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AH Challenge: The Best They Could Do, Poland May 1935


From my December 2009 AH Newsletter.  It's May 1935.  You're in charge of Poland.  Mission: Guide Poland through the next ten years.

AH Challenge: A German A-bomb

Could they have done it?  How long would it have taken?

Alternate History Miscellaneous Challenges


No Panama Canal?  A French Panama Canal? 

Alternate History Climate


Various climate-based Scenarios. Alternate History mini-scenarios based on a common idea: What if the World War II Great Powers understood some or all of the things we currently do about climate and acted on them.

The Best They Could Do: Italy July 1940


Could you do better than Benny Moose at leading Italy's ramshackle forces in World War II?.

The Best They Could Do: Japan November 1941

Could you do better than the Japanese leadership?  

Point Of Divergence is an amateur press magazine and also a forum for discussing AH and AH-related ideas.  This is a subset of my zine for PoD.

ISSUE NOTES 

 

Weather Challenges:Starting Around the time of the Medieval Warm period, temperature goes up to the level at the highest point of the last interglacial.  The interglacial before this was considerably warmer than this one.  Sea levels were 4-6 meters higher.  What impact would that have if it happened in historic times? Feel free to move the timing around within the 12,000-odd years of the current interglacial. Take it the other way: Climate deteriorates enough to drop sea levels 4 to 6 meters, or never gets warm enough to raise them that much. Feel free to move the sea level drop to any period in the current interglacial.

Droughts: As paleoclimatologists dig into climate history, they are finding evidence that the US, especially the western part, but also the southto a lesser extent, has had quite a number of multi-decade and even multi-century droughts. Feel free to move one of them to the historic era of your choice.  Decade of the 1920s?   The 1880s?


 

Posted on March 26, 2010.

 

More Stuff For POD Members Only

What you see here is a truncated on-line version of a larger zine that I contribute to POD, the alternate history APA.  POD members get to look forward to more fun stuff.