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Lets say that the July Putsch fails in every objective, including the asassination of Engelbert Dolphuss. With Dolphuss alive, what does he do? What does Mussolini do? It seems like even a war with Austria would be result in Germany getting curbstomped. Does Italy invade? Who would they replace...

Since the Search Function Gremlins are at it again, I'll proceed with the assumption that this is an original idea. How could the cold war last longer? How could it end sooner? Could NATO have intervened in Hungary without starting WWIII? Could a US that backed down on the Cuban Missile Crisis...

How do you make this map true? Use any POD you want, most likely before 1900. Bonus points if the Americas are discovered later than OTL

Many people say that the Partition of India was one of the greatest mistakes of the twentieth century. For example, what idiot decided to split Bengal in half? As a result, the mainstay of the local economy, the Jute industry, was left split in two, as all the Jute mills in bengal were now in...

Though his domestic policy was wracked by problems both his own fault and not, many people still admire his foreign policy. Though its future is unknown due to events in egypt as of late, the Camp David Accords are commonly thought to be a masterstroke of foreingn policy. His removal of nucllear...

Inspired by other threads about the nation's capital. During the process of selecting a national capital, the town of Columbia, Pennsylvania was proposed initially. It even renamed itself Columbia in expectation that the capital would be moved there, having been previously been known as Wright's...

Lets suppose Mussolini stayed out of WWII. Is this even possible? What would be the result? The Afrika Korps are screwed for sure, though maybe an invasion of Turkey to get to the Suez and Baku oilfields (you know Hitler will want both at the same time) would be in order. An invasion of Vichy...

How might England stay catholic while the Hugenots take power in France? Bonus points if England still aquires Scotland (Perhaps Scotland and Ireland switch places in British Isles politics.) How would this affect the Dutch Revolt? Colonization? The US Revolution? The French Revolution? Might...

Literally balkanized. A multiethnic nation with major tensions between ethinic groups. Both a muslim and catholic prescence, maybe the protestants thrown in. Maybe they're thrown into an arbitrary union that then colapses a la Yugoslavia for good measure, then the major ethnic groups have a...

After the murder of iranian diplomats in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazari_Sharifhttp://, Iran and the Taliban almost went to war. The UN Security Council moderated an aggreement, but what would have happened if they failed. The Iranians had given aid to the Northern Alliance, but would this...

I’m a new user and have been doing research for my Global Conflicts class and have to do a project: compare a modern conflict with one that happened in the past. My idea had been this: compare the War of Unification in 1877 with the irredentist claims of Pashtunistan and the Indian Federation...