interwar period

I think it would be very likely, as Germany was incredibly vulnerable to foreign invasion, and if Poland fell, it would be logical to think that Soviets would soon come to the aid of the Communists in Germany, aiming to put a Bolshevik hegemony over Europe by force. The Entente might even make...

A Falangist victory would likely have Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera as the Caudillo or Prime Minister, but what other victory scenarios are there? How else would it go, given that the main players from OTL aren't as powerful as they would be ten years later. Assuming the same length ITTL, the...

The basic premise of the scenario revolves around the leaders of Hungary acting more competently and decisively in the closing days of WW1 and during subsequent events. I didn't yet work out the exact details, but one idea of mine is getting Károlyi Mihály appointed Prime Minister of Hungary...

I have found that my question didn’t have enough context to work with so until me and the boys(the community) figure this out, we are discussing different TLs and possible new TLs. Original text: After all my research I’ve done it seems a bit of a stretch that a war could break out. But let’s...

Mekertich Portukalian 14 October 1914 – 17 July 1915 Մկրտիչ Փորթուգալեան ميكيرتيجهپورتوكاليان (Armenekan Party – Supported by the Democratic Alliance) In early 1914, the Ottoman Empire finally managed to get some breathing room for itself. Victory in the Second Balkan War and the recovery of...

Basically Otto Hahn as head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, together with Lisa Meitner, in need of funds during the 1920s goes to the Reichsmarine with a tantalizing tale of a new power source for their ships. With the already felt delays until new capital ships can be laid down and the...

The first president of interwar Poland, Gabriel Narutowicz was elected with the help of the left and various minorities, much to the anger of the National Democracy and other right-wing movements. He was assassinated by one such right-winger in December 16 1922, after just five days in office...

As with all elections during the Old Republic, the 1930 presidential race was less a matter of campaigning and more of making alliances with the powerful oligarchic groups that controlled their respective states, thanks to rampant fraud. Júlio Prestes won this dispute easily, thanks in no small...

Stalin during the final days of Nikolai Yezhov's downfall as NKVD chief gets a brain haemorrhage and is out of action for a week, after said week in which a doctors assessment states that no further medical conditions are present, is physically fine, and is in full control of his mental...

POD: Austria-Hungary remains on the defence through 1918, the Italian Front doesn't break, and the Entente's advance on the Balkans is halted somewhere in Central Serbia thanks to Austro-Hungarian reinforcements and Entente logistical limits. (By this point, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire...

Historically, it was only because Wilson linked a potential US guarantee of France against Germany with the Versailles Treaty (which the Senate wouldn't accept without amendments), that the security guarantee was never put to Senate vote. Let's assume Wilson allows the issues to be separated. US...

Hi folks, I was reading @aaronupright thread and got an idea. So, let's keep most things from the WNT as historically, but with two changes. The first change, about the fortifications and bases in the pacific, lets have a clause that if Japan withdraws from the treaty system (historically...

After the WW1 the Austro-Hungarian empire collapsed with new countries emerging from its corpse. Two of them were Austria and Hungary. I propose a two scenarios where it is reformed (though not in its original state) in the interwar period. First is, that at the second attempt of Karl I. to...

So, this is something I've always kind of wondered but haven't found a solid answer for it. Most of the major navies in the interwar period built some form of battlecruisers, or at least had them available at the start of the war, except for the USN. Why is that? I know that the Lexingtons were...

Inspired by this thread: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/ah-challenge-after-armistice-day-1918-britain-decides-on-and-sticks-w-a-policy-of-lockstep-cooperation-with-france.525801/ OTL, during the interwar period, Germany naturally felt betrayed and humiliated by the treaty of...

In 1924-25 when the Iranians were hunting for a new monarch for the country, according to مسابقه برای یک سلطنت جدید a minor Iranian noble from Khorasan, Farhad Qademe Al-Malik was offered the Iranian throne. He was the last documented direct descendant of the Mikalid Dynasty, who were the last...

Obviously not exactly plausible but not impossible. Suppose that in a bizarre string of random accidents, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Francisco Franco, and Philippe Pétain die within the first week of 1924. What would be the ramifications of the premature deaths of all...

The PoD I had in mind was Hugo Eckener running for and winning the Presidency in 1932, though I'm sure there are plenty of other ways to save the Weimar Republic. So let's say it survives, and World War 2 is averted (I assume Japan won't strike against the US all on its own). Germany already...

So, the Weimar Republic was never the most functional of states but it did manage to limp along until Hitler and the Nazis seized power in 1933. But, what if it didn't? In the 1920s the government was dealing with a massive inflation crisis which caused it to default on its post-Versailles...

From 1920 - 28, the governments of Nepal, Bhutan and Tibet went through a period of pan-Himalayan ideas, and in 1926 a small conference was even held in Shigatse about creating a Federal Kingdom of the Himalayas uniting Bhutan, Tibet and Nepal into one single country. However the KMT threatened...