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Following discussion on this thread; https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=159343 about what would happen if the USA doesn't join the War In Europe until 1943 (no US troops encountering German troops until late 1944) Operation Torch could go either way apparently in this...

What if due to a delay in the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese until December 5th 1943, the USA doesn't enter the war until December 1943? Consequently, it's not until late 1944 (November?) that the USA's ground forces enter ground combat for the first time against German troops. How...

For the major wars and turning points of the 20th Century conflicts, what other possible (and plausible) names could be used in alternative timeline? Russo-Japanese War = Far East War = Rising Sun - Russian Bear War (a possible ATL propaganda version) WW1 = Great War = Pan-European Civil War...

The point was raised John Fredrick Parker on another thread that I posted that without the San Francisco earthquake, there probably wouldn't be a Federal Reserve either. https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=159154 Okay, so does anyone know what the most likely...

Imagine a timeline in which the Pacific War went horribly wrong for a poorly prepared USA, the 3rd Reich kept most of continental Europe, and the Soviet Union barely hung on after the Germans took Moscow and killed Stalin. San Francisco was devastated by the Japanese A-bomb before the USA could...

What if instead the earthquake occurring in 1906, San Francisco is hit by a powerful devastating earthquake in 1936? In the midst of the Great Depression and while Fascism is rising to prominence in Europe. How would this have affected the USA's military strategic situation on the eve of WW2...

What if during the Great War, Germany never resorted to the attacking of merchant shipping? How would this change the war, and how would it change the strategies of warfare later on? Would this avoidance of attacks on civilian shipping by Germany in the Great War have any effect on later wars?

New Zealand pioneer aviator Richard Pearse is credited often with the first powered flight at Waitohi (New Zealand), on the 31st of March in 1903 (9 months before the Wright Brothers). The Wright Brothers had controlled powered flight more successfully and better publicity. What if Richard...

OTL - in 1902, an Italian anarchist Gennaro Rubino attempted to assassinate Leopold II of Belgium, as he was riding in a royal cortege from a ceremony in memory of his recently-deceased wife, Marie Henriette. After Leopold's carriage passed, Rubino fired 3 shots at the King; the shots missed...

It's often been said that the USA has habitually supported fascist dictatorships, but how would American politics and policy be in 3-power bloc world where there is a Fascist Bloc, Communist Bloc, and the Western Capitalist Bloc? "For the last fifty years we've been supporting right--wing...

In OTL, Leon Trotsky secretly returned to Russia in February 1905 after the "Bloody Sunday". However, in a timeline that I'm working on, there is no "Bloody Sunday" nor a Revolution of 1905. Russia has come out ahead in the Russo-Japanese War. Leon Trotsky possibly doesn't see the time as...

After a very close "defeat" that looks in some ways like a victory for Russia in the Russo-Japanese War in the following timeline https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=158432 By the end of the war, Japan lost all of the Kurile Islands and Sakhalin Island to Russia, and...

This is related to another thread of mine https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=158432 After enjoying far more success overall in the Russo-Japanese War, though not a clear victory, the Russian military commanders are even less prepared, and more overly confident...

My curiosity is peaked by the possible effects of a slightly cooler global climate on world history from the just before the American Civil War era...and later. Perhaps an average of 2 or degrees cooler globally, but otherwise parallel to the general temperature increases and decreases as in...

Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905 An observant crewman on the Russian battleship, Petropavlovsk, spots that the vessel is heading towards a minefield, is able to give warning and saves the ship. Later, with Stepan Makarov promoted to Admiral, despite the superiority of the Imperial Japanese Navy's...