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The Thirty Years' War was certainly not the longest of Europe's wars, both the Hundred Years' War and the Eighty Years' War were longer than it was. However the Thirty Years' War at least appeared interminably long and dominated by an increasingly irresolvable stalemate moreso than those later...

1) The Battle of Mukden-Arguably the battle that began de-colonization and cut one of the major tenets of White Supremacy down to size. One of the largest battles before the world wars, and a definitive victory for the Imperial Japanese Army. In terms of a global sense, definitely qualifies for...

1) Battle of Gaxia-This is the battle where the Han Empire confirmed that the unification of China under the Qin was to be the deciding aspect of civilization in East Asia. With this battle the 2,000 years of subsequent Chinese unity under the Dynasties and the later PRC reunification were...

As we all know the Second World War in Europe ended in 1944 when the last, stubborn, suicidal Nazi resistance culminated with the fall of the Reichstag to of all units in the field a joint Indian Army and Spahi unit. This outcome was preordained by the failure of the Nazi invasion in 1940, when...

In the 1941 battles General Nikolai Vatutin launched one of the first Soviet strategic victories at Stoltsy, when he encircled von Manstein's armored forces. At the time Manstein was a subordinate general quite some time away from his later brilliance, and he *was* in actual fact encircled...

The CSA had at McLemore's Cove one of the great all-time strategic opportunities of the Civil War to inflict major damage on their enemy and secure initiative where in the light of the future reinforcement by James Longstreet and company which was inevitable regardless such a victory would have...

The problem I find in almost all the Vietnam threads where there's a POD on how the USA "wins" the war is that they invariably almost always assume Saigon has to require foreign aid directly fighting for it to win. At that point in what's a glorified civil war Saigon is dead, because its...

After Gallipoli Churchill was sent off to the Western Front for a bit IOTL to vegetate and to be kept well away from the center of power. Suppose that a shell aimed at the right/wrong place at the right/wrong time happens to bump off the descendant of Lord Malborough before he's anything but...

I was reading about the Mel Brooks comedy that is the career of the destroyer USS William D. Porter. Evidently this ship fired a live torpedo at the USS Iowa when FDR was onboard and failed to notify the other ships in its convoy until it was nearly too late. Suppose that it had continued to...

In the 1980s there was a proposal to do Godzilla in 3D in an American film that's basically Godzilla: This Time it's Gorgo. Assuming that this film gets made, how would fandom react to a movie that like the Japanese version includes a lot of Cold War emphasis (but the Soviet is a bad guy in the...

For the purposes of the AHC, the answer to any questions of the how is "Handwavium" as I'm not sure what precisely in Soviet internal politics has to change and I'd yield to more knowledgeable people on that regard. The challenge is that in this case the Soviets smash the entirety of Army Group...

The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have a Mexico post-1900 with a pre-1900 POD wind up controlling the entire expanse of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, preferably, but at the very least all of Central America. Including a Mexican-ruled Southwest/US West (though this, if it...

During the reign of Humayun, the Mughal Empire almost turned into a one-man show, due to the success of Sher Khan/Sher Shah Suri. The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have Humayun's attempt to recreate the Mughal Empire fail, with the result that the Suris become the unifying...

The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have the Kingdom of Saxony be the unifying force of a unified German state that must include both Catholic and Protestant German states. Whether this is a Klein- Mittel- or Grossdeutschland is up to you.

I've finished reading a book by Richard B. Frank on the Guadalcanal Campaign, and evidently earlier in the campaign's history there were appreciable opportunities for Japan to capitalize on chances to actually win the battle here. Assuming that one of them happens (and as I'm not entirely versed...

One of the forgotten WWI battles is the Battle of the Vistula River, where over 1 million Russians walloped a little over 400,000 Germans, but an accidental discovery by the Germans of Russian plans limited the actual fighting of this particular engagement. Supposing that this discovery does not...

Contemporary Russia is pretty much the direct-line descendant of the Grand Principality of Moscow, which had as its first major rival (kind of the Etruscans to its Rome) the Grand Principality of Tver. The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have instead of Muscovy unifying Russia...

This is one of the older PODs in the book, but it's one that actually has some potential to be explored in terms of real-world results. Assuming that Charles Martel loses the Battle of Poitiers by one or two of his liege men falling at just the wrong moment, leading to his death in a botched...

Primarily because if I engaged in necromancy (necromancy of a scale extending to 2008: https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=95960) on that scale I think the clash of my own style would be too jarring and because my knowledge of Jewish history has been fleshed out more by...

As there was an older thread about this from 2 years ago, but this is to avoid randomly bumping up a thread. The question I pose here is why did the German Empire of World War I successfully defeat Russia in 1914-8 as opposed to the Soviet curbstomp of the Nazis in 1941-5, or the invasions of...