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Let's say the Norwegians do indeed pull it off, sending one of the destroyers they managed to evacuate from back home (maybe the PoD is that it doesn't suffer the damage that required it to undergo repairs). If the US being uninterested or unwilling to intervene, will Norway get to keep Greenland?

This one's quick & easy, though probably not all that interesting: Weimar Germany somehow finds the funds and political capital to build 3 more Deutschland-class ships, up to their assigned limit of 6, before Hitler comes to power; minimal changes otherwise. What kind of effects, if any, might...

TL/DR: This whole post may be a bit rambling. Basically, my point is that focusing the German navy on commerce raiding and battles in the North Atlantic is sub-optimal, and a navy focused more on naval ops in the Baltic and North Sea may have made more sense What was the point of the...

Welcome to what I hope will become an interesting series of threads regarding various naval aspects of ww2. To start off, let's focus on the famous pocket battleships. Al lot of the discussion I've seen so far was about what the Germans could have built instead. However, this isn't about that -...

In 1920, the last remaining White Russian forces in the western part of the former Russian Empire were evacuated from Crimea after their last line of defense was breached in the narrow Perekop Isthmus. Known as "Wrangel's Fleet" after its commander, this force consisted of 2 battleships, 2...

So suppose there's a breakdown in communications, and they pull the trigger, killing Winston and most of those inside. For arguments sake, let's assume the Soviet envoy had not yet arrived inside the hotel when the explosion goes off. What next?

Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_occupation_of_the_Faroe_Islands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Iceland 1. How? Both places were basically undefended; Iceland had 60 policemen - therefore, even U-Boats filled with infantry and disembarking their men either close to...

Something I've always wondered... Basically, the US decides, early enough in the conflict, that the best way to win is to cut off the flow of supplies, and that the only way to do that is to be physically present, as bombing won't cut it. Therefor, the Royal Laotian Gov't is coerced into...

" The brutal seizure of our embassy and personnel, done with the full compliance of the Iranian security forces, is an act of war. However, I'm willing to offer the Iranian leader Khomenei and Prime Minister Bazargan the benefit of the doubt, that these people used the chaos of the situation on...

I really don't know what's needed politically to get to this point. Treat it as a fun little thought exercise. Assuming such a configuration does indeed happen in 1914 (Britain, Japan & Portugal vs Germany, France, Russia, Italy & various minor European countries bullied into joining them), who...

Admittedly, this is mostly based on the rule of cool, but... Is there a way for the Graeco-Roman and Persian civilizations to end up with these approximate borders around the XI-XII centuries, with a POD after the death of Augustus, and keep them this way long-term? Could such a balance of...

ITTL, Tunisia is secured during Op. Torch, perhaps by increased Vichy cooperation, meaning the flaws in the US Army are not exposed. Also, the Axis is spared the loss of ~360k men, 3k aircraft, 1k guns and ~450 tanks (minus whatever made up the original Panzerarmee Afrika that retreated into...

(green - Russian Empire; orange - puppet states; blue - allies) There is no Crimean War ITTL, probably because there's a different tsar, maybe one who's keener on modernizing and not pushing his luck. Instead, the Christian minorities in the Ottoman Empire are offered land in the east if...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_SR_uprising The anti-bolshevik Left S.R. uprising in Moscow, or something similar to it, succeeds, and Moscow and Petrograd become the centers of two competing left-wing power structures. (or we switch it up and the Bolsheviks end up in charge of Moscow and...

Once fighting between Austrians and Hungarians really gets going and everyone else is busy with revolutions, the Tsar decides that now is the time to occupy Galicia, and maybe also (bits of) Slovakia. Afterwards, he throws his support behind whichever power looks like losing (in this case, the...

Inspired by the other thread, which was about ww2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_Deutschland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_to_the_Sea https://uboat.net/wwi/types/shipyards.html Let's say it's late September 1914 when Falkenhayn meets the right people and comes to...

- there is no WW2 in Europe. - Japan still gets bogged down in China, and an all-out Soviet-Japanese war develops later, that sees the Japanese lose Manchuria, Korea and southern Sakhalin to the Soviets. - the KMT wins complete control over China and in response, the Soviets annex occupied...

April 1st - Rashid Ali takes power in Iraq via a coup. Arrests of Pro-British politicians and citizens begins April 6th - Air Vice-Marshall H.G. Smart's request for reinforcements to Iraq is denied. - Winston Churchill: "Libya counts first, withdrawal of troops from Greece second. Tobruk...

18th Century goes slightly differently, including - a conflict with the USA following the Oregon Crisis - more competition over whaling that sees the Russian Far East annexed - the incorporation of Hawai'i - a British Panama Canal as well as the consolidation of most British territories in the...

Here's a random thought I had. What if Stalin decided it was in the Motherland's interest to allow the Germans in the Soviet occupation zone to emigrate westward, and then brought in ethnic Russians and other 'reliable' people to fill in the void, shipping off whatever German population was...