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History is going to go down a very bad direction. Hitler was never aloof to showing the world the very strongest cards he could play. A situation where Germany demands Danzig and then demonstrates a NUCLEAR WEAPON may well find the UK and France slinking away from another war.
- 9/11 is Foiled. 9/11 is the most significant event to happen to the USA since Pearl Harbor. The collapse of the Twin Towers and the murder of nearly 3,000 people in NYC, Washington and Pennsylvania effected everyone who was alive to witness it on some deep, fundamental level.
- Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI Escape the French Revolution. The French Revolution of 1789-99 put a powder keg beneath old Europe and exploded it with the force of a thousand atomic bombs.
- Rommel Isn’t Absent During D-Day. Erwin Rommel was many things: a good strategist, a highly-decorated commander, and one of the most influential people in the Third Reich who wasn’t also a complete scumbag.
- Napoleon Doesn’t Invade Russia. Sticking with megalomaniacs and foolish plans to invade Russia, let’s look at the 19 Century’s most-foolish megalomaniac of all.
If there's a way to read the question that allows an interesting answer, go for it. If all you have to say is that "Nothing would change" or "It couldn't happen", then please find a different question to respond to - or tweak the question itself so you can offer an interesting response.
True masters develop scenarios and fleshed-out histories, ones that simply beg for a slew of maps to go along with them. The alternate history textbook For Want of A Nail by Robert Sobel is such a ...
- Samuel Arbesman
Aug 19, 2021 · Casual text messages, emails and social media posts offer glimpses of unfolding events and opinions shared. Future historians will also likely have a rich understanding of what life during our ...
The Soviets started moving 1.5k factories behind the Ural mountains in 1941, only taking Moscow would cut the link between the hinterland industry and the immediate frontlines. So no, ignoring Moscow would be bad. That was also the issue, that the push towards Moscow wasn't strong enough and ultimately failed.
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May 5, 2022 · Tacitly, we historians make decisions like this all the time: when we say that a particular battle, a particular election, a particular act of human will matters —we imply that if these hadn’t happened, history would have been different. This is what it means to make claims about cause and effect, about influence or motivation: logically embedded such conclusions are a statement about ...
