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In your opinion, if Adolf Hitler had not been shot by Maurice Bavaud in November 9, 1938, would have the Second Great War still occurred ? Would have the sorry event chain that led to the Euro-Soviet general war been averted (succession struggle and army coup in Germany, the early 1940s...

Let's assume that a non-Nazi or NINO (Nazi In Name Only) Germany arises in the interwar period, and a WWII gets fought between the USSR and the alliance of Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, with the USA providing generous support to the European bloc but staying neutral. Austria and the...

One scenario which I find quite interesting and which saw some recent discussion sees the partecipation of Austria in the Franco-Prussian War. This inevitably makes it expand in a Prussia-Italy-Russia vs. France-Austria general war (Russia does so because of existing secret Russo-Prussian...

Let's assume that the so-called Curse of Tippecanoe, the pattern where from 1840 to 1960 each US President who won an election in a year ending in zero died in office, continues to present day. This means that Presidents elected in 1980, 2000, and 2010, meet an early demise. For Ronald...

This is yet another of those threads where I'm fishing for ideas for a TL of mine, but expect and hope the topic may be of sufficient general interest to warrant a separate discussion. Let's assume the pace of technological development somehow gets accelerated by a generation in comparison to...

Note: this is actually yet another brainstorming thread for my own TL's development, but I am confident the issue keeps enough interest for a general discussion. Now, let's assume that Greater Germany and Italy unify more or less simultaneously, sometime between 1815 and 1848. Let's also...

Let's assume that ITTL Vichy France joins the Axis after Mers-el-Kabir, and there is no Free France, because De Gaulle dies during the German invasion of France. The Allies come to regard and treat Vichy France just like Fascist Italy. Of course, this means no French UNSC permaseat or...

In the 1980s the Reagan Administration fostered the takeover of the GOP, and later generational hegemony in the US political system, by the combo of radical neoliberlism and the religious right. Although such a rise had manifold deeper sociopolitical causes to happen, it may be hypothesized that...

Let's assume that at the Congress of Vienna, the great powers are more land-greedy and wish to ensure less political fragmentation in Western Europe than OTL (as better protection against France). They ditch the idea of restoring as much of the pre-Napoleonic status quo as possible, and just go...

Hereby I propose a variant of the excellent, award-winning "Dominion of Southern America" TL by Glen: Let's assume (PoD 1) that Britain performs slightly better in the closing phase of the French and Indian War and at the peace table, so it gets Florida and Cuba in 1763. Let's also assume...

Some changes in the Italian High Command during the War of 1866 (PoD 1) lead to Italian narrow victories in the battles of Custoza and Lissa. In the peace treaty, Austria cedes directly to Italy Veneto, western Friuli, and Trentino. Prussia and Italy are pleased with the outcome of the war, and...

Let's assume that ITTL the Roman Empire suffers no collapse and expands early on to conquer Mesopotamia, all of Germania, Cimbria, Arabia, Nubia, Caledonia, Hibernia, (through the means discussed here, here, here, and here), up to the Vistula-Dniester and Zagros borders, and bonds Persia into...

As you may or may not have noticed and care to follow, I've started an Axis victory TL and a central topic of its development where I may need some reasoned advice and educated opinion, no matter how dark and gritty the matter, is the demographic issues of a Lebensraum that is expanded to...

Sometime ago, when I made an Axis victory ISOT, I was prompted to go and make a full TL of it. Although Nazi victory TL are a dime a dozen, the most unoriginal subject of the whole AH genre ever, and rather more dystopic (and controversial) than I'd like to write about, I felt driven to answer...

While there is a ton of historical info on how the nazifascists planned to rule Eurasia, and it is quite clear on how its was going to be if Stalin had triumphed (Pan-European Warsaw Pact/Comecon), it is somewhat less clear how Europe was going to be set up if we use the alternative natural PoD...

Let's assume that things turned out rather better for Eurofederalism, and EU integration progressed somewhat more than OTL to a quasi-federal level in recent decades, so that by 2010, fiscal, foreign policy, and military integration has been achieved, at least as a Eurozone-like enhanced...

Your AH task, should you decide to meet it, is to devise a way to keep plural voting (the practice of allowing some persons to vote multiple times) the standard in the voting systems of modern democracy, much like "one person one vote" is IOTL. In the 19th century wealth and education...

Let's suppose that the early Church rejects the doctrine of eternal Hell, say because Origen and his later followers defeat their adversaries, and embraces the one that eventually demons and the damned shall be redeemed. Much like Buddhists and modern Universalists, early Christians come to...

In the case that Canada joined the USA in the ARW and Mexico was annexed after the MAW, and Cuba and the Caribbean sometime in the 19th century, and America has a consistent committment to infrastructural development since the beginning, how do you think that infrastructural development of North...

In the ever-popular sick-fun AH pastime of making 9/11 even worse than it was (e.g. see this recent thread), I like to raise the issue of a 9/11 expanded to "Old Europe", because the scenario of making Europe as PO and mad for revenge as the USA has interesting geopolitical and strategic...