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June 1940: to avoid an unilateral exit of the war by France, the UK proposed a union of both countries which was ultimately refused by France and led to the following armistice with Germany, leaving Britain to stand alone. What if the propose had been accepted? That would have probably kept Paul...

After lurking for so many years around this forum and reading lots of woks on the subject I’ve come to have to opinion that and one of the most important “causality nexus” in the TL of WWII was the “halt order” from the OKW to the panzers approaching Dunkirk on the 24.05.1940. I know it has...

Going back to an old POD I’ve already thought of using to build an alternate Portuguese TL: the siege of Badajoz by Afonso I of Portugal in 1169. In our TL D. Afonso Henriques had gone to rescue Geraldo “o sem pavor” that was surrounding the city. The Portuguese had almost succeeded in...

Quoting Wikipedia: “In the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Arab forces were overwhelming Israeli forces and Prime Minister Golda Meir authorized a nuclear alert and ordered 13 atomic bombs be readied for use by missiles and aircraft. The Israeli Ambassador warned President Nixon of "very serious...

Yes another WWII WI Honestly I don’t recall this specific WI. Basically the idea is that the Germans’ immediately after the fall of France do not engage the British in OTL BOB but instead shift their efforts to knock GB out of the war by engaging them in the NA theatre. This means an AK...

I’ve read uncountable wank TLs dedicated to the US, Spain, England, France, Germany, Russia and so on. But TL wanks dedicated to my home country, Portugal, are rare. There is a great, not complete, pre-1900 TL: “O Renascimento de um Império” by Lusitania but almost no post-1900 Portuguese TLs...

So, this is a historical survey challenge to get some names for a TL idea I’m planning to develop. And the challenge is, for those interested in answering, who was in your personal opinion the greatest historical figure of your country? Please just drop the name, country and a shot summary...

“7th June 1942: Hitler invades Lisbon and Salazar runs away to the Azores. Spring 1942. The Portuguese Consul in Athens is exiled in the island of Malta, after a hectic escape from Greece, following the German invasion in 1941. He has in his possession a secret file which includes, among...

WI instead of the Robentrop-Molotov Pact, Germany secretly negotiates with Poland the return of the territories lost after WWI in the East to the newly created country? In exchange Germany would allow and support the Polish annexation of Lithuania (Poland and some territorial claims on Lithuania...

Following the death of the King Sebastian of Portugal in the Battle of Ksar El Kibir, in 1578, he was succeeded by his great-uncle, Cardinal Henry, who died two years later without legitimate direct successor. Three grandchildren of Manuel I claimed the throne, among them Phillip II of Spain...

On the 22nd June 1941 Germany unleashed Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. I know this as been discussed to the death in this forum, including all its aspects: military strategy and tactics, civil, economical and political sides as well. Nevertheless what I would propose...

What instead of Germany it had been the Soviets to begin the invasion of Poland?

If this specific situation has been discussed in the past, can someone please point me to the respetive thread? Many thanks. On the 24th May 1940 the German, at the advice from General Rundstedt, halted their armored advance into Dunkirk – the terrain around Dunkirk was considered unsuitable...

WI: Herrn Hitler migrates to the US immediately after the end of WWI, during the 1920as becomes a US citizen. Even in a totally different environment his thoughts aren’t all that different and eventually he gets into politics? Can we see a rise of a Nazi/Fascist US regime?

1169 A.D. – In the Iberian Peninsula the Reconquista is in full swing, with the northern Christian kingdoms pressing the southern Muslin Taifas in the direction of the Mediterranean. It was a race, especially between Portugal, Leon and Castile, to obtain as much territory as possible. This...

So WWII has been done and redone to death. However I don’t remember reading any thread regarding a scenario as the one I’ll describe. Together with the deal made with SU (yes, the little known RM Pact) Germany makes a deal with Japan: if the Germans are successful in the Western European war...

“After Germany entered a Tripartite Pact with Japan and Italy, Ribbentrop wrote to Stalin, inviting Molotov to Berlin for negotiations aimed to create a 'continental bloc' of Germany, Italy, Japan and the USSR that would oppose Britain and the USA. Stalin sent Molotov to Berlin to negotiate the...

Don’t know if this has ever been done before. If so, me apologies: what if the USA did join the League of Nations? Let’s say that President Wilson wins the debate against, specially, the opposition of Senator Henry Lodge and the US Congress approves the entrance of the United States to the new...

During the first phase of European expansion overseas the Portuguese settled controlled the major part of the African coast (both the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean coasts) but did not settle heavily like they did in Brazil. Let’s say that following the expulsion of the Jewish communities in...

Does anyone know of any timeline/thread about a scenario in which Japan "goes South" without attacking the US? That is: they go after the colonies of the European colonial powers already in war or under ocupation by Germany (French Indochina, Dutch East Indies and British Far East pocessions)...