In 732 AD, Christians and Muslims clashed at the Battle of Tours with the northward expansion of the Islamic caliphate halted and a strong Christian presence in Europe retained.
Was this really just a minor clash that had little impact on the eventual course of European and world history or would a different outcome have profoundly impacted everything we know about our world today?
In the summer of 1945, the Allied powers gathered in Potsdam, Germany to come to terms with the disposition of post-war Germany and the remaining war in the Pacific.
How might the peace in the Pacific had been different if the conference had produced a slightly different message to the Empire of Japan? How would that ripple across the decades to come?
Chris Coppola joins to discuss the implications of different possibilities flowing from Potsdam.
On August 6th, 1945, the United States dropped the first of two atomic bombs that would be used against the Empire of Japan. The effect was to quickly hasten the Japanese surrender and finally bring an end to The Second War.
What if the option to use a nuclear weapon had not been available at this moment in time? How might the course of not only the war but the subsequent peace been different?
