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  1. Would Japan surrender conditionally without an invasion or atomic bombs?

    I was reading a debate about the necessity of dropping the nuclear bombs to get Japan to surrender. One side brought up the prospect of invasion being far bloodier than the nukes, while the other side countered that forcing Japan to surrender was not necessary in the first place and it wasn't...

  2. Hypercolonialism: A TL in a day by an utter illiterate in pre-1900 events

    While thinking of variations for Risk a couple years ago, I envisioned a four-player scenario where each side is assigned territories based (very vaguely) on OTL colonial powers. Late last year I became curious as to how this might look on an actual map, so I took one of those micro Worlda...

  3. East Germany as a North Korea analogue

    IOTL, East Germany was probably the best-developed country in the Eastern bloc, and on paper it was an open society that had rejected the evils of Nazism and endeavored to rebuild the country as a humane and advanced socialist state. Throughout the Cold War it tried to maintain this image...

  4. Is a permanent north-south divide of China feasible?

    This thread is inspired by my observation of the map presented in the popular board game Risk. See the presentation of "China" and "Mongolia"below: In Risk, "Mongolia" amusingly covers Korea, Manchuria, Beijing, Hebei, and even Confucius' home province of Shandong. Ever since the 4th-century...

  5. Soviets design a spaceship to return Laika alive

    I was reading about Laika and how she was pretty much starved and thirsted to death after getting to orbit—a pretty cruel way for the first Earthling into space to die. In the Wikipedia article on her it seems that some of the scientists involved in the project tried to care for Laika well, such...

  6. WI: Hitler dies in 1939 after invading Poland

    This discussion has probably been had multiple times, but I can't find anything on it. According to Wikipedia, there were two attempts on Hitler's life in late 1939, each involving large amounts of explosives. One was by a Polish sapper team and the other by a German guy who simply hated the...

  7. Can the CCP continue leading China without suppressing the Tiananmen protests in 1989?

    It's usually assumed that by having the People's Liberation Army crush the student demonstrators in Beijing, the Chinese Communist Party avoided political defeat along the lines of what was happening at the same time in the Soviet bloc — albeit at the cost of pissing off the West and leaving a...

  8. WI: Japanese invasion of Manchuria leads to all-out war?

    A pretty simple scenario: In 1931, let's say that for whatever reason the Manchurian warlord Zhang Xueliang decides to deploy his army against the Japanese Guandong (Kuantung) Army when they try to take over the region. a) I can see Chiang Kai-shek sticking to his OTL strategy of looking to...

  9. Why Couldn't the Japanese Buy Raw Materials From Southeast Asia?

    The Japanese invaded Southeast Asia not just because it needed the oil, but also the rice, rubber, and various metals used in weapons and equipment. Unless the American embargo of 1940 somehow got the DEI and Malaysia on board, why couldn't the Japanese simply pull strings with their local...

  10. Japanese Discovery of Manchurian Oil = No Pacific War?

    Let's imagine for moment that the Japanese have a stroke of luck and discover one of the easier-to-reach oil reserves in Manchuria sometime between 1938 and 1941, solving their petroleum problems for the foreseeable future. What reasons do they still have to go to war with the US and other...

  11. How to Get More Lend-Lease Aid for China in WWII?

    China, in contrast to the Soviet Union, received comparatively little material aid during World War II, partly due to the blocking off of the Burma Road in 1941 and because of the difficulties involved in sending aid over the Himalaya mountain range. But aid was also hampered by a perception...

  12. Cai E Lives Longer

    The Chinese Warlord period is one of those parts of history where the timeline is less a line and more an abstract version of what happens when you hastily put your earbuds in your pocket and try to untangle them later. By all accounts, Cai E was a capable military leader who had the guts...

  13. A New Great Wall - Chinese WW2 TL

    Soldiers of the Republic of China in 1942 A Brief Introduction to the Sino-Japanese War By Liu Yuanming When we talk about the “eleven years of resistance against Japan”, we need to pay special attention to the multiple conflicts that made up this war, as well as the overarching theme...

  14. Can China Win the Battle of Wuhan?

    With a PoD in... let's say the late 20s, and assuming the Japanese still invade much in the 1930s much the same way they did in OTL, what can be done to make the Chinese stop or defeat the Japanese at Wuhan or a similar Moscow-like battle? I was thinking that an earlier head-start to the German...

  15. 20th century Napoleon

    Inspired by the "Hitler as Napoleon" thread. What can be done to get a Napoleon-like figure to take over in France and make a similar-sized impact on the world? In lieu of Nazis*, how would the postwar world be affected in the event of a) "Napoleon's" loss or b) "Napoleon's" defeat? *=Most...

  16. Korea's Fate if the Kyujou Coup Succeeded

    I am posting this under instruction from someone who is unable to do so themselves. The post was made after reading The Red's ongoing "Decisive Darkness" TL. ------------------------------ Korea's Fate if the Kyujou Coup Succeeded 1. Political Situation in Korea Before Soviet Entry...

  17. 大陸戰爭: The Mainland War 1912-1969

    大陸戰爭 The Mainland War 1912-1969 Introduction Of the states which are generally defined as Great Powers in the modern age, the Nationalist Republic of China has undoubtedly seen the greatest turmoil along her path to the present. The great war of unification, which was brought to its...

  18. Alternate names for "Tank"

    Hi all, IOTL, as we know, the word "tank" to mean a tracked armored combat vehicle was coined because they were initially described for purposes of secrecy as mobile water tanks. This name has a very specific cause, one that would be particularly sensitive to butterflies (unlike the more...

  19. Pan-Slav State

    In thinking about European unification, I usually think first about Rome, then [Nazi] Germany, then France. But what about the Russians? How late would it be possible for them (or someone else, just thought with Russia it would be most likely) to unify the "Slavic" peoples to the point that by...

  20. Japan conquers China

    So IOTL nomadic peoples like the Manchus and Mongols were able to conquer China and make dynasties. Is there any possibility that the Japanese could make use of an extended warring period in China's history and, with Korea as a foothold, take and hold on to China for a few generations or more...
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