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The last Eithiopian monarch, Haile Selassie (birth name Tafari Makonnen), was mired in political intrigue and turmoil long before he took the throne, having become regent of the empire in 1916. Despite running most day to day affairs during this time, however, his ability to enact any meaningful...

Tafari Makonnen, then Regent of Ethiopia and heir to the throne, briefly contracted the Spanish Flu, but survived and would eventually become emperor in 1930 after the death of empress Zewditu. WI Zewditu fell ill with the flu and died in 1918, thus putting Haile Selassie on the Ethiopian...

The right-wing coup that kicked off the Spanish Civil War was actually a huge failure for the conspirators, at least at first. Although they took nearly all of the north, important cities like Oviedo, Seville and Córdoba, as well as the colonies (where their best military force, the Army of...

Like it says on the tin. Can Ethiopia defeat Italy's second attempt to conquer it and get out of the war with its territory intact? What kind of POD would be needed for this, and how early would it have to be for there to be a major difference? Could Mussolini, from let's say 1930 onward...

OOC: This timeline is intended to be objectively better than our own, though it still has its issues. Please please please keep this in mind when replying. Okay, so Germany has been one of the most socially progressive countries in the entire world and has been since the 1920s, so I was...

Other than poorly... All jokes aside, assuming radical, authoritarian, militaristic, xenophobic nationalism became a thing, how would it work around the 1000s, let's say in an alternate version of England that was conquered by the Normans but came under a constant state of revolt until the...

How could the Kingdom of Yugoslavia survive to 2017? I figure it would need to federate on some level. Perhaps avoid Nazi occupation. That did a number on the monarchy's survivability. Although a lot of stunts before that hit it's creditability. Ethnic tensions would have to be addressed of...