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What if, Stalin had followed his general's advice for a concentrated offensive after the Battle of Moscow 1941, instead of a general offensive like IOTL?

Hi guys. Has anyone made a thread about how a Cold War-WWIII would have been like in the Southern Front - Greece and Turkey, the Aegean and the Med? Seems most people are West Germany-buffs ;)

Watching a docu about Hitler and Mussolini. Was there any way Italy could have broken a separate peace with the Allies, and be spared occupation?

As the title says, how would the war and the Scandinavian Campaign be affected if the Altmark incident didn't occur? Cheers

What could realistically become the outcome of the Battle for France if the Allies were able to halt the German offensive? Stalemate? Tideturner? Inevitable end of Germany? Didn't the Allies have more men and a larger industry base combined than Germany?

Has anyone read "Cauldron" by Larry Bond? If a war had broken out between the US vs France and Germany, would the Americans have been able to flat the Europeans as they did in the book?

I´m thinking about the incident of Soviet submarine S-363, which ran aground inside Swedish territorial waters in October 1981. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_S-363 Could the incident have escalated into a full naval skirmish between the two fleet forces?

During Operation Barbarossa, the US provided the USSR with large amounts of material aid, trucks, weapons, fuel etc. And as I´ve understood, there is still a debate wheter the American aid saved the USSR from defeat at the hands of Hitler. Some Western historians claim that´s the truth. Russian...

Just finished watching a documentary on the the history of East Germany. After WWII Stalin broke his promise of free elections in the "liberated" areas and instead enforced stalinism on the soviet part of Germany and on the rest of Eastern Europe. But what if Stalin suddenly dies in the...

What if in May 1940 the French managed to halt the German lightning advance and the offensive loses steam. What happens then, will the Germans still punch through later and France falls anyway? Or will the Allies push the Germans back?

SPOILER: The novel Red Inferno: 1945 by Robert Conroy ends with the Soviet Union breaking up after a brief WWIII in 1945. For those of you who have read the book, what do you think would be the long-term consequences in this TL? No Cold War, the US sole superpower?

"War of the Currents" was the conflict between the electrical engineers Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison in late 1880´s. But what if they instead became best friends and partners? Would that change modern electrical society?

What if king Charles X of Sweden had succeded in conquering Denmark during the war of 1659? Can imagine England and the Netherlands getting quite angry...

Just heard about author Robert Conroy, but I haven´t read the books yet. Good stories anybody?

The Cold War had some close calls over the years - like the Cuban Missile Crisis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_III But there were more moments when WWIII could have gone off. Which moment do You find most interesting (or horrifying)? Myself, I find the Suez Crisis interesting.

The Soviet war in Afghanistan 1979-89 was a horrible intervention which cost the Russians enormous financially. How can you make the Soviet leadership realize what a fruitless and costly war this would be and withdraw from Afghanistan much earlier? And would this delay the breakup of the...

If Sweden had joined NATO after WWII, would that have increased the risk for a third war than IOTL? Since Sweden´s strategic position would have given NATO excellent bombing capabilities across the Baltic. /Pontus

Let say that a massive sightings of UFO´s during recent history (Like the Belgian UFO wave in 1989) is confirmed by local government officials and scientific experts as legimit - Intelligent Extraterrestrial life clearly exists. What would happen then? At a political, cultural, societal level...