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Can't have alternate history without key events changing. Everyone hears about Enigma codebreaking, but not much about German codebreaking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-Dienst No one hears about how Colonel A.D. Wintle tried to get the French air force to defect in WWII (even more...

Been watching Narcos. Noriega launched a coup in the same time period. Not impossible, Escobar seemed to have spies everywhere.

Would French tank forces be destroyed by the elaborate anti-tank mines emplaced by the Germans?

Okay. This guy is clearly running out of ideas. In the First World War (he calls it the Great War in the book, apparently changes his mind), France stands firm and Russia collapses. Then in the Second World War, France collapses, and Russia stands firm.

According to War and Economy of the Third Reich, Hitler wasn't planning for a series of blitzkrieg wars but for a ten year war of annihilation, financed by rising taxes and peacetime rationing. What if Hitler realized that British and French guarantees to Poland were genuine, or what if Hitler...

August 1939 The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact is signed. It is primarily a peace treaty with provisions for trade. There are also secret articles dealing with the division of the world into spheres of influence and the enslavement of populations. October 1939 War breaks out in Europe. Britain and...

A great number of works have been written on the immensity of German armored vehicles. They are impressive machines, mounting large armaments, and thick armor, boasting great propaganda value and struck fear among allied troops. They were also prone to mechanical failure and Germany's situation...

Apparently the Germans could have pushed straight to India in WWII. Would this have been possible?

Nixon had been caught red handed in his dirty tricks. In order to buy the FBI's cooperation, Mark Felt was appointed acting director. Many Washington insiders surmise that Mark Felt had something really good on the President. Hoover's secret files were not destroyed. But the Watergate...

What if Dupont doesn't corner the market?

I just discovered that the XYZ affair was caused partially by the US to no longer honor debts owed to France because of the new government. WI the US pays debts to Revolutionary France?

What if the Nazis don't invade Russia and focus on a west front first strategy?

While I read quite a few TLs, few of them seriously factors in strategic production. The French had a hundred engine/automakers, which hindered logistics for their motor vehicles. The US Sherman is undervalued, since despite being inferior in the late war, it was a major source of...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_war What if the pig war occurred right after the Trent Affair? Would Britain side with the CSA?

What if the Germans focused their efforts on pushing the allies out of Africa, instead of preparing for Barbarossa? It would have allowed the Axis to take the Suez and at the very least directly supply Arab rebels.

What if the Gopher protocol is used instead of HTTP?

"Hitler ist dead!" On March 4th, 1943, Adolf Hitler died from a stroke. As much as he boasted of his iron nerves, it appears that stress bested him. A week later, there was an immense funeral as Germany mourned the death of their admired leader, attended by numerous government functionaries. It...

What if the US took British Colombia because of the Alabama claims?

What if in the 1940s, there was a massive cold war? It's not unthinkable. The bomber will always get through. Both sides can gas the other, if the Geneva (I think) convention didn't exist.

August 1939 The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact is signed. It is primarily a peace treaty with provisions for trade. There are also secret articles dealing with the division of the world into spheres of influence and the enslavement of populations. October 1939 War breaks out in Europe. Britain...