AHC: No WW2

Have there be no recognizable Second World War. There still has to be a first one sometime in the early 1900s, but there cannot be a second. Bonus points if WW1 still happens as OTL.
 

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Banned
Have the Russians not go through with the disastrous Kerensky offensive. Kerensky doesn't fire Brusilov in favor of Kornilov and with no attempted coup, the military stays behind the provisional government and puts down the Bolsheviks. No communism means no fascism and no Second World War.
 

kernals12

Banned
A time traveling Mercedes runs over a young Adolf Hitler.

The economic turmoil resulting from the Great War will ensure the rise of socialism in various forms.
I can't decide if that's better or worse than this National Lampoon VW ad.
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Kurt von Schleicher dissolves the Reichstag, the NSDAP gets torn apart by infighting while the Hitler loyalists attempt another Putsch which gets put down by the Reichswehr; the Communists and other elements are likewise, and a vanilla Fascist/Authoritarian Nationalist regime comes to power. Japan's diplomatic outreach to the Chinese and Western powers is successful, allowing them defacto control over Manchuria while avoiding the need for further expansion.
 
so you don't want any sort of war after ww1? or a later/different ww2 with no mass destruction a death like the second ?
 
Avoiding WW2 is pretty easy. It wasn't anywhere near of inevitable.

- CPs win Great War. France and Russia are too weak doing anything.
- Not so harsh Versailles. Perhaps shorter WW1 but still Entente victory.
- Stop Hitler before he gets power.
- Change something on economic development and politics.

Just pick your way.
 
There were plenty occassions to stop ww2, at least in OTL shape, I'd say OTL was extreme nazi-wank, up to 1942 almost everything went as good for Axis as possible. But... there is some risk with early nazi defeat-untouched Soviet Union is more dangerous than IOTL and USA is not involved directly in war, so Red Europe scenario could happen.
 
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