What are some things you'd like to see in post-1900 timelines?

BigBlueBox

Banned
A not-unified China (either de jure or de facto, doesn't matter) surviving to the modern day intrigues me. Something like the Warlord Era keeps going for whatever reason.
This a rather interesting and unique idea. I've seen timelines of a split between Communist-controlled China and KMT-controlled China (technically includes OTL) and even Manchukuo surviving but not a Warlord Era that never ends.
 
Expansionist Ming spread Chinese influence throughout Asia.
Henry V unites England & France. Effects on world politics?
Teutonic Order drive east to colonise Russia.
Ottomans unite the total Eastern Roman Empire with Italy.
This should be in pre-1900.
 

oberdada

Gone Fishin'
An isolationistic USA for the entire 20th century. Probably need to get rid of Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt for that.

President Martin Luther King ( Civil Rights movement wank)


A Prague Spring style government in the GDR (mid to late 70s)


The Socialist International preventing WWI.


Trotsky and Stalin in exile together on a tiny remote island.


Hitler drafted I to the Austrian army. ( He was a conscription Dodger and arrested in spring 1914, send to Vienna but regarded unfit for service. Somehow it is always the art school thing that comes up)


And for a distopian TL: South Africa post 1980, everything goes the worst way possible.

We once had an attempt for a successful prosperous Somalia. Loved the idea. But I must admit I had to start reading up on the real history.

No special USA - Saudi-Arabien Relations.


USSR wins the Winter war and conquers Finnland.


Communist Japan.


France Euro Referendum goes the other way, France keeps the franc. Project is shelved.


King George VI. dies in a bombing raid during the Blitz. Queen Elizabeth II. becomes Queen at age 14.

Boxer Rebellion more successful.

Breaking up Italy.


No Korean War.

Democratic Belarus.


Distopian TL about Spain post Franco.


Successful 1968 revolution in Paris.


GDR style Eastern Austria.
 
Hitler dies of a stroke a couple of weeks after Munich. Goes down in history as greatest German statesman since Bismarck, with tears shed about how WW2 might have been avoided if only the great man had lived.
 
Pop culture that’s immensely different from our own.
workin' on it ;) well, sorta :p i really do find immense enjoyment in designing fiction that only exists in an ATL, but i admit most of it is still parallel to most OTL media, thinking in terms like "TTL's version of Terminator (which may or may not have a different name)" or "TTL's closest equivalent to Superman". part of the fun is thinking about how completely unrelated changes to the TL, such as a country or province having a different name or other linguistic changes, would affect media, since virtually all of popular culture is ultimately drawn from real-life even if it's handled pretty subtly
 
A Soviet-like Britain.
Instead of two or more World Wars, many more "smaller" conflicts. (Like Fascist Italy vs Nazi Germany 1940.)
An (unsuccessful) invasion of Switzerland and possibly a Swiss greatpower.
 
People doing the TL format properly.

If you're writing a timeline, do a lot of research and show it, because the biggest advantage the timeline format has is an ability to "naturally" show off research and detail without having to resort to stuff like "exposition characters". Otherwise, it just feels like an outline or a really bare-bones story.
 
United India
United Ireland
Greater South Africa (OTL South Africa + Namibia + Zimbabwe + Botswana)
A multipolar Space Race (USSR, USA, surviving Imperial Germany...)
More focus on SE Asia
More focus on Africa
Greater Hungary
More focus on scientific developments
I'm in the early stages of developing a TL that has 6/8 of these topics - I won't say which 6 though!
 
An isolationistic USA for the entire 20th century. Probably need to get rid of Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt for that.

TR's involvement with the world beyond the American continent was relatively modest, and even Wilson's was largely temporary. You probably need the outside world to change to make that possible.

I can imagine Pearl Harbour still happening even had neither of them ever existed.
 
No matter the six, I'll still be following it now!

Thanks! I hope it doesn't disappoint. It's my first attempt at a ATL but it's been in the works for a while. (This website has actually prompted me to pursue it to a finished state - how is that for a POD). Planning on kicking it off, end of September, but there will hopefully be a few teasers before that!
 
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