dbwi

The Bonaparte-Habsburg Entente between the French Empire and the Austrian Empire is seen as one of the most consequential military alliance of the 19th century. It helped to form a lasting peace in most of Western and Central Europe in addition to the Balkans with its role in shaping the modern...

Historically, Delta Airlines was a major airline for most of the 20th Century but a combination of incompetent leadership, a few unfortunate air crashes, and bad luck forced it to close its doors in the early 2000s after a steady decline throughout the 1990s, so, could Delta Airlines have...

Hi everyone, I know technically today is only the anniversary of the explosion of Reactor 4 at Chernobyl itself and that the steam explosion did not occur for another 2 days, but I was wondering, what do you all think would have been the consequences had it not occurred? For those who don't...

Even 58 years and three generations later, John F. Kennedy's assassination at the hands of Lee Oswald, George de Mohrenschildt, and Paul Gregory still looms large among americans, with a common conspiracy theory being only Oswald was responsible for the assassination, which evidence has time...

as all of you know the norse colony of vinland was highly influential to modern day history because the vinlanders introduced cow pox, European livestock and metal weapons and, cause of the introduction of medieval weapons advanced the native civilzations like the Mississippian civilization and...

OOC: This timeline is intended to be objectively better than our own, though it still has its issues. Please please please keep this in mind when replying. Okay, so Germany has been one of the most socially progressive countries in the entire world and has been since the 1920s, so I was...

What if the Southern Ming, which controls Southern China, from it’s capital of Fuzhou, collapsed? What if the Qing Dynasty hadn’t failed in conquering the South? How would a unified China stand in the 17th-19th century?

What if the quagga had never been domesticated?

Vladimir Lenin, as many of you might know, was a Russian revolutionary, Marxist theorist, founder of the Russian Communist party, and, until he was shot and killed by Fanny Kaplan, a member of the rival Socialist-Revolutionary Party, on August 30th 1918, the first leader of the Russian SFSR...

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union the United States and Russia have enjoyed a special relationship where all the hostility of the Cold War has become a thing of the past. Now both nations are allies in economic, security and cultural aspects. Of course this hasn't been of China's linking...

Ioseb Djugashvili stands as one of the most famous religious leaders in history. But the seminary he attended was notorious for producing radicals - especially Marxists. What if he had become a Marxist?

OOC The point of divergence is that the DAP breaks apart before hitler goes to inspect it Generald Hitler is more known as "that moustache guy" on the game hearts of iron 4, and he also appears on documentaries about the 1938 German-Polish war. There is a German documentary from the 1990s about...

OOC: TTL, Otto never conquered italy to create the HRE, so his Germany survived as a cohesive state that centralized like France or England or any other european kingdom) IC: OTL, King Otto IX of Germany was hesitant to fund colonization of the new world. Yes it could make Germany rich, but the...

Essentially, flipping Eurasia on its head. Instead of the Empire of the Four Saint Crowns, we have a number of nation-states and principalities dividing Europe between them, at least west of the Russian Empire. Similarly, instead of a collection mutually-jealous states, we have a united China...

Otl, the white army was able to defeat the Russian communist forces with some difficulties, and the Tsar was restored his throne with stronger limits on his power- somewhere between the Kaiser and the British King. Tsar Nicholas II died only a few years later from the turbulence and stress of...

One of the more curious aspects of the 'modern' League of Three Emperors were the marriages of the past two generations of Japanese royals. The Dowager Empress was born Grand Duchess Svetlana Alexeyevna Romanova, daughter to Tsar Alexei II of Russia, while the Empress was born Princess Cecilia...

Otl, the kievan rus were in the path of the mongol khans, but were able to largely survive the onslaught of the Khanates. But what if the Rus had fallen, exposing eastern europe to the hordes?

So, we all remember when Tecumseh's curse reared its ugly head again. I know I don't need to explain one of the more heartbreaking moments of recent history, but I will for the sake of the specifics of what I'm focusing on for the scenario: OTL, a few months after narrowly defeating Ronald...

OOC: while yes, ttl scandinavia united and became a mainstay empire, it's not just a flat out role-reverse with Britain, IC: OTL, the main colonizing powers in europe make sense- France, Spain, Scandinavia, Portugal, the Netherlands (kinda). But there is one glaring exception. One place in...

OTL, Luigi Sturzo is remembered as a hero of Europe, much like Churchill or, to a lesser extent Stalin. He was Prime Minister of Italy during WW2 and the lead up. Sturzo's government helped the Allies quite handily in the south against Turkey , who was aiming to reconquer the middle east and...