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Okay, so it is obviously ASB, but it happened in a terribly unrealistic PC game I was playing. Given AH.com's love for both the Hapsburgs and the Byzantines, I was wondering if someone could get creative and make it happen. In the game, between 1789 and 1830, Austria conquered all of the...

What if instead of forbidding Presidents from serving more than two terms, it simply forbid them from serving more than two consecutive terms? I don't think that it is totally ASB, since former Presidents have in the past tried to seek a non-consecutive third term (Teddy Roosevelt and US Grant)...

With a POD after May 8, 1945 create an independent nation consisting of the modern day nations of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Presumably this will be done by engineering an alternate break-up of the Soviet Union, but if you can get creative and do this in another way, that is fine. Bonus...

I read a thread about Operational Plan Three recently, which is what brought this to my mind. In it, somebody mentioned that the Germans really wanted The Philippines and were angry that the Americans got it first. This piqued my interest, since I have a light quarter for homework coming up, and...

I don't know much about the politics of the UK, but I was just wondering if such a thing would be possible. You've got the SNP, Sinn Fein, and Plaid Cymru who all advocate greater autonomy or outright independence for their respective regions. I was just wondering if various groups in Scottland...

My map making skills are somewhere between bad and nonexistent, so I was wondering if someone with better skills could do me this favor. I don't want anything fancy, just the borders of Europe from the Treaty of Campo Formio on this base map. Anyway, thank you in advance to anyone who is willing...

Technically it could happen. A US state is allowed to set up any form of government that it wants so long as it is "a Republican Form of Government" (Article 4, Section 4, Clause 1 of the US Constitution). In OTL, these governments have all been virtually the same: a governor with a bicameral...

According to John Wayne's Wikipedia page and this article, Stalin ordered his assassination, but then Kruschev rescinded the order after Stalin's death. So let's say that Kruschev does not rescind the order, or Stalin lives longer and sees the plot through. John Wayne is assassinated by Soviet...

You challenge, should you choose to accept it is to replace the US President list for the last 50 years with the US Vice President list of the same time period. Note that I removed the periods when the office of the Vice President was vacant, and just had the next guy take over a little early...

At the Yalta Conference, Roosevelt proposed splitting Germany into 5 nations (plus Austria regaining independence for a total of 6). So what would have been the political impact if it had actually been divided that way? Which countries would have been communist and which free after the war? I...

I know that this will probably require a POD way back in history before England really became a major player on the world stage, but whatever. My challenge to you is this: Create a unified state that includes Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland (or as a bonus, all of Ireland) while leaving...

Sorry if I make any huge blundering mistakes with this, the Napoleonic Wars aren't exactly my strongest point. I've been trying to research more about them for a TL I'm planning. My POD is in the late 1770s, and the main focus of the TL is North America. I'm just now trying to figure out what to...

So who are you voting for in this years Prussian General Election? This will be the first time in a while that the election will not be focused almost completely on foreign policy now that Latvia and Holland have been dealt with. I'm planning on voting for one of the conservative parties...

Clearly this would require a very early POD, and is probably ASB. Nevertheless, I issue this challenge: Have Switzerland unify most of Germany the way that Prussia did in real life. Obviously they don't have to absorb all of the Germanic states, just most of them the way Prussia did in OTL. What...

My Grandpa just had surgery, and when he woke up he was drugged on morphine. When we turned on the TV, President Obama was giving a speech of some kind and Grandpa asked us who it was. The doctors said that we should expect confusion, so we explained that that was Barack Obama, the 44th...

This might be ASB, but what if Canada went to war with Spain over the Turbot War? Would the rest of the EU get behind Spain? How would the UK react to their former colony getting into a war without them? What would the US do?

President Dewey ran for President in 1944 and lost to FDR. Of course he then beat Truman in 1948, and became one of the most popular Presidents in American history, winning re-election in a historic 49-state landslide. So what would the world have been like if Dewey had managed to upset FDR in...

As we all know, Franklin Delano Roosevelt shattered the previous tradition that Presidents only run for two terms. Since then, Presidents have been virtually unlimited in how many terms they are allowed to run for. However as fate would have it, no President has ever finished his fourth term...

I've seen threads where Alexander lives longer and turns his eyes west, but I can't remember ever seeing anyone talking about what would happen if he lived longer and was determined to continue east. So let's say that Alexander the Great lives to the ripe old age of 70. That would mean he lives...

IC: Like the title says, what would have happened if the Balkans had iberianized and the Iberian peninsula had remained relatively unified (in say two or three nations)? How would this happen in the first place, and what would the affect on history be? I'm not even sure what a POD would be for...