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Stalin had the ability to find Zhukov, recognize his abilities, and put him in charge. He didn't however take decisive action until it was almost too late, and this delayed response cost Russia dearly. Plus his purges had deeply weakened the armed forces. What does a leader of the USSR who had...

On 2 September 1944 the 11th Army Division halted in Antwerp. Had they pushed just one town further, they would have trapped the German 15th Army on the Beveland Peninsula. It's unlikely that this would modify Market Garden: Montgomery and the British General Staff are not going to hear that...

In the 1990's the Russian army was in bad shape. Nothing that the Finns might not be able to handle. What needs to happen to make this into a war, and what will happen as a result?

In the 1930's UChicago and Northwestern considered merging. Robert Maynard Hutchins would have lead the combined entity. WI they merge, and then Mr. Hutchins eliminates the football team as in OTL? Will we have the Big Nine? Will he be able to now that there are even more alumni who like...

October 1950-McArthur has ignored orders to stop before the Yalu. Chinese troops pour over the border, sending the UN forces back. POD: Instead of nukes McArthur asks for chemical weapons. Truman approves the use. Chemical weapons will stop the invaders, and the US has never had the mass...

1901- Aaron van Leiden smoothly exhaled, stopped, lifted the rifle imperceptibly and fired. Six hundred meters away a British soldier's head exploded. Six other commandos charged at the blockhouse, throwing white phosphorus as cover. A British soldier poked his head over the roof, not realizing...

WI Muhammad Ali of Egypt marches on Constantinople?

In December 1995 suppose Bill Clinton had a heart attack while being fellated by Monica Lewinsky.

Canada cannot afford uranium enrichment facilities. POD: In 1960 Canada decides that heavy water is also far to expensive (hundreds of $ per kilogram) to use in a reactor. Facing the need to build a reactor with no isotope separation at all they use a cheap moderator, one of the oldest...

WI all the countries invaded by the Axis mounted a defense as effective as the Dutch but as suicidal as the Russians? Do we have a significantly shortened WWII?

St. Petersberg- Dimitri Pavlovich and Felix Yusupov hurl the wrapped up bundle from the back of their carriage into the Moika. Finally the Royal family is free of the scrounge that marred it. But Rasputin, poisoned, shot, and stabbed, is still alive. He works to free himself from the wrapping...

In 1979 Carter flies to Tehran immediate after the storming of the embassy. He meets with Ayatollah Khomeini, and negotiates a deal: In exchange for the hostages and eventual restoration of relations, Iran will receive US aid in the event of an Iraqi invasion. This deal is secret: The US public...

In the 1970's Sweden was pursuing a nuclear deterrent, but decided to buy a new fighter plane instead. What if the decision goes the opposite way?

POD: In the 1920's the Dutch recognize Soviet Russia. When they buy a lot of arms in 1939 they get them from Soviet Russia, which delivers before May 1940. Soviet Russia just happens to be the lowest bidder. ITOL, the arms were ordered from Germany which did not deliver them, following the first...

Lenin has just died, but unfortunately for Stalin the housekeeper noticed the Testament and brought it to the newspaper. The next morning every paper in Moscow has the denunciation of Stalin as its major story. Stalin doesn't resign as he thinks his supporters will stand firm. The day after at...