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Points of Divergence : Poland
Prehistory
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Antiquity
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The Middle Ages
Challenge: Predominantly Orthodox Christian Magyars and Poles
Possibilities for Poland expanding to the west in the Middle Ages ?
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 ?
WI: Przemysl II of Poland survives and Wenceslaus II of Bohemia dies
WI: Masovian language not extinct
WI: Habsburg Polish-German Union
Challenge: Poland as the Third Rome
Plausibility check: Poland becoming germanized as East Prussia ?
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Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Era
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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18th and 19th century
WI the borders after the 3d Partition stuck ?
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
How long could Austria-Hungary last ?
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20th century : Prior to and during WWI
How long could Austria-Hungary last ?
Challenge: A neutral Austria-Hungary prior to WWI ?
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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20th century : Interwar years
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
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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20th century : WWII
WI there were French military advisors in Poland in 1939 ?
WI Nazi Germany was persuaded or decided itself to not attack Poland in 1939 ?
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 ?
Plausibility check: Could the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising be more successful ?
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20h century : Post-WWII
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
WI there were Soviet troops deployed to Poland in 1981 ?
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Miscellaneous
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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