pacific

WARNING: This map is fictional; therefore, it is fake, and not real. Events paralleling to ones in real life are considered purely coincidental. This althist map is not meant to be taken seriously; it is not meant to hurt others' feelings! Translations may not be 100% accurate...

What if NATO didn't just include the European Nations but Pacific, African and Asian countries (Japan, Australia and New Zealand) to form TOTO (Trans Oceanic Treaty Organization) or PATO (Pacific Atlantic Treaty Organization) to fight against the USSR? What would have to happen to and how...

So I'm making another Napoleon Victory timeline, this time focused on giving Napoleon the greatest plausible victory (definitely stretching the definition of plausible). The outcome is most of Europe remains under French rule (so no Dutch, Portuguese, or Spanish empires), the Russians so badly...

What would happen if the Japanese failed to capture Singapore and the Dutch East Indies during ww2. Let’s say before Pearl Harbour naval assets are transferred to Asia and more troops start arriving in the area (mainly Indians and Australians). The defence is also beefed up with more artillery...

In May 1940 just before the battle of France Halifax excepts the role of becoming Prime Minister. On the 22-23rd of May the Germans reach the English Channel and the allied forces are encircled. In our timeline Halifax believed Britain should make peace before the BEF was destroyed and he...

On the Island of Pohnpei, in Micronesia, there once stood a civilization called the Saudeleur dynasty. It had a centralized government, uniting the people of Pohnpei island, and ruled from around 1100s to 1628. Its famous accomplishment was its capital so impressive, it would be called in the...

In OTL, After the Spanish-American War, Spain lost the last of its once great empire, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and in this focus, the Philippines along with Guam to the USA. After this lost, it was left with only it's Pacific Islands, such as the Marianas, Palau, and the Carolines. Since these...

Kind of a long title, but I’ve seen several threads on hypothetical German renaming of places in the event of a victory in WW2, but I have yet to find a similar thread for potential Japanese renamings. Now, I’m not saying that the Axis would win World War II - that’s a discussion for another...

One of the recurring weakness of Japan I always saw mentioned in the WW2 threads is the weakness of its' logistic preventing or making very difficult operations such as a landing on Ceylon or Midway (after an hypothetical victory) or even just providing adequate supplies to its' troop on the...

How could Tonga, or a similar Pacific island nation, experience mass economic growth to where it could be included in the "Asian Tigers" like Singapore or Hong Kong? What are possible avenues of growth or general income?

The Great Mahele was one of the great PoDs of all time. Kamehameha III of Hawaii literally chose how the all the land in his kingdom would be distributed (in 1848), and also wrote new laws for land ownership. In his shoes, you could create communism, a theocracy, technically if he wanted he...

Hi everyone, long time lurker, new poster here! I want to preface this by stating that slavery and the slave trade are undeniably horrific acts. That said, both had an undeniable impact on history, particularly in the Atlantic world and I think examining the effects of a similar trade in the...

There have been a people who have asked for Pacific Oriented maps on the main thread but I have yet to see a good usable map, so I went trawling and did some work of my own. I have collected the ones I consider the best together here for anyone to use. Unlike the Q-Bam world maps, the Pacific...

This isn't what you think, I'm thinking of an alternate Japan that doesn't go down the path to war with the West, but that's not my point. How would the demographics/economics of Hiroshima and Nagasaki be different without the atomic bombs? Nagasaki never really reached the importance it had...

Operation FS, the Japanese invasion of the South Pacific islands, will likely always be the most ambitious military campaign ever attempted. The plan demanded that thousands of Japanese soldiers be transported as far as 7500km away from their home bases, to capture several islands including one...

Topics involving Kyujo Coup and Operation Downfall tend to saturate military forums, but bear with me here. During the coup, Korechika Anami sided with the Emperor's decision and chose not to back the plotters. Now, the most common WI is if Anami chose differently and sided with the plotters...

What sort of political scenario would be necessary in order for the peaceful unification of the British colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, West Australia, and Queensland into the Dominion of Australia in 1901 to be butterflied away? What sort of ramifications would...

So there's been quite a few Operation Downfall timelines and discussion, the invasion of Japan had they not surrendered. But I haven't seen many discuss the impact on East and Southeast Asia as a result of a longer war. And thus I'd like to hear people's thoughts on it. My knowledge is limited...

In 1843, due to claims that British citizens with in the Kingdom of Hawai'i were denied legal rights, the British Empire would occupy the Kingdom of Hawai'i for five months. Historically, it ended with peaceful negotiation and diplomacy by the Hawai'ians, but what if, in an alternate timeline...

I was pondering, what if the Baltimore Incident of 1891, which sparked a diplomatic crisis between the United States and a hostile Chile, had led to a naval war between both countries? There was a serious war scare at that moment, IIRC, and some of the US military staff advised a preemptive war...