WAllies attempt and succeed in an...

It's the Philippines bandwagon and I'm jumping in. During the Napoleonic Wars Spain was invaded by Napoleon in what was called the Peninsular War. During this time there was a level of chaos in its vast array of colonies, from Cuba to Latin America to...the Philippines. By the end of the...

In our OTL history, we see that from the first years of European discovery of the American continent the Spanish begin dominating the process of colonisation, resulting in a massive empire that stretched from Florida to California to Patagonia. On the contrary, Portugal controlled a relatively...

I was reading on PIE origin hypotheses and all of them seem to indicate that they were largely originated from the steppes near the Caspian. And as we know the Indo-European lanuage family is spread out from Britain to Bangladesh. Is there a possibility for the PIE to be spread from Central...

Not quite sure how, but I thought it was an interesting idea that was less prominent. What if the British Empire turned fascist during the Interwar Era?

Apparently putting guns atop trains has quite a history. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/28gr18/what_is_the_point_of_armored_trains/ The OP speaks of them as if they could have been decisive factors in both defensive and offensive operations, and since I don't think I've...

The question is whether or not a POD after the end of WWI(and the Versailles Peace Treaty) can stop a general world war, ether similar to OTL or not, resulting in another brutal bloodshed across Europe or elsewhere.

Say there's a mountainous country somewhere, slightly industrialised, that has minimal transport infrastructure - maybe one or two railway lines connecting population centres, but not sufficiently developed. With limited budget, what's the best line of transport to invest in?

Either during a summit, or during a peace conference, in whole or in part, make two high-ranking leaders of different countries speak in Latin due to either a wish to not have translators or a lack of one. Here's a good photograph for inspiration: