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What if, after 1871, Austria-Hungary allies with France and Russia against Germany, Italy, Britain, and the Ottoman Empire? This wouldn't be as irrational as it looks since in the event of victory in a major war Austria-Hungary could conquer lucrative territories at both Germany's (Silesia) and...

What if Vlad Tepes's (aka Dracula's) Wallachia is sent back in time from January 1, 1460 to January 1, 630 with the help of invisible and undetectable Alien Space Bats? How do Vlad and Wallachia react to the events and developments around them, such as the upcoming Byzantine-Muslim wars and the...

What if, in spite of Lenin's urges, he simply isn't able to get the Bolsheviks to accept the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, not even while the Germans are advancing deep inside of Russia? What would the subsequent effects of this have been? Would the Germans try setting up their own puppet government...

Which foreign colonies which the US did not acquire in real life would the US have been most likely to acquire in an alternate timeline? In real life, the US acquired some foreign colonies, such as Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Guam (all from Spain), and the Danish West Indies. The US might have...

Just how easy/difficult would it be for an ordinary person to disable a gun-wielding historical assassin if they were at the right place at the right time? I'm especially focusing on disabling Charles Guiteau, President Garfield's assassin, and Gavrilo Princip, the assassin of Franz Ferdinand...

What if, at some point in his reign (such as in place of the War of Spanish Succession, but maybe earlier on in his reign instead; you can decide for the most moment), Louis XIV of France attempts to create a unified Italian state as his puppet/vassal? In other words, reviving the Italian Wars...

If you can see the outcome of just one historical event going differently up to the present-day, which one would you choose? As for me, it would be Gavrilo Princip failing to shoot Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie. I'd like to see if World War I would have ever occurred later on in such a...

What if Romania's 1916 leadership sees the next five years of the future prior to Romania's WWI entry? Would Romania then refuse to enter WWI in 1916 due to fear of getting occupied by Germany, preferring to enter the war in 1918 instead? Or would the Romanians be smart enough to deduce and fear...

I found this thread on another forum interesting, so I'm reposting it here: I agree with @stevep's response that it would have been better for the Entente to win WWI earlier, before the Bolshevik Revolution actually occurred in Russia: What do you all think?

If the Anglo-French fight over Czechoslovakia in 1938, just how easy would it be for the USSR to create a corridor thru Poland or Romania so that it could move its troops to help Czechoslovakia? The goal would be to create this corridor as narrow as possible in order to avoid seeming threatening...

What if, after the 1940 Fall of France, Benito Mussolini goes to war with Switzerland over the Italian-majority Ticino Canton? Based on a population density map of Switzerland, Mussolini can argue that this canton doesn't really belong in Switzerland: What would Adolf Hitler, the British...

What if the Russian Provisional Government attempts to make peace with the Ottomans and Austria-Hungary at almost any price but not with Germany, viewing Germany as dangerous and imperialist while the Ottomans and A-H would be viewed as being less powerful and thus less threatening? IIRC, I seem...

What would have happened had Timur (Tamerlane) lived longer and attacked Ming China? On Quora, there was one long answer where someone who had detailed knowledge of this said that Ming China was very strong relative to its neighbors back then and thus would have very likely successfully repelled...

If Jack Ruby would have failed to kill Lee Harvey Oswald, what would LHO's punishment for killing JFK have been? Would he have gotten the death penalty or a less severe punishment such as life in prison?

Is there any realistic way that human racial classifications could have evolved differently throughout history? If so, how do we make this happen? For instance, I suspect that without Islam northern and southern Mediterranean peoples would be viewed as a single race, no? And without Christianity...

Which additional Ausgleich-style arrangements can you think of? In real life, the Ausgleich was the Austro-Hungarian Compromise in 1867 that created Austria-Hungary and its dual federal system. Personally, I can think of: -European France and Algeria if France permanently keeps Algeria -Hindu...

What if Romania attacks Bulgaria rather than Transylvania right after entering WWI in 1916? The logic here is that if Romania, in coordination with Russia, attacks Bulgaria and knocks it out of the war while also having Russo-Romanian troops at Constantinople, then this would be a fatal blow to...

I've got a question: It's less an alternate history question and more of a general history question: Why did Russia seize so much of Kars and Ardahan Oblasts (or regions) in its 1877-1878 war against the Turks? If you will look at this map (using Google Translate if you don't actually speak...

What if the Russian Constituent Assembly Election is held earlier in 1917, before the Bolsheviks are able to launch a coup of their own? From the relevant article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917_Russian_Constituent_Assembly_election#Background What if they stuck to holding these elections...

On alternatehistory.com, I recently discovered a thread where Fehervari speculated about the current demographic situation in Austria-Hungary: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/demographics-of-a-surviving-austria-hungary-again.532307/ Since I'm giving him due credit above, I...