ww1

Rasputin used to go to Olga,Tatiana's beds and grope them. This was reported by the Tsar's sister Xenia to him. So what if he got Tsarina and her daughters pregnant while someone took video of this and made it public in 1913 ? how would this effect Tsar Nicholas II, his reign, his...

I am not sure how to put it exactly into words but, from what I've read, and what has been discussed in the past on this forum, the rise of the US as a Great Power above the British Empire (and the French one) was pointed at the late involvement of the US in the Great War, while Britain had to...

How could all of Central Asia become and stayed independent in the direct aftermath of WW1 in either ally or central power victory scenario?

what if Brusilov gets support, say in a timeline were the northern Russian generals evert and kuropatkin decide to attack at the same time pinning down the germans to the north + Romania enters the war during the offensive in June, would one of these let alone both would have been enough to...

The Shots Heard Round the World Opening narration from Apocalypse: The Great War, voiced by David Attenborough When Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Gavrelo Princep in Sarajevo in the year 1914, his death sparked one of the greatest bloodletting's in human history. The...

what if Grand Duchess Olga Married Edsel Ford ? After Nicholas II wins WW1. Grand Duchess Olga met Edsel Ford while she accompanied her father to Paris when he came to negotiate at versailles and Edsel Ford came gain experience in international relations necessary to expand his father's...

The German offensive in May 1918 is successful. After four years of fighting, the Germans manage to reach the suburbs of Paris. France and Great Britain are forced to recruit more fighters in order to repel the attack and restabilize the front which is claiming thousands of lives every day...

After having David Zabecki's book on the Spring Offensives i've found that some generals advocated for a divisionarry attack on Verdun. If this was launched waht would be the results?

Anyway to get Falkenhayn sacked earlier?

Some CP victory pods that arent: Italy neutral or Cp, Germany wins Marne, Spring Offensives suceeds, US doesnt join WW1. Also preferably make the POD on the CP side or something that isnt made by an Entente change.

Suppose Germany chooses an 'east first' strategy in 1914, i.e. attack in the east and defend in the west. France declares war on Germany, as the alliance with Russia requires. Soon the offensive in Lorraine ends in disaster for the French. The only hope for a quick victory is to flank the...

If Germany won lets say Verdun, Falkenhayn never gets sacked and there is no Hindenburg programm and an early B-L by the Soviets. Italy was knocked out of the war by Caporetto. How would the spring offensive be planned in this situation.

Basically is there any way the offensive fails with a pod on the Austro German side?

If Kornilov managed to take Petrograd in September 1917, say Kerensky refuses to arm the Bolsheviks, what happens next, does the Provisional Governement side with the Reds or Kornilov? How does this affect the Eastern front? Does an earlier RCW lead to an early B-L? Does a three way civil war...

This is just a spontaneous idea I had. I've gotten better at making maps fairly quickly, but have no current inspiration rn. So I thought I'd put my new skills and boredom to work with the alternatehistory.com hivemind. Here's how it will work: Below are two template maps with borders. One is...

Exactly as it says on the tin. Was there any chance of the Bolsheviks remaining in the war with Germany and not signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk? If so, what needed to happen for it to occur? I don't know a lot about the Russian Revolution and Civil War. Could someone with more knowledge...

This thread is dedicated to Kaiserreich however this is only dedicated to the Prelude of the 2nd Weltkrieg. This thread is about sttories of common soldiers, the situation in the ground and diaries of famous leaders like Winston Churchill, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Huey Long and other famous people but...

WW1 seems to have been a fairly even contest. It seems like the war could have gone either way. What would have been the most plausible victory for the Germans in WW1?

i often hear this claim that if the Germans in ww1 had fought till the end like they did in ww2, the second world war with germany as the agressor would not have happened mainly due to the idea that the stab in the back myth would not have leg to stand on if the defeated German armies and took a...

What if the German Basic Law adopted in 1949 would have allowed the Bundesländer to decide their own form of government and consequently Bavaria would have restored its monarchy? I read the idea of Wittelsbach restoration was very popular at the time, and it only didn't materialise because of...