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DBAHC. Is that so hard to understand...?

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to create a TL in which the West Indies Federation (the original name of the present-day Caribbean Federation, minus the states of Bahamas, Bermuda, Belize, Virgin Islands and Guyana, which only joined later on) balkanizes into a myriad of...

What about Mexico? Definitely should have been on the list...

Because he was a delusional narcissist, and firmly believed that he deserved to gain his architecture qualifications from the most prestigious university around.

Worth mentioning- Even if the Japanese aren't capable of projecting their power far enough to make any meaningful intervention, and even if the Ethiopian military is still too weak and underequipped to perform any better against the Italian invaders than they did IOTL (unlikely IMHO- the...

Resources- yes, sending ships and men out to Ethiopia isn't free. But selling last-generation military hardware to the Ethiopians, outsourcing production to new factories over there in order to obtain lucrative arms contracts, and offering military expertise to the Ethiopian armed forces, are...

Q1: Simple answer- they wouldn't be willing to marry off a member of the royal family simply for the purpose of strengthening ties with Ethiopia. Those rumors, while they did exist, were nothing more than rumors. But Japan may well have been willing to cement a relationship with a nation which...

So, which sort of business venture might be feasible? For instance, what if the Mitsui Zaibatsu group's tobacco subsidiary decides to exploit the potential of khat, as the ideal product to get around the complete nationalization of Japan's booming tobacco industry by the government, and the...

Option 5 (/Option obvious). Japan (and Ethiopia) immediately go after Italy's adjacent colonies, looking to take Eritrea and Italian Somaliland (since this may not be very viable in the initial conflict). Simple enough to achieve, this would fulfil Ethiopia's desire for revenge and to reclaim...

Perhaps the Japanese could start by offering their own version of lend-leasing? And if they're allied with the Ethiopians before the Italians declare war, then their potential ability to project their naval strength should be a noteworthy factor, one which could have severely diminished Italy's...

Ah yes, so they had (on March 27, 1933). So Japanese military intervention in the conflict wouldn't do anything to patch up the League of Nations' structural weaknesses then; but if their alliance did manage to defeat the Italians, it could make things very interesting. So, do you think that...

So- any feedback? What kind of an impact would you expect to see this alliance, between the Empires of Japan and Ethiopia, having on the diplomatic and sociopolitical landscape of the world in the 30's? How would international relations be affected, and which different military alliances might...

Both were nations with an ancient history which successfully repulsed European military advances to dominate them, Ethiopia at the Battle of Adwa, and Japan at the Battle of Tsushima, and as a result both nations considered each other to be potential allies prior to World War II. Both countries...

Bumping this thread. Which of the unsuccessful assassination attempts on her IOTL would be the most interesting to explore for an ATL in which it succeeds? A), B), C), D), E), F) or G)? For instance, starting with option A) WI Edward Oxford, of his own imaginary 'Young England' society...

So- the ongoing War on Terror? :p

Nomenclature- have the term 'crusade' applied to each and every war waged by any state (primarily Christian ones) in which religious differences are cited as being among the primary cassus belli. As such, the Schmalkaldic War is known ITTL as the Schmalkaldic Crusade, with the series of wars...

Bumping this (yes, this is a necro, but I felt it was better to do so than to start my own thread on the topic when a more established one already existed). How might this have altered Japan's strategic goals, along with those of the other major powers in the run-up to WW2?

Hmm, I've been considering incorporating something like this in a TL of mine that's been on hiatus for a while, due largely to the scarcity of research material. Let's just say that it involves a man called George Thomas N. Griffiths (known better by a different name both IOTL and ITTL) leading...

Really? The US of Americans already saw Japan as a threat to their interests in the Pacific before 1898- before they even completed their annexation of Hawaii? Please. At this time, the USA would probably see it as an opportunity to increase their trade in East Asia, nothing more- after all...

They may be able to still invade Manchuria afterward- but their power projection still wasn't strong enough at this time to wage more than one campaign at once. And taking the entirety of the Dutch East Indies will be a long endeavour at this time (even if they manage to convince the British to...