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Who, in your opinion, was the greatest military general who ever lived? Edit: This was supposed to have a poll.

Let's say that the Blue House Raid is successful and Park Chung-Hee is assassinated, than the USS Pueblo is captured per OTL. I would assume that this would start a war, but North Korea was aligned with China, and this was just a year before the Sino-Soviet Border conflicts. This puts both the...

Your challenge is to, with a POD after the Thermidorian Reaction and before the establishment of the Consulate, make the First French Republic survive. Bonus points if you can get the Directory to reform into a liberal democracy.

IIRC, there was some people who tried to do exactly that, but all the Protestants were excommunicated and burned at stake. Maybe if the Pope was less brutal and/or successful in crushing that rebellion, it could have caused the rupture that you're talking about.

Greetings from the Maratha Confederacy, everyone. I just got back from a vacation to Tenochtitlan, and I've been wondering what a world where Europe wasn't a technophobic theocracy would be like. I think that the best way to do this would be to somehow avoid the Papal War between the Roman pope...

Let's say that Yeltsin is killed in the 1991 coup. What would happen afterwords in the USSR/RSFSR/Russian Federation? Some specific questions: Would the coup succeed? How much longer would the USSR survive. The Soviet people actually voted to keep it together, and Yeltsin (along with the...

If there was a communist revolution in Thailand shortly after the Vietnam War, when the US wasn't likely to become involved, how likely would it have been for the rest of Indochina to become communist? Also, would these Indochinese communist countries have remained nominally communist after...

This is in the 1970's, in the middle of the Cold War. The FBI was formed in 1908.

Here's the scenario: a communist organization such as Weather Underground attempts to overthrow the US government through an armed revolution. They are stopped by the FBI, but some government officials and/or employees are injured and killed in the crossfire. There are smaller uprisings in other...

I'd say that it was unlikely for Israel to win the 1948 war. Say that Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, and Lebanon had fought better. What would have happened after this war?

What would have happened if the CPSU attempted to implement the economic reforms of Perestroika, but didn't attempt the openness and democratization of Glasnost? Could they have survived if the government still cracked down on dissidents and controlled the election process, but had transitioned...

I don't think that the Paris Commune could have succeeded; it was essentially one city versus the rest of Europe. That being said, what could the communards have done differently to survive longer? What is the longest that they could have lasted?

Germany was pressuring us to join the Great War on the side of the Central Powers, but luckily, the sultan refused. We stayed neutral, and struck oil soon after the war ended. We used the money to modernize, and reformed into a constitutional monarchy. WWII came along, and we stayed neutral...

With a POD any time after WWI, how could all of the European Great Powers have become communist? Bonus points if you can make the USA communist as well. They can be Stalinist dictatorships, Paris Commune-style democracies, syndicalist, or any other type of communism. They just need to be communist.

Whether or not Hitler rises to power depends on whether the Soviet leader tries to export the revolution. After WWI, most of the former Central Powers could have swung to the radical left or the radical right, and they swung to the right. I think that, given a different set of circumstances...

I don't think that Trotsky would have been able to take power. Lenin was the only Bolshevik who actually liked him. The others viewed him as arrogant, and to add to this, he was a former Menshevik and a Jew, and I don't see the Eastern Europeans in the Party electing a Jew as general secretary...

Based on the Wikipedia articles on Stalin in the Russian Revolution, I didn't find anything that couldn't have been done by Zinoviev or Trotsky instead. During the actual Revolution, he was mostly a propagandist. Granted, I don't think Trotsky would have been as worried that somebody would kill...

What would the USSR have looked like if Stalin in never existed? Assuming everything goes the same way during the Revolution, what would have happened after Lenin died? I don't think Trotsky could have realistically succeeded Lenin, since he was hated in the Party. Would somebody like Kamenev...

Many (most?) advanced civilizations appeared along rivers. Mesopotamia was along the Tigris and Euphrates. Egypt was along the Nile. India was along the Indus. China was along the Yellow River. All of the empires in the Americas (Aztecs, Incas, and Mayans) were in Central and South America. I...

The Weimar Republic was bound to fail from the beginning, but it wasn't necessarily going to become fascist. When Hitler rose to power, socialism was popular in Germany. What would have happened if a communist dictator rose to power instead of a fascist dictator in Germany?