AH Challenge: Have the Allies make it to Berlin IN WW1

Is their any plausible way, France, Britain, and Russia, could beat Germany so bad in WW1, that they eventually make their way to Berlin? Perhaps, a eariler entry of the US into the war?
 

J.D.Ward

Donor
The political requirement for this is anything that puts an armistice or negotiated peace out of the question.

Either Germany refuses the armistice terms, or the Allies adopt an "unconditional surrender" policy as in WWII.

I'm thinking of a late POD here, in Autumn 1918, for refusal of the armistice terms.

For an earlier POD, is it realistic for Germany to do anything in 1914-18 that would put them outside the rank of civilised nations?
 
nitpick, entente, not allies.

Anyway, not really. By the time Russians and French are actually marching on German soil, the government (which was at no stage particularly fanatical) would sue for peace and offer whatever term were needed. r if they refused, they would be removed and a peace party would take over. In WW1, Germany was fighting for its place in the sun more then anything else, and that's not a cause that really motivates due-or-die resistance.
 
A Russian victory at Tannenberg, plus some German bungling of the retreat, could lead to the loss of Prussia west of the Vistula. This could form a good springboard for a Russian offensive towards Berlin.
 
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