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This is a tough question. They were contemporaries who ruled their countries from the late 1800s until 1941 and 1945. Wilhelm, other than the colonies, never fought a single war and left Germany as wealthy as any nation on Earth, with the worlds most educated population, a great military, and...

I can remember reading an argument in the past that absent Romanian entry into the war, the CP could have bought significant amounts of food from them to reduce Turnip Winter, which on top of saving 250,000 casualties and some supplies, was the difference between the CP using Unrestricted...

Well, that’s it. Ten years, 501 episodes. Spongebob was able to surpass Neptune himself and bring Squidward back to Bikini Bottom. It’s kind of remarkable how a series that, like Dragon Ball, started out as a comedic spoof that was supposed to make fun of both Anime as a whole along with...

With a PoD of 1945, how do we get as many Middle Eastern monarchies to survive or get restored? In Yemen, Iran, Afghanistan, Tunisia, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Sudan, and Libya, the Monarchy was deposed at some point. Somalia, Algeria, Turkey, Pakistan, and Israel did not have one, but can any of them...

With a PoD of 1950, how can we have American sports be as popular as the OTL, and not play at the same time? By this, I mean don’t have College Football and the NFL play at the same time of year, or NBA and College Basketball don’t play at the same time of year. We might have the NFL go from...

Latin really re-emerged as the language of the elite in the 20th century. Bodybuilding became one of the hobbies of the elite. What if these were not the case? I know that there is the argument that the elite adopted bodybuilding because as the lower classes nutrition improved they were no...

In the early 1900s, both countries look like they can become the hegemony of large parts of Europe if they defeat the other in a war. Remarkably, the same was still even after they both lost WWI, and they are still the greatest economic (Germany) and military power (Russia) after losing WWII and...

With a PoD of 1900, how can we have intergenerational homes become the norm in the US without making the US poorer? Preferably, where people generally live with their parents until marriage at which point the couple generally live in one of their parents home. Where siblings generally live with...

In the era of Netflix, Amazon, Blu-Ray, DVD, and cord cutting, what has caused this? Is it literally just hipsters? Or were they merely the ones who started it? I know I have seen older people buying them as well. Is it just a nostalgia thing? They were literally out of production a few...

If instead of Hitler, someone like Wilhelm III took power around 1933 (which has been discussed here before), oversaw a gradual recovery from the depression, remilitarized Germany (albeit at a slower rate than Hitler), and crowned himself to end the Weimar Republic, would Germany have been the...

This is a big hypothetical. Let’s say Britain accepts a peace with Germany following the Fall of France. Japan accepts a peace with China that gives Japan more land in 1941, because they want to change their geopolitical strategy towards grabbing Germany’s scraps. FDR is an isolationist in this...

Let’s say the US and South Korea win the Korean War with North Korea fully annexed to the South. How do you see South Korean foreign policy playing out? If they develop and consequently have a 3+ trillion dollar economy nominally (and higher at PPP),do they join the ranks of Great Powers...

In the climax of The Empire Strikes Back, Vader uses the force to show Luke the memory of betraying and killing Luke’s father before the Emperor. Vader unwittingly shows Luke his internal conflict he had when he killed Anakin, setting up both his own redemption in the Finale and the plot of the...

With a PoD of 1900, how can we have Colonial History get proportionately as much weight in schools as Post Independence? For my American history classes, we rarely spent more than a few days on Colonial times, usually spending more time on any given war. It seems strange that 160 years get...

Here is a very unlikely scenario to try and accomplish circumstances where AH can do what it wants. Austria stays on the defensive in 1914 and saves the better part of a million men. Italy still joins the Entente on schedule. Serbia still collapses on schedule. Austria has its best units...

With a PoD of 1800, how can we get a Centralized United States? I know that having a Republic that is composed of the worlds third largest continent and has that much diversity is difficult, but it is hardly impossible. What I have in mind is a Federal government with the authority to issue...

Here is what the thread has in mind. Hitler completely discredited Nazism with his wars, crimes, and defeat. If, no matter how impractical they might sound, Hitler had pursued wars and killings in the name of other ideologies with the same level of success as the OTL, would those ideologies...

This is a broad question I guess. If the US had minimal immigration post WWII, how would regional identities develop? Would regional identity grow stronger over time, or would travel, TV, and internet cause greater assimilation? Would people be more or less likely to identify with their city...

Ignoring the improbability and potential butterflies, let us say that George Washington decides to become King and the Continental Congress grants it in a bloodless affair. This somehow leads to a few states deciding they want their own Kings, even if they are ultimately powerless. The US then...

Let’s say Hitler falls down some stairs and someone more reasonable takes over. He decides that Germany has made gigantic gains everywhere in Europe and now has huge amounts of living space, so the Nazis decide to try and quit while ahead and negotiate separate peaces (probably with the Soviets...