====== Points of Divergence : Poland ====== Points of divergence concerning alternate historical developments within the modern day territory of Poland. ==== Prehistory ==== Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== Antiquity ==== Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== The Middle Ages ==== * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=260079|Challenge: Predominantly Orthodox Christian Magyars and Poles]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=265660|Possibilities for Poland expanding to the west in the Middle Ages ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=256352|Wi: Poland as one of the Constituent Kingdoms of the Holy Roman Empire (with a POD after 1000 AD)]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=25951|WI the Teutonic Knighs and Poland were allies in the Middle Ages ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=70863|WI medieval Poland looked west ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=240144|Plausibility check: Could the HRE have absorbed Hungary and Poland ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=239971|Plausibility check: The Przemyslids creating a "United West-Slavia" in the early 14th century ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=247437|The relations between a Przemyslid-created Poland-Bohemia and the Russian states ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=303137|WI: Przemysl II of Poland survives and Wenceslaus II of Bohemia dies]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=251022|WI Polish-Hungarian Union ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=257670|WI: No Battle of Grunwald/Tannenberg in 1410]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=253145|WI: Masovian language not extinct]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=256032|WI: Habsburg Polish-German Union]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=270903|WI: Independent Kaszubia]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=169296|Challenge: Poland as the Third Rome]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=284790|Plausibility check: Poland becoming germanized as East Prussia ?]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Era ==== * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/ahc-poland-to-the-urals.428554|AHC: Poland to the Urals!]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=40516|WI Poland wasn't partitioned?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=58750|What dynasty would Poland have if it had survived and had a hereditary monarchy?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=66591|WI Maximillian II became King of Poland?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=64742|WI James Stuart accepted the offer of the Polish throne ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=201783|How do we get Poland to convert to Protestantism ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=308661|Plausibility check: Catholic Sweden, Protestant (sort of) Poland ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=124632|WI Wladyslaw IV's plan for the conquest of the Black Sea's west coast was put into motion ?]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== 18th and 19th century ==== * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=85259|WI the borders after the 3d Partition stuck ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=85249|What if the British teamed up with the Poles against the 18th century alliance of Prussia, Austria and Russia ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=254915|WI: Polish-Scanian union]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=290973|WI: Austrian participation in the Second Partition of Poland]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=265537|Challenge: The November Uprising in Poland succeeds]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=299619|Challenge: Succesful November Uprising and the refounding of the Kingdom of Poland]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=240796|WI: No January Uprising in Poland in 1863]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=229079|WI: No Austro-Hungarian Ausgleich]]** * **[[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian PODs]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=249193|How long could Austria-Hungary last ?]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== 20th century : Prior to and during WWI ==== * **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/wi-poland-gains-independence-peacefully.494431/|WI: Part of Poland gains independence from tsarist Russia peacefully]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=249193|How long could Austria-Hungary last ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=166242|Challenge: A neutral Austria-Hungary prior to WWI ?]]** * **[[pods:wwi|World War I PODs]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=174905|What if the Austro-Hungarians put the Eastern Front first ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=166148|Demographic developments of a surviving Austria-Hungary]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=250123|Optimal post-WWI Polish borders (map survey style discussion)]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== 20th century : Interwar years ==== * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=104399|Challenge: Succesful socialist (but not communist) revolutions in Germany, Austria, France, Hungary and Poland in 1919, following the end of WWI]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=104961|WI: Pro-Polish coup in Lithuania in 1919 ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=40631|WI the Soviets won the 1920 Polish-Soviet War?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=302458|Plausibility check: Germany and the USSR attack Poland in the 1920s]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=249990|Better Czech-Polish relations]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=157614|A Czechoslovak-Polish Alliance]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=4678|WI Poland had been invaded by the Soviets before Germany invaded ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=70481|WI Poland was allied with Czechoslovakia when Germany invaded ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=79200|WI the Soviets invaded Poland between the World Wars ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=20241|WI Poland attacked a surviving German republic ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=34899|WI Patton was a military attache in Poland ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=190073|Poland taking an earlier stance against the Axis]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=264862|Challenge: Overt pre-war support of Poland]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=273993|Plausbility check: Warsaw, not Prague - A different Munich Conference ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=290058|Plausbility check: Different developments of the 1938 Danzig Crisis]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== 20th century : WWII ==== * **[[pods:wwii|World War II PODs]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=719|WI there were French military advisors in Poland in 1939 ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=342177|WI: British and French Troops in Poland]]** * **[[http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=151037|WI Free City of Danzig attacked by Germany in the spring of 1939, sparking an earlier start of WWII ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=252270|WI Nazi Germany was persuaded or decided itself to not attack Poland in 1939 ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=273742|Could Poland be saved ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=247864|WI Britain told Poland in 1939 "You're on your own." ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=104632|WI Poland attacked Germany first ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=18387|WI Germany took Poland before Czechoslovakia ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=252270|WI Germany didn't attack Poland ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=28254|WI the Soviets invaded all of Poland ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=28725|DBWI about Poland's borders]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=263801|Plausibility check: Could the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising be more successful ?]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== 20h century : Post-WWII ==== * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=290041|Post-war Poland after a successful Warsaw Uprising]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=11973|WI Poland got all of East Prussia ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=19376|WI Poland wasn't communist after WWII ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=39127|Challenge concerning a post-WWII Poland free of both Soviet or German influence]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=355987|Would a successful Polish space program be possible ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=289758|Challenge: Poland an SSR]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=52379|WI there were Soviet troops deployed to Poland in 1981 ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=250392|Challenge: The Warsaw Pact suriving in some form after the dissolution of the USSR and the East Block]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== Miscellaneous ==== * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=17298|Polish POD ideas]]** - A thread devoted to random, miscellaneous Poland-related AH. * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=212973|Plausibility check: A Poland that continuously survives up to 1900 AD ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=158595|Challenge: Poland as a colonial power]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=292376|Challenge: The Baltic Sea as somebody's Mare Nostrum]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=249223|With a POD after 1500, make Poland into a superpower]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=20439|With a POD of your choice, make Poland into a superpower by 2005]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=28496|Challenge: Polish-Swedish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=265712|Plausibility check: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth becoming a superpower ?]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=75820|Plausibility check: Survival of a Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth into the 20th century]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=194206|Discussion on strategic passes in the Carpathians]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ==== ASB / ISOT / Geological ==== * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=205566|2011 Warsaw ISOT to 1944]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=194545|Poland ISOTed from September 1939 to July 1914]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=242790|Poland in the Emberverse]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=375379|Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia ISOT to 1956]]** * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/2016-poland-east-of-vistula-isot-to-1796.389770/|2016 Poland east of Vistula ISOT to 1796]]** * Know of any PODs or POD discussions ? Feel free to add them. ---- ==== See Also ==== **[[offtopic:Poland]]** **[[timelines:Poland|Polish Timelines and Scenarios]]** **[[resources:Poland|Useful Resources about Poland]]** ---- ==== Navigation ==== **[[Specific Countries|List of Countries by POD]]** **[[pods:pods|Points of Divergence Main Directory]]**