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Many Canadians know from their school's history course that France and England had colonial ambitions for the territory that's modern Elnugatia and fought Spain for fishing and land rights to it, ending with Spain victorious (albeit having to give up some its pacific ambitions, leaving it for...

In our world, we all know the first socialist state was created after the German victory in the Franco-Prussian war. While france was very well suited for a form of democratic socialism, it's not the only place a socialist state was tried. In Russia, there was a very little-known party that...

Otl, the reconquista has seen (christian) Iberia as a united nation since at least the 1200s, finally fully conquering the whole peninsula in the late 1300s with some north african change by 1422, largely completing its modern old world territories. But what if the iberian christian kingdoms...

OTL, the German Empire broke apart into several states again very soon after the war ended, due to the resentment of Prussia over the war, economic and political unrest. By 1919, Bavaria had been restored to the map, Silesia had joined Poland, the lands around the Rhine river were a republic...

Ioseb Jughashvili is widely considered to have been one of the most important religious leaders of the 20th century. But his life could very easily have taken a different path. While many have speculated how things might have changed had he decided to focus on becoming a poet, I'm going to take...

Otl, gunpowder was discovered independently in the byzantine empire, and in contemporary china, most dating the difference by only 70 years, in favor of China. In any case, the Byzantines were in dire straits, and Alexios Kommenos ordered as much development of the explosive powder into weapons...

Hey guys, I recently had a discussions with a comrade from the Free German Youth about how the world would look like if the fascist powers had won WW2 (or the great patriotic war, as the soviets call it). This gave me the idea of asking you, people on this forum, of what you think. If the axis...

OTL, James K. Polk got an offer he couldn't refuse- a yucatan rebellion that wanted to join the Union. Naturally, an expansionist southerner like him took the offer. Of course this mean he needed yet another free territory to keep the senatorial balance and prevent chaos in the north. So he...

As well all know, the USSR, formerly Russia, was not too happy about losing all that territory in Eastern Europe. This led to their infamous alliance with Nazi Germany that only stayed together thanks to the fact both nations wanted that parts of Poland that belonged to them before 1914. Japan...

In the late 2000s, Nickelodeon was reportedly working on a live-action movie trilogy that would be a big-screen adaptation of its hit animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender. But as I'm sure we all know, these plans never came to fruition. Why exactly it was scrapped remains a mystery...

Saw this on the Alien Space Birds forum, but I think it might be physically possible so I posted it here. Could the landlocked nation of Hungary ever have an admiral as the head of state? Aim for mid 20th century. Maybe there was some kind of river war on the Danube?

As we know, World War II was fought between two globe-spanning alliances: the Allies (primarily the Unites States of America, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, Free Bulgaria, and Argentina) and the Axis. The latter was made up of all the fascist powers in the world, from Mouvement France to...

Otl, a french ship seeking to trade with early spanish colonies in the caribbean (and maybe claim an island for the captain, Henry Caron, sources vary) blew off course, and landed in the rich lands of mesoamerica. Seeing all the gold laden cities as the Aztecs gave them refuge for a short time...

OTL, Germany has a long, complicated history, and like France or England, much of it was as a relatively decentralized state, with feudal lords being able to stand toe to toe with the King. However,, over the centuries, the Kingdom of Germany was able to centralize- indeed it had to become one...

Today's History Channel documentary is quite interesting, something about an alternate history where Nazi Germany for somewhat reasons breaking their cooperation with China in the late 1930s and getting closer with the Empire of Japan instead, which was theorized to somehow: * Made Japan...

Otl, after the abuses of the gilded age went on too long and for too little reform to be made, socialists all across America rose in revolution against the old system in 1899. Despite large numbers of volunteers from abroad, the revolutionaries won the day, and the old government capitulated...

OTL, despite some early successes, the Prussian military was ultimately repulsed by the Second French Empire and Bismarck's web of central european friends and clients dissolved as France marched for Berlin once more in the 19th century, as the French had modernized much more successfully than...

Today Japan is the world's second most powerful country behind the United States, it has been since the 1990's when the economists predictions in the 80's became true and Japan's economy and cultural influence rose more and more. But what if Japan had not become the second most powerful country...

I remember on another forum someone had a TL where they imagined a world where Avatar: The Last Airbender was an original Nickelodeon series airing from 2005 to 2008 and The Last Airbender was an insanely bad adaptation of it in the early 2010's. I mean, could you imagine if one of the best...

as said in the title, what if the united states of america goes westward?