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  1. WI/AHC: Baader-Meinhof group leads a successful revolution in West Germany?

    It's 1977 and the group also known colloquially as the Red Army Faction (RAF) successfully inspires the proletariat/soldiers of West Germany to rise up after a series of attacks similar to the ones IOTL. What happens in the immediate aftermath? What sort groundwork would be needed to make this...

  2. WI: Longer Lived, More Aggressive Post-War Stalinist Russia

    Give Stalin another decade and let's make him more adventurous in his Post- War years. What sort've things might he have done if in that time frame? Effects on geo-politics?

  3. WI/AHC: European leaders converting to Islam to circumvent Church authority

    Basically I'm imagining a pre-Reformation (so between 850 - 1517 or there abouts) trend where European leaders realistically consider converting to Islam as a viable strategy to distance themselves from church power BUT without changing the outcome of Tours. Is this challenge even possible? If...

  4. If no atom bomb, do the Soviets push for more in the West?

    It's been argued that it wasnt the atomic bombings that forced the Japanese to surrender, but the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, Sakhalin, and the Kurl Islands that did. Let's consider this and say Japan's surrender occurs just like in OTL but without any atomic bombings. (Let's say the Manhattan...

  5. WI: Hitler gets into office but doesn't do anything

    This likely edges toward a Not-Lir scenario but even still, let's posit that Hitler obtains the Chancellorship but pretty much doesn't do anything of note while in office, maybe outside of the Enabling Act. He wouldnt be the first politician to over promise and underdeliver. Do you think he...

  6. Hitler Alive but Incapacitated after July '44 - German Surrender?

    Envisioning a scenario where Hitler gets put into a coma after the bomb explodes in his HQ. The plotters know he's alive but in a vegetative state. Do they still go ahead with the coup and surrender negotiations or do they opt for a different path

  7. PC/Poll: Had the Constitutional Convention Failed, Plausibile that Some US states opt to Rejoin the British Empire?

    Any thoughts on this? From my understanding it seems the Articles of Confederation was never supposed to be a long term arrangement between the former colonies. A more firm arrangement needed to be organized between the states if there was any hope for a union to be created. In this scenario...

  8. WI: Napoleon respects the Treaty of Amiens but still declares himself Emperor?

    The treaty that ended the War of the Second Coalition had a number of stipulations regarding checks on French power projection in Europe . However it also formally recognized the French Republic as the de facto government in power in Paris. At the time Napoleon held the title of First Consul but...

  9. WI: Harder 50s/60s Civil Rights Movement

    As it says, what if the post-WWII Civil Rights Movement was harder, more violent and destructive to the then social fabric of the US. Maybe not up to the point of a Second American civil war but a tier below that. What could you envision happening in this scenario and what sort've effects might...

  10. WI: Japan and the USSR fight a quick war after Barbarossa is launched but before Pearl Harbor

    Let's posit for a moment that it is Summer '41 and the IJA is seeking to blacken the eye of Stalin while at the same time save face after Khalkhin gol. The Wehrmacht has the Soviets on the ropes and the Far Eastern divisions have yet to be deployed west. We know the Japanese are a few months...

  11. WI: A Franco-Spanish United Kingdom (Post-War of Spanish Succession)

    The obvious POD would be a win for the French in the War of Spanish Succession but I'm more curious if it were possible to have a united Kingdom after OLTs defeat. Given the time crunch for the French Monarchy (at least for the Ancient Regime) I'd be open to possibly an Imperial union as well...

  12. Was there an existential fear of a united Germany?

    United as a single political entity. I haven't been able to find anything outside of pseudo historical mumbo-jumbo. It is interesting though that Germany remained disunited for so long

  13. WI: Liberal Germany post-1871?

    Good 'ol Otto ends up choking on some Bavarian sausage and keels over in 1872. What sortve political, economic, diplomatic course would the new empire take in his absence?

  14. Soviet Collapse Towards End of WWII

    Posit for the sake of this question that through sheer idiocy that the most important figures of the Politburo (maybe with some major Red Army commanders as well) all find themselves on a plane headed for Malta in late April '45; though unfortunately cruising at a perpendicular angle with the...

  15. AHC/WI: Ex-Confederates Deported Emasse

    The challenge is to have the Radical Republicans not only come up with the idea to deport (as opposed to other forms of punishment) Ex-Confederate soldiers and collaborators, but have the policy successfully be enacted. Where could they've realistically be sent to, and what sort've effects...

  16. Other options other than Case Blue?

    Not necessarily talking about a second push on Moscow, though that could be option here. I'm more or less wondering what, if any, viable options the Wehrmacht had after halting the Soviet counterattacks. It pretty obvious knocking out the Soviets was not going to happen, but maybe the front, at...

  17. If Russia and France rolled Germany in 1914, what would've the UK done?

    I'm thinking of a scenario where Germany doesn't march through Belgium and instead tries to go through France via Alsace (or maybe an East first strategy). Regardless, Germany get rolled and the French and Russians are marching their way toward Berlin. Would the UK have sat by to let the...

  18. Did Napoleon have to Invade Russia?

    We all know how the disasterious invasion of Russia went for the Grande Armee. Question I have is did it even need to take place? Couple things we know is that the Continental System was doomed to fail. Russia we going to leave, and smugglers made it impossible to enforce. As far as I can...

  19. What if the Original Disneyland was Segregated?

    Disclaimer: This isn't meant to start any animosity or conflict. Just a question popped into my head. What sort've effect do you think that a segregated Disneyland (at the time of its original opening) would've had on the legacy of Walt and Disney as a brand? I presume, much like Songs of the...

  20. PC: Population transfers within Yugoslavia

    Not sure Tito ever gave this a thought, but I'm curious of the plausibility for either attempted or successful population transfers occurring within Yugoslavia before Tito's death to help settle ethnic tension issues. Thoughts?
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