world war 2

During the Interwar Years, there were quite a number of attempts to restore the Habsburgs to their thrones in either/both Austria and Hungary. In the 20's Blessed Karl I of Austria and IV of Hungary personally tried to take over Hungary in the 20's. In the 30's Chancellor Engelbert Dolfuss took...

I can kinda see this happening if Operation barbarossa happens a few months earlier. The Germans have more time before winter arrives so they have more of an advantage. So if they successfully took Stalingrad, what next?

Let's say the Dunkirk evacuation is a total failure. Very few (if any) British soldiers make it home and the rest are either captured or killed. What would have happened? Would Britain be knocked out of the war? Or would the brits fight on, but severely weakened? And if Britain Surrenders...

The POD that America remains completely neutral. So no Lend-Lease to the Allies and no Embargo on Japan. In the Europe Nazis capture Moscow seperating the Soviet transportation from Northern, Southern and Eastern Russia. This results in those seperated regions being conquered one by one and Nazi...

Opinions on the fall of France in 1940 are greatly divided. The two main camps, as far as I can see, are as follows: Camp 1 holds that the fall of France was a pure fluke. Manstein's plan even being implemented and the Ardennes offensive happening at all were rather unlikely, and it was only...

The idea here is quite simple: whether through being better politically connected or being protected by someone else or even just luck, Mikhail Tukhachevskiy and Vladimir Triandafillov managed to survive the purges and more importantly, their Deep Battle Doctrine becomes adopted and the standard...

What sort of circumstances would it take for the Greco-Turkish war which essentially was won by Turkey and was a catastrophic defeat for Greece, to more or less end in a stalemate? I'm thinking Greece keeps East Thrace and keeps some of the hinterland surrounding Smynra in the region (a much...

This basically a story where a german general is as good as Hannibal Barca (ie, he can beat back armies twice his size while only breaking a sweat). The war till stalingard is mostly the same except France falls a weak quicker because our OC general having dealt French a terrible defeat in...

I'm new to this forum, but a big fan of those low-effort, synoptic readings of various alternative histories on YouTube. I'm especially fond of the WWII subgenre and have played some strategy games that have peaked my interest in studying 19th century history. I tinkered with this idea for a...

España No Ha Muerto “We are confronted by the twin dangers of Bolshevism and Masonic-Plutocrat capitalism. The spirit of both is Judaic. But the Spanish people already know how to deal with this menace. We have defeated it once before on the battlefield, and we shall do so again. And this...

Generally, when discussing the aftermath of an Axis victory, there are three ideas that are generally thrown around: Nazi Germany achieves total domination over all of Europe, executes Generalplan Ost, and becomes more and more indoctrinated, ideological, and generally bizzare and evil, and...

It's no secret that pretty much every Axis victory in World War II was due either to allied incompetence, sheer dumb luck, or both. Once these factors ran out the Axis lost and lost badly, getting their asses kicked. The Fall of France perhaps exemplifies this best. Due to the French outright...

Wikipedia: "Kamikaze (神風, pronounced [kamiꜜkaze]; "divine wind" or "spirit wind"), officially Shinpū Tokubetsu Kōgekitai (神風特別攻撃隊, "Divine Wind Special Attack Unit"), were a part of the Japanese Special Attack Units of military aviators who flew suicide attacks for the Empire of Japan against...

Hermann Göring, leader of the luftwaffe, nazi party and the most important ally of Hitler, later chosen as his successor. The man had some serious flaws, crippled the luftwaffe through a number of ways one of which was favoritism of Messerschmitt and so on. But what if Hermann wasn't in charge...

Specifically, what if the only managed to arrive to the outskirts/limits of cities such as Rivne, Vilnius, Minsk, Odessa and others but never conquer them but don't manage to "go beyond them" and take the same territory they managed to do so in our world ? What would be the consequences with the...

What if there was German government-in-exile during World War 2 that aided the allies? Say Hitler cracks down harder on the German royal houses than in OTL, and one of them flees the country. This happens in 1939-1940. A lot of Germans who fled in the interwar years join the Free German army...

Your challenge is to have as many possible world wars, with a soft 1900 POD though shortly before would be acceptable too... Just how many earth shattering conflicts can you concoct? Is the world more or less developed by the end of it all, or are we currently in a new stone age? Looking...

French Ministry of the Navy, Hotel de la Marine, May 5th, 1929 It is a mildly hot day as French Minister of the Navy Georges Leygues stares at the pile of papers before his desk. The reorganization of the French naval force is in full swing, and there is still much to be done. Indeed, a...

I am planning on uploading a story that continues after the end of the SS-GB show. It would focus on Archer’s efforts to further undermine German occupation of Britain as well as international developments. Will explain more soon, but I have ideas regarding the situation of British Jews, the...

I read once that, had the Enola Gay crash landed, there was a chance that the atomic payload could detonate in the explosion. This is not true of Fat Man or subsequently developed nuclear warheads. Unfortunately I cannot track down where I read this information, but for the sake of ALT history...