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This comes from a discussion in one of my history classes yesterday. According to the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, each nation had to assist the other if two or more nations declared war on them. The alliance was set up this way so that the UK and Japan wouldn't get dragged into each other's foreign...

The only reason that I am asking is because it happened in one of my HoI2 games. Basically, the Western Allies had taken the Southern chunks of Scandanavia, while the Soviets had taken the Northern parts. So when D-Day came, the Allies chose to launch their attack from Sweden into Denmark and...

While doing some research for another thread, I found this. So how could this Alliance have remained in place? What would be the effect of Russia taking Germany's side in WW1?

This is a two part question. Please excuse any mistakes I make as I am not an expert on 19th century Germany. 1. How could Bismark have remained in control of Germany? From what I know, he held most of the political power in the German Empire under the reign of Wilhelm I and Frederick III, but...

At first I was going to put this in the ASB forum, but I put it here just in case someone could figure out how to do it without ASBs. My idea is that a reformer (Martin Luther or a Luther-analog) ends up as Pope. I'm thinking that maybe Martin Luther and the early protestant reformers work for...

In most TLs (including OTL) the US is far superior to Canada economically and militarily. I have seen a few TLs where this is reversed (although they are usually ASB, or include a large chunk of the US in "Canada"). My challenge to you is, with a POD after the British North America Acts of 1867...

Alright, this is partially inspired by the "One Century" thread in the ASB forum. In that thread, Mexico was taken over by Nazi-analogs (called "Penlems" in that TL). They were racist against whites and hated Americans specifically. My question is this: Since the US had a history of interfering...

Alright, I was just thinking that despite the fact that the Kennedy family is the most successful political family in the Democratic Pary, and the Bush family is the most successful political family in the Republican Party, the two families have never (as far as I know) ran against each other on...

So I've seen Ameriwanks, Britwanks, Canadawanks, and pretty much every other type of wank. But I have yet to see an Australia-wank. Has anyone ever written one? I was just wondering what the best POD would be for an (at least semi-realistic) Australia-wank.

Okay, a quick challenge for baseball fans. We all know that the Northern League was integrated in 1937. This gave that league a competitive advantage over the whites-only Southern League for roughly 31 years before the Southern League finally integrated in 1968. This lead to the North dominating...

Soccer is by far the most popular sport in the world, but has enjoyed very little of that popularity in the US. Meanwhile, America's interest is split between many popular sports (Football, Baseball, Basketball, NASCAR, etc.), none of which are very popular outside North America. So my challenge...

I'm writing an outline for a timeline (which I may eventually start posting) and I need some help. Due to an earlier POD, France is unable to sell Louisiana to the US. My question is: What is Napoleon's next move? His main motivations for selling, as I understand it, was because he had abandoned...

This is one of the areas of history that I'm kind of weak on, so I've got a few questions. As the title says, why didn't the Austro-Prussian or Franco-Prussian wars erupt into world wars? It seems like everytime there is a war in Europe, all of the great powers get involved (Napoleonic Wars...

Alright, I'm working on a TL and I'm kind of stuck due to my lack of knowledge on European politics during WWI. In my TL, WWI persists a few extra years as an extremely bloody stalemate, with neither side gaining any ground, as a result of the US not entering the war. What I'm stuck on is all of...

He got the Democratic nomination three times (1896, 1900, and 1908), but he lost all three. While none of his elections were that close, I would only consider one of them a verifiable "land-slide." So, like the title says, how can WJB become president? Bonus points if you can get him to win in...

In 1906, Woodrow Wilson suffered a minor stroke. It caused some vision impairment, but nothing major. Well, what if the stroke was bigger and he died or became a vegetable? I'm thinking of writing a TL on this, but I want to gauge interest first. There's no point in writing a TL that no one...

In 2004, Barack Obama was running for the Senate against Jack Ryan. Surprisingly enough in heavily Democratic Illinois, the polls were pretty close. Following a scandal however, Ryan dropped out, leaving the Republican party grasping for a candidate. The Republicans reportedly tried to recruit...

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but there's lots of cool maps on this sight and I don't know how to make them. How do I edit maps?