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this is next to impossible considering how entrenched the republicans and democrats became at the turn of the century, but it could be done, you merely need the 2 parties to fracture enough, say in the 1912 election, as an example, both the republicans and democrats are split (wilson doesn't get...

Pretty much as the title says. IOTL the War of 1812 had a good chance of being averted since the British had already decided to remove their trade restrictions, but the news arrived too late. Your primary challenge is to avoid the War of 1812, and your secondary challenge is to make DeWitt...

Due to US backing, the difficulty for a PLA naval landing, and the existence of Nuclear Weapons, the “long game” has been the policy of the CPC. Can the PRC, without military conquest, achieve a political union that affirms CPC dominance and Chinese unity while preserving some local system...

The challenge here, should you choose to accept it, is to have the 1920 Presidential Election lead to the two major Parties falling out of favor and being replaced by a Conservative and Progressive Party. A starting off point for this could be at the convention for the Democratic Party, a...

POD can go as far back as necessary, considering the challenge. I was inspired reading a few threads about some alternate migratory groups to England, and thought if this would be even possible. Have a majority of England speak a Finno-Ugric language, and (optionally) how would you see this...

A thread based off the List of Alternate Monarchs and Aristocratic Lineage, AH Royal/Imperial/Noble Titles Game and AHC: Form alternate/new ethnic groups of the world, and piggybacking on the AH Cuisine and Culinary Practices and slightly based off the Cuisine of the Confederate States of...

The 2008 Great Recession hit the world hard and changed politics drastically. However, it wasn't bad as it could've been, such as a second Great Depression. What if the Second Great Depression hit in 2008? What would be the chain of events to lead that to happening. Your challenge is to show...

This is probably a highly unlikely scenario, but I'm curious to see what comes up. Starting around the 1900s or some time after, the challenge is this: What series of events would need to occur such that fossil fuel use has been significantly, if not entirely, phased out, at least in America if...

Okay, so we have another America scenario today Our basic goal is twofold: Make the American Civil War last longer Get more factions involved, either by creating splinter factions or by foreign intervention How do we accomplish this?

It's probably not at all controversial to say that Sonic the Hedgehog has had a pretty rough time of it since Sega left the console market. That's not to say every game he's been in from 2002 on has been bad, but the blue blur's definitely had a lot of rough patches, with plenty of his games...

Your challenge, should you choose to accept is, with a POD no earlier than 1901 and later than 1929, have a Communist Revolution led by William Z. Foster succeed, leading to the creation of the Union of American Worker Republics (U. A. W. R.) at some point in the 1930s. What happens from there...

Just need a few ideas for a plausible way to unite the low countries under a nation that has Frisian as the most spoken language. POD can be any year, it just has to be something that lasts into the modern age as well. Bonus points if it owns land down to Alsace, if plausible.

The Prussians were a Baltic tribe that inhabited the region known as Prussia. Proudly pagan, they were able to fend off the forces of Christendom for longer than most. But while they held out for a while, they couldn't hold out forever, and they were eventually subjugated and assimilated by the...

It is widely acknowledged that it was the Progressive movement that largely led to the death of the Socialist movement in the United States, with the death of the Pro-gold conservatives in the Democrats and the rise of Progressives in both parties being a major factor in this happening. The...

Just like what the title says, your challenge here is to have Sega be a more major player in the handheld market with their Game Gear, to the point of being a actual opposing threat to Nintendo and their Game Boy.

Considering the news about recent events over the past year regarding the animation industry, I decided to make this thread as a way to explore, experiment, and discuss animation, specifically about what has gone wrong, and also what can go right. With no changes from before January 1st, 1901...

The term "Sea Nomads" (or, somewhat more pejoratively, "Sea Gypsies") refers to a number of different ethnic groups mostly concentrated in Southeast Asia, though the Tanka people of southern China and the Jalia Kaibarta of eastern India have also been labeled as such. While these peoples are all...

South Asia is a region with over a billion people. It's also a major cultural salad bowl, and this is reflected in the wide variety of languages spoken there. Represented language families include Indo-European, Dravidian, Austroasiatic, Sino-Tibetan, and Andamanese, among others. However...

Indigenous to Southern Africa, the Khoisan are group made up of the pastoral Khoekhoe and the hunter-gatherer San. They've had a pretty rough time of it, between the Bantu expansion, smallpox epidemics and colonialism, and they still suffer from serious problems today. Your challenge is to put...

Okay, I know this topic was discussed several times, but I would like to start a new one because I came here relatively new. Basically, after the POD of 3rd century, I am wondering how to make China collapsed, broken into multiple countries, and never to reunite after invasion of barbarians...