world war 2

It's almost impossible to think of Moscow today without the towering figure of Vladimir Lenin dominating the city from the Palace of the Soviets. The design restarted an interest in Neo-Classical architecture that can be seen throughout Russia and former Soviet States to this day. Even the...

OTL 1938, Czechs introduced a 9 ton light tank on a very reliable chassis. By mid-War it’s 37mm main gun was out-classed by medium tanks, so 38T hulls were re-purposed as SP guns. Post-War, Sweden rebuilt theirs as Pbv 301 APCs/IFVs. WI Czechs updated 38T with sloped, welded armour and a wider...

What was the best possible glider-born, self-propelled a time-tank fun possible in 1944, given the 17,000 pound 7 tonne) payload of Hamilcar assault gliders? OTL Brits built tracked Tetrach and Harry Hopkins AFVs while Americans built a few Locust light tanks. They were armed - at best - with...

Basically, assume that British morale is broken after disaster hits their armies in the opening years of WW2. The BEF’s evacuation from Dunkirk is more of a failure, the Italian invasion of Egypt somehow does not have its momentum broken by Operation Compass, and the Luftwffe manages to incur...

The World War was the bloodiest conflict in human history, spanning nine years and claiming the lives of millions of people. The ideologies of liberal democracy, fascism, and communism waged war on one another in a multi-sided conflict. To understand what led to the World War, we must examine...

This has probably been asked before, but how likely would it be that Japan would get nuclear weapons during World War 2? Or, to what year would the war have to last for Japan to get nuclear weapons? This is assuming that nothing would change in what the Japanese did to get these nukes, and...

What would world war 2 look like with Italy now sided with the Allies? Does the war end sooner?

Make WWI or WWII include even more countries than they did in OTL. I don't know if a Hohezollern on the Spanish throne would mean Spain joining the Central Powers, but the thought is interesting.

As proven by the 1939 German annexation of Memelland, France and Britain felt fine ignoring Germany's territorial growth as long as the territory was small enough and the victim country was unimportant enough. So, what if Germany kept on with peaceful expansionism instead of invading Poland? For...

I am asking about the guy in the Sabaton song 4859. I read about him he had organized a resistance movement inside the camp and had escaped to try to get weapons from the Allies and the Polish Free Army. None came, but what if they did manage to get weapons into the camp? How successful do...

Based on the post by Nathan Bernacki in regards to hypothetical surviving Qing Dynasty, this time on World War 2. Based on information by Nathan Bernacki's and hypothetical surviving Qing Dynasty, assuming Qing China survives WW1 and hold on to their rule over China, With that being said, who...

I have read that the demand of unconditional surrender greatly assisted German and Japanese propaganda and helped prevent internal dissension since it helped the Axis powers to paint the Allies as intending to impose the harshest possible peace. Was it wise to make the demand? What might have...

I just discovered an interesting historical occurrence... between 1945 and 1948, the town of Haren in northwestern Germany, near the border with the Netherlands, was controlled by a Polish unit of the British army and renamed to Maczków. The existing residents were expelled, and a Polish...

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?