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Let’s say the French 5th Army and BEF get crushed and captured or destroyed in August 1914. Austria launches a more decisive attack on Serbia as the war begins and Serbia is defeated quickly. Russia still has its initial success against Austria; this time however Russia avoids a disaster...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_El_Reno_tornado What if this tornado directly hit Oklahoma City instead of narrowly missing? What would the death toll, number of injuries, and financial cost be? And more broadly, what if any metropolis gets hit by a mile+ wide tornado? How does it do?

So, the scenario is that Austria wins at Monte Grappa. Following that, the Central Powers take Venice and capture a number of Italian troops. In this scenario, Italy quickly agrees to terms and signs a separate peace with the Central Powers. So by the Spring of 1918, Russia and Italy are out...

I’m not sure what the war would be about. It’s my understanding that Russia and Japan were burying the hatchet. Something unresolved from the OTL war could butterfly away the OTL 1914 militaries. Maybe they have a border skirmish by mistake that spirals out of control, a crisis flares up in...

Let’s assume the following happens -WWI begins -Italy, Greece, Romania, and the Ottoman Empire stay neutral. -Serbia is defeated as OTL, with Bulgaria still joining the CP -The war in the East is similar to OTL -Turnip Winter is mitigated by Italy/Romania/OE providing neutral trade...

Before the French Revolution only half the French population spoke French. Germany and Italy did not speak standardized homogeneous languages either, and had lots of strong local identities. Spain had and has minority language groups . The UK has England/Scotland/Wales/Ireland. The Balkans...

We have had quite a few threads along these lines lately. It’s generally agreed that Italy did not perform well in WWI. Partially because of geography, partially because of lack of industrial base, and partially because of poor leadership. If we accept the premise that Italy gets into WWI when...

Here is the scenario. 1:Italy accepts French concessions to stay neutral in 1940 before Fall of France 2: Italy stays neutral during Fall of France. 3: France decides not to surrender with Italian neutrality secured. 4: Italy stays out of Balkans. 5: Germany invades USSR just a bit earlier...

Is it possible for sports culture in at least one major sport (NFL, NBA, MLB) to be significantly more honorable than the OTL? I’m imagining where celebrations are not widely done and looked down upon by other players, where players smack talk would never include vulgarity or someone’s race, a...

Let’s say the PoD is someone convincing the Kaiser that unrestricted submarine warfare would be a mistake and Willy forces his military to not pursue the strategy in 1917. No Zimmerman Telegram is sent either. This results in America staying out of the war. With America out, the Entente run out...

France in the OTL failed to get much of any Christianization of North Africa beyond the European settlers who moved there. Attempting to do so would create friction with the locals and the France had a fairly secular government. Henri of Artois was a devout Catholic who believed in Europe...

The Great War was turned from at most a regional conflict into a general conflict following France giving Russia the infamous Blank Check to support Serbia. The war as we know it shaped the modern world, causing the Russian Revolution, the collapse of Italy in late 1917 (months after American...

This would be out of character for Wilson. But what if at some point after American entry into the war, Wilson came to the conclusion that Communism in Russia along with German aggression may need some sort of large power that can check them post war and decides to either never issue his full...

Absent WWI, what change in the balance of power would you expect to happen globally by the time OTL WWII began in 1939? France was going through a huge demographic decline. Britain had the second lowest rate of population growth. Russia and America had rapid growth. Austria and Russia had...

Let’s say Poland accepts one of Germany’s alliance offers but things otherwise play out the same up through Germany taking the rest of Czechoslovakia (with Poland’s assistance) in 1939. Germany and Poland launch a surprise attack sometime in mid-late 1939. Who wins this war?

PoD: A compromise on the flag is reached, and Henri of Artois is made King in 1871. Artois was devoutly religious and I have read he believed that Islam needed to be pushed out of the Mediterranean. Let’s say in 1877, with Russia going to war with the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary...

With a PoD of 1934, how can we get Hitler to kill Kaiser Wilhelm II? That they didn’t like each other wasn’t much of a secret. Hitler tended to hate Monarchs and blamed Willy for Germany’s defeat in WWI, while Hitler did many things the Kaiser did not approve of. Churchill offered the Kaiser...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_famine_of_1921–22 https://news.stanford.edu/pr/2011/pr-famine-040411.html https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Job-Forgotten-America-Russia/dp/1509882898 What if something happened that caused the US to choose not to send relief? Or if Lenin thought it would...

Lets say AH does marginally better, Russia still collapses on time, the Communist are believed to be negotiating in bad faith and have Brest-Litovsk gets enforced on them, AH and Germany knock Italy out in 1917, and Germany and AH take Paris in 1918. The CPs settle the question on Ukraine and...

This is maybe a big challenge as it requires several things. -WWII happens similarly to the OTL otherwise -Brazil Joins Axis -Brazil has a similar initial outcome to the Japanese opening attacks as they annihilate everyone around them in a way that almost seems ASB, overrunning massive...