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  1. Hitler's Gamble by Brendan Simms

    https://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-American-Gamble-Harbor-Germanys-ebook/dp/B08Y8LSKD4/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=q8uxt&content-id=amzn1.sym.c3fcbb7c-339f-45ab-80dc-facbe5841fce&pf_rd_p=c3fcbb7c-339f-45ab-80dc-facbe5841fce&pf_rd_r=7E13Y4QG248EWQH0H86G&pd_rd_wg=8tfA4&pd_rd_r=de62da6d-a324-4590-8183-6a4fd...

  2. Would Asia/the world of the twentieth century have been better off if Japan lost the Russo-Japan War, was stalemated, or deterred from attacking?

    Would Asia/the world of the twentieth century have been better off if Japan lost the Russo-Japan War, was stalemated, or deterred from attacking Russia in 1904 or later? Why so, or why not? In our world Japan, although regarded as an upstart, and the underdog, won this war, taking northeast...

  3. What if Japan attacked the Dutch East Indies in 1936?

    What if Japan had attacked the Dutch East Indies in 1936, based on lobbying from the Navy to gain the valuable archipelago located at the strategic maritime crossroads of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, offering Japan a position outflanking Singapore and Manila Bay, and providing already...

  4. If the Triple Entente lost WWI, it is likely that Britain, not France, would have been the most revanchist of the three

    There is a what I think is a "trope" in popular alternate history imaginings and speculations, written into a few different novels, and games or game settings like GURPS alternate earths, where if Germany wins WWI, it inverts Germany and France in the postwar years, France instead of Germany...

  5. WI Operation Rösselsprung in 1944 is successful at killing Tito?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_R%C3%B6sselsprung_(1944) Operation Rösselsprung (German: Unternehmen Rösselsprung, lit. 'Knight's move') was a combined airborne and ground assault by the German XV Mountain Corps and collaborationistforces on the Supreme Headquarters of the Yugoslav...

  6. What if a Kennedy Administration without a Castro Cuba?

    What if there is no Cuban revolution of 1959? How will this impact not only Cuba, but the United States, a presumed Kennedy Administration, and global geopolitics of the early 1960s? That's where I want to go with this speculation. But of course, I need to rewind things back, to illustrate...

  7. How much could Thailand be plausibly boosted up in its war with Vichy French Indochina?

    With Japan not directly occupying Tonkin, northern Indochina as in OTL September 1940, but Thailand still invading French Indochina in October 1940, to reclaim lands lost in the early 1900s and 1890s, and Japan selling the Thai arms for influence, and not, like OTL, mediating an end to the...

  8. AHC: Accelerate the Union conquest of Atlanta and march to the sea by a year

    How could the break-out of the Union western front in the American Civil War through Atlanta and across the Alleghenies and Appalachians to the Atlantic seaboard have been significantly accelerated, by like as much as a year, in some politically-militarily plausible way? If that is bit too much...

  9. From a 1750 AD p.o.v., what were the multiversal odds that the PLC would partitioned out of existence by 1850 AD?

    The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1750 AD was a weak state. It had been for awhile. It was kind of a de facto puppet state of Russia's as well. It was subject to heavy foreign influence in general. It had weak executive powers. But it had existed for quite awhile, nearly a century since...

  10. What if Prince Sihanouk was not ousted from power in Cambodia 1970?

    Information borrowed heavily from wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_campaign As of early 1970, Cambodian discontent with the heavy Vietnamese presence in the eastern portion of the country had built up to explosive levels, leading to mass demonstrations by urban and educated...

  11. Alternate history challenge - 19th century USA Northern Secession "Hat Trick"

    Here is an alternate history challenge for you, and it is in my view perhaps an implausible, or impossible challenge, requiring the conquest of three thresholds to score "Hat Trick" and win a "Triple Crown". It is to replicate some of the most basic features of the American Civil War, but in...

  12. What if Chiang Kai-shek was killed in his last flight out of China, Dec. 1949? Implications for US Taiwan Straits Policy

    What if Chiang Kai-shek was killed in his last flight out of China, in December 1949? He took several long-distance flights that year, including one in July and August to and from South Korea to meet with Syngman Rhee and Elpidio Quirino to discuss and Asian security pact, and his final flight...

  13. What if Florida had been organized into two territorial governments instead of just one upon its annexation?

    What if Florida had been organized into two territorial governments instead of just one upon its annexation? The logical point of division would have been to use the Suwanee river to divide west and east Floridian sections, as the Spanish had done in their period of occupation, like this...

  14. WI the Truman Administration prevented the politicization of the PoW issue in Korea? War ends summer/fall 1951?

    What if the Truman Administration prevented the politicization of the PoW issue in Korea? Specifically, meaning what if it prevented the emergence of the dispute, especially the public dispute, over only having voluntary PoW repatriation, instead leaving the default assumption and policy...

  15. What if the Japanese overthrew the Vichy French administration in Indochina shortly after occupying it?

    What if the Japanese overthrew the Vichy French administration in Indochina shortly after occupying it? I'm counting the occupation as the occupation of the whole, from July 1941, not the earlier, partial occupation, because acting in the earlier period would have made the Japanese peaceful...

  16. AHC: A US Civil War, war of secession, happens NLT 1869-1873, with no annexation of Texas, nor Mex-American War beforehand

    Here is the challenge: Have, in parallel to OTL, the rise to Presidential. House and possibly Senate majority power the rise of a Party (like the OTL Republicans) drawing support from the northern, "free" states only, and none from the south, that panics the southern states, and leads to their...

  17. AHC: Eisenhower goes all out to prevent Castro from coming to power in Cuba?

    What could alert Ike to the geopolitical importance of doing this? What would be the minimum effective means of stopping Castro’s rise? How would Ike justify any measures that would have required publicity or congressional support? If he had multiple options for stopping Castro, covert vs...

  18. Why did Washington state and New Mexico take so long to earn statehood?

    Why did these western states take so comparatively long to attain statehood, compared with neighboring states? It would seem surprising to me if mere smaller populations and a longer time period to reach critical mass of population, which *should* be the main criterion, explains it all...

  19. What if KMT China tried to make Vietnam & Laos as its "independent" client states after WW2 instead of its OTL transactional, play all sides policy?

    What if KMT China tried to establish Vietnam & Laos as its "independent" client states instead of its OTL transactional, play all sides policy? 1st lets review what China did. The Chinese, after VJ Day, were assigned to take surrender of Japanese forces in occupied Indochina, north of the 16th...

  20. Plausibility check- Could France & French Indochina have been disinterested in Laos, crisis with Siam, and common border with British Burma?

    Laos was the last, least populous, and least valuable piece added to French Indochina, and had basically been tributary provinces of Siam beforehand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1893_Franco-Siamese_crisis Before 1893 it was shown on maps as part of Siam, and French Indochina, at least since...
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