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The challenge is to have the allies decide that it's simply too dangerous to have Germany live on in any form ie no East or West Germany. Germany has to be partitioned by Britain, France, Holland, Belgium, Poland and the USSR. I'm assuming the US would have no interest in permanently...

What POD is needed to get a White victory in the Russian civil war and as Churchill put it, "strangle the infant Bolshevism in the cradle." Personally I think the allies would be much more likely to be fully committed to supporting the Whites if WW1 had been less bloody. That would mean there...

I often wonder why that isn't the case. It was after all the 1st truly global war. There were battles in Europe, North America, Africa and Asia so why isn't it called a World War?

With a POD of the 1921 Imperial Conference, assume that all Imperial PMs fully support renewing the treaty and give little weight to American concerns. The treaty is then renewed periodically. In 1941, with Britain allied to Japan, there are no invasions of Malaya, Singaore or Hong Kong but...

I've been reading recently about the 1974 wargame at Sandhurst. In the intial invasion on 22 September 1940, the Germans were able to land 80,000 men in England and only lost 25% of their barges. The Home Fleet did not attack the barges for fear of air attack. The Second landing had barge losses...

Of late I've been reading a lot about China's resource deals in Africa. To put it simply, China agrees gets natural resources from African countries and in return builds infrastructure such as dams, roads, hospitals etc. China generally refers to this type of arrangement as a win win agreement...

What if instead of just Alsace Lorraine, the Prussians ask for all of Northern France which would include Paris and the Channel Ports. In this scenario the French would not be asked to pay reparations and would simply cede part of Metropolitan France to Prussia.

If the Russians are slow to mobilize as the Germans expect and so don't invade East Prussia in 1914 then Germany won't withdraw forces from the western front to form the 9th army. Germany thusly has more forces so there is no miracle on the Marne and as a result Paris falls and France...

- Wiki What if the King responded favourably to the Olive Branch petition and opened negotiations with the 13 coloneis so as to avert war? OTL, the petition was undermined by the writings of people like Adams who viewed war as inevitable so assume Adams keeps his thoughts to himself and that...

I see the fall of Gibraltar and the Med being turned into an Axis lake as the principal outcomes. However for Hitler, he now has even more European coastline to defend so he's going to spread out his Western armies even more thinly. Would Overlord take place in Iberia instead of France?

I'd like to put Nazi ideology to one side and focus on the military options available to Germany after the Fall of France. The main objective is to get Britain to bow out. In my mind there are several ways this can be done. 1) Implement Operation Felix and seize Gibraltar. In doing so, get...

With a POD of an Ottoman capture of Vienna in 1683, have the Ottomans spread as far into Europe as you deem possible by 1900. The Battle of 1683 is seen by many historians as a decisive moment in the Ottoman wars in Europe from which they never recovered. So I think it makes for an especially...

Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf about Germany's two front war in WW1 and how that had contributed to its defeat. He was very much aware of the danger of a 2 front war. What if he decides that he has to force Britain to the negotiating table before launching Barbarossa and the best way to do so is to...

One of the reasons sealion was ASB was the miniscule state of the Kriegsmarine in comparison to the Royal Navy. I'm curious about how the addition of the Regia Marina would change Sealion's odds of success. Assuming Franco gives the Wehrmacht military access through Spain to Gibraltar in...

A war in the pacific in the 1940s. Britain is not at war in Europe but Japan is involved in China.

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All the odds were stacked against the Germans. They lacked naval or air superiority and only had barges to transport their troops across the channel. So what on earth happened?

Why in WW1 was Germany able to keep the combined might of the British Empire and France at bay whilst destroying Russia and propping up Austria Hungary? Why is is that in world war two Germany was able to keep almost the whole world at bay even though it was outnumbered and outproduced by...

What if the going to the people movement succeeds in Russia and the narodniki take over in a successful revolution?

How much luftwaffe bombardment is too much?