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With a PoD any time after 1990, create a plausible scenario in which the Pakistani government gives a nuclear bomb to a terrorist organization. "Losing" the bomb would also fit the challenge.

Exactly what it says in the title.

With a PoD anytime after 1900, make France a rogue state by the year 2000. Examples of OTL rogue states include Iran, North Korea, Syria, Pakistan, and Iraq.

Exactly what it says on the tin. What would have been the fate of the Romanovs if the Bolsheviks hadn't decided to execute them?

With a PoD any time after May 29, 1790, keep the Qing Dynasty from collapsing in the 20th century.

With a PoD anytime after the Civil War (1865) but before the Spanish-American War (1898), make the United States a truly isolationist state, or at least something close to it. That means no military action outside of North America or the Pacific west of Hawaii. EDIT: Should probably mention...

With a PoD after 1900, what's the earliest that US Navy could fight the Royal Navy to a standstill in a one-on-one war, without bankrupting the US government?

Exactly what it says on the tin. Make a branch of Islam the most commonly practiced religion among Black Americans. It doesn't have to outweigh Christianity as a whole, but it should outweigh the individual sects of Protestant Christianity (Baptist, Black Baptist, Mainstream, Episcopalian...

With a PoD after 1789, how do we get all of North and South America united in one supranational union by the end of the 20th century? Bonus points if you can get open borders and three or fewer currencies.

Hopefully, someone who knows a lot about the Ottomans can help me out here. I was just wondering how the Ottomans, with their vast empire, would handle this particular problem in the 20th century. Assume that the PoD is a CP victory, so the Ottoman Empire reaches as far as Libya. Assuming...

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to create a scenario where a nuclear power armed with ICBMs uses said ICBMs against a country which does not have them. It doesn't count if it's a World War III "Everybody dies" scenario (for example, the USSR lobs a nuke at Italy or Belgium...

With a PoD any time after 1900, make Australia a rogue state, similar to North Korea in OTL.

Exactly what it says on the tin. Any PoD after January 1, 1900 is fair game.

If the Third Coalition manages to win its war against France (maybe Napoleon gets assassinated in 1805, or France loses at Austerlitz), how would Austria, Britain, and Russia have redrawn the map of Europe? Would Bavaria and Wurttemberg be annexed by Austria?

With a PoD anytime during or after the Constitutional Convention, how do we make the USA a major colonial power? By "major colonial power", I mean on the same scale as Britain or France, where the "mother country" holds a vast amount of overseas territory significantly larger than the OTL US...

So, let's say that Russia doesn't pull out of the war, and that France is defeated before Napoleon can pull off his coup. What is the peace treaty likely to be? Status quo antebellum? A reversal of the Treaty of Campo Formio? A Bourbon Restoration in France?

With a PoD anytime after May 7, 1945, make the "Inner Six"-France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, West Germany, and Luxembourg-a single federal state.

Exactly what it says on the tin. How do we make this happen?

The color red is commonly associated with socialism and revolution, while the color blue is commonly associated with conservatism and the status quo. How/why did this happen, and is there a PoD that can change it?

With a PoD after 12/24/1814, make the Federalist Party remain one of the two largest parties in the United States.