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  1. Maximum possible achievement of de Gaulle's post-war aims?

    The Saar. The Ruhr. A European union of nations (a French led economic and military alliance not delegating power to a, presumably democratic, supranational body) stretching from the Atlantic to the Urals and excluding Britain. A divided Germany, but French (and West German) trade and relations...
  2. Labour in 1935

    Could Labour have won the '35 election and if so, could it have implemented its manifesto, especially concerning foreign policy (working through the League of Nations and cutting military spending), and if so what might the knock-on effects be in the lead up to a presumably still going to occur...
  3. Industrial Revolution "What-If?"

    WI: The industrial revolution in Britain and the Netherlands could be delayed at the very beginning of the 19th century, when China and India each were still as much industrial powerhouses as the whole of Europe? Without getting into specific POD yet, as my suggestion there is probably going to...
  4. Let's Discuss Wanking the Spartakist Revolt

    The premise here is that the SPD-left formed their own revolutionary organization following their January 1917 expulsion from the party alongside the Kautskyist orthodox Marxist SPD-center, rather than joining the Kautskyist USPD, they might have been able to provide more coherent leadership to...
  5. Chamberlain's Advice to King George: "Halifax"

    On May 9th 1940, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain met with Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax and the co-leaders of the Labour Party, Clement Attlee and Arthur Greenwood. First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill was not informed of the meeting, having met earlier in the day with Anthony Eden...
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