US of Z - Alternate History

Originally Aired Feb 3, 2026 In today's alternate history scenario we ask what if the Norman Conquests failed? Would England remain under the rule of the Anglo Saxon House of Godwinson of Wessex rather than William the Conquerer? What would a Godwinson dynasty look like presiding over a Pax Anglica? Would Godwinson be a conquerer and expand into Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, or would he be a c...

Originally Aired Jan 23, 2026 In today's alternate history scenario we ask what if the United States of America joined Germany and the Central Powers in World War I? American and German relations prior to the outbreak of war were closer than many realize. However, the economic ties with Britain and the Entente were simply stronger. But, what if that had changed? Would the lack of American oil...

Originally Aired Jan 12, 2026 In today's alternate history scenario we ask what if Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi remained in power, and the Islamic Revolution in Iran, or the Iranian Revolution, simply never happened? What does it take to prevent the revolution in Iran? Why did the white revolution and the Shah's modernization efforts backfire? What were the inherent failures of the Pahlavis...

Originally Aired Jan 9, 2026 In today's alternate history scenario we ask what if the policy of appeasement continued, and Britain and France never declared war on Nazi Germany in 1939 over Poland. Would World War II as we know it, ever have begun? Would the invasion of Poland still have gone through? What about the Winter War, Operation Babarossa, or an earlier German invasion of the Soviet U...

Originally Aired Jan 6, 2026 In today's alternate history scenario we ask what if the tripartite pact of Germany, Great Britain, and Italy decided to launch an invasion of Venezuela in 1902 during the Venezuelan Crisis? How would President of the United States Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt respond? How will the world handle the news of this invasion of Venezuela? Can the might of the Br...

Originally Aired Dec 31, 2025 In today's alternate history scenario we ask what if the Christmas Truce in 1914 between the German and British soldiers ended the war? Would negotiations extend to the other powers, or would the war in the West be the only front that stops fighting? What will happen to Russia, France, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire? Will this affect Britain, the United S...

Originally Aired Dec 15, 2025 Special thanks to HungryMinds for sponsoring today's video! You can buy The Last Book today with my link: https://mdsh.io/deanmonsieurthelastbook using promo code MrZ! In today's alternate history scenario we ask what if the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was able to overcome the major causes of their collapse and survive the Cold War to the turn of the c...

Originally Aired Jul 28, 2025 In today's alternate history scenario we ask what if the Schlieffen plan actually succeeded, and Germany won the First World War in December 1914? How would the post-Great War treaties be changed under Kaiser Wilhelm II and Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg? Would it still even be the World War? What will happen to France, Russia, America, or even the Ottomans and Austr...

Originally Aired Sep 5, 2025 In today's alternate history scenario we ask what if Germany won the Battle of Jutland in WW1? How would a decisive German naval victory change the balance of power in the First World War? Could Britain’s Royal Navy be forced into retreat, would the North Sea Blockade be broken, and would a stronger Kaiserliche Marine alter the outcome of the war and the peace trea...

Originally Aired Aug 8, 2025 In today's alternate history scenario we ask what if Rome industrialized—that is, underwent an Industrial Revolution, managing, under the Good Emperors, to undergo mechanization, urbanization, build the printing press, and use inventions like the Aeolipile by Hero of Alexandria to build steam engines, railways, and steamships. Will Rome maintain stability, or will...

Originally Aired Sep 10, 2025 In today's alternate history scenario we ask what if the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City never occurred? Would the United States invade Iraq and Afghanistan? Would the "Pivot to China" have been made earlier? Would John Kerry beat George W. Bush? Would Vladimir Putin strike a compromise between Russia and NATO? Nearly 3,...

Originally Aired Jul 25, 2025 In today's alternate history scenario we ask what if the Samurai Daimyo Blessed Justo Takayama Ukon accepted the offer from the Spanish Governor of the Philippines, Juan de Silva, to conduct a "Crusade" with Spain (and maybe Portugal) of the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan? Could he survive to see the invasion? Could the Spanish juggle both the Eighty Years&...

Originally Aired Jul 22, 2025 In today's alternate history scenario we ask what if Louis XVI, the grandson of Louis XIV who created the absolutist state, was able to follow the trend of Enlightened Absolutism set by Frederick the Great and Catherine the Great, and be the leader he needed to be for France? How could the French Revolution have failed? Would Napoleon and the French Empire simply neve...

Originally Aired May 1, 2025 Download World of Warships: Legends today: https://wowsl.co/3YgioJ1 In today's alternate history scenario we ask what if Rome magically was gifted the Potato? Would Rome survive an expand it's Empire? Would the Romans experience population booms? Or would the powerful crop be exported abroad to rival powers? Featuring our host Jacob as the "US of Z" 🔴Merch https://us-...

Originally Aired Jun 25, 2025 In today's alternate history scenario we ask what if the British Empire did not recognized the Treaty of London of 1839, which, among other things, guaranteed Belgian neutrality? Would France and Russia be able to fight Germany and Austria-Hungary on their own? Could Kaiser Wilhelm II's Germany fulfill their Mitteleuropa project ambitions? Would the British maintain t...

Originally Aired Jan 10, 2025 In today's alternate history scenario we ask what if the Sassanids managed to escape to Tang China and launch a reconquista of sorts to reclaim their land and reinstitute Zoroastrian hegemony? Would the Chinese be able to help them reclaim their homeland? Will the Sassanians join forces with the Byzantine Empire? Or will Byzantium and the Sassanids both fall to the Ca...

Originally Aired Apr 4, 2025 In today's alternate history scenario we ask what if the Roman Empire never came into being--Rome being sacked in the 4th Century BC by the Gauls, and never rebounding? Who, if anyone, would rise in their place? Carthage? Macedonia? The Etruscans? The Samnites? Will Pontus become a great mercantile power? Will Persia dominate the near East? Will the Celts rise and...

Originally Aired Mar 13, 2025 Just in time for the Ides of March! In today's alternate history scenario we ask what if Pompey the Great defeated Julius Caesar at the Battle of Pharsalus, becoming dictator and reshaping the Roman Republic in his image? Would Rome retain the Republican system? Would Pompey be able to keep ahold of Gaul? Would his sons divide the Roman Empire in his image? Featur...

Originally Aired Dec 1, 2024 In today's alternate history scenario we ask what if Lance Corporal Hitler, during his time as an army intelligence agent in the years of the Weimar Republic, took out the DAP before it could evolve into the political force he turned it into in the buildup to the Second World War? What would Germany's political trajectory be? Could the Weimar Republic survive?...

Originally aired Feb 27, 2025 In today's alternate history scenario we ask what if the Compromise of 1877 never occurred, and, instead, the Constitutional Crisis of 1876 spiraled into a Second Civil War? What would the war look like? Would the South manage to claim victory this time? Will the United States still see an era of Jim Crow? A Progressive Era? Teddy Roosevelt? Featuring our host Jac...

Originally aired Dec 14, 2024 In today's alternate history scenario we ask what if Catherine the Great accepted the British Empire's offer of the island of Minorca off the coast of Spain in exchange for troops to quell the American Revolution? Would the conflict spill over into Europe against France, like the Seven Years War? Would Russia and Britain emerge victorious, or the revolutionari...

Originally Aired Nov 1, 2024 In today's alternate history scenario we ask what if Phoenician sailors under the Carthaginian Empire discovered the New World? What societies would they encounter? Would they establish colonies? Would the wars of the Old World still consume Carthage? Featuring our host Jacob as the "US of Z" 🔴Merch https://us-of-z-shop.creator-spring.com/stickers 🟣Disc...