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  1. Why wasn't this used as a Time Magazine cover in 1992?

    The downfall of Soviet communism must have counted as a far greater American achievement than the killing of a two-bit thug like Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, so why didn't it warrant an 'X' cover?

  2. AHC: Southern Cone becomes Spanish "dominions"

    The Southern Cone countries of Chile, Argentina and Uruguay are different from the rest of the former Spanish Empire in that they are populated primarily by whites. How could these countries today have a similar relationship with Spain, as Australia, New Zealand and Canada have with the UK...

  3. Successful Brusilov offensive = World War I Holocaust in Poland?

    If the Brusilov offensive had been more successful at pushing the Germans out of Poland, could this have led to huge massacres of Polish Jews (worse than prior Tsarist pogroms), with the Poles eagerly helping because they had been convinced by Tsarist propaganda that the Jews had collaborated...

  4. Anglo-American/Nazi War: WI Operation Downfall had been launched?

    Obviously the Allies didn't dare use nuclear weapons against Japan (as that would reveal to the Nazis that nuclear weapons were possible after all), but what if they had invaded Japan instead of starving it into surrender? Would a lower degree of guilt over the deaths of non-combatants in Japan...

  5. German-Polish population exchange at Versailles

    How would the interwar period have been affected if the following modifications had been made to the Treaty of Versailles (and Saint-Germain, in the case of my third point)? 1. Gdansk becomes wholly Polish (instead of the Danzig Free State) while Germany retains all of Upper Silesia. 2...

  6. Civilian Jetliners of Alternate History

    In OTL, jet airliners were developed during the US/Soviet Cold War, and Soviet jetliners were noticeably different in design to Western ones: Many airports in the Soviet Union had only dirt strips rather than hard runways. This meant that Soviet airliners often had much bulkier landing gear...

  7. AH Challenge: Western culture remains heliophobic

    Until the late 19th century, Western civilization was generally heliophobic, valuing pale skin (just as most non-Western cultures still do). This changed about the turn of the 20th century, as lack of sunlight (due to urban density and/or air pollution) was blamed for the poor health of...

  8. British Rail plc

    How much better would British railways be if British Rail had been privatized intact, rather than broken up? As it is, vast amounts of money are squandered on transactional costs, such that the private rail companies need government subsidies far in excess of those paid to the old state-owned...

  9. AH Challenge: 19th century Offshoring

    What would have need to change for Victorian-era industrialists to strangle the nascent trade union movement in its cradle, by closing their factories and rebuilding them in the colonies (India for Britain, or Algeria for France)? Would this lead to the earlier eclipse of Europe's economic...

  10. WI Labour wins the UK 1970 General Election?

    POD -- the Marine Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967 prohibiting pirate radio is not passed. The result is that young voters are not soured against Labour sufficiently to win the 1970 General Election for the Conservatives. How would a Labour victory have affected subsequent British political...

  11. Islam remains illegal in Europe

    Traditionally it was illegal to be a Muslim in Christian Europe - what if this was still the case today? (Assume that Jewish emancipation occurs as in OTL by the way...) Would it throw WWI in the Germans' favour? (Because the British and especially the French couldn't use Muslim colonial...

  12. US War on Colonialism - 1929

    Any thoughts on this scenario, where the US goes to war against the Western European powers with the aim of destroying colonialism?

  13. Air Disaster Avengers

    How would the aviation industry (and the tourism industry) differ if there had been a campaign of killings and bombings directed against the aircraft manufacturing and airline industries? The perps are relatives of air disaster victims, who are bent on bloody revenge for the loss of their loved...

  14. AH Challenge: Environmentalism viewed as a right-wing ideology

    In OTL environmentalism is heavily associated with the political Left, to the extent that right-wing rhetoric often describes environmentalists as "watermelons" (green on the outside, red on the inside)*. However, there is nothing inherently left-wing about environmentalism. Many...

  15. Organization of Food Exporting Countries

    Could the West have rendered OPEC impotent by setting up a rival food cartel in the 1970s: the "Organization of Food Exporting Countries" made up of the United States, Canada, Australia, Brazil, France and West Germany, whose remit was to embargo sales of food to the Arab world if OPEC got too...

  16. Carter doesn't botch the coal-to-liquids program

    With the Synthetic Fuels Act, the Carter administration offered subsidies to firms making liquid fuel from coal, in order to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil. Unfortunately, the bill only specified that coal be turned to liquid not that it had to be turned into internal-combustion...

  17. AH Challenge: Bosnia uses Arabic script

    How could the dominant language of Bosnia become Bosnian written in Arabic script? Preferably without Bosnia still being part of a Muslim empire ruled by non-Slavs...

  18. (OT?) Why didn't Hitler use CBW in 1945?

    Why didn't Hitler use chemical, biological and radiological weapons to kill as many Allied troops and civilians as possible in the final months of the war? Don't tell me he was worried about Allied retaliation - this was the man who gave the Nero Order after all...

  19. WI Fischer-Tropsch plants in Manchukuo?

    If the Germans had helped the Japanese establish synthetic oil plants in Manchukuo (which had plenty of coal), might this had meant that Japanese could run their war in China without imported oil, thus eliminating the need to attack Pearl Harbor?

  20. Apartheid Israel (not a DBWI)

    What if Israel had become the kind of state that Kalman Katzenelson advocated in The Ashkenazi Revolution, where Yiddish (not Hebrew - too Semitic) was the official language, and where non-Ashkenazim were denied the vote?
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