Interesting AH ideas that aren't commonly used
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What about the Soviets doing much better than they did against the Nazis?
It seems like something that should be more common.
It seems like something that should be more common.
I think a underrated idea is that of one a Cold War between a socalist block a hardline authcom block and a facist block
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What do you mean by "one between"? No offense, but it could mean everything from a cold war to an underwater basket-weaving contest.
Although one would expect to see positives from a more successful Reformation, one interesting point is that a more successful Reformation would likely have meant a more divided Europe by the different denominations, given that the Protestant Churches are much less centralised than the Roman Catholic Church.
This has begged me the question: would a more divided Europe have been less able to resist Ottoman jihad in the seventeenth century, and would Vienna have been captured??
In actual history, there was never preindustrial contact between Protestant states and Muslim jihadis. If the Ottoman jihad moved into Australia and then a Protestantised Bavaria, it would have become a much larger threat to Western expansion than the actual Ottoman Empire ever was. With the Ottomans in control of (parts of) Germany, the Orthodox Churches would be even more threatened than they were in actual history, as they would have been attacked from the west as well and the south and east. I am not even sure a unified Germany would have countered this possibility.
Asking whether the Ottoman Empire have become a much longer-standing superpower with a more successful Reformation and/or a less successful Counter-Reformation is in my view very worthwhile.
On the other hand it is interesting to see what effects there would have been in the Western Hemisphere of a more successful Reformation. If Europe was fighting Ottoman jihad for much longer, a wholly Protestant Western Hemisphere might have been able to develop much more rapidly and uniformly. The natural-resource-poor Central American nations would likely have been the largest long-term beneficiaries, because economic structures that even today prevent industrialisation even with dense populations and almost no natural resources might have been much weaker.
In racial policy, the Germans and other continental Northern Europeans tended at the time of African colonisation to be more stringent than the British or especially the French and Italians (see Sundown Towns by James Louwen for an illustration of this in a different context). Thus, German (or Dutch) rule of Africa would likely have given greater powers to a while elite than actual rule by the British or French. Quite likely, mass genocides like that in the Belgian Congo would have been more frequent and deadly, for example.
I do not see much difference, except that possibly all of Germany and Austria would have become Communist states.
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I think your giving the Ottomans way too much credit. The Ottomans was already extremely overextended and at their limits. Taking Vienna would prove to be far worst then losing in OTL.
Ottoman victory in Vienna would be another nail in their coffin, win the battle but lose the war if you may.
It would be far less jihadi in anycase since Europe would rally just kick them out hard in quick order.
Bavaria as Lutheran would see Catholicism holding out in the Rhineland diminishes seriously. Continuing greater Danish and Dutch influence in Northern Germany. Holy Roman Empire dies.
Polish Reformation would probably see it be a Syncretism of Catholicism, Protestantism, and Orthodoxy, all in relative peace.
Ireland is possible if Henry Frederick Stuart lives. Henry was described as "an obdurate Protestant" with strong Calvinist leanings. One can easily imagine him devoting considerable effort to suppressing Catholicism in Ireland. (Plus no English Civil War.)
I very much doubt Spain could go Protestant. (Not when they spent all those years fighting the Muslims in Reconquista.) If anything, Spain would be an 'island of the Catholic Church' and dominate it.
Some polity other than the Merina Kingdom unifies Madagascar. Alternately, Madagascar never unifies.
What about my idea of Spain suffering violent revolution that has taken an inspiration from French Revolution due to continued severe economic problems as well as mismanagement in which Spain itself had ended up like France were revolutionaries had established republican-style government and the remaining members of the royal family might fled to Spanish colonies overseas?
It's all up when and where. This seem to take place after the Napoleonic Wars, so Cuba? The Philippines?
No, New Granada due to intense suppression of Spanish American independence movements and forced to accept the constitution and further renouncing claims later on.
If Spain itself falls, the rest of the Colonies would go and go independent as it was in the Napoleonic Wars with the Juntas.
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Stealing ideas from: Better Outcome in the Philippines Defense - Dec 1941, using the POD that MacArthur gets sacked quickly in December.
- Mac is reassigned to China (instead of Stilwell). How does that play out? How does he work with Chiang, Mao, other Allied commanders in the area and back in Washington
- Mac gets sent/banished to Alaska in early 1942 for a review of defenses in the region. The timing of his visit could be an interesting issue.
Stolen ideas from: Libertad y Honor, there are importnat PoDs:
- Denmark could have an extra effort to revive Vinland by colonizing Newfoundland and Labrador.
- America with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia after Revolutionary War.
- United States wins the War of 1812, annexing chunks of British North America.
- Failed Belgian Revolution resulted in implementation of Talleyrand's plan. France gains Wallonia while the Netherlands kept Dutch-speaking provinces.