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  1. Zionism in New York: A Jewish home

    - Hebrew University historian Dmitry Shumsky Since we are on AH, here is a thought experiment. Consider Zionism never becomes what it was in OTL, but instead, the idea of a Jewish home gained traction. The idea of Jewish people worldwide establishing safety in numbers by migrating to a single...

  2. If the Saarland had agreed to join France after WWII, would they still be talking german today?

    After WWII, the Saarland remained in an uncertain position for several years until it joined the BRD. There were several alternative outcomes, including independence as a new border state like a new Luxembourg, or flat out joining France. If the Saarland had voted to become French - what would...

  3. Weimar as the capital - Do you know AH projects about alternate city development?

    What I specifically wonder is if you know about simulations, especially illustrated, of how cities would look differently in ATLs. One specific example would be Weimar. Now if I understand this correctly it was never actually the capital of germany, even if it was a political center a place of...

  4. Possible impact of ATL surviving American-german on german culture and politics in the early 20th century?

    What is now the US has seen large german waves of immigration since at least the 17th century, today "german Americans" are estimated at over 40 million people. However, only about 5% of those people today speak german at all: WWI saw massive pressure to anglicise and assimilate, leading to a...

  5. Finland as a Soviet republic: would it accumulate a significant Russian minority?

    What it says in the title. Would a Finland that is turned into a republic of the USSR see enough Russian settlement to create the kind of entrenched Russian minority we still see in some OTL post-Soviet states?

  6. Latest possible point for a "reconquista" of Anatolia?

    As it says on the tin. What POD would we need for a timeline where Asia Minor would have been dominated by muslim states for many centuries yet the conquest still "reversible" like it was in Iberia?

  7. France by 2022 as much of a "rogue state" in Europe as OTL Putin's Russia

    Point of divergence moments before or right after the end of the second world war. The challenge is to have a plausible chain of events where, roughly speaking, 2022 France is holding bilateral talks with the US over its military posturing towards- and destabilization of other European...

  8. No Redemption, Not Ever: Germany in 2022 as hated and feared in Europe as Russia

    To make this interesting, the split from OTL has to be after 1940, with WWII already happened or about to end. I propose this as an open discussion, if you have your own TL ideas, but I can already think of a rough TL, which I'll post below: -------- After the Great Patriotic War was won...

  9. Military technology without gunpowder?

    Say of Whatifalthist on Youtube what you want, but there was something he said in a recent video that stuck with me. He argued that if Ancient Greece had properly industrialized, as it almost would have OTL if it weren't for the specific political and cultural context, then their era would have...

  10. Biggest possible population density in Pacific Russia?

    Not sure where to post this, exactly, since really it is a more general question. Could be Chat, or Future History, ASB, or whatever. But I settled on Post 1900 to explore this: How many people, what kind of cities could the Russian far East support with an industrialized economy? What...

  11. Russia guarantees Yugoslavia/Serbia in the 1990ies

    Russia was in one of its worst decades in the 1990ies, but its military and nukes had not evaporated, so a competent and determined leader could have still made some basic military posturing happen. The premise is that for some reason Russia gives Belgrade security guarantees against foreign...

  12. CANZUK

    Discussed in Chat is the question how CANZUK could be a success post-Brexit. The short answer is, probably not. So let's take a step back. In an ATL, sometime after WWII, a strongly integrated CANZUK takes shape, either alongside or even instead of the EU. How would its economy be structured...

  13. Europe Recolonized After Cuban Missile Crisis

    More exactly, one possible outcome of Amerigo Vespucci's timeline, Europe somewhere halfway between 2012 and 2062 Many features and especially borders are placed very aproximately. The Cuban War of the 1960ies left most of Europe east of the Rhine depopulated, and the countries least...

  14. Biggest possible escalation of an alternate Falklands War

    In OTL, Argentina never stood a chance from the start and the leadership basically only launched the attack thinking the UK would not really bother to defend the islands at all. Perhaps romanticizing it as an anti-colonial insurrection where the "colonial power" backs off once they see that "oh...

  15. How would minority languages fare in a stable 1er Empire France

    For some reason, France manages to more or less keep its borders of 1812 all the way to our era. How would the much larger than OTL local ethnic minorities fare today? Would they be mostly assimilated into French culture, retain strong regional identities, be violent separatists, or a mix of...

  16. Get the "same" Germany in 2020 with an entirely different path post 1920

    The SAME in regards to a most bare-bones summary you could give a hapless time traveler. The end point has to be: - Democratic germany (+not a monarchy) - About the same territory in terms of size, but shape can be different. - About same number of inhabitants - economically prosperous (though...

  17. Germany becoming less antisemitic and racist WITHOUT the holocaust ever happening

    Inspired by people suggesting in another thread that somehow removing the horrors of WWII from History would lead to racism and antisemitism being much less discredited in Europe and beyond in the aftermath. So the challange is to think of a timeline where alternate Germany, Europe, the US and...

  18. Which nation would be a global power if another country wasn't "holding it back"?

    Cue "If I didn't have you" Are there nations in this world who would literally be global powers if it weren't for one powerful rival nation who, over the course of history, has locked them into a sort of balance of power (or just completely overwhelms them in every metric)? In that AH...

  19. Why would South Africa be superpower material?

    It could just be confirmation bias, but I feel like every other video about EU4 and civ in observer mode seems to produce some great SA Empire. Which got me thinking - what case can be made for a diverging timeline where SA is not only a great power, but a superpower, perhaps even the dominant...

  20. What's the worst South Africa could have done with its nuclear weapons program?

    Realistically, of course, taking the international environment, the domestic situation and its available resources into account. SA is somewhat fameous for having had a nuclear weapons program and scrapping it. So how far could they have really taken it, and how much of a threat for "world...
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