versailles treaty

Hello, I decided to create this thread in a similar way to Thousand-Week Reich but with a different theme: A world where the Paris Peace Conference (Versailles) unfolds differently. This will lead to a series of changes that will cause the post-war to be called Pax Versalica, the peace of...

You become Chancellor of the Weimar Republic after the Chancellor Wilhelm Cuno and his cabinet resign, in the year 3 January 1923. The French have occupied the Ruhr and hyperinflation has started. What do you do to turn things around after the President appoints you as Chancellor?

"Are you sure ambassador?" “Mexico’s hatred for America is well-founded and old, send the proposal” Arthur Zimmermann. Atlantic Theatre 1917 POD 1. FEB 1917: While suffering from a bout of indigestion, Zimmerman mutters a quick no and rushes towards the lavatory when questioned about the...

What if in the aftermath of WWI, the Entente had merged East Prussia with Lithuania as part of the Treaty of Versailles? The Lithuanians would receive a larger population, the Poles would be less likely to try revanchist schemes (or would they?) and the Soviets would see the new nation as less...

I am, obviously, new here. I have pursued an interest in alternate history for several years now but only in the last few months have I really dove into this forum. I recently decided to make an account and post a new thread. Though I have several ideas that I think are interesting, this is the...

Simple enough. Rewrite the Treaty of Versailles in a way that prevents the subsequent troubles that led to Hitler's rise to power.

I see we've had multiple threads on the 1916 election and a Hughes victory. But most of it focused on whether he would have entered WW1 earlier/later, and the potential backlash against the GOP in the 1920s. Some people have said that the peace treaty would have been basically the same. In the...

So mulling over some kaiserreich stuff and I'm basically wondering- say the Kaiser has a dose of sanity and agrees to cede Tsingtao (and possibly the rest of German Asia) to Japan in 1914, thus preventing their joining the Entente. Very little changes beyond Japanese neutrality- a few hundred...

Introduction: This is a timeline about Eastern Europe following the First World War. In this timeline, Józef Klemens Piłsudski is assassinated in 1919. Piłsudski was the leader of Poland from 1919 until 1935 (with some breaks) in our timeline, and he was an enormously influential man...

I mean, this is quite far-fetched, because nobody of sane mind would be so foolish to not see the Austrian guilt and instead focus on Germany. But what if the Germans got to carry the main burden of Versailles? How would the German economy fare under imposed sanctions? Would the Weimar republic...

Your challenge, with a POD after August 1, 1914, is for Kaiser Wilhelm II to end up executed like how "Hanging the Kaiser" was a popular slogan in the Entente countries. It doesn't matter whether his execution is carried out by domestic revolutionaries (perhaps a more radical 1918 Revolution...

I am currently reading André Tardieu's "The Truth About the Treaty", which has some interesting nuggets in it as to how the Entente were actually thinking during the process of negotiating the Versailles treaty. While there was general agreement as to the general shape of the treaty (such as...

In a scenario where the Whites win the Russian Civil War (let's leave what post-White Victory Russia is like vague but assume they are a shaky democracy with more or less the 1922 borders of the USSR), what would enforcement of the Treaty of Versailles look like? Do we see stricter enforcement...

Are there any circumstances in which Japan could be awarded German New Guinea as part of the peace settlement of WWI? Or would Britain consider this too much of a potential threat to Australia/New Zealand? Would a particular alternate course of WWI make this outcome more likely?

Woodrow Wilson arrives to France before the final version of the Treaty of Versailles is prepared. Suddenly, an unknown gun-wielding maniac (either a passionate anti-american or simply a nationalistic fanatic from one of the Central Powers) runs out of the crowd and starts shooting at the...