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    WI: Ukraine Economic Powerhouse

    What would it take with a POD no earlier than 1989 for Ukraine to be an economic powerhouse following independence? This would include much less corruption, a strong democracy, etc... How would Ukraine politically develop as a result of this? Would it create a different type of government?
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    WI: Allied Italian Government (Post-1943) or Italian Secession

    I am currently reading a very good book about the Italian Social Republic and the especially chaotic Summer of 1943 when Pietro Badoglio and King Victor Emmanuel III fled Rome as the Germans invaded the country. Many Italians saw this as nakedly self-serving, and many believed it was the "death...
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    Canaan Territory (A Freed Slave State)

    Earlier today I watched Harriet and it got me going down into the weeds of the Underground Railroad and the wider abolitionist movement. I am aware that there was a push among white abolitionists to send manumitted people to either Africa or Latin America (i.e. Liberia or the Mosquito Coast)...
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    WI: Richard Nixon's "Resignation Speech" Ends Like R. Budd Dwyer's Speech?

    So, this is an idea I have always been curious about, and it started with the idea for an alternate timeline of an incumbent President killing himself on national television for one reason or another. Basically, what if on the evening of August 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon announced that...
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    Challenge: Modern German Confederation Post-1945

    So, this is something I brought up in a thread a few days ago, but I want to specifically ask this question. What are the chances of a post-World War II German Confederation being established by the Allies either immediately after the war ended, or following the end of the Cold War in 1990. The...
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    Partition of Germany Scenarios

    I was wondering if different scenarios were plausible for Germany after the Second World War, in particular if Germany were divided into multiple states, perhaps a larger "East Germany" and "West Germany" plus a few smaller states. Would an independent Hamburg be plausible, for example? Or a...
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    WI: Modern German City-States

    So, something I have been wondering about post-war Germany. With a POD prior to 1949, is it plausible that while East Germany and West Germany will likely form, is it also possible that some type of semi-independent city-states form along the coast or in other parts? For example, might Hamburg...
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    WI: Speer Gasses Fuhrerbunker Mid-February 1945

    I was recently reading The Third Reich At War by Richard J. Evans, and in the final chapters about the collapse of Nazi Germany (A subject I am immensely interested in), the author wrote that Albert Speer, Hitler's Armaments Minister, considered around mid-February 1945 pouring a gas canister...
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    WI: East Germany Keeps Stettin

    So, something I always found interesting is Germany's present-day eastern border with Poland, and I always wondered, what if the border between then-East Germany and Poland was pushed back to the Oder River, which would include Stettin and the surrounding area, as well as some islands in the...
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    Among These Rocky Shores
    Threadmarks: Introduction

    Introduction The Village of Ketansett is an unusual place in the history of the United States of America. Located off the coast of the North Fork on Long Island, New York, it is compared to other neighboring communities a small village of 2,600 people. However, while today its relevance has...
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    How Long Can Germany Hold Out?

    So, I have always been interested in the final months of Nazi Germany. The collapse of an empire, the slow explosion that tears it apart, and how the apparatus of Hitler's Germany somehow held on up until the last minute. After the failure of the Battle of the Bulge, Germany's demise was...
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    WI: Nazis Tear Down Iron Gates?

    So, I have been extremely curious by the subject of a possible Pannonian Lake/Sea in general and I am working on a story that involves it being formed in 500 CE after some ecological disaster. During past discussions on this site, I have seen people noting that one way to flood the Hungarian...
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    Among These Rocky Shores: A History of Roseney
    Threadmarks: Introduction

    Map of Roseney Roseney is an island nation off the western coast of Newfoundland. An independent nation, it has long been a place with a unique culture and role in world history. It is a land of song and poets, a land of warriors, and a land of a humble people who value a hard day's work over...
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    WI: Hitler Doesn't Launch Ardennes Counteroffensive?

    What would happen if Hitler in the end decided not to launch the Ardennes Counteroffensive in December 1944, or successfully managed to withdraw with minimal casualties. If the Germans managed to retain their strength, what would they have done with this additional manpower that was not wasted...
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    WI: Hitler Overthrown In 1938/39

    What would happen if Adolf Hitler was overthrown in 1938/39 as a result of the Munich crisis. Let's say that the main perpetrators would be the military, possibly through Admiral Wilhelm Canaris. What would it take for the military to act against Hitler. What would Germany's future look like...
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    Noravea's Media and Writing Emporium

    NORAVEA'S MEDIA AND WRITING EMPORIUM ---------- Welcome one and all to my emporium of work that I have done on this site and elsewhere. Included are links to maps, timelines, stories, and flags that I have made that will be linked to from one convenient place, here. I hope you all take a look at...
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    Franklin and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day
    Threadmarks: April 12, 1945

    ---------- April 12, 1945, was a quaint day in Warm Springs, Georgia. The day began at the Little White House with a calm day ahead. Elizabeth Shoumatoff was scheduled to paint his portrait, and present with him was Lucy Mercer Rutherford, a former mistress and friend who he had recently...
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    American Dubai

    So, something that has always interested me is the founding, growth, and development of cities in new places especially within the last one hundred or so years. Perhaps for me the most blatant example of this is the development of Dubai and even the development of Bahrain as a whole. While we...
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    Buddhism in Europe

    So in recent months an idea kicking around in my head has been a group of East Asian Buddhists over the course of several centuries making their way to Europe where they set up a monastic society in the Alps, preserving in many aspects their culture. While that idea specifically is VERY...
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    Challenge: Italy Retains Monarchy

    The results of the June 1946 referendum on whether or not Italy should remain a monarchy or become a republic led to a result in favor of a republic, albeit not by such a large margin. The pro-republican side won the vote with 54.3% of the vote, while the pro-monarchy side lost with 45.7% of the...
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