Search results for query: *

  • Users: Cook
  • Content: Threads
  • Order by date

Forum search Google search

  1. Cook

    AHC: The presidency of Thomas R. Marshall, 1919 to...

    Your challenge: Have Thomas R. Marshall assume executive authority following Woodrow Wilson's crippling stroke in October 1919. What impact does this have on events? Will Marshall achieve what Wilson failed to do and have Congress ratify the Peace Treaty and US entry into the League of Nations...
  2. Cook

    The Anglo-Japanese Alliance does not end in the early 1920s.

    In 1902 Britain signed a security treaty with the Japanese Empire. This was a watershed moment for both nations; for the British it was their first peace time military alliance and spelt the end of Britain’s period of ‘Splendid Isolation’; for the Japanese, it was their first foreign treaty...
  3. Cook

    Leviathan Unleashed: Bismarck and Tirpitz in the North Atlantic, 1941.

    Chapter 1. 20 May, 1941. The Swedish cruiser Gotland was conducting gunnery practice in the Kattegat, the waterway separating Norway and Sweden from Danish Jutland, when lookouts reported a warship approaching from the south. The war in Europe had been raging for nearly two years, and...
  4. Cook

    AHC: Square the Circle: Keep the United Kingdom united.

    Your AH Challenge is, beginning no earlier than the passage of the 1911 Parliamentary Reform Act, pass a Third Irish Home Rule Bill, (amended as necessary) and introduce it without a mutiny in the army or the outbreak of Civil War in Ulster, Ireland or within the broader United Kingdom. In...
  5. Cook

    A Longer Lasting Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

    This was inspired by the question asked in this previous thread: https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=298242&highlight=Axis You are correct; a longer lasting Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was entirely possible. In fact, if not for a single unlikely event, the pact would...
  6. Cook

    If Margaret Thatcher resigned in 1982…

    If the Iron Lady had been forced to resign in 1982 who would have been her natural successor in the Conservative party?
  7. Cook

    A question concerning Vichy France.

    Following the collapse of the Third Republic, the national slogan of 'Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite' was abandoned in favour of 'Travail, Famille, Patrie' and the 'Republique Francaise' was replaced on French coins with 'Etat Francais'. But what of La Marseillaise?
  8. Cook

    AHC: Rescue or kidnap the King of Belgium.

    On the 10th of May 1940, after nine months of Phony War, the Wehrmacht launched their invasion of Western Europe. In ten days armoured spearheads had punched their way through the French army and had reached the English Channel, trapping the French, British and Belgian armies in a pocket further...
  9. Cook

    Speeches that look A.H. but actually aren’t.

    I thought I’d post this, it is part of a speech by a rather famous politician, and is referring to another equally famous politician. I won’t say just yet who they both are because you’ll appreciate the irony more if you read it before you know who’s who. It isn’t one of his most famous speeches...
  10. Cook

    Greek Civil War - 1936.

    The Spanish Civil War started with an attempted coup on 17 July 1936. Three weeks later the Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas, in response to widespread industrial unrest and the growing popularity of the Greek Communist Party, declared a state of emergency, suspended parliament and unleashed...
  11. Cook

    Help Wanted: Delays in the Invasion of France

    Does anyone have a comprehensive list of postponements of Fall Gelb including the date and reason for the postponement?
  12. Cook

    No German invasion of Norway in April 1940.

    Simple question: What if Norway and Denmark are not invaded in April 1940? What are people's thoughts on the immediate effects and its' impact to the broader war. Issues to be considered? I have some ideas but I want to see what other people's thoughts are on this first.
  13. Cook

    The Franco-Belgian Alliance continued

    What if the Franco-Belgian Alliance continued? We’ve had various threads bouncing around concerning different possibilities for the Western Front 1939-40 here lately and they’ve inspired me to pose a question. Historically France and Belgium had a defensive alliance from 1920 until 1936 when...
  14. Cook

    Brazil with a Permanent Seat in the Security Council.

    In 1944 during the deliberations leading to the creation of the United Nations Churchill proposed that Brazil should be given a permanent seat in the Security Council. How do people think this would have changed events? Lest anyone think Brazil as a Permanent Member of the SC is a bit too far...
  15. Cook

    Ignore

    Ooops.......
  16. Cook

    Gallipoli and the complete absence of security.

    The Gallipoli campaign is marked by the most extraordinary lack of security. The evacuation is the only period that saw decent security, which is strange because campaigns on the Western Front at the same time saw great lengths taken to maintain secrecy as did the other campaigns in the Middle...
  17. Cook

    How would a Turkish capitulation in 1915 effect the wider war?

    What would be the political and military ramifications of the Ottoman Empire capitulating in mid-1915 and how would it affect the wider war? This would predate the entry of Bulgaria into the war but probably not that of Italy.
  18. Cook

    Searching for Black Beetles, WW1.

    I need whatever references, details or links people have regarding the Royal Navy’s Black Beetles: the World’s first amphibious landing boats. I know they were armoured, could do 5 knots and carry 500 men and were used in the landings at Suvla Bay and that 200 were manufactured in 1915, but...
  19. Cook

    Strange Campaigns.

    The Caucasus Campaign in 1918 saw some truly bizarre events take place. There were a series of shifting, short lived and at times highly unusual alliances; at one stage the Germans were allied with the Georgians against the Ottoman Turks who were allied with the Armenians. At another time the...
  20. Cook

    The Iranian Embassy Siege in London, 1980.

    On the 30th of April 1980, six armed men stormed the Iranian Embassy at Princes Gate, London and took twenty six people hostage. The six were ethnic Arabs from the Iranian province of Khuzestan and had been trained and armed by the Iraqi secret service. A six day siege ensued during which...
Top