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What if in a rather strange move more or less on a whim, during the Spanish America War America took Spain’s large, almost uninhabited strip of West Africa today known as Western Sahara? Once America’s stuck with it what might it do? Build a naval base and largely ignore it until WWII? Sell it...

If America took this much of Mexico following the US-Mexican War, perhaps minus Yucatán, what would be the effects?

Before WWI it seems that Britain, France, and Austria-Hungary had low growth. Japan, Germany, and Italy had modest. America and Russia had high growth. In OTL, even after WWI Germany/Italy/Japan remained above Britain/France in TFR. America remained high as well. Russia imploded amidst murders...

What if some border skirmish accidentally happens in early 1810 between the French and the Ottoman Empires, and Napoleon decides to go to war over it now that the War of the Fifth Coalition is over? What would the result be? Would Napoleon likely seize Istanbul in a short period? Would...

France and Russia are the closest thing Britain had to rivals after the Napoleonic Wars, before America and Germany rose. In the OTL, Britain and Russia settled their differences and aligned with a third power (Ottomans) to defeat Russia. What if instead it was Russia and France who worked...

https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/11/health/smallpox-found-nih-alive/ What if a malicious figure discovered these vials, and decided to go on a trip to places around the world he thinks are vulnerable and spread them? Could it be stopped before a massive death total? Could it bring the world economy...

Just to start with the internet’s most reliable source, Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta If we look at things on a relatively abstract level, perhaps even a scenario where the America’s are colonized by humans thousands of years sooner while Old World Civilizations run into...

Hypothetically, the West allows Germany to take Poland and never guaranteed anything to them, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed, and Poland gets divided up between Germany and Russia. In October Hitler decides the West isn’t going to stop him from trying to secure Living Space Eastwards...

In a hypothetical situation where a ship gets swept out to sea and lands in the America’s around the year zero, what animals and plants could they have that would do the natives the most good?

If Japan has whatever reason joined Germany, how would this impact the War? Would Britain declare war on Japan? When Japan gets bogged down, do they still try Pearl Harbor to end sanctions? Can Lend Lease flow properly without Far East port?

At what point did it become unlikely for Britain to beat the US in an all out war, and at what point did it become likely that the US would beat Britain? I’m defining “likely” as more than a 50/50 chance, “unlikely” as as less than 50/50 chance, “beat” as taking territory or forcing reparations...

Lots of different PoD have been done that have resulted in Italy joining the Allies, with Italy usually declaring War over Poland officially, instead of staying neutral and later joining Germany. How big of an impact would it have?

The Taliban offered Bin Laden, but the offer was rejected. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/14/afghanistan.terrorism5 What if Bush accepted the Taliban’s offer and Bin Laden was put to death in a country like Saudi Arabia, while America stayed out of both Iraq and Afghanistan under...

Is it possible to get them to last to the present? Libya gets discussed semi-regularly because the oil makes them a sexy ATL. How about these two comparatively obscure colonies? Italy IIRC had around 80,000 people in Eritrea by 1940, and I don’t recall the Somaliland numbers, but know that some...

Newfoundland and Labrador had almost no population by the late 40s, and were completely broke. The were a cash drain on Britain and had a variety of different ways they could have gone. Some were fine with British rule, some Canada, some America, and some independent. Obviously, they got Canada...

Provided the US took Canada, whether that is during the Revolutionary War or the War of 1812, would the US look for more or less of Mexico? The US would already have a large and relatively secured access to the Pacific here. It would also have more free states, which would change US politics on...

Let’s say that things play out fairly similarly compared to the OTL until late 1931, by which point most of the damage has been done in the US and things have collapsed globally. Then in late 1931 things diverge with the US deciding to leave the Gold Standard sooner, and then avoiding the...

Let’s say Hitler, while pathetically weak at this point, decided to fight. He has some of his men put him in a mounted position most likely to inflict casualties. Hitler basically just has to sit in a chair and pull the trigger on a machine gun while some grunt helps him (is he too weak to do...

With a PoD of 1900, how can we get a city state to annex a normal sized country? Voluntarily or involuntarily.

What if Japan, sometime after taking Manchuria, took stock and realized how difficult beating China could be, and that the Soviet’s, US, and Britain are all next to unbeatable without substantial help. They hesitantly decide that they need to be more patient for now. They still establish close...