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Points of Divergence : Czechia

Points of divergence concerning alternate historical developments within the modern day territory of the Czech Republic.

Prehistory

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Antiquity

Marcus Aurelius establishes Marcomannia

WI Marcus Aurelius expands the Roman Empire by annexing Bohemia ?

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The Middle Ages

WI: Great Moravia resisted the Carolingians?

Archbishop of Moravia

Great Moravia fragments instead of being conquered by Magyars

Ottokar II of Bohemia defeats Rudolf Habsburg

WI: Elisabeth of Bohemia marries the eldest son of Wladyslaw the Elbowhigh

Plausibility check: The Przemyslids creating a "United West-Slavia" in the early 14th century ?

The relations between a Przemyslid-created Poland-Bohemia and the Russian states ?

WI: Przemysl II of Poland survives and Wenceslaus II of Bohemia dies

The Bohemian-Polish Union

Poland-Bohemia and the Hussites

Poland-Bohemia as a global or regional power

WI: Bohemia retains Cracovia and Silesia to the present ?

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Early Modern history

WI: Bohemia retains Cracovia and Silesia to the present ?

Plausibility check: Germanized Czechs

Thirty Years War PODs

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18th and 19th century

WI: Bohemia retains Cracovia and Silesia to the present ?

No Czech national revival

Napoleonic Wars PODs

Challenge: German-Czech-Polish triple kingdom with a POD after 1815

Austro-Prussian War PODs

WI: No Austro-Hungarian Ausgleich

How long could Austria-Hungary last ?

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20th century

How long could Austria-Hungary last ?

Challenge: A neutral Austria-Hungary prior to WWI ?

WWI PODs

What if the Austro-Hungarians put the Eastern Front first ?

WI Edvard Beneš died in 1917 ?

WI No Czech Legions ?

Demographic developments of a surviving Austria-Hungary

Plausibility check: Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia never exist

Czechoslovakia becoming a monarchy instead of a republic after WWI

Better Czech-Polish relations

A Czechoslovak-Polish Alliance

A war between interwar Hungary and the Little Entente ?

WWII PODs

WI Poland was allied with Czechoslovakia when Germany invaded ?

WI the Sudetenland Germans stay loyal to Czechoslovakia ?

Czechoslovakia stays tough in 1938

WI: Czechs not giving up in 1938

WI Hitler had not invaded Czechoslovakia ?

Plausibility check: A rump Czechoslovakia as a German puppet ?

Challenge: Czechoslovakia fends off the Nazis

WI Czechoslovakia defeats Germany

WI the western Allies liberate Prague in 1945 ?

Patton in Prague

Plausibility check: Patton takes Prague

Cold War PODs

No Czechoslovak communist coup in 1948

Post-WWII Czechoslovak arms industry if it remains non-communist

No Velvet Divorce

Challenge: The Warsaw Pact suriving in some form after the dissolution of the USSR and the East Block

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21st century

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ASB / ISOT / Geological


See Also

The Czech Republic (Czechia)

Czech Timelines and Scenarios

Useful Resources about the Czech lands

Slovak Points of Divergence - For related 20th century Slovak PODs.


List of Countries by POD

Points of Divergence Main Directory