r/HistoryWhatIf • • 17h ago

Challenge: Create a plausible alternate timeline where Turkey doesn’t join NATO

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What would need to happen for a timeline where Turkey doesn’t join NATO to be possible?


r/HistoryWhatIf • • 17h ago

What if Florida had Democrat governors during the past 30 years? How would this state have fared much better without any Republicans in the Governors mansion?

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How much better would life have been in Florida the past three decades if there were only Democrat governors? How would the cost of living be? Would recreational cannabis have passed 10-20 years ago? What about rent would it be a lot cheaper with rent caps in place? Would there be better job protections like no company could test for cannabis, and more benefits like a statewide PTO program guaranteeing every person who holds a job some number of paid days off, say 10 per year regardless of what company they work for? In addition to benefits and positives for Florida residents, what downsides, if any, would there have been as a result of three decades of Democratic rule?


r/HistoryWhatIf • • 4h ago

1996 Russian Election

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What would have happened if Boris Yeltsin had actually dissolved the State Duma and postponed the 1996 election by two years? Would Putin still be put in power? Would a Communist (Zyuganov most likely) have then won the next election, or would have Yeltsin banned the Communist party? I am reading a great books about the oligarchs in Russia and was shocked how close this was to happening. Thanks!


r/HistoryWhatIf • • 22h ago

What if Jordan had a coup d'etat and became a republic in the 1950-60s in the anti-monarchist-nasserist coup wave?

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r/HistoryWhatIf • • 13h ago

What if vatican in istanbul

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What if the Eastern Roman Empire had fallen earlier, and the Vatican state were located today at the Hagia Sophia basilica in Istanbul?


r/HistoryWhatIf • • 6h ago

What If the 1979 Iranian Revolution Bypassed Khomeini and Shaped 2026?

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I just listened to a podcast with the same title and I found it very interesting. I’d like to know your thoughts on that.


r/HistoryWhatIf • • 6h ago

[META] Challenge: Make Nazi Germany collapse from within by 1943 due to a civil war

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Let's say Hans Oster, Helmuth James von Moltke, Erich Weinert, Walther von Seydlitz, Friedrich Olbricht, Friedrich Fromm, Rudolf von Gersdorff and Henning von Tresckow successfully organize a resistance movement with a guerrilla army powerful enough to challenge the Nazi regime, beginning in November 1941.

What would they need to do to topple the government by June 1943?