world war 1

It would take a lot of persuation but consider if the Old Contempables, the Volunteers and the Conscripts of the Empire were trained and organised to todays standards? What a difference, what changes and saving in loss of life? So how to engineer it and then play it out in a timeline? Comments...

Because TR wins in 1912 and he declares war on Germany after the Lusitania is sunk, what battles would US forces fight in come late (fall 1915) and 1916 and 1917? Lets say Germany surrenders in November 1917, when the war ends what would US casualties be?

This site offers an IMHO very good recollection/natation of the events around and leading to Britains participation in the Great War. However ... no answer that might not lead to fiurther questions. There is some events descibe for 1st August late(er) evening : " Churchill dined alone at the...

WI the Thompson sub machine gun was good enough for production when Auto Ordinance was founded in 1916? American dough boys could carry Thompsons as they entered trenches in 1917. How would Thompsons affect tactics and the last year of World War 1? Please remember that most Thompsons only fired...

With a series of PODs as far back as 1890-1910. Have a continental war in World War I or World War II (or both) where most countries on the American continent face each other with wars in Afro-Eurasia and Oceania. An example would be: - Allies * United States * Canada * Mexico * Chile *...

Hello all! This is a thread for a timeline that me and a friend of mine have been working on for a while now, which has a large amount of maps made for it. This is the world in 2019

So, a common factor I've seen cited in the breakdown of French/British military readiness and general cooperation between the WW1 powers is America's refusal to lessen the principal or soften the terms of the loans made to the Entente powers. Is it possible that that could have been avoided...

Let's say that Zimmerman never sent his telegram and Walter Schweiger doesn't torpedo the Lusitania, causing America to not enter the war. As Framce and Germany are both near collapse, a treaty is signed in the second third of 1919. A definite clause of the treaty would be all German troops...

World War 1 isn't called the "War of the Century" for a reason. It was a war that would determine which nation would be the superpower of the 20th century. We all know about the political effects of World War 1 and how it led the rise of the United States as a superpower. There are already many...

Would these two empires disintegrate sooner or later anyway or could they manage too last? What would be the internal political developments in the three main central powers? In OTL, Germany saw a period of democracy followed by the world´s worst regime so far, before it gradually developed in a...

Basically, Tripitz never convinces the Kaiser to get his battleships, and the Army gets most of the resources instead. Mahan is still popular in the US, UK and elsewhere, but not in Germany. Would the German navy have instead focused on a more commerce raiding role with their limited navy...

What are the effects of the ottoman Empire joking the fight against the central powers? Could they keep Russia in the war? Eventually recover economically? Become a great power? What are your thoughts?

Seeing as Christmas is only a few weeks away I wanted to ask what would have happened had it ended the war? Be it by being larger than it was in OTL or by the fact that nobody would resume fighting post-truce. How would this affect the rest of the 20th century?

Seeing as Christmas is only a few weeks away I wanted to ask what would have happened had it ended the war? Be it by being larger than it was in OTL or by the fact that nobody would resume fighting post-truce. How would this affect the rest of the 20th century?

What if the maps of post war Europe were redrawn differently? What if the Central powers were punished less harshly? As we learned in school, this is what Europe ended up looking like at the end of the war: This map forgot that Britain owned India, but it’s mostley correct. OOC: I saw this on...

It is almost unanimously accepted that if Germany won the First Battle of the Marne, World War I would eventually end with a Central Powers Victory. However, what if Germany won the Second Battle of the Marne? Would this change anything? Would the victory still go to the allies? Would this...

Ok, POD of 1917, Germany does NOT decide to continue unrestricted submarine warfare. This leads to the US getting nowhere near as outraged to Germany as well as no Zimmerman telegram, etc. US does not enter the First World War. This means that Germany has no need to rush the final spring...

How could World War One have still occurred, yet the Western Front never results in trench warfare? Would technological changes have been necessary?

I'm currently reading Spies and Commissars and it touches briefly on Leon Trotsky's exile to New York and his return to Russia after the Tsar is overthrown. This lead me to wonder what would have happened if the ship he and his family were traveling on were never to reach it's destination...

An event I am surprised I haven't seen posted. What if British intelligence never captured the Zimmerman telegraph in time and Mexico sides with Germany instead of staying neutral in the Great War. Maybe the Mexican Revolution doesn't happen or ends differently in this timeline