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How could the Nasser-type project of Arab unification have been successful - or, at least, MORE successful? I don't see ALL Arab states entering into a secular superstate, federation, confederation, "hard" alliance, etc., but maybe a lot of them. (A hard alliance is something like NATO or the...

So, ai realized that it's very fun to play a communist Japan in Victoria: Revolutions. Ai typically always go communist in the 1870s or so during the grand campaign. Very ASB. Ai was thinking, though, that a communist revolution might've been possible in Japan in the late 1920s, early 1930s...

With a POD no earlier than 1825, how can Russia rise to the status of being considered a genuinely free society by 1950?

Japanese territorial conquests in Asia, 1914 to 1921 The assassination of an Austrian archduke in the distant city of Sarajevo led to the nations of Europe turning against one another, and slaughtering each other in both record numbers and marvel ways. In Tokyo, a window of opportunity was...

It is obviously ASB for the United States government to be overthrown or anything, but in 1919 and 1920, there was serious trouble with anarchist bombings throughout the United States, and A. Mitchell Palmer warning of a "communist uprising" in the United States in 1920. Anarchists were, at the...

With a POD no earlier than the beginning of the First World War, try to have at least three hundred independent states in the world by 2005. They must have control over their territory (if not all of what they claim), they must full control over their own foreign affairs and defense, and they...

With a POD no later than 1945, how could Argentina become a great power in the world? By the 1990s, its level of power should be comparable to that of Great Britain, France, or China.

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to create a world war as soon as is historically possible. Obviously, there were world wars before the First World War - like the Napoleonic Wars, among several others - but your objective is to predate even those. The criteria for a world...

How could this be accomplished?

Hey! Welcome to my first real attempt at a plausible ATL. The POD is around 1917 to 1919, or so... The POD is probably not some single event that you can really put your finger, but, instead, a whole lot of different things. I have written this timeline in terms of general trends, and not as a...

The first question: what would a world without nuclear weapons look like? I am not too sure about how it works, but I know nuclear weapons were a huge leap in understanding of physics, and I'd assume that there are many technologies today whose existence, in some way or another, require the same...

I think that if the Japanese had been bloodied earlier, they have understood that the way that wars are fought had changed from their last victory against the Russians, in which superior doctrine had largely won the war. Now, superior technology would be necessary. There was a thread not too...

What sort of conditions, starting no earlier than 1866, could lead to a major war for the British Empire between 1866 and 1875? Preferable opponents are France, Germany, or the United States, or a combination of any of them - however, any opponent is good enough, OTHER THAN: - Russia, - the...

I'd like to see two democratic countries at war, sometime after 1900. It should be a long war, lasting at least three years. I think a potential candidate might be Japan, wherein the Taisho democracy lasts and coexists with expansionist tendencies, and it goes to war with either the United...

Okay, Alexander II was assassinated in 1881, but what might've happened if he had been killed earlier, in 1866, by Dmitry Karakazov? I don't much of the situation, but I am aware that the younger Alexander was a Slavophile, a man with an ideal of a rather homogenous culture. In comparison...

Beginning in probably either the 1950s or the 1960s, what sort of events could lead to Madagascar gaining some kind of relative economic prosperity and industrialization? By present day, it would probably still be primarily rural, but it might have some limited industry, a fairly large and...

POD: January 1, 1900. By January 1, 2001, there should be a world body that is the equivalent of the United Nations or more powerful. This body should also have a United Nations Security Council, with five member-states that have veto powers. These five countries are the only countries that can...

Anytime after World War II, make Turkey go "dark" in the same way that North Korea has, or worse. In the outside world, there should be a great deal of confusion about the actual political machinations of the Turkish regime; there should be no communication between regular Turkish citizens and...

Okay. Here's a timeline challenge. Just throw some ideas around. I want a world in which Germany and Japan emerge victorious after World War II, to a greater or lesser extent. Most of Europe, with the possible exceptions of Iberia and the British Isles, should be German, Italian, or a vassal of...

Have at survive, AT LEAST through to the end of the Second World War (whenever the Second World War would end in this timeline).