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  1. How bad can a President Handle 9/11

    Sorry. My problem is, I usually see this kind of problem through the scope of my studies, and from this point of view, Bush already has acted nearly as stupid as one could imagine. And by saying this, I don't mean the Iraq invasion itself, but the way he handled everything. And now: how's Iraq...

  2. AH challenge - free poland

    Not to mention they still fought with cavalry against tanks - very brave, but utterly futile nonetheless.

  3. If Blair said no to Iraq..

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litotes ;)

  4. How bad can a President Handle 9/11

    What about a realistic scenario, guys? I really can't see the situation getting much worse - perhaps the US invade Iraq right from beginning (actually, Blair convinced Bush to start with Afghanistan because the terror attacks originated from there, not from Iraq) . Probably if Bush would not...

  5. AH challenge - free poland

    Hm. Germany makes a kind of secret agreement with the Western Allies and puts most of the armies to the East, while the US are invading the West. Or the Western Allies are strong enough to make it by themselves. In the end, the Soviets can't advance deep into the occupied territories and meet...

  6. If Blair said no to Iraq..

    I can recall that Rummy basically said "it would be fine if GB would join us, but if they don't we will go in anyway, because their participation is not indispensable"...

  7. Prague as capitol - now what?

    During the 18th century, the question of race wasn't important, as long as the subjects were of European ancestry (=white). Prague as a capital is possible with the right background. The development of Prague could be similar to that of Brussels: a German enclave in Czech-speaking Bohemia after...

  8. World War IV

    How about a WW3 between the USA (or NATO) and the USSR (or Warsaw Pact) WITHOUT using nuclear weapons? First and most conventional warfare in Europe, like here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Storm_Rising . Not every war needs to be an apocalypse, and I think it should be possible to have a...

  9. Challenge:Atomic Bomb before 1900

    I'm not a specialist concerning the history of science, but I dare to say that 95% of the more complicated knowledge (especially technical and chemical) has been discovered after the Middle Ages, most of it in the Western Nations and during the 20th century. If you set a POD somewhere in history...

  10. When did Islam's fall from grace begin?

    One can say that notable improvements were coming from someplace else, but at least they were adapted and brought to a good use (this is as well a sign of progress). But the greater problem is that they weren't really able to recover from decline and their defeats. While in Europe, they were...

  11. Favorite Lost Cause?

    My favorite lost causes: - Survival of the Frankish Empire (no treaty of Verdun) - Survival of Eastern Roman Empire - Unification of Frankish Empire (Western Rome) and Byzantium (Eastern Rome) - Survival of Roman Empire in general Okay, call me Eurocentric.

  12. Challenge: CP WWI Victory and a Nazi Rise

    Hmm. Hard to say. Let's assume the Nazi case was rather unlikely (as everybody else thought at the time...) even though it happened, but nevertheless possible. But now keep in mind some characteristics of Imperial Germany: Prussian militarism, hostility towards egalitarianism, Pan-Germanism...

  13. Which was worse for Germany?

    Difficult to say. While we can develop some consistent ATLs that praise the merit of a softer Versailles, it is impossible to say how the world would be today after a different Westphalia.

  14. US vs the world in 1945.

    I doubt that the US population would have participated after they just won the war. It would perhaps have been possible to rip the Soviet booty (=Eastern Europe) out of their hands (and odds are good that they would have been celebrated after the retreat of the Red Army), but conquering the...

  15. Germany/Poland

    Let's say the Poles were not to optimistic towards German intentions, but I guess they rather thought they would act like the Germany of 1900. They still signed a non-agression-pact for 10 years in 1934. Besides, as a historian has stated However, since the Poles were Slavs, the Nazis didn't...

  16. US military dictatorship

    For this you need a huge problem which can only be solved by declaring martial law. An attack with ABC-weapons by a *domestic* enemy and stuff like this. Imagine that at some point you would need an ultra-version of the Patriot Act to make sure that the whole system doesn't implode.

  17. Super Challenge An Israel in Palestine allies with Arabs

    His brother Abdullah, the ruler of Jordan, was likewise in mind. "Abdullah, alone among the Arab leaders of his generation, was a moderate with a modestly pro-Western outlook. He would actually have signed a separate peace agreement with Israel, but for the Arab League's militant opposition...

  18. A French Heir in 1328

    He was such a cute baby boy! A pity he drowned in the basin during the baptism ceremony...

  19. A France against itself....

    You could develop a sort of 30 years-war on French soil in such a timeline...

  20. What if more Germanized Nations?

    Well, if you don't want to study any combination of Norse, Germanic, Gothic and stuff like this, this will get difficult... But anyway. If you want to stick with German-sounding names, -mark and -land are more or less interchangeable (Denland would be "land of the Danes", Finnmark... well...
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