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Okay, this one might be pretty hard, so I'll understand if you don't take it. Regardless, I think it would be interesting to explore. So... Your challenge (should you choose to accept it) is to find a way that some segment of the region normally considered "Polynesia" is able to modernize...

Yes, I know, this is like the third thread on Latin American PoDs I've put up recently, but hear me out... So from what I've been reading about the Shining Path , they were really close to bringing down the government of Peru by the early 90s. But then, in a surprise raid in 1992, the...

Just an idea I had. not sure whether the PoDs necessary would fall into pre-1900 or not, so I just put it here for simplicity's sake: We've discussed before how close places like Argentina, Chile, and Brazil were at the turn of the 20th century from becoming proper First World countries. Is...

What would happen if, for whatever reason, the US didn't notice the nuclear missile stations the Soviets were setting up in Cuba until they were already complete? Would this lead to a replay of OTL's Cuban Missile Crisis? Would they have been seen as a fiat accompli and become simply an angry...

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to get the Ukrainian Free Territory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Territory) to survive the Russian Civil War and last for as long as possible. Bonus points if it survives longer than 20 years.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to get the Ukrainian Free Territory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Territory) to survive the Russian Civil War and last for as long as possible. Bonus points if it survives longer than 20 years. EDIT: Goddammit! Wrong section! Please ignore.

So this challenge has a pretty simple premise: We've all more or less come to a consensus here that contact between Europe and the New World was more or less inevitable. But let's take that to the logical extreme! With a PoD after 1 AD, put off European exploration and their discovery of the...

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find a way to split France into a set of mutually hostile states. The catch? You need to do it with a PoD no earlier than 1800. I await your input. Aaaaaaaaaand GO!

Here is your challenge, brave AH.commer, should you choose to accept it: With a POD no later than January 1, 1920, alter history so that the Twenties still boom, but the Great Depression is avoided, or at the very least is no worse or longer than other previous recession in American history...

Aside from Japan, could any of the other East Asian countries have modernized quickly enough to remain independent from European powers? Perhaps China? Korea? Somewhere in Indochina? Am I grasping at straws here, or was Japan's situation less unique that it appeared?

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is, with a POD no earlier than the 1860 presidential election, have Congress accept some permutation of Senator John J. Crittenden's compromise and stave off the Civil War...for a little while. For a little reference...

Butterfly away the Great Awakenings in the 18th and 19th centuries. How would society in America be affected? Would it affect the anti-slavery movements? Would deism like the Founders espoused become more commonplace?

First of all, for the purposes of this thread, assume that the Mongol conquest of Europe was inevitable. I'm not really concerned with the feasibility of a Mongol conquest (and from what I've read it was pretty much blind luck that saved Europe anyhow), so for these purposes assume that it...