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(Preface: I am new to the forum, and I thought it would be fun to join because I've recently been becoming a major alternate history nerd. I love the idea of world-building, and especially building a world based off of an alternate timeline of our own. I've been coming up with this timeline for...

On a scenario that Japan does not expands further after WWI, with the Mukden incident being butterflied, what would be the major changes on the rest of the world? And what about the japanese monarchy, would the emperor still keep it's pre 1948 status?

Disclaimer: I was writing this for the 'Top Video Games Never Made' thread but my post was getting more and more ambitious, so I decided to make my own thread on this. Title: Company of Heroes 2 Developer: Relic Publisher: THQ Release Date: October 2013 THQ, going into the 7th Console...

In short, Gregor Strasser was a Nazi member high up among the party but more to the left of Hitler, i.e. he didn't view Jews from a racial ethnic inferioriority perspective but rather from an economic anti capitalist manner, and I don't remember where I read it but he also might have been open...

I’ve been doing some reading and I found this write up about how most of the Allied tank casualties came from Stugs, Pak 75mm guns, and anti tank mines rather than Panzers. http://ftr.wot-news.com/2013/12/26/on-allied-tank-casualties-in-the-eto/ So should Germany have focused on producing less...

So here’s the scenario: In 1939, The French occupy the German city of Saarbrucken like in OTL, entering Germany on September 7. But then, Warsaw holds out just long enough to breach the German lines by September 29 and never surrender (the POD). With the battle for just one town still at a...

What if instead of pushing to Stalingrad and the Caucasus and attempting to take Baku, the Germans pulled back to the Dnieper and Daugava rivers and tried to hold that as long as possible? How long would it take for the Soviets to push back successfully? A potential scenario: Germany still...

In our TL, the military surrender of Germany was signed on 7-8 May of 1945. But what if things had been a little different? What if the war had lasted a couple months more? What must happen differently for Germany to resist the advance of the allies on two different fronts? Keep in mind that...

Okay, so a thought I had earlier today: My AH question regarding this -- with no PoDs prior to 1944, and preferably later PoDs to earlier ones, how could the legacy of Nazi Germany by 2000, in Europe and/or the United States, have been more akin to the legacy of the CSA in the US by 1920...

General idea here -- assuming PoDs following the election of FDR to his third term, how would the Presidential Election of 1944 play out if Nazi Germany and/or Imperial Japan either had effectively won or were winning their respective wars? Now, I realize full well that further details of our...

O child of Finland, don't give away your lovely land! For the strangers' bread tastes bitter, and their words are coarse Their skies, days are without light, their hearts are strange to you O child of Finland, don't give away your lovely land. O child of Finland, your land is beautiful...

With a POD no earlier than September 1st, 1939, make it so that Germany has land east of the Oder Neisse line by the end of the Second World War. Bonus points if East Prussia is kept in its entirety.

I'm kicking around the idea of a world that never had the Cold War happen after WWII ends (mainly with Stalin dead and replaced by a reformist fellow like Beria in spite of the odds and FDR living), and that many of the allied powers engage in a series of disarmament campaigns (yet still have a...

What would change about history if the 2nd Sino-Japanese War became popularly referred to by the Chinese as a Holy War sometime after the US enters the war (to prevent the US Neutrality Act from affecting them by an earlier declaration)? This question came up for me when I had an epiphany while...

The Crucible of Absolution Chapter 1: An Unlikely Führer May 7, 1945 The Führer is dead, he and his love, Eva Braun, thrown into a ditch to burn so as to spare them from the humiliation the Soviets would treat them with, dead or alive. He had been slowly losing it for several years, with...

Forward. Over the last number of years Alyska had appeared frequently in the news as the civil war unfolded before the eyes of billions via the power of television. With the recent reunification of the country under Catherine III following the bloody Yukon campaign and Posadka Siege many...

Quick question: Say the Kjujo coup succeeds and the U.S. goes forward with Operation Downfall. If General MacArthur were to be killed at some point during the operation, say by a kamikaze attack on his headquarters, does Admiral Nimitz automatically take over as Supreme Commander? Or do they...

It's a fairly common notion of Valkyrie timelines and OTL to an extent where the German forces primarily defend against the Red Army in the East. Is there any post-Barbarossa situation where Germany would instead dread the West at all costs and focus all attention on the West? Bonus points if...

What if the US stayed neutral in WW2, leaving Britain as the sole democratic country remaining in Europe fighting against the Axis; yet the British still win the war, leading to them (along with resurrected France) dominating Europe afterward? As a bonus challenge, have the USSR temporarily...

Firing from the blimp on a submarine that you spotted with radar in the dark night, what sort of gun can you penetrate it with? And I mean punch holes in the pressure hull that prevent it from diving. 20mm Oerlikon? 25mm (e.g. Hotchkiss, it's terrible as AA, but might be adequate for...