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  1. AHC: Maximum number of sovereign countries by 2020

    As it stands, the world has somewhere around 200 sovereign states today. Can you push that number to 300, 500 - even 1,000? Bonus points for the latest possible POD.

  2. AHC: Majority-coop economy in a Western country

    With a POD of 1900, can you create a situation where the majority of a country's firms are cooperatively owned? These can be consumer coops and/or worker coops. The remainder of firms can be privately-owned or state-owned in whatever ratio you see fit. While I'm curious to see what it would...

  3. PC check: the "USSR conquers Europe in WW2" assumption

    There's an assumption on these boards that a scenario such as a failed D-Day, no American intervention in the European War, or white peace between Britain and Germany, would lead to the Red Army marching all the way into France. I wanted to test how plausible that assumption really is. For...

  4. PC check: Anglo-German Union

    An alternate history idea that has fascinated me for years is the idea of a personal union between Britain and Germany, leading to a formal political union. I encountered this scenario from my time back on the Alternate History Wikia, where the following scenario was proposed: I was curious -...

  5. AHC: Replace SNP with Communists

    I just noticed this tweet from George Eaton, saying that at one point the Scottish National Party polled at 0.5% in 1955, the same as the Communist Party. In 2015, the SNP had a 49% polling in the run-up to the general election, and an ensuing electoral landslide. Your challenge is to make the...

  6. AHC: Nick Clegg Ascendant

    Here's an AHC so ludicrous that I delight in imagining the answers people can put together: with a POD after May 6th 2010, make Nick Clegg the Prime Minister of the UK by the present day. Bonus points if you can somehow do it with the Lib Dems becoming the majority party in the Commons. :D

  7. AHC: Dissolve Switzerland

    With any post-1900 point of divergence, break up and/or partition Switzerland. Rules are that it can't unite with nearby states and form a major part of the identity (eg a Swiss-Austrian Alpine Confederacy or suchlike) - the national identity too must go. Bonus points from a post-WWI POD, mega...

  8. Would our perception of nukes change if they were first used on armies?

    Assuming the alternate development of WWII and Little Boy and Fat Man were dropped on, say, the Atlantic Wall or Japanese fortifications or (who knows) Soviet troop formations, what would the public perception of them be in the aftermath? Would their ability to level cities and cause massive...

  9. Western perception of Stalin if he dies in WWII?

    Assuming the war goes more or less as OTL, if Stalin were to die before the end of the war - while he's still Uncle Joe in the eyes of Western propaganda - how long will that image persist in the Western consciousness?

  10. Was the fight for racial equality a necessary precursor for feminism?

    In other words, could the fight for gender equality come to the fore before racial issues did? And by 'the fight for gender equality' I mean second wave and radical feminism. Would it require massive geopolitical shifts to create nations whose cultural backgrounds favour this kind of...

  11. AHC: Con-Lab Grand Coalition in 2010

    Good evening forum, What would it take for Labour and the Tories to go into coalition together in the aftermath of the 2010 election? Would it simply take a change in the number of seats won by each party? Or would the changes have to go back further? PS this may or may not be the basis...

  12. Could support for Austria-Hungary be revived after its partition?

    I'm curious about what conditions would be necessary to make an Austro-Hungarian reunion a popular belief within those two nations. This isn't AHC: rebuild the Austro-Hungarian empire, but it is a thought experiment into what kind of circumstances would make it desirable for laymen and/or the...

  13. AHC: Less Grim Up North

    How can the quality of the life in the north of England/Britain be at parity, or better than, the quality of life in the south? The idea is interesting me but I'm pretty much devoid of ideas at the moment... so I'm sure the forum can provide plenty of inspiration!

  14. Is an independent Silesia post-WWI possible?

    I'm not really versed in this area of history so I thought I'd ask you guys: would it be possible for a Silesian state to be created out of Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia in the peace treaty processes that followed the First World War? I'm not sure to what extent there was a real...

  15. British and European reaction to the Cuban Missile Crisis

    Hi guys, I'm trying to find examples of how the civilian population of Britain and Western Europe responded to the news of the Cuban Missile Crisis - does anyone know any good sites or resources for this? Much appreciated!

  16. AHC: Turn the Isle of Wight into Singapore

    Both islands are of similar size, and sit on major shipping routes. Would it be possible to turn the Isle of Wight into a similarly densely-populated location? Preferably independent (after all, independence from the UK, and the EU, would probably allow it more flexibility in terms of economic...

  17. Worst possible Chernoybl?

    Hi all! My question is simple, how bad could Chernobyl realistically get? I heard on one old BBC programme that it could theoretically have produced an explosion that would render 300 square kilometres irradiated (or something like that). But how bad could the disaster itself have been, what's...

  18. AHC: A grand alliance of USSR, PRC and Communist India

    Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to turn India into a communist state and bring it into a friendly 'Grand Alliance' of communist states with the USSR and PRC. Any POD from the October Revolution onwards is acceptable. Bonus points if this leads to unification. And if it makes...

  19. WI: Margaret Thatcher doesn't develop dementia

    Would the Iron Lady continue to have an impact, in one way or another, upon the politics of the UK if she didn't develop the condition?

  20. Nazi Environmental Policy

    This is borderline ASB, but... Assuming Nazi Germany survived to the present day, how would it cope with climate change? Would it continue to burn fossil fuels or would it go for energy autarky by going for renewables? How would animal conservation issues be treated? Would the Nazis even...
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