20th century

How could the Nepalese monarchy survive? Preventing the 2001 massacre is a must, but at that point Nepal was also dealing with a Maoist insurgency, and the country's development had been lagging for a long time. The country was moving towards parliamentary democracy in the late 50's, but King...

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, there were a few attempts by European Christians to settle in the Holy Land or Palestine, whether by the initiative of religious sects such as the German Templer Society or through settlement organizations such as The German Association of...

Generally, when discussing the aftermath of an Axis victory, there are three ideas that are generally thrown around: Nazi Germany achieves total domination over all of Europe, executes Generalplan Ost, and becomes more and more indoctrinated, ideological, and generally bizzare and evil, and...

The idea of a Hui "national homeland" sounds fascinating to me, especially after reading up on Tunganistan and the Panthay Rebellion. I would love to tackle the existence of such a state in a TL, but I'm not entirely sure how and why this state would form, nor in what time period. Hence why I...

What may happen to the Dodos (and what would they be called ITTL) and the wildlife of the planet, and who would take it?

For a bit of context, while thinking of some ideas of how to make the Solar Power Satellite program of the 1970s plausible, I figured that it would require the 1970s-era fears of the future to come true, to some extent. It was an idea born out of the energy crisis, of the dual shocks of the 1973...

1. Filipino First Policy (March 1957 – November 1957) After the death of President Magsaysay in March of 1957, the Nacionalista party was thrown into chaos on who they will nominate as president. Magsaysay was sure to be reelected in 1957 both the Nacionalista convention and the Philippine...

According to the Spanish diplomat F.E. Reynoso, in 1894 the Japanese offered to buy the Philippines from Spain for 40 million pounds sterling. However, according to Reynoso this offer was not accepted.[20] According to the scholar C.E. Russell, in 1896 Spain was rumoured to have offered to sell...

This is something of a storage and showcase thread for military-related things from my Sparrow Avengers universe. These all come from a 19th to 21st century timeline by me, inspired by the Crimson Skies setting, and inspired by a question I posed years ago. That question, aimed at frequent...

So we all know what happened to Mexico in the 1980s to Present : Under the PRI Dictatorship, it became embroiled in corruption and the wars with the Cartels then Vicente Fox and his successor made it worse, then we had the return of PRI with Npeto or whatever his name was, and now we have AMLO...

After WWII and after Tito and his party take power in Yugoslavia, let’s say he decides to split up Bosnia and Herzegovina between Croatia and Serbia with much of the Muslims going into the Serbian part of it. He does this as a way to placate both the Serbs and Croats since he fears that a...

IOTL, communist states never arose in western nations. Going against Marx’ predictions, the countries that would fall to communism weren’t highly industrialized capitalist nations, but rather countries with high populations of peasants such as Russia and China. It seems that the western country...

I came up with this idea for my TL I'm trying to piece together and thought it would be cool to how different things would if a few African States stayed independent besides just two countries. For the Boer Republics I'm obviously referring to Transvaal and the Orange Free State, Madagascar is...

Thought of some interesting post-war American expansion based on the map below, regarding plausibility: -Greenland- - It's well known that the Danish government was heavily opposed to a potential sale in 1946 however I believe that under different circumstances the purchase...

In OTL history, Russia's relationship with the Christmas holidays and the Christmas festive season has been complex. Especially in more recent modern history, of the last ca century or so. Traditionally, most Russian Christians have been Russian Orthodox, so it's no surprise that they celebrated...

In 1913, Ford had a prototype electric vehicle built and tested outside his Highland Park, and by early 1914, Ford had committed to building a low-priced electric car. Saying to the The New York Times on January 11, 1914: Ford invested $1.5 million ($31.5 million in 2020) in the electric-car...

Something I've wondered about, seeing a lot of TLs and discussions about an Axis victory in WW2, but few that take it all the way to its natural conclusion; Nazi Germany's eventual fall decades after the war (although far sooner than a thousand years). How it would come about, what it would look...

Is there a way to make the Dutch Empire stronger / larger but let WW1 still occure as OTL. I was for example thinking about a remaining Dutch Ceylon, but are there more possibilities? Your thoughts?

So let’s assume the United Kingdom of the Netherlands stays alive after 1830 because riots are ended quick in august/september 1830 so a wider revolution doesn’t occure. I think it is inevitable that the balance of power will shift to the Southern Netherlands. but then my question is: what will...

What would happen to South Africa if Germany won World War I? Would it have less British influence and more German or even Dutch influence, and become a sort of new Boer Republic or would the history of South Africa be totally similar as in OTL? How would the relations between SA and The...