AHC/WI: get Spain to join WW1

Sebbywafers

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How can one get Spain to join WW1? Portugal eventually declared war on the Germans due to U-boat warfare, so it's certainly not impossible for their big brother Spain to join in.

Also, what would an allied Spanish campaign in WW1 look like? Mostly naval warfare I assume?

What if, somehow, the Spanish joined the war on the side of the Central Powers- what would the combat in the Pyrenees with France look like?
 
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My own opinions are that for Spain to be effective in ww1 they need new artillery. Spanish artillery was antiquated. Perhaps they would be much like the American troops in ww1 that would use French equipment. For this reason they must join France and Britain or you need an early POD because a cp spain couldnt get the required equipment.
 

ben0628

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How can one get Spain to join WW1? Portugal eventually declared war on the Germans due to U-boat warfare, so it's certainly not impossible for their big brother Spain to join in.

Also, what would an allied Spanish campaign in WW1 look like? Mostly naval warfare I assume?

What if, somehow, the Spanish joined the war on the side of the Central Powers- what would the combat in the Pyrenees with France look like?

If you want Spain to join the central powers you would need to probably do a few things prewar. First get them involved somehow in all of those alliances and treaties made before the war, preferably the triple alliance. Then, increase diplomatic strain between Spain and France, probably do that over Morocco. Even if you do that, they'll probably still start out neutral in the war out of fear of British blockade. The only way to get them into it is to bribe them with offers of allied territory such as Corsica, Sardinia, Morocco, parts if not all of Portugal, and Algeria as well as other African colonies).

Even with all that though, I still don't think they'd join.
 
They might join late if the CP looked like they were going to win, maybe they and the until-then-neutral Italy could jump France just as the final war winning German offensive goes in.
 
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