expansionism

So picture the 13 colonies gaining independence in the American Revolution, but instead of ratifying a new Constitution to replace the Articles of Confederation, the disagreements over the Bill of Rights are too great to be overcome and the federal experiment ended right there. Suddenly all the...

One common thing with Alt-Hist I noticed is notion of inherent talent to certain historical people or their irreplaceability as either someone pulling off what they did is impossible or at least very unlikely, with history ending up completely different if they werent where they were Meanwhile...

Great Britain and Germany, with the exception of the Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty, were largely antagonistic with each other. They called each other despots and imperialists, yet they shared much in common. Germany had the potential of Great Britain, but repressed itself to minor colonial...

Okay, so, in OTL, most countries got out of their "I want to build an empire and fuck anyone who doesn't like that" phase in the mid-1800s, after imperialism and colonialism proved conclusively to be a crapshoot, although... well, the German Unification was still a thing, but that was more...

So, I don't think I really need to explain this too much, but, just in case, I will. Historically, the five kingdoms of the British Isles (for those of you who think of Britain as a single entity, which it technically is, but it's an "Imperial Federation" divided into five "Kingdoms", each with...

What if Japan was not expansionist pre and during World War Two? What if they just accepted their empire and didn't anymore for some reason. Would America still enter the war? And with full focus on Germany how would their downfall play out? Or would it? Would nuclear weapons be developed as...