Points of Divergence : Poland

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

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• Challenge: Predominantly Orthodox Christian Magyars and Poles
• Possibilities for Poland expanding to the west in the Middle Ages ?
• Wi: Poland as one of the Constituent Kingdoms of the Holy Roman Empire (with a POD after 1000 AD)
• WI the Teutonic Knighs and Poland were allies in the Middle Ages ?
• WI medieval Poland looked west ?
• Plausibility check: Could the HRE have absorbed Hungary and Poland ?
• 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
• WI Polish-Hungarian Union ?
• WI: No Battle of Grunwald/Tannenberg in 1410
• WI: Masovian language not extinct
• WI: Habsburg Polish-German Union
• WI: Independent Kaszubia
• Challenge: Poland as the Third Rome
• Plausibility check: Poland becoming germanized as East Prussia ?
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• AHC: Poland to the Urals!
• WI Poland wasn't partitioned?
• What dynasty would Poland have if it had survived and had a hereditary monarchy?
• WI Maximillian II became King of Poland?
• WI James Stuart accepted the offer of the Polish throne ?
• How do we get Poland to convert to Protestantism ?
• Plausibility check: Catholic Sweden, Protestant (sort of) Poland ?
• WI Wladyslaw IV's plan for the conquest of the Black Sea's west coast was put into motion ?
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• WI the borders after the 3d Partition stuck ?
• What if the British teamed up with the Poles against the 18th century alliance of Prussia, Austria and Russia ?
• WI: Polish-Scanian union
• WI: Austrian participation in the Second Partition of Poland
• Challenge: The November Uprising in Poland succeeds
• Challenge: Succesful November Uprising and the refounding of the Kingdom of Poland
• WI: No January Uprising in Poland in 1863
• WI: No Austro-Hungarian Ausgleich
• Austro-Hungarian PODs
• How long could Austria-Hungary last ?
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• WI: Part of Poland gains independence from tsarist Russia peacefully
• How long could Austria-Hungary last ?
• Challenge: A neutral Austria-Hungary prior to WWI ?
• World War I PODs
• What if the Austro-Hungarians put the Eastern Front first ?
• Demographic developments of a surviving Austria-Hungary
• Optimal post-WWI Polish borders (map survey style discussion)
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• Challenge: Succesful socialist (but not communist) revolutions in Germany, Austria, France, Hungary and Poland in 1919, following the end of WWI
• WI: Pro-Polish coup in Lithuania in 1919 ?
• WI the Soviets won the 1920 Polish-Soviet War?
• Plausibility check: Germany and the USSR attack Poland in the 1920s
• Better Czech-Polish relations
• A Czechoslovak-Polish Alliance
• WI Poland had been invaded by the Soviets before Germany invaded ?
• WI Poland was allied with Czechoslovakia when Germany invaded ?
• WI the Soviets invaded Poland between the World Wars ?
• WI Poland attacked a surviving German republic ?
• WI Patton was a military attache in Poland ?
• Poland taking an earlier stance against the Axis
• Challenge: Overt pre-war support of Poland
• Plausbility check: Warsaw, not Prague - A different Munich Conference ?
• Plausbility check: Different developments of the 1938 Danzig Crisis
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• World War II PODs
• WI there were French military advisors in Poland in 1939 ?
• WI: British and French Troops in Poland
• WI Free City of Danzig attacked by Germany in the spring of 1939, sparking an earlier start of WWII ?
• WI Nazi Germany was persuaded or decided itself to not attack Poland in 1939 ?
• Could Poland be saved ?
• WI Britain told Poland in 1939 "You're on your own." ?
• WI Poland attacked Germany first ?
• WI Germany took Poland before Czechoslovakia ?
• WI Germany didn't attack Poland ?
• WI the Soviets invaded all of Poland ?
• DBWI about Poland's borders
• Plausibility check: Could the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising be more successful ?
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• Post-war Poland after a successful Warsaw Uprising
• WI Poland got all of East Prussia ?
• WI Poland wasn't communist after WWII ?
• Challenge concerning a post-WWII Poland free of both Soviet or German influence
• Would a successful Polish space program be possible ?
• Challenge: Poland an SSR
• WI there were Soviet troops deployed to Poland in 1981 ?
• Challenge: The Warsaw Pact suriving in some form after the dissolution of the USSR and the East Block
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• Polish POD ideas - A thread devoted to random, miscellaneous Poland-related AH.
• Plausibility check: A Poland that continuously survives up to 1900 AD ?
• Challenge: Poland as a colonial power
• Challenge: The Baltic Sea as somebody's Mare Nostrum
• With a POD after 1500, make Poland into a superpower
• With a POD of your choice, make Poland into a superpower by 2005
• Challenge: Polish-Swedish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
• Plausibility check: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth becoming a superpower ?
• Plausibility check: Survival of a Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth into the 20th century
• Discussion on strategic passes in the Carpathians
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• 2011 Warsaw ISOT to 1944
• Poland ISOTed from September 1939 to July 1914
• Poland in the Emberverse
• Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia ISOT to 1956
• 2016 Poland east of Vistula ISOT to 1796
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