world war 2

The most likely year for that to happen is in 1944 when there are the infamous Wolf's Lair plot against Hitler and the lesser known Operation Zeppelin attempt against Stalin which was set to occur during a celebration. It can be that after the anti-Hitler coup is successful the new German...

AH.com has already had many arguments and discussions and rants about why Operation Sealion was a hopeless endeavour (which i totally agree on), but, oddly, i haven't seen as many discussions on the unlikelihood of German success in Operation Wacht am Rhein, also known as the Battle of the Bulge...

So, I've been reading around and I've found a very interesting piece of history. According to this historic journal, the weeks previous to the Munich conference were among the most perilous for Adolf Hitler's position as Fuhrer. Many people feared that his intentions to acquire the Sudetenland...

We've had a few threads about other countries adopting semi-auto rifles and threads about america adopting different rifles/cartridges; so what happens if America's semi-auto rifle program flops sufficiently hard to leave America with no semi-auto rifles, and no plans drawn up for their eventual...

Basically the hypothetical German victory over the USSR but with the ideologies reversed. Is it possible for a Communist Germany to defeat a Fascist Russia, assuming it doesn't join the Allies? Perhaps a larger communist expansion before the war? Or they form an alliance to get rid of their...

I have been searching for any fan continuation of the song hinted at in the Worldwar series by Harry Turtledove. The only canon lyrics are When the fleetlord say, "We'll rule this world from space," We - hiss! hiss! - right in the fleetlord's face. The fleetlord thinks the Earth is for the...

I’m not sure if anyone has already made a thread about this. Anyone interested about a thread about Amazon’s series and book?

Ignoring the technical plausibility of the German secret service managing to infiltrate Skorzeny into Iran... what if the alleged Operation Long Jump (Unternehmen Weitsprung) of late 1943 had been successful in murdering at least the Soviet leader, Stalin? What are the short-term consequences...

What if Germany had designed their tanks to be less maintenance heavy and more like the panzer three and four? Torsion bar suspension system instead of an interleaved suspension? How would German tanks be like? How would this influence the allies? How easier would for the Germans now that their...

With a series of PODs as far back as 1890-1910. Have a continental war in World War I or World War II (or both) where most countries on the American continent face each other with wars in Afro-Eurasia and Oceania. An example would be: - Allies * United States * Canada * Mexico * Chile *...

Surfing the internet I found these French comics on a scenario where France decides to continue the war and an undeveloped website that apparently is the antecedent of the idea. Does anyone know more about these comics?

During the second world war the german army gambled on an invasion of france through the Ardens forest. Unfortantly for them French spies had relayed the entire plan to the French army and gave the French military at least 3 weeks to prepare for the invasion. When the german's came the French...

Hello all! This is a thread for a timeline that me and a friend of mine have been working on for a while now, which has a large amount of maps made for it. This is the world in 2019

In 1940, FDR was under pressure to run for a third term as President. But in keeping with Washington's precedent, he declined to do so. What if Franklin Roosevelt had run for a third term?

Here's a timeline I'm surprised historians on this site haven't brought up how would World War 2 have gone down if America's attempt to keep South America neutral or join the Allies backfired and Brazil joined the Axis Powers

Your challenge, if you accept it, is to create a world in which Nazi Germany wins World War II, but after that is in a Cold War with the other superpower - the Soviet Union.

So what if Hitler decides to wait untill after he defeats Britain to try and achieve liebenshram, and takes the advice of his generals, and doesn’t declare war on the US after it declares war on Japan? Does japan fall quicker? Are nukes still used? How does the war in Europe go? Does Germany...

A challenge: With a WW2 PoD anytime after the beginning of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, how can we craft a scenario whereas Nazi Germany fails in its grand strategic goals, but survives in Germany (perhaps with a few puppet states) after a successful defensive effort or negotiations with...

In the manga/anime series, quirks are common place. Izuku Midoriya's mother is listed as a 4th generation quirk user, and is close to 40. This means quirks appeared sometime between the American Civil War and the late 1920s. I want to know how different their world is. WW II hashed out with...

Suppose Operation Felix happened, either because Franco was more willing to join the war or because Canaris wasn't working against the Nazis. Could this have led to the Axis taking Gibraltar? If they did, how would that have hurt the British and Allied war effort?