ww1

The Christmas War. The War of 1914. In some parts still, the great war. There are many names for the war that started because of Franz Ferdinand's assassination. But with the horrors of trench warfare breaking morale within a few weeks, there were mutinies on all sides around Christmas, with the...

If every other nation involved is on otl sides, how would this war play out?

Given the pre-WW1 technology and manufacturing capabilities of Austria-Hungary, what kind of improvements would you implement to improve/modernise the Austro-Hungarian Steyr-Mannlicher M1895 rifle? What kind of changes would you include with and without hindsight to the awaiting Great War?

Versailles, and more importantly, the reaction to it, are some of the key points of the twentieth century. Your goal, with ASBs enforcing your wishes, is to rewrite Versailles and the other treaties of the war to limit the likelyhood of a second great war. Note: obviously these countries peaced...

Let's say, that the Austro-Hungarians do not suffer their OTL defeats in 1914-early 1915, thus the 11th Army isn't needed to be sent to the Eastern Front, and an offensive similar to Seeckt's plan commences. Could the Germans achieve a breakthrough? Could they capitalise on it? What would be the...

Currently, I'm working on a TL inwhich Russia doesn't have its OTL successes on the Eastern Front in 1914. To summarise: The Russian Third Army got encircled and almost entirely destroyed, the Fourth and Fifth Armies were beaten too, while the OTL German victories of Tannenberg and Masurian...

At the Battle of Jutland the British had 8 armoured cruisers as part of the Grand Fleet. My question is how much use were they? Reading through some of the basic details it seems like half of them didn't really become engaged whilst the other half was sunk. I'm looking at a possible timeline...

As many of you know, the helmets featured in the great war took inspiration from designs created during the early modern and medieval era. However, many helmet designs were left behind such as the once popular Morion and lobster tail helm as well as the Burgonet. So, is there anyway for these...

What if the Austro-Hungarian-German army under Otto von Below could take advantage of his numerical superiority and seized Monte Grappa, thereby breaking the left flank of the Piave front and opening doors for the capture of Venice, beyond the capture of the Fourth and (which left over from the)...

Would the Ottomans be able to build an "Ottoman" national identity to deter Arab nationalism? Could they use Islam as a glue to unite the nation? If they stayed out of WW1 could they have crushed the Saudis and incorporated the rest of Arabia into the empire? Would they be a global economic...

July 4th 1914 with the assaination of archduke Ferdinand it looked like war between the great powers was invitable, a collection of students and other youths went to a nationalist rally against germany and Austria hungry. In order to intice people to go to the rally the organizers served free...

The Dixieland jazz band was created during the first world war the band enjoyed some local success but after the bands piano player Henry Ragas heard about Rasputin's death he had a strike of inspiration. The song which would later be covered by Bony M became a massive hit in the united states...

I'm unsure of how best to phrase the title, but what if, instead of invading France before Russia was ready, the German Empire focused on crushing the Russian bear? Say instead of invading Belgium, Germany, learning from the ACW and Russo-Japanese war, expected a slow and bogged down war and...

I'm interested in an Allied WW1 Victory scenario where all these states become independent and stable. What if Bolsheviks never take over Russia and the Preliminary Government stays in control? Would Russia still try to take back over all their former Empire land even if the treaty of...

pod: Kaiser willy imposes to stay defensive on french front focusing to destroy Russia first( no one knows how really weak the tsarist troops are), Moltke disobeys and is forced to resign, welcome falkenhayn( no schlieffen) .Britain might join the war anyway but not in 1914. France is arrogant...

As the title says, what changes if italy joins on day 1 the war with it's allies and Romania with Bulgaria jump in 1915? Serbia dies earlier maybe it's army is even destroyed while france? russia?

In august 1914 the germans invaded Belgium, expecting it to just let them through, this didn't happen and the country decided to fight, complicating matters is that the month of august had unseasonable heavy rain that struck hard and turned much of the roads and country side to mud and slowed...

Say that after Russo-Japanese war, the Russians create a stokes like mortar after evaluating the failings of the field artillery. What would the effect would this have on the doctrines of the various countries and more importantly, what effect could this have on WW1?

What if after the surrender of Germany Kaiser Wilhelm II decided against abdication? Would he be able to hold Germany together? In this alternate history he would blame his power hungry military dictators (Hindenburg & Ludendorff) on the downfall of Germany and try to soften the bad impact on...

I know it may seem a bit out there, but I've seen more ridiculous propositions on the website. What if the communist revolutionaries in Germany after WW1 succeeded in a takeover of Germany? How would WW2 play out? Would it even happen? What about the cold war? For this example let's say Bavaria...