MotF 130: The Fifteenth Point

The Fifteenth Point

The Challenge
Make a map showing an alternate division of the Central Powers OR the Entente, in a Treaty of Versailles-esque cutting.

The Restrictions
There are no restrictions on when your PoD or map may be set. Fantasy, sci-fi, and future maps are allowed, but blatantly implausible (ASB) maps are not.

If you're not sure whether your idea meets the criteria of this challenge, please feel free to PM me.

Please try to keep images posted in this thread a reasonable size - feel free to post a smaller version of your image and provide link to a full-size version if you want to.


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The entry period for this round shall end when the voting thread is posted on Sunday the 17th of January.

This round has been extended; the entry period for this round shall now end when the voting thread is posted on Sunday the 24th of January.

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After the great war of 1916, and the miserable loss of the so called "Atlantic Powers", The United Kingdom of Great Britain was divided by the Eastern Powers into a variety of small states. France was also divided in two, and Belgium, Denmark and the Netherlands were absorbed by Germany.

The Kaiser took a look at a history book, and decided that the medieval kingdoms of Britain should be restored as republics. This brought some controversy and a great deal of chaos for the first few years as Scotland, Wales and Ireland were completely unprepared for independence.

England was further divided in two at the whims of the Kaiser, with the Republic of Northumbria and the Kingdom of England thrown up overnight, dividing Manchester and many other communities on two.

The rush to end the war and force through a treaty came from pressure from the Confederate States. Washington had began to throw it's weight around as soon as talks for the finalisation of the Treaty of Marseilles had exceeded two months. This was mostly due to the President being pressured by the rich arms manufacturers who had been making huge amounts of money from the war. As soon as the fighting ended and people stopped buying bullets and guns, they began to clamor for stability.

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The rushing of the talks, the rather petty anger of the kaiser and the generally non-negotiable position of the Atlantic Powers meant that the partition was generally inconsiderate of people.

The division of Manchester has had repercussions: in the most recent General Election of the Kingdom of England, the Albion Party, a worryingly extreme party, led by a charismatic nutcase with a silly mustache, a young baronet, has gained a surprising amount of seats the House of Commons, They are spouting loudly about re-arming and regaining national pride, and retaking the German blister on England's face: the heavily fortified German Protectorate of Anglia.

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POD is Gavrilo Princip chickening out and Franz Ferdinand staying alive, pushing through reforms within the next year after his sudden, unexpected, butterfly scented ascension to the throne, and appeasing Russia. The war still begins in Serbia, but it is the Black Hand attacking Austro-Hungaria that sets the conflict off. France and Britain back Serbia, while Germany backs Austro-Hungaria, and Russia remains out of the conflict due to the currently ongoing "Populist Revolution" in St. Petersburg.

Also Confederate victory. That little detail also.

(Blame the Butterflies :D)

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shiftygiant

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-Germany, 1923-


A Map depicting the ultimate division of Germany at the conclusion of the Kiel Conference, in the aftermath of the Great War. Divided into Six States, the Prussian Republic, Hanover, the International Zone, the Rhineland Republic, Bavarian State, and Saxony Federation, with Prussia recognized as the direct successor, the Planners of what was known as the 'Treaty of Kiel' intended that the fragmentation would leave Germany devised to the point where she would never again be strong enough to once more become a great power and wag ware against the Entente States. The Entente, alongside the Netherlands and the new eastern nations of Poland and Lithuania, would annex portions of the former Reich, predominantly those who's ethnic groups were seen as naturally part of these nations, although at the time the forcible expulsion of ethnic Germans was accepted by the Entente.

The borders would remain like this until 1927, when the Rhineland Republic was broken up and absorbed into Belgium, France, and the International Zone, and then 1936, when Prussia unified with Saxony Federation and Hanover and formed the North Germany Republic. The borders, outside the International Zone being divided and the North unifying with the NGR following the Second Great War in 1946, have remained roughly the same.​

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In 1921, the Weltkrieg ended after seven long years of conflict. The Central Powers (mainly Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, and the Ottoman Empire, plus other allies) faced off against the Triple Entente (France, Britain, and Russia) and their allies. The main point of divergence in this scenario is Italy joining the Central Powers, giving the Central Powers less strain in the southern front and forcing France to defend its southern regions. The Lusitania is not sunk because the submarine that sunk it, U-20, departs later than it actually did due to a faulty engine needing to be repaired. The Zimmerman Telegram is not intercepted by the Americans, either, so there is little public resentment against the Germans in the United States.

Russia and France are squeezed into submission by the Central Powers in 1917 and 1919 respectively, but the British fought until late 1921, when dissent among the British public lead to communist uprisings in many of England's major cities, including London. Both parties met in the city of Brussels, Belgium, where a peace treaty was "negotiated" upon. The people of Germany were unhappy that the war had taken so long to stop, and wanted to severely punish the French due to propaganda leading the German public to believe that France was the reason why the war took so long. France was to give independence to the Occitans, Bretons, and Normans; cede more of Lorraine to the Germans; cede the city of Calais to the newly-founded Concert of Nations; cede the French Basque Country and Northern Catalonia to Spain; cede Savoie and other lands on the Italian border to Italy; return Menton and Roquebrune to Monaco; give away their entire colonial empire besides half of Algeria, the Ivory Coast, St. Pierre and Miquelon, and French Guiana; and pay 3 billion francs for war reparations to the Central Powers. On the other hand, Britain was given much more lenient terms in comparison to France. Britain was required to give independence to Ireland (as a kingdom with a German on the throne); cede the Channel Islands to Normandy; cede western Nigeria, Walvis Bay, and Sierra Leone to Germany; grant independence to the Boer Republics; give Germany use of the ports in Aberdeen and Plymouth if necessary; and pay 500 million pound sterlings for war reparations. Belgium was dissolved and replaced by the Kingdom of Flanders, a monolingual Dutch state that lost its eastern regions to Germany but was compensated with Dunkirk and the rest of French Flanders.

Many critics of the treaty saw it as too harsh, and stated that virtually dismantling a country as large as France would not go without major tremors. Those who supported the treaty dismissed these doubts at first, but shortly after the Treaty of Brussels went into effect in 1922, the supporters were proven wrong. Inspired by the Bolsheviks of Russia and the French Revolution of the late 1700s, French Communists took over Paris and other major French cities, proclaiming the People's Republic of France. Meanwhile, the rump United Kingdom prepares to strike back against the communists that control southern England. Austria-Hungary (in violation of a treaty between the two senior members that peacefully dissolved the empire) and the Ottoman Empire have collapsed into civil war, with the various minorities of the region wrestling for independence. It seems that no one, not even the mighty German and British empires, will be able to escape the effects of the Weltkrieg unscathed...

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Decided to map a curiosity I came across recently. This is an approximation of the Treaty of Versailles if Roman Dmowski (the chief Polish negotiator at Versailles) had his way about everything. Forgot to make sure that it qualifies for the MotF since it's based on an OTL proposal, but if not, too bad. Besides satisfying Poland's demands, the goal of his proposals was to weaken Prussia's position in Germany by separating East Prussia (thereby making Germany territorially continuous) and adding Austria as a compensation, in the hope that this would make Germany less militaristic and revanchist.

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