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From what I've read, the embarassment the Red Army suffered in trying to defeat Finland (yes they won, but it took too long) led to reforms within the Red Army that probably aided in their ultimate victory in WWII. Now if there was no Winter War, then presumably there would be no reforms. How...

What would Finland look like as a Soviet Republic? I'm not asking if it was possible, just what it would look like. Would it be merged with the Karelia ASSR? And how would it effect the whole Cold War balance of power? How would Sweden react?

If the Montana class battleships were built during the 1940s, what would have been their ultimate fate? Would the navy have kept and modernized them while scrapping the Iowa class ships instead? Or would it keep both classes of ships? And when would be the last time the Montana would have saw...

I've been reworking some old ideas for a surviving Songhai Empire... I) Rise The death of Emperor Askia Daoud in 1582 left the Songhai Empire weak. Upon his death, the empire plunged into a civil war as Daoud’s three sons struggled for the throne. Between 1582 and 1599, three Emperors...

Another one of those ideas that pops into my head while working. Suppose NASA had an even bigger budget in the 1960s and poured it into the moon program. They go as far as to have long-term lunar equipment designed and built duing the 1960s. By the time Apollo is finished, Moonlab (instead of...

There was a war in Korea between the Koreas. There was war in South Vietnam (and later took to the North). Is there any reason that an insurrection could not have hapened in West Germany? Something supported by East Germany (without the DDR army actually being involved in the fighting... Soviets...

What would the effect on the world be if the United States (I'm not interested in the details of how or why, just that it did) was established as a Constitutional Monarchy? Would newly independent states follow suit and declare their own kings? At the risk of sounding arrogant, the nations of...

How would the USA reacted if East Germany decided to immitate North Vietnam and force a unification of Germany. I'm not interested in the political impossibilities or the ASB-ness or any of that. I'm interested in how such a war would play out. How good was NATO hardware in the mid-70s...

How early could a railroad across the Andes be built? I know a transcontinental railroad would not have the same obsticle it had in North America, not with ships being able to steam so far up the Amazon, but would the Andes be that much harder to bridge than the Rockies? Would Brazil (let's...

What is the furthest that Chile could reasonably expand? I can see it having all of the Land of Fire, but what about more of Patagonia? Could it claim more Pacific Islands than just Rapanui? What about claiming the Falklands, and having them and Britain fight a war in the 1980s? They did a lot...

An idea that popped in my head last night, so I wrote this up to go with it. The British are Coming Lieutenant Commander Edward Fitzgerald countered the steel silhouettes steams across the calm water of Lake Huron. Three battleships—probably two of them were battlecruisers—three cruisers...

Not quite alternate history, but time travelling does have the potential... Has anyone else heard of a series of six books known as Robots in Time? It was written back in the early-to-mid nineties by a fellow named William Wu and was placed in Asimov's robot world. The premise is basically a...

What would the impact of New Amsterdam staying Dutch (I'm not asking if it's possible, only opinions on its possible impact) on the American colonies. Would the Eleven Colonies be able to think like one, or would the geographical gap between New England and the rest divide it into the three...

Let's say one of the early Mormon leaders had a dream where the Angel. or Jesus, or even their God for that matter, shows him an image of a tropical paradise and tells him to lead his people there. Where would be a good place? From the Settler Colony thread, I gather Formosa might be good, but...

Tackling the whole of civilization along the Volga is too big a project for the moment. My idea for Volgastan is based on a PoD where Greek settlers go further up the Don and cross over to the Volga. In the Volgan Delta, a Greco-Scytherian civilization develops. What would the cities be called...

Had the Russian better established themselves in the Northern Pacific better, such as stronger in Alaska, and maybe in Kauai, could they maintain an island empire? More over, what would become of Japan if the Russian expanded into the Pacific in the early 19th Century? Would they be the ones to...

All this talk I've been doing about Hawaii and the Pacific made me get out my Saturn and start to play PTO II again. Am I the only one here who has ever played it? I imagine the youngins probably never heard of it (I am playing it on the Sega Saturn after all). When I play, I play as both...

I've read that quite a few of islands in the Pacific were visited by Americans throughout the 19th Century, such as the Bonin Islands and Marcus Island. There were also expeditions against Korea, Taiwan and Sumatra by one American ship or another. Is there anything concrete that could...

Ok, the Samoan Islands were divided between the Americans and the Germans. St. Martin (a lone island) is divided between the French and the Dutch. Is there any reason the Hawaiian Islands could not have been divided between colonial powers. For example: between Britain and France, or Britain...

The Volga has been home to various states throughout history. Is there any reason that a truly great civilization could not arise in the region? The greatest one that I know about is Khazaria. I suppose the Scythians come close too, but I don't know as much about them as I do Khazaria...