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Premise: The Nazi invasion of France and the Low Countries is so successful, including trapping the BEF before it reaches the coast (1), that the Allied governments (2) are scared into agreeing to an armistice (3) mediated by the Italians (4), which somehow has terms both parties can live with...

Italy pushes harder during the Italo-Turkish War, supporting the existing anti-Ottoman uprising in Arabia and landing in Albania and the northern Aegean Islands. The war continues past the OTL date as the Ottomans refuse the additional Italian demands and are then faced by the Balkan League...

Suppose there is either a different sort of leadership in communist Romania, or a much more authoritarian regime emerges post-revolution (think Vadim-Tudor on steroids) - could we see a situation where ethnic Roma people are stripped of their citizenship and encouraged and/or forced to relocate...

So on my recent trip to Greece, I learned of this massive bronze statue of the goddess Athena sculpted by Phidias and originally placed in front of the Parthenon. Sometime in the 5th century, it was moved to the Hippodrome in Constantinople. During the 4th crusade, it was destroyed by a mob...

It is 1914 and the Race to the Sea has finished. Entente and German forces are now locked into an attritional struggle at Ypres, as per OTL. In Romania, King Carol I is dead as per OTL. Also OTL, on the Eastern Front, Russian forces, despite suffering setbacks against the Germans in East...

Recently re-discovered this two-year old post of mine and decided to make a small gif out of how I remember imagining how things might go. So, how plausible is something like this?

This has been an idea of mine for a very long time, so I figured - why the hell not? First though, a bit of OTL background: In 1913, Bulgaria was getting its ass kicked in the Second Balkan War. Sensing an opportunity, Romania invaded Bulgaria in order to obtain a border region between the...

Say this coup attempt, or maybe a different one under different circumstances post WW2 (feel free to speculate), succeeds and the new communist regime is reasonably stable. What happens to the Portuguese colonies?

The Europeans push the envelope far harder with their demands, one thing leads to another, and by November 1895, to the surprise of many who expected Japan to roll over, talks have degenerated into armed conflict. According to the Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War...

1832 October 11 Japanese rice transport ship Hojunmaru sets sail but is shortly caught in a storm and blown out into the Pacific. The storm breaks the ships mast and rudder, making it drift hopelessly along the currents. 1833 The crew of the Hojunmaru tries to survive on their rice supply and...

[Presenter voice]: In a world where the Battle of the Coral Sea never happened and Saratoga was never torpedoed, one man, Isoroku Yammamoto, seeks out a decisive battle with his foes. And he is determined to dispense with complicated plans, and goes straight for the gut! Starring: Kaga (90)...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Leros#Background POD: Mussolini decides to spend the money on a new fortress in Eritrea instead, so that he may be able to shut down naval traffic through the Bab-El-Mandeb Strait The central piece of the puzzle would be the "Cannone da 381/50 Ansaldo...

Either the codes are not broken in time or FDR simply decides that committing the carriers at that stage is too risky, and the US Fleet is not east of Midway when Yamamoto arrives. Frustrated at the lack of US carriers, the Japanese launch their assault against the island, which fails. They...

Thoughts?

Alexander's impulses get the better of him, and he pursues the fleeing Darius instead of returning to rescue Parmenion. This results in Parmenion's flank being overwhelmed and most of Alexander's army killed or captured. Alexander meanwhile captures Darius, and the Persian King dies, either...

No connection to the book, other the fact that the map looks oddly similar. Anyway, ITTL, there is a relatively strong, relatively unified central government in China in the inter-war period (don't ask me how). This precludes the Japanese from invading haphazardly in mid '37. If this also...

So, we all know how many times the Roman legion got its ass kicked by the Hellenistic phalanx, but, just in case your memory is shoddy, let me remind you: The first ass-woopings came during the Pyrrhic War, where Pyrrhus defeated the Romans in southern Italy twice, at Heraclea and Asculum, then...

Since this got so many likes, I figured it warranted its own thread: So, what kind of effects can we expect from this decision?

The British succeed in their invasion of the River Plate, seizing what would OTL become Argentina and Uruguay. Continued streams of immigrants from all over the western world over the following century eventually lead to an English-speaking majority there. Attempts to take Cordoba however fail...

So, let's give Britain a proper fleet at Singapore without seriously affecting other operations Barnham is not sunk by a lucky U-Boat PoW and Repulse get sent as OTL the 4 Revenge-class BBs get sent as well, with the Italian sabotage at Alexandria foiled and while we're at it, let's throw a...