european history

This thread is a recreation of a compilation thread I originally posted on the 31st of October 2014. I consider this a historical reference and visual inspiration thread for writing about the era of the First World War, specifically the eastern front between Austria-Hungary and the Russian...

What if Winston Churchill had decided to call a general election in 1940?

“Catholic” here meaning those parts of Christiandom which sided with the Bishop of Rome over the Eastern Roman Empire in the Schism of 1054, or those religious sects splitting from said tradition.* No PoDs prior to the 14th Century. *OOC: What OTL would call Catholic or Protestant.

What if Labour had won the 1970 UK General Election as expected?

What if Michael Collins had survived the Irish Civil War?

This idea has been done before on this site, but I wanted to resurrect it just for fun. The purpose of this thread isn't to simply make a list of Presidents. Rather your challenge, should you chose to accept it, is to explain another poster's AH list of Presidents or Prime Ministers. Then you...

By 1978 the UK's economy was improving and it had been four years since the last general election, so Prime Minister James Callaghan's decision not to call an election was as a surprise to many at the time. He thought that the economy would improve further in 1979 and therefore waiting would...

I've always found it interesting to see how the 19th and 20th century brought republicanism to many countries so quickly. What events or combination of events would have made most European nations republics, not necessarily democracies, earlier on? A lack of unifying religion? No Roman Empire...

What if there was no Marshall Plan? Say the isolationists win out in the US, or the idea is dismissed as too expensive? What would happen to europe be in this TL? How would the cold war go, if it happens at all?

Historians routinely fault Alexander Kerensky for not withdrawing from WWI. Russia wasn't just losing badly, the war crippled the economy and millions of Russians were killed. When Kerensky kept Russia in the war and his offensive failed, popular support for his democracy evaporated and within...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunboat_War Presume if the Dano-Norwegian government had the manpower to build huge numbers of gunboats that were not only very manoeuvrable, but strong enough to resist multiple hits and able to stand rough seas. If this wasn’t enough, then please checkout my...

So I was wondering what you guys thought was the most pivotal, i.e. battle that affected Europe in the long run the most. Most basically changing the outcome of this battle is a POD that would see some of the most long term political changes. Now while the most obvious one is Milvian Bridge, as...

this is something i've always found an interesting alternate history; was actually theoretically possible. Also writing a novel with this essential premise, so I need some help. Here's the backdrop: Mehmed the conqueror led a few successful campaigns against the Kingdom of Naples, that are...

I'm starting this thread because one particular question concerning my own timeline bothers me a lot. To explain in detail: In a Europe where an alt-WWII was not as destructive and where the holocaust as we knew it in OTL didn't occur or occured only in a limited scope, what would European...

This might sound like a doozie, but here goes : How could we make falangism emerge in Spain, but earlier, become far more radical and non-isolationist, and then spread throghout a post-WWI Europe and mutate further ? In this TL, nazism as we know it never really rises and German interwar...

Hello, fellow allohistorians. I'd like to discuss the development of a somewhat larger (but not overblown) Maltese Air Wing post-Maltese independence in the 1960s. This is part of my tongue-in-cheek LOSERS project. The main POD behind the changes to the Maltese Air Wing is a somewhat higher...

Just a fun little idea I've been thinking about. There are tons of threads about alternate Israels and other ATL countries that post-diaspora Jews could call their home. But there's one other common Euroamerican nation that is similarly the result of a (relatively) recent diaspora from Asia and...

As with my older thread concerning a greater Icelandic standing military, I want to talk about the possibilities of a far earlier air force tradition in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg's military history. A tradition that leads to the existence of a proper (if small) permanent air force for the...

With a POD no earlier than the 1920s, try to ensure the creation of small, but official armed forces on Iceland. A defence force not that much bigger from the current one, but with a greater military capability, instead of just being a heavy-duty law enforcement supplement. Things I'd like to...