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    WI/AHC: Anglo-French rivalry revived in the interwar period

    There was some research being done on my part on the British radar system built to provide early warning for bombers coming to the home isles, and there was a particular line in the book I was reading that caught my eye, mentioning that the first of the radars were built in the southern United...
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    The Enemy of My Enemy | A World War Timeline
    Threadmarks: Prologue

    'An Appeal to the Common Sense' September 1st, 1939 A man of relatively average stature stands at the dais of the Palace of Nations in Geneva, his round, fleshy face, heavyset build, and simple but formal outfit making his presence stand out among the audience of delegates from states the world...
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    PC: Reagan Assassinated Means Longer Cold War?

    On March 30th, 1981, John Hinckley, Jr., fired a revolver six times at President Reagan as he was exiting the Hilton Hotel. President Reagan survived the attempt, and went on to forge one of the most enduring Presidential legacies in American history. But what if the shooter had been...
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    The Enemy of My Enemy | An Interwar TL

    Ch 1. - “His Superfluous Excellency” "[the Office of Vice President] is one anomalous insignificance and curious uncertainty." - Woodrow Wilson, c. 1885 in his book “Congressional Government”. The typical newspaper headlines the week following October 2nd, when President Wilson passed of a...
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    A Cont'd Cold War in the 2000's

    How does a continued Cold War in the 2000's, with a POD of an alternate succession in the Eighties affect the major events of the early 2000's, including but not limited to: Bush v. Gore, proxy wars around the globe, the rise of Putin, domestic policies of either nation, to name a few.
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    AHC: The Eighties Never End

    Given the recent cultural reflection of an Eighties revival, the challenge in this is to create a scenario in which the Eighties, with its characteristic tentative optimism, heightened Cold War tensions, and flashy consumerism, never truly ends on the night of December 31st, 1989.
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    German Plan for an Eastward Offensive c. 1913?

    While reading Barbara Tuchman's classic on the first days of the Great War, The Guns of August, I came across mention of a plan that Germany had archived in the year of 1913 by the OHL regarding a German offensive focusing on the Russian behemoth rather than its smaller but nimbler French...
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    When/how exactly did cavalry die out?

    In books talking about the development of armor as a replacement for horse driven cavalry post-WW1, they never specify when horse cavalry was fully phased out of militarized, especially in Europe. One can assume by a certain time period everything will be fully mechanized, but what if you are...
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    Can someone explain the OHL structure to me?

    I'm having trouble finding a decent explanation on how Germany's OHL worked and who was who at the outbreak of war. I'm also curious how the structure worked. Help?
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    How would Japan react to a Central Powers victory?

    As it says on the title: How would Japan react to a Central Powers victory? Political repercussions, or economic drawbacks? What about their territorial ambitions in East Asia? Would they go to lick their wounds with their tail between their legs, or would they have a fury and ambition harsher...
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    PC: Is it possible to keep Frederick III alive?

    I know he had larynx cancer, but is there any possibility that he might survive, thus averting a war in the near future?
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    PC: Defeat at Vicksburg means stalemate?

    I'm writing a TL where a Union defeat at Vicksburg leads to mass casualties, or at least heavy ones, on both sides, and eventually both the Union and the Confederacy collapse under the weight of the war, each one suffering their own secessions and miniature civil wars. How plausible is his?
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    PC: CP victory in early 1915 averts Depression?

    Hypothetically, if a more efficient Schlieffen Plan succeeds, allowing a Central Powers victory in 1915, could the Great Depression have been avoided, or accelerated?
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    The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend - An Alt Interwar TL

    THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY IS MY FRIEND Introductory Vice President Thomas R. Marshall as of October 7th, 1919. Vice President Marshall sat at his prescribed desk in the Vice President's office, trying to focus on the papers given to him by Colonel House in lieu of an ailing President Wilson...
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    How to make French/British interwar tensions increase to the point of war?

    After the Ruhr Crisis, Anglo-Franco relations were at a new low. The Coalition government in London shunned France for its aggressive tactics and sympathized with the Germans. The French, hoping to secure the support of the British in this move, were disappointed and in the end faced...
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    AHC/WI: Formation of "pioneer republics" west of the Appalachians

    What if something caused groups of formerly American pioneers formed independent republics west of the Apps? How would the U.S. react?
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    WI: Marshall Plan-like operation following collapse of Soviet Union

    What if following the collapse of the Soviet Union an economic plan similar to that of the Marshall Plan was instituted in Eastern Europe? Would Eastern Europe be in a better position than OTL? Is it economically feasible?
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    All's Fair in Love and War

    All's Fair in Love and War Prologue The photograph most prominent in the mourning of NSDAP Party leader, Adolf Hitler. It is the 20th of September, 1931. Germany, a once proud land, is now faced with issues of poverty and inflation as the economic collapse comes to its end...
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    WI: France never loses Haiti?

    What if France quashed the Haitian revolt and kept the island? How would they have done that? How would it have affected the Louisiana Purchase?
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    AHC: Have Brits keep the southern colonies, make northern colonies more federalized

    Your challenge is to create a legit scenario in which the British Crown gets to keep the southern colonies (Virginia and down) and the remaining northern ones become somewhat of a militarized federal government, with the POD being in the later years of the war. Bonus points if the north is led...
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