/r/HistoryWhatIf
Welcome to HistoryWhatIf! We're here to explore alternate history scenarios in interesting ways.
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"Yes, And!" Please read questions charitably. Try not to shoot down posts too much. If there's a way to read the question that allows an interesting answer, go for it.
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In OTL, Hitler accused in Mein kampf the jews of conspiring to bring down Germany. What if he was right and there really was a pan-jewish conspiracy to destroy Germany, with every jew doing what ever he could to destroy Germany,since the dawn of the 20 th century ?
Disclaimer:In real life, Hitler was wrong, this conspiracy never existed.
In this alternate timeline, Fanny Kaplan had been killed during the First Russian Revolution and thus, she didn't try to kill Vladimir Lenin in 1918. How much this would prolong Lenin's life? And how his policy would have changed?(would Far Eastern Republic had joined the Soviet Russia or it'd have stayed as the Soviet Russian puppet state?(in OTL, Japan withdrew its troops from Far East in October 1922, albeit still having plans on reoccupying Far East in the future)Yep, Far Eastern Republic was created by Lenin, who wanted to have the buffer state between Japan and Soviet Russia) And one question-who would have succeeded Lenin, if he would have lived longer?
Do you know if a good website or newsletter on Alternative history novels exist? Can you point me to some resources?
Someone said that if the HMS Indomitable had joined Force Z from Simon's town, Ceylon or Singapore, Force Z wouldn't have had a miserable end, and another said that the result would have been the same regardless.
Which do you think is the right answer? And How did history change?
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Or maybe even up to WW1?
What if they were never made into sovereign states and were instead absorbed into other countries? how could history, politics and cultures be different?
If these wars failed and the Latin American colonies of Spain were granted equal status in terms of citizenship (and one of them like Mexico became an integral* part of Spain for example): then how could history, demographics, cultures, politics, etc be changed?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_American_wars_of_independence
Let's say hypothetically Paul escapes imprisonment in Rome and travels to Spain and survives. What would history be like?
On October 20, 2004, Fidel Castro tripped and fell down after leaving the stage at a graduation ceremony in Santa Clara, Cuba, shattering his left kneecap and breaking his right arm, rekindling the obsession of the Cuban community in Miami with the bearded dictator's mortality.
Five months earlier, George W. Bush restricted Cuban American family travel to and remittances to Cuba hoping that this would sway Fidel Castro to step down so that Cuba would, as Woodrow Wilson put it, "made safe for democracy" (Bush was a Wilsonian in terms of his foreign policy philosophy). Indeed a lot of Cubans in Miami still believed that Cuban communism would come to an end with Fidel's death or incapacitation. Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry criticized Bush's Cuba policies as hurting Cuban Americans on both sides of the Florida Straits.
If Fidel Castro's physical stumble in October 2004 had been severe enough to cause him to die from unconsciousness and John Kerry had been elected president in 2004, would the US have re-established diplomatic ties with Cuba? I'm of the opinion that the US itself waited a few years after Fidel Castro's departure from power to normalize relations with Cuba because many of the Cubans in Miami would have aghast to see photos of Bill Clinton's handshake with Fidel Castro at the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000 if they had entered the public domain, and Raul himself did not have his brother's charismatic aura.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean
How would history, languages, demographics, cultures, climate, flora, fauna, geography, politics, etc be different?
Would history change much at all?
Operation Sea Lion is generally treated as utterly impossible by the alt history community, but was it really doomed from the start? What would the Germans have needed to do for it to succeed?
🇨🇠Every government has its own domestic critics…Switzerland (nation and state) doesn’t offend too many people, relatively speaking… Say hypothetically every country’s nihilists squeezed into/seized enough power & en masse request Swiss representatives effectively run their respective countries. What does the Swiss government do if given effective administration over every square-inch (erhm, square-centimeter) of the planet? 🇨đź‡
Lets say Wallace's segregationism is somehow less impactful in the North, defining himself more as a man for the 'forgotten american'. RFK Jr wins the Democratic Nomination and more Democrats flock to him, Wallace attracts the dissatisfied white democrats excellently. He intensifies himself as the candidate of Law and Order, States Rights, and Traditional Values, while Nixon is forced to play the awkward middle as Wallace takes dissatisfied white northerners and southerners alike.
In theory he only needs to fracture the vote and throw it to the House and Senate, in which he may be voted the winner as the winner due to seeing Wallace as a stronger force against "communism and social upheaval" compared to Kennedy, getting Curtis LeMay in too. The Democrats control (probably less of) the House and Senate, giving them the power they need to fulfill their campaign promises.
If america took over mexico, and kept on to it, would Mexican spanish have influence on american English?
What if some Greek explorer somehow found Madagascar and established a colony there that managed to grow and prosper, eventually ending up populating most of the island, but also losing connection with the Metropole. How woul such lost colony affect history?
Let’s say the USSR never collapses, Gorbachev is removed from power early on, the Eastern European satellites stay in line, and the status quo of the Cold War continues to this day. However, the communist government in Afghanistan still collapses in the early 90s. 9/11 still happens and the war on terror begins.
What would be different in our timeline?
Russia, while clearly autocratic-leaning at best, and hardly a liberal democracy nearly had this guy in power. What if he had become President instead of a string of weak leaders like Luzhkov and Primakov after Yeltesin died of a heart attack in the mid 1990s?
I called OP laststand what if grounds with Ukraine push in Russia their plans is to fight like tet ?
My thinking is, that if the Germans never really invade greece I think that, they had campure almost all ussr before winter. So the barbarosa plan would have been sussefull. And the war would be dan.
PS: UDSR means United Democratic Sovereign Republics.
In OTL, Mack got encircled by the French army in Ulm, and cowardly surrendered, giving Napoleon a bloodless victory.What would have been the outcome, had he decided to fight ?
I apologize if this is too recent (I caught flak in another alternate history subreddit for posting hypothetical alternate history scenarios based on events that were too recent and ended up getting banned from it as a result) but I thought this hypothetical was VERY intriguing.
Let's imagine an alternate timeline where Donald Trump decides not to run for the US Presidency a second time in 2020 and Mitt Romney replaces him on the GOP side (Biden and Harris still run on the Democrat side of the election). Do we still have the 2020 Election Fraud hysteria?
Could he have controlled his party to aid Ukraine?