History Net: Where History Comes Alive - World & US History Online » What If … http://www.historynet.com From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Sun, 26 May 2013 00:01:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 ....the Omaha Beach Landing Had Failed? http://www.historynet.com/the-omaha-beach-landing-had-failed.htm http://www.historynet.com/the-omaha-beach-landing-had-failed.htm#comments Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:15:11 +0000 bclark http://www.historynet.com/?p=13687671 Some Reversals of fortune in World War II would have had huge consequences and yet make for uninteresting counterfactuals. The shifts in outcome are simply too obvious.

In the case of Operation Overlord, the June 1944 D-Day landings, an Allied …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/the-omaha-beach-landing-had-failed.htm/feed 0 What If the Bismarck Had Escaped Destruction? http://www.historynet.com/what-if-the-bismarck-had-escaped-destruction.htm http://www.historynet.com/what-if-the-bismarck-had-escaped-destruction.htm#comments Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:18:33 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13687104 On May 19, 1941, the German battleship Bismarck, accompanied by the cruiser Prinz Eugen and several escort vessels, made its way through the Kattegat Strait separating Nazi-occupied Denmark from neutral Sweden. The 50,000-ton warship's objective was to reach British …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/what-if-the-bismarck-had-escaped-destruction.htm/feed 4 What If Hitler Had Not Come to Power? http://www.historynet.com/what-if-hitler-had-not-come-to-power.htm http://www.historynet.com/what-if-hitler-had-not-come-to-power.htm#comments Fri, 10 Aug 2012 20:06:10 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13686317 http://www.historynet.com/what-if-hitler-had-not-come-to-power.htm/feed 0 What If the Germans Had Captured Moscow in 1941? http://www.historynet.com/what-if-the-germans-had-captured-moscow-in-1941.htm http://www.historynet.com/what-if-the-germans-had-captured-moscow-in-1941.htm#comments Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:32:03 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13685903 One of the classic "what ifs" of the Second World War centers on how—or if—the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, code-named Operation Barbarossa, could have achieved a quick victory. Hitler certainly believed that it could. …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/what-if-the-germans-had-captured-moscow-in-1941.htm/feed 10 What If Winston Churchill Had Offered Less "Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat"? http://www.historynet.com/what-if-winston-churchill-had-offered-less-blood-toil-tears-and-sweat.htm http://www.historynet.com/what-if-winston-churchill-had-offered-less-blood-toil-tears-and-sweat.htm#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:51:14 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13685186 On May 13, 1940, Winston Churchill addressed the House of Commons in his first speech as prime minister. "I would say to the House," he declaimed, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat." He predicted …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/what-if-winston-churchill-had-offered-less-blood-toil-tears-and-sweat.htm/feed 2 What If Werner Heisenberg Had Been a Nazi? http://www.historynet.com/what-if-werner-heisenberg-had-been-a-nazi.htm http://www.historynet.com/what-if-werner-heisenberg-had-been-a-nazi.htm#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:25:06 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13684863 Today the name Werner Heisenberg means little, even to highly educated people. But on the eve of World War II, he was a Nobel laureate with a reputation as possibly the world's greatest atomic physicist. So when the community …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/what-if-werner-heisenberg-had-been-a-nazi.htm/feed 2 What If Germany Had Developed the Atomic Bomb? http://www.historynet.com/what-if-germany-had-developed-the-atomic-bomb.htm http://www.historynet.com/what-if-germany-had-developed-the-atomic-bomb.htm#comments Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:50:21 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13684650 http://www.historynet.com/what-if-germany-had-developed-the-atomic-bomb.htm/feed 10 What If the Allies Had Invaded France in 1943? http://www.historynet.com/what-if-the-allies-had-invaded-france-in-1943.htm http://www.historynet.com/what-if-the-allies-had-invaded-france-in-1943.htm#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:30:31 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13684277 On a mid-spring morning in 1943, 160,000 Allied troops storm ashore in Normandy to create the "Second Front" long desired by American strategists and long demanded by the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. In the days that follow, additional Allied …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/what-if-the-allies-had-invaded-france-in-1943.htm/feed 5 What If the Dieppe Raid Had Succeeded? http://www.historynet.com/what-if-the-dieppe-raid-had-succeeded.htm http://www.historynet.com/what-if-the-dieppe-raid-had-succeeded.htm#comments Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:54:51 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13683600 In the earliest light of August 19, 1942, 6,080 Allied troops, most of them Canadian, attacked the Channel port of Dieppe, France. They had orders to hold the port for two tides—about 12 hours—before withdrawing. The assault began with landings …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/what-if-the-dieppe-raid-had-succeeded.htm/feed 5 What If America's "Arsenal of Democracy" Had Failed to Materialize? http://www.historynet.com/what-if-americas-arsenal-of-democracy-had-failed-to-materialize.htm http://www.historynet.com/what-if-americas-arsenal-of-democracy-had-failed-to-materialize.htm#comments Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:54:04 +0000 aburchyski http://www.historynet.com/?p=13683395 http://www.historynet.com/what-if-americas-arsenal-of-democracy-had-failed-to-materialize.htm/feed 0