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  1. España No Ha Muerto: If Franco brought Spain into the Second World War
    Threadmarks: Summer 1941: Franco's Blunder

    España No Ha Muerto “We are confronted by the twin dangers of Bolshevism and Masonic-Plutocrat capitalism. The spirit of both is Judaic. But the Spanish people already know how to deal with this menace. We have defeated it once before on the battlefield, and we shall do so again. And this...

  2. Could the Entente + USA have beaten the Three Emperors' League?

    If WWI had consisted of USA+UK+France+Italy+Japan+Turkey squaring off against Austria+Germany+Russia, could the Allies have defeated the Dreikaiserbund?

  3. WI: 9/11 done by an apocalyptic, apolitical suicide cult?

    I've seen a few threads speculating on what if 9/11 had been carried out by right-wing extremists, or leftists, or Christian fanatics, but what if it was done by some bizarre doomsday movement? Think Heaven's Gate but better-organized, better funded, and even crazier. The exact beliefs aren't...

  4. WI: Napoleon marries his sister Pauline

    This is a bit of a weird and rather improbable one...let me elaborate. It was long rumored that Napoleon was in an incestuous relationship with his little sister Pauline. Supposedly, Napoleon, who was always fascinated with the ancient east, fantasized about marrying her and ruling on the river...

  5. How would the USSR have responded to a successful communist revolution in another state (probably European) in the 1930s?

    It seems to me things would have been very different in the 1930s than they were with the post-WWII Eastern Bloc states. For example it seems more likely to me that a 1930s socialist republic in, say, Germany or Hungary, would have been federated directly to the Soviet Union (at least nominally...

  6. Could any combination of powers defeat an alliance between the USA and USSR in the 1940s?

    I know the confluence of such an alliance is highly implausible, but if it somehow came about, would they be essentially invincible? The only alliance I can see having a ghost of a chance is a coalition of all the European great powers (UK+France+Germany+Italy+probably a bunch of the smaller...

  7. DBWI: What would modern cinema look like if the Final Fantasy VII movie was never made?

    It was certainly a big risk, with its troubled production and massive 180 million dollar budget, but luckily James Cameron had more than enough clout in Hollywood post-Titanic to keep alive what many saw as a massive blunder and financial disaster in waiting. The casting of extremely-bankable...

  8. The Glowing Dream: A history of Socialist America
    Threadmarks: Prologue: Owe My Soul to the Company Store

    The Glowing Dream Part I In the Gloom of Mighty Cities: The Birth of American Socialism ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ “I...

  9. WI: Napoleon never crowns himself emperor?

    What if Napoleon maintained the title of First Consul, and kept up a generally 'republican' facade of government, with perhaps regularly (though certainly manipulated) elections, token denunciations of monarchy, and the maintenance of sister republics across Europe instead of puppet monarchies...

  10. WI: Jessica Mitford assassinates Adolf Hitler

    For those who don't know, Jessica Mitford was one of the Mitford sisters--they were a rather colorful bunch, daughters of an old aristocratic English family. Unity and Diana Mitford became fascists, with Diana marrying Oswald Mosley and Unity becoming a close personal friend of Hitler's. Jessica...

  11. AHC: European great powers (Germany, Britain, France, Italy, maybe some smaller countries) against the USSR and the USA

    With a POD no earlier than the downfall of the Russian provisional government, can this be brought about? I think turning Europe to war against Soviet Russia, wouldn't be too hard, but bringing the US in on the Soviet side is the tough part. I guess it would require a few years' or even a few...

  12. WI: Franco remains loyal to the Republic

    Seems like a long-shot, but he did send that ambiguous letter to Casares Quiroga obliquely hinting that if he was recalled from the Canaries and given a better post he'd be willing to help put down conspiracies in the military. He was a consummate opportunist, and there were conservative army...

  13. Wehrmacht vs Polish Army, 1936

    Theoretically (I know they wouldn't be stupid enough to do it), if the Nazis attacked Poland in 1936, right after the remilitarization of the Rhineland, would they lose?

  14. USSR+US vs European coalition (invasion of the continental US)

    I am working on a story revolving around an alternate WWII, beginning in 1940, which features a socialist America and Soviet Russia squaring off against an anticommunist coalition spearheaded by Great Britain. The primary members of the coalition are the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and...

  15. AHC: Nazis overthrown in a popular uprising, sometime between 1933-1946

    With a POD no earlier than 1932, have the Nazis thrown out of power by a large-scale national revolt, akin to the November 1918 revolution that toppled the Kaiser. For my (fairly uneducated) part it seems hard to pull off, considering there were never any real uprisings IOTL no matter how badly...

  16. The Damned of the Earth: the fruits of a bloodier Paris Commune and a crueler close of the century

    Hello. Longtime member, infrequent poster, here. I think I made this account first year of high school. How time flies. This is going to be my first real attempt at a timeline (if you search my posts you'll find I once started one based on the Spanish Civil War, but only ever posted the first...

  17. July 1936 Spanish uprising swiftly crushed

    Say the government was a bit less lethargic/willfully blind, and perhaps more of the officer corps remained loyal. Loyalist troops/militia put down the rising in Seville, Burgos, Salamanca, etc. Mola, Franco, Sanjurjo, Queipo de Llano, Goded, Cabanellas, Varela, and friends are all arrested. The...

  18. WWII: Soviet Union + Communist Germany vs France, Britain, and Fascist Italy

    I've been kicking this idea around in my head for a while, curious as to some feedback. The basic premise is that Germany goes communist in the early 1930s. I'm aware this probably needs an earlier POD, to prevent the massive SPD/KPD split and the mutual hatred between the two (wer hat uns...

  19. WI: foreign communists allowed to participate in the government of the USSR

    I don't remember exactly how it goes, but supposedly at one of the world congresses of the Comintern, Amadeo Bordiga was supposed to have told Stalin that, if the Soviet Union was really the fatherland of the world proletariat and not just another nation state, it ought to be governed by a joint...

  20. AHC: American Civil War where the rebel side wishes to depose, rather than secede

    So a 'traditional' civil war, rather than a war of secession? Are there any reasonable PODs for a rebel group to seek deposition of the government rather than independence?
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