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  1. If Stalin died in the 1930s...

    What would happen if Stalin died in 1934 (the year of the 'Congress of Victors')? Who would likely end up running Soviet policy? How might that affect events later in the 1930s, and into the 1940s?

  2. AHC: A Kido Butai Carrier survives WWII

    With a PoD no earlier than December 10, 1941, try to have at least one of the six carriers (Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, Hiryu, Shokaku and Zuikaku) to strike Pearl Harbor survive the war. Obviously, the carrier doesn't need to be in good condition - it can be rusting away at Yokohama - but it does need...

  3. 'Strike North' question

    Japan seriously contemplated joining in on the invasion of the USSR in summer 1941. In OTL, they obviously didn't - Nomonhan had demonstrated the Soviet Army's clear advantage, and Siberia & the Soviet Far East wouldn't solve Japan's resource problems. But, assuming that they did decide to...

  4. Late '30s British bomber-killer options?

    Assume that the Luftwaffe chooses to extensively develop heavy bombers - starting with Ju 89s, but moving onto a four-engine He 177, which with less developmental troubles might be able to enter service around 1939. Obviously, they'll be making a number of sacrifices to do so... but I'm more...

  5. No Great War - consequences?

    So, for whatever reason you choose (perhaps the assassination plot against Franz Ferdinand fails, perhaps cooler heads prevail among European diplomats, perhaps something else), no World War I in 1914. What happens? Some things to consider: 1) Home Rule in Ireland? It's been debated here...

  6. AHC: Earlier operational tiltrotors

    Tiltrotors, which offer greater speed than helicopters, have been in development for quite a while, but the first operational tiltrotor (the V-22) didn't enter service until 2007. There were earlier tiltrotors developed, including Canadair's CL-84 in the late 1960s/early 1970s, but none ever...

  7. AH Challenge: More successful Soviet/Russian carrier program

    The Soviet carrier program, starting in the 1960s with the Moskva-class helicopter carriers, never quite reached the stage of supercarriers - but the designs were there, and the Ulyanovsk was undergoing construction before the collapse of the Soviet Union. What would it take to have a more...

  8. Challenge: RSAF Ace

    As in the Royal Singapore Air Force... and as in the Royal Saudi Air Force. Both have rather well-equipped air forces, along with regional rivals to fight, but neither has had an ace. How would you go about changing that?

  9. President Stephen Douglas... in 1856

    In 1856, the Democratic Party was faced with a tremendous opportunity... but also tremendous problems. On one hand, the Whig Party, its longtime opponent, had more-or-less collapsed; the Republicans and the Know-Nothings each took over pieces of the old Whig organization. On the other hand...

  10. WI Fedorov Avtomat adopted before a Great War broke out?

    The Fedorov Avtomat was an early, intermediate-caliber automatic rifle, in development from 1906. If it were adopted either in 1913 or (in a delayed Great War (or no Great War) TL) by 1915 or 1916, what would be the consequences... for Russian military doctrine? for Mauser and other arms...

  11. AH Challenge: Communist Australia

    How would a Communist Australia be possible? I imagine it would be very important to get the ALP to end up rather more conservative, and allow the Communists to take up the more leftist sections of the party. I doubt that's enough, though. Other suggestions?

  12. Rewrite the Star Wars Expanded Universe

    You've been sent back in time to 1987 and put in charge of Lucasfilm Licensing, directed to develop the Star Wars Expanded Universe. What do you do? Who do you hire as authors, what storylines get covered?

  13. More aircraft carriers, 1990s on

    Simply put, how many more aircraft carriers than OTL could plausibly be fielded starting around the end of the Cold War? Some possibilities - Greater sales of the Chakri Naruebet's design Earlier Soviet commitment to carrier aviation China actually buying a carrier in the '90s Australia...

  14. To the North Pole by Sub - in 1931?

    In 1931, a decommissioned US submarine, the ex-USS O-12, was leased to Lake & Dannenhower, Inc. The sub, renamed Nautilus, was fitted out for under-ice operations - though neither heaters nor insulation were provided. Hearst offered to pay for the submarine to travel to the North Pole and meet...

  15. Thanksgiving Rum!

    Inspired by a misreading of this thread, what if the traditional American thanksgiving meal featured Rum, not Turkey?

  16. Graf Spee interned in Argentina

    Langsdorff was ordered to try to make for Buenos Aires and intern Graf Spee there, presumably hoping to appeal to latent pro-Axis sentiment. I'm not sure this is at all possible, but it is interesting to consider. This has been discussed a bit - however, I want to focus more on what would...

  17. WI No HIV?

    How would the world have been affected if SIV never made the leap to humans? Obviously, a lot of people who are now dead would not be. Gay culture in the US (at least) would be rather different without AIDS killing the bathhouses. Biomedical research would've taken somewhat different paths -...

  18. Sealions invading England?

    This is a thread dealing with an invader, but not a German-speaking one. Simply put, how could some species of sea lion become an invasive species that finds a niche in England?

  19. Abolitionism and the CSA

    What happens to the abolitionist movement if the slaveholding CSA somehow does gain independence? Are there analogs to the Fenian raids on Canada, for instance?

  20. Lockheed collapsed in 1971?

    Lockheed was on the verge of collapsing in 1971, and only survived thanks to the Emergency Loan Guarantee Act of 1971 (which passed the Senate thanks only to Spiro Agnew's tie-breaking vote). Could this act have failed to pass? What would've happened next - bankruptcy, an executive order by...
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