AHC: Post-WWI Britain thinks maximum French power and confidence is a good thing

raharris1973

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It did not take long after the Armistice and Treaty of Versailles for the British to start to believe that an overly domineering France was a bigger risk than eventual German revival.

Here's the challenge, post Versailles, change Britain's estimation French and German potential so that they think that maximal French strength against Germany is a good thing, not a bad thing, and Britain gives a thumbs up to things like Ruhr occupation and France's network of alliances with successor states.
 

CaliGuy

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It did not take long after the Armistice and Treaty of Versailles for the British to start to believe that an overly domineering France was a bigger risk than eventual German revival.

Here's the challenge, post Versailles, change Britain's estimation French and German potential so that they think that maximal French strength against Germany is a good thing, not a bad thing, and Britain gives a thumbs up to things like Ruhr occupation and France's network of alliances with successor states.
Figure out a way to let Germany annex Austria and the Sudetenland after the end of WWI. Indeed, that would increase Germany's total population by 10+ million and make Germany appear to be a greater threat than it previously was.
 

raharris1973

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Figure out a way to let Germany annex Austria and the Sudetenland after the end of WWI. Indeed, that would increase Germany's total population by 10+ million and make Germany appear to be a greater threat than it previously was.

There's no way to get this done without a round or two of German territorial revisions in the east? Are we sure?
 

CaliGuy

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There's no way to get this done without a round or two of German territorial revisions in the east? Are we sure?
Perhaps you could have Wilson threaten to pull U.S. troops out of Europe while the war is still going on unless Britain and France agree to this.
 
Why this in particular? Did he have an especially Francophilic or Germanophobic reputation in his career?

Bonar Law was more pro French than Lloyd George (OK, so that isn't hard) and at least cared more about having good relations with France than his successor, Baldwin.

However, to really have better Anglo-French relations, Lloyd George needs to get a nice case of the Spanish Flu so the two allies have a happier Versailles experience.

fasquardon
 

CaliGuy

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Bonar Law was more pro French than Lloyd George (OK, so that isn't hard) and at least cared more about having good relations with France than his successor, Baldwin.

However, to really have better Anglo-French relations, Lloyd George needs to get a nice case of the Spanish Flu so the two allies have a happier Versailles experience.

fasquardon
Or you could simply try having the Entente/Allies agree to a German union with Austria back in 1919; indeed, that would make Germany scarier in Anglo-French eyes and thus might very well make Britain believe that more French power is a good thing.
 
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