post-ww2

What if during October 1945 Stalin offers Truman control over North Korea in return for Stalin taking Schleswig-Holstein. For whatever reason Truman accepts. How would elimiating the DPRK and giving the DDR ascess to the Atlantic alter the cold war.

IOTL, the process of denazification was largely abandoned by Adenauer in the west, and while the east was firm in its anti-Nazi rhetoric, they largely stopped the process in the early fifties. How could denazification be taken more seriously post-1946 (when the Allied nations largely left the...

As people on this forum might be aware, Japan underwent an intensive, but not complete reconstruction following their defeat in WW2. By the time the Cold War picked up, reconstruction progress has virtually stalled. Despite having a constitution that bans them from having an army, only a...

Having guided the nation through the Great Depression and led it to the cusp of victory during World War Two, Franklin D. Roosevelt had--time and again--proven himself as an insurmountable candidate, having won all four times that he ran for office and building a legacy as one of America's most...

Chapter 1: Unternehmen Weitsprung Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran 29 November 1943, 11.04 General Secretary Joseph Stalin entered the room, looking at President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill as he greeted them and sat down on the chair. The looks the three men exchanged reflected...

Hi, this is my first ever alternatehistory.com timeline, I hope you like it. The idea behind this was to create as many new states in the former Soviet Union as possible, semi-realistically, without changing the general course of history very much. There are various points of divergence, the...

Shortly after WW2, Stalin proposed to the Western allies the idea of a united Germany, with the condition that the resulting state would not join neither NATO nor the Warsaw Pact. Due to fears of Stalin's deal being a plot, and the threat of German communists potentially subverting the neutral...