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What if, instead of deciding to fight the people who removed their hated dictator and essentially gave them the power, there is no Shia insurgency in Iraq? How would that influence things?

What would change in WW I?

I was reading the Wikipedia for the Afgan-Soviet war and this passage struck me as interesting.

So I read Kitchener had planned an attack on Alexandretta, in Syria, near old Antioch, to split the Ottoman Empire in two and capture its central rail road hub. However, Churchill convinced him to go along with the Gallipoli plan. What if Kitchener stuck to his plan and the Allies did this...

What it says on the title. Is this only possible if the Ukrainian People's Republic survives? If so, would the two integrate into one nation or stay seperate? Seeing as the Ukrainian People's Republic's focus was on the Russians, how could the West Ukrainians defeat the Poles? Would the Poles...

More specifically, the Scramble of Africa was driven forth by nationalism and I was wondering whether it could've also created nationalism and loyalty in places where it was somewhat weak. I was wondering whether an Austrian-Hungarian involvement could've lead to more Austrian-Hungarian...

So I read Voltaire's Candide recently, and in one of the chapters he travels to a militant Jesuit kingdom in Paraguay that's fighting a war with Spain, with its capital in Asunción.. Any way this is remotely possible to be made a reality?

So, the Netherlands IOTL retreated due to increasing insurgency, international condemnation and threatening to stop Marshall Plan aid to the Netherlands. The Dutch had won though, capturing the Indonesian leaders and lots of territory. Besides that, half of the Marshall Plan aid was spent on the...

Would any of you know whether there's a Bukharin TL somewhere here, where he manages to take complete power in the USSR? I used google, but alas, couldn't find anything.

Doesn't need to be communist. Any ideas?

How could this have happened? No specific timeframe, can be from when the Chinese cross the Yalu to the UN forces pushing the Chinese back from the 38th parallel to Manchuria. What effect would this have on America's foreign policy, China's foreign policy and the internal politics of both...

History in itself was pretty wankish for the Habsburgs. They ruled most of Europe at one point and even had an emperor in Mexico! Alas, however, their fortunes faded and their long rule of Austria was finally overthrown. Probably the most influential and important house in the history of Europe...

Is there any way a series of events could lead to the mainstream use of limited nuclear warfare in conventional wars against countries without nuclear weapons? I was thinking MacArthur nuking China, but would that really make it acceptable?

As the title says, have as many African countries stay independant during the Great Scramble of Africa, like Ethiopia IOTL.

What the OP says. Would the Romans not have a lack of recruits anymore with provincials still joining for citizenship? Would the lack of revenue be more devastating in the long run than the lack of recruits?

No constant usurpers, no civil wars, no murdering emperors over being disappointed over their pay.. ensure the Roman Army starts behaving like a military subject to the government instead of a kingmaker. No undoing the Marian reforms.

No Tetrarchy. No civil wars, no excessive military (Wikipedia estimates that 1 in 15 men served in the military), but keeping the autocratic and centralized reforms of Diocletian. What happens? Does Galerius succeed him? Would there be far greater religious strive in the Roman Empire with the...

Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria was popular with his people. He could've tried to reclaim the throne after his father was forced to abdicate. Frederick Augustus III of Saxony was well-beloved by his subjects. William II of Württemberg was considered popular. The last two abdicated after...

So, the Soviets were poised to overrun Poland under the leadership of Tukhachevsky, but the Poles cracked the Soviet communication system and turned them miraculously back at the Battle of Warsaw, thus forcing the Soviets to abandon their expansionist plans. I read that Lenin was planning on...

So, as the Marathas began to challenge the supremacy of the Mughals, there was a big war that lasted 27 years between the Marathas and Aurangzeb the Mughal Emperor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_27_years (worst Wikipedia article ever) What would've happened if Aurangzeb had managed to...