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One day I started to think about the two world wars. Mainly World war 1. So when I was on the page, I saw the thread of "What if the American civil war turned into a world war?" And that really got me interested in alternate world wars. Earlier or later than it's specific timeline. I'm mainly interested in wars that could be escalated or involve other major powers. Some examples would be.

7 years war (My nickname is World war 0) involving more European powers, maybe the Qing, more Native American tribes, Japan, etc, just involve as many powers as possible.

American war for independence (Go crazy as hell guys)

Crimean war (involve as many as possible)

Napoleonic war (Try to get powers like the Ottomans, Japanese, Qing, Mughal, or America, and others)

American Civil war turns to world war (https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/ahc-american-civil-war-turns-into-a-world-war.355142/)

https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/russo-american-alliance.463/

Franco-Prussian war (Make this regional conflict a world war

Italo-Turkish war (I did a thread about Austro-Hungarian intervention, I wanna see if it can be escalated)

Paraguayan war (I don't know okay man)

Russo-Japanese war (dogger bank incident, Anglo-Japanese alliance, whatever you see fit)

Balkan wars? (First or second, Maybe British French, or German fears of a united Slavia, I'm not sure)

Russo-Persian wars

Schleswig wars (This one is pretty interesting)

Russo-Turkish wars

Sulieman's conquests (Maybe European powers like Russia intervene in the siege of Vienna or something)

Great Northern war

Opium war (Maybe get Other European powers like France, Russia, and other powers not wanting the British to dominate the Chinese market, and practically all of Asia, declare war on the British or something)

Boer wars (Maybe the U.S, or the Netherlands get involved, wanting to

Mexican-American war (This one should be hard, but if pulled off would be interesting

Anglo-Afghani war (During the Second war, Russia wanting to stop British expansion further into Turkestan, and scared of the British might decide to get rid of the threat altogether, and declare war on Britan, spilling over into the rest of Europe, and other parts of Asia)

Franco-Austrian war

Spanish conquest of Aztecs and Incas (I'm not sure if this accurate enough, but maybe get other European nations to declare war on Spain because of their conquest of the Natives.

Spanish Succession

Thirty Years War

Maybe, just maybe a war between Roman empire, Persians, which spills over to the Kushan empire, Indian kingdoms, and finally to China) If you're really ambitious.


Maybe just maybe A pre-Columbian World war in the Americas. it can be between any large Native American tribes or empires, but mainly I'd be interested in a possible war between the Incas, and Aztecs, involving various other tribes. (It's difficult, but I wanna see it be done)

maybe just maybe you could get a world war based on religion, or the Crusades? Ideas would be a World war due to the Crusades, or during the battle of the Talas river, the Tang and Ummayads fight each other and then getting Europe involved to try to reconquer Iberia, causing a world war based on religion, from China to the Ummayads, to the Europeans.

A timeline where various European, and Asian powers intervene in the Ming-Qing wars, to try to gain favour in the riches of China.

Spanish-American war

World wars post 1918

Antarctican war (War occurs over disputes in the Antarctic treaty

Chinese Civil war turns into World war









(Also Double points to whoever can make a world war the earliest.) If you make a world war in the 1700s, great job. 1600 you are amazing, 1500/Medieval age, you are an Alternate historian god, and if you can make it down even further from that? like the 100s, or even B.C JESUS CHRIST you are the god of gods
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