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With POD(s) in (late) 18th to 19th century have as many nations that in OTL fell to Western Colonialism adopt some sort of reforms and modernization programs that would make them up-and-coming great powers by the start of 20th century. Bonus points if you have the various geographically-distant...

As you may or may not know Soviet Union and Russian Federation got/gets much of its grain as well as a substantial part of its meat supply from North America. Although I am not sure when this trend started (though I bet it was post-WW2) it was not the case with Tsarist Russia. I heard U.S.S.R.'s...

As the title says: the challenge is to get the Ottoman Empire to set up colony(s) in the New World. If you want to take the easy rout, you could make the Ottoman colonization of America small and short-lived (like OTL New Sweden) but you get more points if you come up with a scenario where...

OK, a few times I have seen discussed the idea of U.S. annexing all of Mexico in the aftermath of the Mexican-American War. So assuming that the “All Mexico” movement is successful, what long-term impact would the new citizens have on U.S. culture? Would U.S. as a whole adopt some aspects and...

Let's say Russian Empire lives to fight another day after a WW1 that goes better for it. In the post-war years, would Russia try to extends its influence in China? How would Japan respond? And how would Chinese people see the two powers? Would they favor one over the other?

Let’s say the Trinity Test is a dud and the Manhattan Project is seen as a waste of cash & is canceled (this may or may not be ASB, I don’t know). Thus the Western Allies don’t develop the atomic bomb towards the end of WW2. If it is the Soviets that are first to create the atomic bomb, during...

Many of you have probably read this article by a retired U.S.N. admiral suggesting that U.S. should replace its F/A-18s and F-14s with Su-27s instead of F-35s. Your goal is to make this happen!

I was playing some Grand Theft Auto games and the in-jokes they have about the Australian-American War amused me :). Any way to have such a war occur in 1960s/1970s without totally changing the way U.S.A. and the world looks like from 1980s to the present?

By now many of you have probably heard of the (in)famous “historical” show Deadliest Warrior where various past-&-present soldiers and famous personalities are pitted against one another. One of the recent match-ups involved Tsar Ivan the Terrible and Conquistador Hernán Cortés. I don’t...

Because I am still new to the site and the search option is often down or not working, I thought I would start a thread where anyone can ask whether a TL or alt-history book (either on this site or otherwise) exists and what is it called. I imagine this would be a useful thread if you want to...

In a recent thread on how colonial empires could have survived to present day, one person suggested that had Europeans practiced “enlightened imperialism” and given native subjects citizenships, full rights and treated as equals to the Europeans than colonialism may have survived. Of course...

I was reading Tv tropes when I came across this: I'm surprised to learn that there was a Zionist group that sought an alliance with Third Reich. So suppose Stern, with or without Nazi support, manages to kick British out of Palestine (let's say British Empire has more pressing problems &...