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WW1 is avoided until Germamy develops nukes. Due lack of nazism experts don't leave Germany resulting in Germans being decades aheads of rest of the world in missile and nuclear tech. Germany surprise nuke major cities in UK,France,Russia with V2s forcing them to surrender unconditionally and...

What if woodrow wilson made Triple entante decolonizing Europe, Africa , Asia based on self determination a requirement for US entering the war

So basically this: If the Belgian Revolution never happened and the United Kingdom of the Netherlands stays alive, would WW1 still happen, or wouldn’t it because of the butterflies?

I’m thinking about a scenario in which the Belgian Revolution never happened. But I was thinking: what will happen to the Boers, the Great Trek and the Boer Wars if this occured. With a Belgian Revolution which never happens, the United Kingdom of the Netherlands stays alive and become a...

I’m searching for a POD in which The Netherlands keep the Cape Colony, but also in which the United Kingdom of the Netherlands stays alive. Do you have some ideas? Or could I simply say that with the Dutch keeping the Cape Colony in say 1814, the Belgian Revolution would never occure because of...

So, if The Netherlands manage to keep Belgium in 1830, is it plausible that they will set up new colonies, especially in Africa or Asia? The Dutch king William I wanted to make The Netherlands a great power again, and he knew that he needed (more) colonies for that. For example: is it maybe...

What if in an alternate timeline, The Netherlands joined the Central Powers during World War I, and the Central Powers managed to claim victory in the war. What would the Netherlands gain? Would they gain territories in Belgium or in Asia or Africa, or would they gain territories somewhere...

A couple of years ago now the YouTuber UsefulCharts did an alternate history chart, of who would be King of Canada if Canada‘s monarchy after independence had a monarch from the British royal family, but seperate to Queen Victoria. The Prince chosen in this video was Prince Alfred, Victoria’s...

how will ww1 with the same alliances UK, France, Russia vs Germany, A-H, Ottomans happen if Russia was as industrialized as Germany per capita

Let's say that the Germans win at Verdun, resulting in the French launching suicidal counter-offensives as Falkenhayn planned, resulting in worse 1917 mutinies and the fall of Paris that same year. What happens with Britain? Does Britain go isolationist and focus on its remaining colonies, as...

What if WW1 happened 1950s because alternate Wilhelm II tries to maintain the status quo. Nicholas ii does the same like in OTL .Russia retains it's political system. Wilhelm II die in 1940 and are succeeded by war hawks who launch war with same alliances as OTL WW1 and schlieffen plan. No...

Harold Macmillian's "Winds of Change" speech to the Parliament of South Africa signalled clearly that the the British government had no intention to block the independence of many its colonies, particularly in Africa. As a focal point in the history of decolonization, it marked the confirmation...

In OTL, the Fashoda Incident was the climax of a centuries-long rivalry between France and Britain. The event saw France attempt to wrangle the Sudan from Britain and almost resulted in full-scale war between the two powers. The French eventually backed down and warmed up to Britain in the face...

What if some issue in Scramble for africa sparked WW1? What were the alliances then ? Was Germany industrialized enough to fight the war ?

By the 1910s-1920s have France have the biggest colonial empire of all time, with the British in a close, strong, and still pretty influential second place, instead of the other way around. OTL for comparison;

POD 1913 Yuan Shikhai dies warlord era begins Germans decide to slice up Shandong To increase their colonial empire to rival British French follow up with Guangai and Yunnan Russia takes over Mongolia British annex Canton Japan opportunistically conquer manchuria US takes what ? Will this...

After bringing England back to the catholic flock, queen Mary married Philip of Spain, a young lad with an astonishing look that delighted the queen, she got pregnant in the first month of 1554, the pregnancy lasted almost ten months, which made most of the courtiers doubt of the veracity of...

With just about any powerful empire you can bet comparisons to Rome will happen at some point or another, and the British one was little exception. But, as always, such comparisons are quite often overdone. One interesting concept I have been considering though was one in which the comparison is...

In a post American Revolution POD, have at least 1 state leave and rejoin the British Empire, but not through British military might alone. The title is a Hamilton allusion.

What if in an alternate timeline, The Netherlands kept Belgium because there is no Belgian Revolution in 1830. I think that in this case, it is reasonable to assume that World War One would still happen: Franz Ferdinand is still killed in 1914 and the Great Powers like Germany, France and Russia...