Title means (I think) "the German century."
I'm planning a timeline where the Central Powers win the First World War. An idea for this timeline, is that the war results in two things...
1. Germany becomes a world power, to the extent that German even becomes the global lingua franca by the start of the 21st Century (like English IOTL). I don't mean anything ridiculous like having the Kaiserreich stretch from the Siene to the Volga -- just, like how Britain was at the time, and how the U.S. is now.
2. Peace in Europe, or at least Western/Central Europe, making the Great War really "the war to end all wars" in the region. Maybe the European nations are friends like they are IOTL by at least the 21st Century.
So, any possible scenarios for how this could happen?
Furthermore...
What would Europe look like, in the years following the Great War ITTL?
Would Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire still fall apart? Could European integration still happen at all?
I'd like the PODs to not be too early. But as I don't know much about the war (researching, presently), I'll leave it up to the experts. I don't even have an idea for a POD for the afore-mentioned timeline. But...for good measure, try to avoid anything before the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
I'm planning a timeline where the Central Powers win the First World War. An idea for this timeline, is that the war results in two things...
1. Germany becomes a world power, to the extent that German even becomes the global lingua franca by the start of the 21st Century (like English IOTL). I don't mean anything ridiculous like having the Kaiserreich stretch from the Siene to the Volga -- just, like how Britain was at the time, and how the U.S. is now.
2. Peace in Europe, or at least Western/Central Europe, making the Great War really "the war to end all wars" in the region. Maybe the European nations are friends like they are IOTL by at least the 21st Century.
So, any possible scenarios for how this could happen?
Furthermore...
What would Europe look like, in the years following the Great War ITTL?
Would Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire still fall apart? Could European integration still happen at all?
I'd like the PODs to not be too early. But as I don't know much about the war (researching, presently), I'll leave it up to the experts. I don't even have an idea for a POD for the afore-mentioned timeline. But...for good measure, try to avoid anything before the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.