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Post by Dividavi on Apr 2, 2024 17:51:11 GMT
It could have happened if the incident in Sarajevo had never occurred. Maybe Archduke Franz Ferdinand changed his mind about visiting there in June 1914. Maybe Gavrilo Princip realized that assassination is a dangerous action to the assassin in addition to his victims.In any case, would the absence of a general war encourage the Europeans to annex as much of Asia as they could seize? The Chinese military was exceptionally weak in 1914 and it would present an opportunity for the people in Berlin, Paris and London to become greater powers. Could they have partitioned Asia as shown?  |
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Post by politicidal1 on Apr 3, 2024 23:04:24 GMT
Perhaps it would had come to that. I know they kind of laid off each other until the czar was overthrown by the 1910s, but I could also see a revival of the Great Game between the British and Russians for more territory. Or maybe they'd just gang up on Germany.
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Post by SixOfTheRichest on Apr 8, 2024 6:35:34 GMT
If that incident wasn’t considered to be the catalyst, something else would have. It was a war fabricated by the ruling class and royals of Europe to keep the peasants down and prevent them from revolting. Any advancements and evolvements the early part of the 20th Century was making was suddenly obliterated and destroyed to keep the status quo intact.
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Post by theravenking on Apr 8, 2024 9:23:07 GMT
Had the Russian Revolution happened a few years earlier (it almost did so in 1905), the great Western powers might've banded together to fight Communism. Although there is no guarantee, that after defeating Russia they wouldn't have turned on each other. Britain and France were wary of a powerful Germany and determined to do everything to keep the country down.
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Post by Hnefahogg on Apr 8, 2024 20:52:58 GMT
There might not have been gas warfare and coming from it a strict regulation of shaving for the ensuring that a gas mask seals properly. Thus the 20th century might have been a lot more bearded.
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Post by JHA Durant on May 1, 2024 9:27:15 GMT
The Romanovs would've survived into the 1920s, and Lenin probably wouldn't have been able to return to Russia, thus not uniting the Communist/Left Wing forces leading to the October Revolution which brought about the Soviet Union.
(WWI dragged Russia into the war, and they lost more soldiers than any other country, which greatly destabilized the Czar's position and he was overthrown by the Provisional Government. Lenin was allowed to return to Russia from exile in Switzerland by the Germans; it was a ploy by them to help sow major discontent against the Czar and help topple his regime, which ultimately worked.)
Even without the war, Austria-Hungary was always doomed. There was just way too much political and cultural division to make it work. Sooner or later, it would've disintegrated into civil war or dissolved into different nations.
The Ottomans were in decline before the war, so maybe they just fade away or try to reclaim their former territories in the Balkans, which are now weakened and on their own following the collapse of Austria-Hungary.
Don't really know what would happen in Asia, but I imagine the European powers would strengthen their influence over China, possibly even to the point of carving it up into different countries like they did in Africa. Maybe one of them (Britain, France or Monarchist Russia) allies with Japan, meaning they never turn hostile like they did in our timeline.
Best case scenario from what I can work out is that the Great War is delayed about five to ten years, and fought primarily in Germany or the Alps for control of what's left of Austria-Hungary.
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Post by PaulsLaugh on May 2, 2024 9:04:08 GMT
It’s possible European liberalism would have gained ground and spread across to world. Science and technology could be further advanced. Today, we could be living on a less aggressive, less superstitious, less greedy, frightening, hostile, and polluted. Dogmatic war-like religions could be at minimum with more female based spiritualities leading the zeitgeist.
But some reason, I bet you guys prefer WWI and Spanish Influenza to the above.
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Post by Daemon Targaryen on May 2, 2024 17:11:50 GMT
A war would have started, if not Sarajevo, something else would have triggered it.
Europe had since the 1870s been on a road to war, it was not a question of if a war would happen, but when a war would happen.
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