Time for some scenario suggestions!
Added 2024-06-22 17:00:07 +0000 UTCFeel free to leave as many ideas as you want below
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What if the French Revolution failed? What if the US successfully invaded and absorbed Canada in the War of 1812? What if the US won the Vietnam War? What if Turkey joined World War II? What if Operation Valkyrie was a success?
Lunar Canadian
2024-09-16 11:07:18 +0000 UTCWhat if Beria kept power after Stalins death?
Filip Sz.
2024-09-11 11:05:42 +0000 UTCWhat if John Tyler died on the USS Princeton in 1843? There was no presidential succession until the late 1800’s, do things just fall into chaos? Does Henry Clay win the presidency(finally), what happens in regard to the annexation of Texas?
Michael O
2024-08-19 05:11:11 +0000 UTCHuge fan of alt geography in any scenario, would love more of that
Tyler Tennis
2024-07-15 18:56:11 +0000 UTCI know you have done the iceberg recently, but a video on recommending alt hist literature is good. Or maybe a kind of tier list for books/films/show that you have gotten into.
Tyler Tennis
2024-07-15 18:55:54 +0000 UTCIs there any merit to “what if Pedro II of Brazil married Queen Victoria?”
Mark Simmons
2024-07-15 00:38:08 +0000 UTCWhat if Fall Gelb fails?
CleGuy
2024-07-14 16:47:05 +0000 UTCWhat if England remained a bunch of Anglo Saxon kingdoms
Tommy
2024-07-14 16:05:31 +0000 UTCThis one would have a lot of knock-on effects but I don't think it would change too much going into the future since so much of Christianity was just theologizing Roman culture and law, using stolen Jewish mythology as a base. Still: what if Rome never committed the genocide of Israel and so the Diaspora never began in 70 AD. I know lots of little things would change (the menorah wouldn't have been lost, the Collusseum would have been built by different people, and Islam would have formed differently. Still the amount that might be the same is almost as intriguing as what might be different. Especially when it comes to antisemitism and the levantine crisis Britain, Stalin, France and America created.
Mira Maven מירח מיבן
2024-07-13 03:56:22 +0000 UTCOne last Serious: What if Joseph Smith wasn't killed and lived on to old age.
MichaelAL1776
2024-07-12 17:06:18 +0000 UTCAnother ASB: What if the "curse of Tippecanoe" was real (or just that the coincidental phenomenon continued).
MichaelAL1776
2024-07-12 17:04:52 +0000 UTCMore ASB/"just for fun" Suggestion: What if bending from Avatar the Last Airbender was real, with the elements located in their real world influences. IE: India and Tibet would have airbenders, China and Mongolia would have Earth Benders, Japan and Meso America would have Fire Benders, and North America would have Water Benders.b
MichaelAL1776
2024-07-12 16:59:33 +0000 UTCSerious suggestion: What if the 1959 Tibetan Uprising escalated into a Vietnam or Korean style conflict with U.S. support or involvement.
MichaelAL1776
2024-07-12 16:55:26 +0000 UTCwhat if the UN Partition Plan for Palestine was successful (thats how the trytory was cald then )
Kineret Gruber-ben Levy
2024-07-11 06:43:38 +0000 UTCWhat if the treaty of tordesillas never happened
Tommy
2024-07-10 19:21:54 +0000 UTCWhat if operation Barbarossa was successful
Tommy
2024-07-07 14:08:08 +0000 UTCWhat if the Tunguska event (if it was a comet) happened 5 hours earlier and hit Saint Petersburg, killing the royal familiy, and started a russian civil war in 1908?
Tento
2024-07-07 09:56:31 +0000 UTCWhat if the Iranian Revolution failed?
/dev/null
2024-07-07 08:49:18 +0000 UTCWhat if the 1991 August coup succeeded
Prince_Of_Wales01
2024-07-07 08:09:58 +0000 UTCWhat if yugoslavia didn't violently collapse
TheMcFunnel
2024-07-06 23:37:25 +0000 UTCWhat if the Taiping rebellion succeeded?
Ezra173
2024-07-06 21:49:17 +0000 UTCWhat if Rome remained a republic
Tommy
2024-07-05 18:23:53 +0000 UTCWhat if Charlemagne never existed
Chris Rivera
2024-07-04 16:57:18 +0000 UTC2. What if Jesus was not born, thereby Christianity won’t existed?I want to know the impact of this since Roman era until today!
Irsuka Shido
2024-07-04 10:06:01 +0000 UTC1. What if the event happened in Deep Impact/Armageddon/Greenland really happened in present times?
Irsuka Shido
2024-07-04 10:04:14 +0000 UTCHuge butterfly effect I know but What if the Hapsburg Dynasty never existed
Chris Rivera
2024-07-04 03:54:16 +0000 UTCWhat if Rome never conquered Gaul
Tommy
2024-07-03 15:16:10 +0000 UTCWhat if the shah succumbed to his cancer before the revolution ignited
TheMcFunnel
2024-07-03 10:08:35 +0000 UTCOh dear
TheMcFunnel
2024-07-02 10:19:38 +0000 UTCWhat if the Austro Hungarian empire didn't tear itself apart or at least survived until trianon or saint germain
TheMcFunnel
2024-07-02 10:18:34 +0000 UTCWhat if Tamerlane never existed
Tommy
2024-07-02 01:55:30 +0000 UTCWhat if François I of France became Holy Roman Emperor instead of Charles I of Spain.
Spatialex
2024-07-01 20:01:15 +0000 UTCWhat if Teddy Roosevelt sat out the Presidential Election of 1912 and Taft won
The LaughingTree
2024-06-30 18:49:31 +0000 UTCWhat if the Anglo-Japanese alliance lasted until WW2?
Chris Rivera
2024-06-28 23:34:00 +0000 UTCWhat if Hitler actually did escape to Argentina and it was discovered he was still alive in the middle of the Cold War.
MacKenzie McInnis
2024-06-28 20:01:44 +0000 UTCWhat if the American Civil War evolved into an early World War with the involvement of European Nations
The LaughingTree
2024-06-28 19:41:54 +0000 UTCWhat if the USA joined the Central Powers in WW1?
Chris Rivera
2024-06-27 20:48:17 +0000 UTCWhat if the Golden Horde remained for a few more centuries
Tommy
2024-06-27 03:06:08 +0000 UTCWhat if the Dutch retained Cape Colony and South Africa
Tynen the Mighty
2024-06-26 21:55:26 +0000 UTCwhat if England never existed?
Chris Rivera
2024-06-26 19:56:23 +0000 UTCWhat if Haiti’s indemnity payments weren’t required
Tynen the Mighty
2024-06-26 19:40:02 +0000 UTCWhat if the ottomans won at Vienna
Tommy
2024-06-26 14:39:59 +0000 UTCWhat if the mongols invaded Japan
Tommy
2024-06-26 14:38:16 +0000 UTCWhat if Constantinople fell in 718
Tommy
2024-06-26 13:15:57 +0000 UTCWhat if France won the Franco Prussian war so Germany never forms
Tommy
2024-06-24 23:26:40 +0000 UTCWhat if the Vinlanders brought in widespread Old World diseases to the Americas first?
Spoonofdestiny
2024-06-24 21:24:21 +0000 UTCWhat if the Paris Commune was more successful i.e. France becomes leftist in the early 1870s
Wendy
2024-06-24 21:21:09 +0000 UTCWhat if one of the other two candidates won the war of 1066.
MacKenzie McInnis
2024-06-24 15:59:40 +0000 UTCWhat if China won the first Opium War?
Kester
2024-06-24 04:43:23 +0000 UTCWhat if the second sino-japanese war never happened?
Fire Lord Marklin
2024-06-23 23:52:01 +0000 UTCWhat if Cleopatra and Mark Anthony won against Octavian?
Chris Rivera
2024-06-23 21:50:17 +0000 UTCwhat if Egypt and Hatti unified or what if Rameses II died in the Battle of Kadesh?
Chris Rivera
2024-06-23 21:47:30 +0000 UTCWhat if the Prussian scheme happened?
Greg Good
2024-06-23 20:12:39 +0000 UTCWhat if England won the hundred years war
Tommy
2024-06-23 13:57:16 +0000 UTCWhat if Germany never formed
Tommy
2024-06-23 13:55:23 +0000 UTC4. Final one. What if the U.K and Japan switched places geographically. Like the landmasses switched, but all the people, natural disasters, etc remained the same. Would Hadrian's Wall be built? Would the Warring States Period have gone differently? Let the shenanigans ensue.
Greyshot151
2024-06-23 03:42:12 +0000 UTC3. What if the Haber-Bosch process was not discovered? This was used for Fertilzer and Explosives.
Greyshot151
2024-06-23 03:28:59 +0000 UTC2. What if Austria joined the Crimean War.
Greyshot151
2024-06-23 03:14:23 +0000 UTC1. What if Japan remained isolationist? Or at least, tried to remain.
Greyshot151
2024-06-23 03:10:37 +0000 UTCWhat if FDR had been assassinated?
Zach Martin
2024-06-23 02:41:48 +0000 UTCWhat if Benjamin Butler had accepted Lincoln's offer to be his VP?
Zach Martin
2024-06-23 02:41:17 +0000 UTCBattle of Bosworth Field, what would of happened had Stanley supported Richard III instead of Henry Tudor? No protestant reformation in the UK?
Ian Barlow
2024-06-23 01:42:23 +0000 UTCWhat if...the US had done the same as the UK, and implemented a form of NHS after WW2? I know, crazy, huh?
Stephen MacRae
2024-06-23 01:35:21 +0000 UTCWhat if FDR died of polio in 1921 and so never became President
The LaughingTree
2024-06-23 01:01:33 +0000 UTC3. What if the Mongals succesfully invaded Japan. Would they eventually conquer all of Japan or would they be driven out of the island?
The FoE Three
2024-06-22 23:15:42 +0000 UTC2. What if Australia broke apart into multiple nations. Instead of becoming the Commonwealth of Australia on January 1, 1901, the six colonies instead opted to become their own nations under the British Realm.
The FoE Three
2024-06-22 23:14:13 +0000 UTC1. What if Robert E. Lee died in the Mexican-American War? How would this effect later on in the American Civil War.
The FoE Three
2024-06-22 23:11:51 +0000 UTCWhat if the US pursued a Japan first policy and the Soviets liberated all of Europe, including France and at least Northern Italy?
Jim Atwood
2024-06-22 22:44:33 +0000 UTCWhat if the second french revolution never happened
Brix
2024-06-22 22:27:09 +0000 UTCWhat if Islam never existed
Tommy
2024-06-22 22:07:00 +0000 UTCWhat if Tamerlane conquered china and lived longer
Tommy
2024-06-22 22:06:10 +0000 UTCWhat if William the conqueror lost in 1066. Or what if the mongols conquered Europe
Tommy
2024-06-22 21:47:04 +0000 UTCWhat if the Communsts took power in Germany besides the Nazis
Prince_Of_Wales01
2024-06-22 20:05:13 +0000 UTC1. What if the Province of Quebec joined the Continental Congress? 2. What if Lincoln oversaw Reconstruction? 3. What if Edward VIII remained on the throne and refused to abdicate?
Asher Edelson
2024-06-22 20:01:28 +0000 UTCWhat if Brazil remained in a union with Portugal?
Comm Luke
2024-06-22 19:49:54 +0000 UTC1. What if President Diem of South Vietnam and his brother had not been assassinated in 1963, leading to a more stable government and a more committed ARVN military? 2. What if Mohammad Zahir Shah had been allowed back into Afghanistan to restore the constitutional monarchy after the Afghan defeat of the Soviets, since apparently he was quite popular with many of the ruling tribes. 3. What if Austria had won the Austro-Prussian War?
Tyler Stepharnoff
2024-06-22 18:47:25 +0000 UTCThat question could also be shortened to: What if a "Great Atlantic War" happened? A scenario in which the Louisiana Purchase did not happen and the U.S. tries to take this territory by force seems like one of the more plausible reasons for this scenario.
Mike
2024-06-22 18:43:49 +0000 UTCWhat if Cody caused the "Great Atlantic War"? In your video "What if the Haitian Revolution Failed?" you stated around minute 8 that no one would fight a war over land that no actual Frenchman lived on. Well that depends on the time when America takes the French land and thereby declares war on France. Let's suppose the worst time for this annexation: The Bourbon Restoration. While Bourbon France was seemingly weak, it was integrated into the post Vienna Congress peace order of Europe. During this congress the european monarchies restructured Europe to prevent a rise of a Napoleon and liberal ideas or democracy again. It gave birth to a very long period of relative peace in Europe. And now the democratic! U.S. just declared war on France. To every monarch in Europe that needs to seem like: "Napoleon all over again". The European monarchies hold their breath, meet and after some deliberations every major European power and many minor ones declare an alliance with the French and war on the United States. Just imagine that this would be possible to bring about for the French king: It could strenghten his rule and finally unite the French behind him. He'd have any reason to bring this scenario about. For the rest of Europe the situation might seem similiar. Within the midst of peace the United States attacked - unprovoked - a European nation. A perfect rallying cry.
Mike
2024-06-22 18:27:05 +0000 UTCWhat if Egypt had fallen during the latebronze age collapse, a la Hittite style? POD: Rather vague, but probably failure of Ramesses III to fend off the sea people What if Julius Caesar was killed during his conquest of Gaul? POD: Battle of the Sabis. During the battle, Caesar moved to the front line to boost morale, maybe a slip or a stray missile What if Winston Churchill had died in 1942? POD: Winston flew across the Atlantic in 1942, from dc to England. The British radar registered his plane as a German bomber and sent an intercept squad to shoot it down. Fortunately they failed to intercept the plane. What if Darius III had been killed at the battle of issus? POD: bad luck, stray arrow What if England had captured Orleans? POD: no Joan of arc, leading to faults in moral of the French troops Silly scenario: what if Germany had actually created the Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte? How would it have potentially affected the war, and the aftermath of the war? POD: Magic, idk What if the ottomans had been successful during the second siege of Vienna? POD: longer delay in polish reinforcements, long enough for the final round of mines to be detonated Maybe silly: what is King Philip II had taken the English throne in the 12th century when king John was excommunicated? POD: ???
lojybtdty
2024-06-22 18:17:56 +0000 UTCWhat if the Native Americans had unified before Europeans colonized America?
Rize Flamer
2024-06-22 18:03:06 +0000 UTCWhat if WW2 was delayed and the United States had a revolution during the Great Depression?
Rize Flamer
2024-06-22 18:02:23 +0000 UTCAlright, I think I have some ideas: 1. What if Haiti invade the US after the Haitian Revolution as many Southern slaveowners feared would happen? 2. A remake of your What if the Black Plague wiped out Europe video from way back. 3. What if Alexander the Great DIDN’T listen to his men and tried to conquer Asia? Would he reach China and would he experienced his first lost? 4. The age old question of What if China and Rome somehow met? 5. The hypothetical question of What if China found the Americas first before Columbus?
DemiGodzillaZ
2024-06-22 17:58:54 +0000 UTCWhat if the United States won the Philippine-American war and established more colonies in Asia?
Rize Flamer
2024-06-22 17:57:53 +0000 UTCWhat if the republicans won the Spanish civil war?
Rize Flamer
2024-06-22 17:56:31 +0000 UTCWhat if Corsica stayed Italian and Napoleon became an Italian general
Rize Flamer
2024-06-22 17:55:26 +0000 UTCWhat if England beat France in The Hundred Years War?
Chris Rivera
2024-06-22 17:53:06 +0000 UTCWhat if horses and camels in the Americas never went extinct and were domesticable?
Allen Turner
2024-06-22 17:38:22 +0000 UTCI’ve always enjoyed the question of Italy uniting in the 1300-1400s.
Mister Matt
2024-06-22 17:36:57 +0000 UTCYou know what, I miss the old occasional ridiculous Althistory vids like what if YouTube killed us all and also I'ma big WWZ Fan. How about, what if the Spanish Flu reanimated it's victims in Spring 1918.
MacKenzie McInnis
2024-06-22 17:25:45 +0000 UTCWhat if John Brown’s raid, and his plan to start a mass slave insurrection, had gone to plan? What if the US military had gone with Nikola Tesla’s plan for a electricity-based super weapon instead of (or alongside) the Manhattan Project
Benjamin Bachim
2024-06-22 17:12:10 +0000 UTCI would love to see your take on "if the south would have won" by Hank Williams jr. https://youtu.be/fDkyL9c0QdY?si=Ra8vEVvDuRBPzJiu
james
2024-06-22 17:07:50 +0000 UTCWhat if the Russians stuck around in California a little longer and discovered gold before the Americans did?
Michael Walsh
2024-06-22 17:07:31 +0000 UTCWhat if the Mad Cow pandemic was worse?
InquisitorXarius
2024-06-22 17:04:33 +0000 UTCNew and more detailed "what if the axis won ww2" i imagine there would be a cold war between the democratic West and facist europe. I would love to see how that would play out in a video
ian leonhart berglund
2024-06-22 17:03:50 +0000 UTCWhat if the USA joined the central powers?
InquisitorXarius
2024-06-22 17:03:23 +0000 UTCIt’s silly but what if steam engines were never invented. Or what if railroads were never invented.
Gus A Zschech
2024-06-22 17:02:39 +0000 UTCWhat if we Pakistan and India never separated
Dark Sans
2024-06-22 17:02:32 +0000 UTCWhat if the Incan Empire survived?
InquisitorXarius
2024-06-22 17:02:25 +0000 UTCRecently read a book on the empire of Maximilian in Mexico, a scenario in which it survives would be interesting - since he was a relative liberal constitutional monarch who allied himself with ultra conservative allies it would be interesting to see the fallout in a longer lasting state
Luke
2024-06-22 17:02:11 +0000 UTC
