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Ok folks, we have all heard the media, it has been 20 years since Nazifascism collapsed. Despite what many thought during the Cold War, it did not end up with America and Nazifascist Europe tossing each other ICBMs across the Atlantic. Thanks to the wisdom of Schmidt (really, the man would...

If, after the Congress of Vienna Prussia and Russia had gotten their way about Poland and Saxony (and much else besides, but that's irrelevant here) and Russia had got Posen, Prussia only keeping West Prussia, is it plausible and in period that the Tsar and the King of Prussia could have set up...

Let's assume that ITTL Russian-supported, Prussian-led unification of Grossdeutchsland and Italian unification occur before than or at same time as Belgian Revolution. Let's also assume that for various reasons the great powers are not willing to come up with nationally-artificial neutral buffer...

This is a PoD that I've proposed earlier in another thread, it was criticized as unlikely, but now I think I've stumbled into a decent way to make it plausible as part of another TL. Background: Quebec and Nova Scotia colonies join the American revolution. As a result, the USA get Canadian...

While puzzling out my latest Ameriwank TL, I realized that early successful Manifest Destiny expansion of the USA across the Americas would have caused a rather different pattern than OTL about economic-political shape of the USA and the number/size/shape of the various US states. PoD is...

Goal: without making it utterly implausible, to make the USA grow as close as possible to resemble 1984’s Oceania in size, incorporating all of North America, South America, and Oceania. My tentative take on a good start to that goal: 1774: due to the influence of George III and a few...

This is a spinoff from my TL "A different WWII". ITTL it is assumed that because of British Empire's total collapse at the hand of the Axis (also including Vichy France as a full partner, and temporarily the USSR as well, before it attacks fascist Europe in reverse Barbarossa) during early...

In my continentalist quest to explore AH paths that may prevent or revert millennium-long political nation-state fragmentation of Europe, I've come to one of the most obvious of all, namely the Roman Empire. We may assume that during the reign of Augustus, political-military divergencies occur...

Given the recent slew of WWI threads, I'm going to make one of my own: What would be the effect if Sweden and Italy ended up on the Central Powers side? Sweden because the Admiral Essen PoD is in effect (rogue commander of Russian Baltic Fleet makes a first strike against Swedish navy on his...

1938: A promishing Soviet official's career is brutally cut short when he becomes the victim of Stalinist purges. His name, which shall remain obscure to all but his family and close friends and collegues, was Georgy Zukhov. [...] August 1939: The undeclared border war between Japan and...

Let's assume a TL where both the Angevin Empire (Britain, Ireland, and France) and the Hohenstaufen HRE (Germany, Italy, Low Countries, Austria, Switzerland, Bohemia-Moravia, and Western Poland) successfully evolve into centralized unitary monarchies by 1300-1400. About the Angevins, Henry II...

In this timeline, Stalin decides to heed mounting warnings about an imminent invasion by Germany and not to risk a defensive war, preferring a pre-emptive attack. On May 15, 1941 he orders the Red Army to attack Poland, Romania, and Finland. Although the Wehrmacht had been massing to the borders...

This TL idea is the combination of two different PoDs, which together expand significantly the boundaries of the continental USA northward and southward. 1) During the negotations between Britain and the Americans at the close of the ARW, there are somewhat less delays and interference caused...

So Hitler dies in 1938, just after the Munich crisis, assassination at a rally. Without Hitler and a designated successor (which Hitler only made in September 1939, Goring), vicious infighting erupts in the Nazi party over who takes control. Hitler's personality is the only thing that kept the...

Since my previous newbie attempt at a Carolingian TL has sinked under a barrage of criticism, I humbly admit my inadequacy to the task, and retort by throwing the challenge to the forum: By which PoDs (as many as necessary, as long as non-ASB), after the birth of Charlemagene, can the...

An AH scenario most dear to my Europeanist heart is when Europe successfully manages to avoid the political fragmentation and emergence of myriad separate national(istic) identities it experienced after the fall of the Roman Empire, which only recently European integration is (oh so agonizingly...

In my knowledge, it is typically assumed that a victorious Fatherland-like Nazi Empire would have have been doomed to fall the same way as the Soviet bloc in the very long term. I wonder, could they have avoided this fate by adopting the same policies that China has (so far) successfully...