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Hey Guys, Say that, at some point in the late 1800's, the British Empire federalises (or at least the 'White Dominions' do) into a single, relatively loosely united nation. With this federation comes an 'Imperial Free Trade Agreement' (IFTA), which excludes non-colonies. So, what would...

IOTL in the House of Commons vote on the declaration of war on Iraq, both the Labour Party and the Conservative Party voted in favour of war with Iraq. However, what if ITTL IDS ordered his MPs to vote against the war. This change in votes would easily be enough to reject the motion for war...

Hey Guys, Franz Joseph I of Austria had 3 children who survived past infancy, two girls and a boy, now I don't think it's too much of a stretch of the imagination that Rudolf, the son, could be born as a girl, or be a stillborn child etc. So, if that had happened and Franz Joseph I had no...

A 'Peaceful' Mediterranean: What If Italy Had Stayed Neutral? Part One: A Neutral Italy “Despite Mussolini having given a speech in 1939 saying that, if Italy stayed neutral in the war Germany had begun Italy would lose its national dignity; in 1940 he had a huge policy reversal on the war...

Hey Guys, With 'news' (and I use that word very cautiously) that a minority within Egypt wish for the Great Pyramids to be destroyed or covered in wax, I was wondering how this could be achieved historically, post-1945. Is there any opportunity post-WWII for the Egyptians to either fall to...

Hey Guys, In 1789 the Estates-General was famously called for the first time since 1614 in an attempt to have them vote in favour of finance reform (primarily repealing the exemptions the nobility and clergy had from tax). The Third Estate demanded, and was promised, that the Estates would...

Hey Guys, Let's say that in WW2 Spain joins the Axis, the Allies invade Spain and, with the help of a revised Republican rebel force, defeat Franco. As well as the Republicans nationalist rebellions spring up in Catalonia and Basque and declare independent states. So, in post-war Spain...

Hey Guys, IOTL the Morisco Revolt was organised by Ferag ben Ferag and Diego Lopez Ben Abu, these two men were very effective organisers and, according to Wikipedia, they "carefully estimated the feelings of the people of the Alpujarras, where the best stand could be made against the Spanish...

Hey Guys, In my ASB TL 'Tis To Glory We Steer I have Britain being ISOTed to the East Coast of North America, after which France, hoping to take advantage of Britain's literal absence from Europe, goes to war with Britain, as does Spain. The war ends up being a flop and France loses its...

Hey Guys, In a world where Mussolini doesn't join Hitler in the Second World War, say Italy is ceded Eritrea and trade rights in Tunisia, could we see a Yugoslav Civil War in the 1940's? I confess I'm no expert on Yugoslavia, in fact I know next-to-nothing about the nation other than it...

Hey Guys, I'm doing an essay on what the Dutch may've wanted to have achieved from the Dutch Revolt, I've gone on, at length, about the religious reasons of getting religious freedom for the Calvinists etc. However now I'm looking at centralisation of the Low Countries in the Empire and I'm...

IOTL Charles V had the electors of the Empire elect his brother, the future Ferdinand I, to become the King of the Romans in 1531 due to his fear that his own children wouldn't make it to adulthood and thus be unable to become the Emperor. However he was wrong and his eldest son, Philip...

Hey Guys, Let's say that Stalin is incredibly anti-Polish, we're talking as obsessively hateful of the Polish as Hitler was of the Jews. For the sake of this thought experiment let's say Stalin never acts on this vehement, racial hatred until after the Second World War. For the sake of some...

Hey Guys, What If the Polish had lost the Polish-Soviet War? Say they suffer a humiliating defeat at Warsaw rather than the other way round as happened IOTL. What peace would be forced on Poland? Would it be annexed by the Soviets or would they reach a peace in which the Soviets force a...

Hey Guys, Let's say that Mussolini is assassinated in 1938, whoever takes over generally continues his policies though doesn't feel the need to invade Albania and, instead continues the Italian penetration of the Albanian economy. Not only does this new Duce not invade Albania, but he also...

During the Yalta Conference Churchill put the idea of a 'Danubian Confederation' forward in which southern Germany, Austria and Hungary would be united into a single unit. Stalin and Roosevelt didn't care for this as they believed the ensuing nation would be easy prey for Germany later on whilst...

Hey Guys, In 1469 the Danish pawned the Orkney and Shetland islands to Scotland as part of a dowry payment, the agreement was that, once the dowry had been paid in full, the islands would be given back to the Danes. However the Scots, obviously, reneged on this agreement and, despite numerous...

Hey Guys, Bit of a challenge for you all, how could we see the Sudetenland stay a part of Germany after the Second World War? I don't mean a Nazi victory or a stalemate etc. I mean a war in which Germany generally loses the same was as OTL (except with perhaps a few tweaks if necessary)...

Hey Guys, In the Treaty of Versaille Germany and Austria weren't allowed to unite into a Großdeutschland, obviously Hitler did unite Germany and Austria later in 1938 during the time of appeasement, however WI Weimar Germany was allowed to unite with Austria? I'm guessing a plebiscite would...

Hey Guys, What If, in 1830, the Talleyrand Plan was successful? For the sake of argument let's just hand-wave the reasons against it away for this to work, though if you can think of a POD then bring it on. Anyway, how would this affect European politics? Britain suddenly has a vested...