world war one

  1. What if America took Spain in the Spanish American War?

    There was a alt map, which can't be found now, where America took Spain. This resulted in America joining the Central Powers and so the Central Powers winning. For this to happen America would need to be stronger and Spain weaker, and the Spanish want to ruled by America than their own...
  2. TLIAW: The Search for a Successor

    The Search for a Successor A Timeline in a Week by Statesman ------------------------- Statesman! What is this? A Timeline in a Week, of course! Well, the hope is to finish it before the end of the year, to be specific. I mean, it's been a while. I've been working over in Shared Worlds...
  3. Between a Hard Place and a Rock: A Carlist Spain in the 20th Century
    Threadmarks: Introduction

    Jaime III, king of Spain Introduction. The celebrations of the 75th anniversary of the coronation of Carlos V (1) in 1914 were clouded by the ghost of the incomming Great European War. In spite of that, the conmemoration of the arrival of the first king of the Carlist branch to the Spanish...
  4. Gukpard

    If Germany won WWI, could German be the lingua franca?

    First of all, German being the lingua FRANCE is very ironic Well, Have Germany to win WWI, and apart from some minor wars, there is no world level war after that, and the German bloc survives until modern day The German victory resulted in a white peace with Britain, Brest litovsky in the east...
  5. Aftermath of Central Powers victory: Migration between Mitteleuropa states, Lingua Franca, etc.

    Assume a Central Powers victory scenario in World War One, and the formation of a Mitteleuropa dominated by the German Empire, including Ukraine. Crimea, Latvia, and Estonia are the only areas that are directly annexed. The others are the independent states of Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus...
  6. Italy Avoids Fascism

    Let's say that due to some small unspecified (and unrelated) changes, Mussolini dies on the Isonzo front in 1917 (instead of only being wounded) and Italy is granted their fair share (including Dalmatia) at the end of the war. Would this be enough to steer Italy away from fascism? What would...
  7. A Spreading Flame

    Thanks to @cpip, @Zimmerwald1915 and @RGB for their help. A Spreading Flame Update #1 "You will be home before the leaves fall from the trees."- Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1914 In 1917, after three years of total war, Europe was on the brink of exhaustion. The World War had sucked money, men, and...
  8. Will Marshall

    WI: Grand Duke Michael became the Russian Tsar in 1917?

    After Nicholas II abdicated the throne in 1917 for himself and behalf of his son Alexei, the throne was offered to Nicholas's younger brother, Grand Duke Michael. Michael was considered kind, and he was humble, not power-hungry. He was described by one British ambassador (whose name escapes me)...
  9. Will Marshall

    How could the Romanovs have stayed in power?

    I was thinking about writing an AH on Tsar Nicholas II, and I was thinking about different scenarios in which the Nicholas II and the Romanovs could have stayed in power that are actually plausible. There are plenty that I've read where Russia remains a monarchy under the Tsar, but the...
  10. America - The Merchant Republic

    Still working on this... The United States pursues its self-interest instead of either confused isolationism or liberal internationalism. The distinction between isolationism vs interventionism is self-evidently flawed. A nation with decent leaders would pursue its own narrow interest in an...
  11. The Long Century

    Historians describe the period between the French Revolution of 1789 and the beginning of the First World War in 1914 as the “long nineteenth century.” During those 125 years, the Concert of Europe—a collaborative effort of Europe’s great powers—endeavored to manage many crises and end many...
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