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Basically, i've always wondered how things would have gone if the USSR kept Poland, Finland, Moldova and the Baltics. Obviously, we're dealing with a much more powerful USSR and a fairly different WW2 but beyond that i'm not entirely sure. I'd like to think that with a much larger pool of...

With a POD in the 30s or later, just how much of a difference could these guys have made to the course of WW2? I'm doubting they'd change the course of the war, but i'm willing to bet they could at least be a thorn in Britain's side. My question is just how big could this thorn be?

With a POD after Hitler takes power, just how much territory could the Nazis grab before war broke out? For the record, by 'war', i mean the big war, it doesn't matter if they blitzkrieg a nation to occupy it, just so long as nobody else gets involved. I always assumed they could claim...

I've seen these polls kicking about so i thought i'd make one of my own. Thoughts on Cornwall people?

I'm writing a TL centred around a pan-Arabist movement which becomes hugely successful and as a result of their vast oil reserves, hugely rich. Given the poor economy of Spain at the moment, do you think they'd be willing to sell the Canaries and/or their two African enclaves, and if so, what...

I'm aware that the Nazis built some pretty monstrous weapons in their day, including the Gustav Gun and the aptly named 'Monster'. Were there other superweapons on any descriptions they could have made that would have actually worked? It doesn't need to win the war for them, or even help them...

I was reading up about the Schäffer affair and was wondering if it would be possible for him to succeed, and if he did, what the effects of that would be. Is there some way for him to succeed and for Hawaii to remain Russian up to the present day? If so, what are the butterflies from this?

I was wondering, there was the Tito-Stalin split, and then years later the Sino-Soviet split that was partially the result of Kruschev reopening relations with Tito. What would have happened if instead of just cutting Tito off, Stalin had invaded and replaced him with someone more 'loyal'...

I was reading up on the Angevin empire, which eventually split into what would become the United Kingdom and France. I was wondering, how could you keep the personal union together, and what would the effects of that be? My thoughts are that considering the fact the both Britain and France...

Let's assume Sheng Shicai doesn't declare himself an anti-Soviet as a result of the German invasion. How does this go? Does East Turkestan join the USSR perhaps?

Okay, this is simple enough, Gaddafi was a pan-arabist and a pan-africanist. He tried to merge Libya with Tunisia, Algeria, Chad, Syria, (South) Yemen, Sudan and Egypt at various points. Is there any way his power could have been extended at all? Expanding his nation's influence counts too if...

In 2008/9, there were several attempts at updating the Libyan military that never went ahead. First of all, the Khamis Brigade attempted to buy Little Bird helicopters from the US but were rejected, let's assume they weren't. Next, Mutassim tried to form his own special forces brigade along...

This isn't a plausibility check on the USSR falling in WW2, but rather a question about what Russia would look like afterwards, assuming the allies win Would they keep control of Kazakhstan, Ukraine and similar regions or not? Would they perhaps lose even more territory than they did in 1991...

I'm wondering how far communism could spread and how this would effect the cold war. Would it maybe get hot? A couple of parameters i should give here: Any POD's must be after the start of the Russian Civil War (25th of October 1917) No arguments about just which nations are actually...

Okay, i know this has probably been discussed before on here, but i have a couple of parameters: The nuclear bomb has to be delayed until the end of WW2, by some act of sabotage, an accident, or whatever. This WW2 will probably last longer than OTL WW2, seeing as Japan will need to be...

I know that Spain joining the Axis isn't a new concept, but i'm wondering, if Spain joins the Axis, how does this effect Portugal? This is not a plausibility check on Spain joining the Axis, we're assuming that they do.

I don't mean all of them, i mean each individually. The UK, America, The USSR and China. What would it have taken for each one to fall? I'm not asking if any of them collapsing/surrendering or whatever is plausible, but at what point it would have been over for them? Sorry if this is too...

I know that September 1st 1939 is the widely accepted date, but i've heard people mention others, i'm just wondering what people's thoughts are here.

I did some searching and couldn't for the life of me find a thread about this (Sorry if i just missed it). So here it is: What happens if Al Gore beats George W Bush in 2000? Is he re-elected in 2004? Who wins in 2008? How does that go? Bonus points if Ron Paul somehow wins in 2008 (I dunno...

This is my third and hopefully final attempt at what i call WW2.5, making WW2 as big as logically possible, while still being somewhat recognisable. Seeing as making it bigger generally boils down to bulking up the Axis, it could even equate to an Axis victory, but i'm not 100% sure on that one...