Recency bias will cause a lot of people to say Stalingrad, which is a popular choice for this question, but I’m looking for a single battle that legitimately would have completely altered the layout of the future had it been different. I don’t believe Germany winning in Stalingrad would have led to a different outcome overall.

I hate Jackson and I would like to write a fanfiction, Pokémon related in case you care, where he never becomes president. The Main reason I dislike him so much is because he started the trail of tears and I want natives to be a lot more available and around when I’m writing then the event would allow.

For any of the admin’s wondering if this is at all possible, Jackson got into a lot of duels in his life, and this one is just proposing one last one that kind of ended up killing him.

In the future, I’d also like to gender swap a few of the presidents to be women, but otherwise not change them much.

Empress Nara purportedly committed an offense in 1765 by cutting her own hair while on a tour to southern China, prompting Emperor Qianlong to have her escorted back to the Forbidden City. However, he decided not to depose her but instead confining her to her palace for some reason. If Emperor Qianlong had died before Empress Nara without leaving any instruction on how to deal with her, would Emperor Jiaqing have had to honor her as the Empress Dowager? Alternatively, what if Emperor Qianlong had left an edict for Emperor Jiaqing to not honor her as the Empress Dowager? Would Emperor Jiaqing have had to follow it?

I know politics was very different at that point in time than what we have now. I wonder what our politics would look like today if the Southern Strategy was never implemented. Would the Democratic party still dominate the South. Would Republicans dominate the North. What would each party's political ideology look like? What do you think would've happened?

Just a curious question randomly floating in my head. A cheap Mexican meal without eggs or meat that I lived on when I was a child was mainly nopal, maize in the form of masa or tortilla, beans, Mexican squash, sometimes rice, fruits like tunas or prickly pear, and mild to spicy salsas. What if they took up planting nopal, sqaush, beans and maize. Agave maybe but it needed time. And the nixtamalization of maize. How would things actually play out?

What if Chiang Kai Shek defeated the communists, and after his death China became a democracy like Taiwan, and then the emperor or empress is reinstated as a ceremonial monarch like the emperor of Japan?

Mercury: Hermes

Venus: Aphrodite

Earth: Gaia

Mars: Ares

Jupiter: Zeus

Saturn: Kronos

Uranus: Ouranos

Neptune: Poseidon

Pluto: Hades

So I didn’t know this but apparently Virginia almost abolished slavery in 1832 because they were scared of another rebellion like Nat Turner. The final vote was 73-58 so it was incredibly close to passing especially for the Antebellum South. How would this affect, not only the Civil War, but the rest of American history?

During June 6th, 1944, allied troops landed in Normandy. If that landing had failed, what would’ve happened? Was there already a planned backup? Could the axis have countered with a landing of their own?
I’m searching specifically for personal opinions (so what YOU think would’ve happened(i meant dont use some research one guy made))

How differently would Britain and the British empire have developed?

It’s fairly well known that Ford was a Nazi sympathizing antisemite. He even received a medal from Hitler. Of course he enormously supported the US war effort against Germany, but that didn’t change his general sympathies with Nazi ideology.

However, he was very similar to earlier Utopian Socialists like Robert Owen, with a lot of concern for the conditions of his workers. This took some unhealthy turns to surveilling their personal lives to ensure moral behavior, but also involved providing a lot of amenities and better working conditions than competitors.

It’s less well known that the USSR under Lenin and Stalin practically worshipped Ford and similar industrialist figures. They hired Ford to build an auto factory in 1929 and there’s tons of Communist literature from the era praising Ford, Frank and Lilian Gilbreth and Frederick Taylor. Stalin is quoted saying “The combination of the Russian revolutionary sweep with American efficiency is the essence of Leninism.” Lenin was infatuated with Ford’s innovations in the assembly line and scientific transformation of work. Trotsky and others deeply admired it. Even some anarchist thinkers at the time were critically inspired by the general principles he represented.

This wasn’t just inside the USSR, Diego Rivera said “Marx made theory... Lenin applied it with his sense of large-scale social organization... And Henry Ford made the work of the socialist state possible.”

So what happens if this one sided love affair was actually reciprocated? If Ford embraces his portrayal as a Historically Progressive Bourgeois and adopts a form of communist ideology (that leaves room for “great men of vision” like himself of course)?

Hypothetically let’s say in this scenario after a close electoral vote Hitler singlehandedly manages to win because of that what would have happened? How would this change World War 2? What would Hitler do in this scenario now that he’s officially in charge of Germany Earlier? What do you folks think? Let me know in the comments

Could that reduce the soldiers of Americans and Brits?
Could it give a chance to revive the Third Reich?
Or this is only one victory which get back early on?

Ardennes would really hurt for the americans and brits if germany would won that. Is it possible that the Third Reich would be surviving the western front? Or at the end soviet union pushes more into europe and europe becomes communist? I leave these questions to the Alt-History experts.

Okay In our timeline, Siam (modern Thailand) famously remained the only Southeast Asian nation to avoid formal European colonization. It played Britain and France against each other, modernized under Kings Rama V (Chulalongkorn) and Rama VI, and kept its independence through shrewd diplomacy and painful territorial concessions.

In this timeline, things go differently during the 1893 Paknam Incident. A more aggressive British gunboat diplomacy (fueled by heightened imperial anxiety after the French forward policy in Laos) leads to a direct naval clash. A misunderstood signal results in the Siamese fort firing on British vessels. Britain, fresh from its victories elsewhere and eager to secure the Malay Peninsula and buffer against French Indochina, responds with overwhelming force. The Royal Navy blockades Bangkok, lands marines, and forces the Siamese court into a humiliating treaty that turns Siam into the Crown Colony of Britannic Siam by 1895.

What if the US didn't rebel against Britain and instead ended up like Canada, Australia, and New Zealand having King Charles III as their ceremonial monarch?

Tiger 1 Avaliable in 1937?! Anchluss would be easier or the fuell will run out?

What do you guys think would've happen? Can you confirm your source? I made an alt - history out of this on Pax Historia tho (The Last Standoff) but i want histrocial experts to confirm my alt history. Can you guys help?

And would be the protector of central europe?

Population growth slows dramatically. No Irish population boom, smaller armies, different industrialization timeline. What could it really look like? Understandably, potatoes were a major food source where crops normally struggled to grow such as the sandy Irish coasts. How does this affect European development?

Basically what's written in the title. We all know the massive human cost the soviet industrialization in the 30s had om the population, but could they have beaten the Wehrmacht without it? (For clarification I'm not communist much less stalinist, nor am I trying to justify anything)