WI after the Battle of Jutland Kaiser Wilhelm II dismayed at the lack of action or effectiveness of the Kaiserliche Marine ordered all resources allocated to the KLM to go to the Heer instead.
The Kaisers orders are taken literally by the Heer and bureaucrats in Berlin.
Resources that would have been allocated to further KLM construction including that of u-boats are redirected to the Heer.
Repairs to damaged ships were only allowed to prevent sinking or further damage while of the ships under construction all work was suspended except for the last two mackensen class Bc's and the three Yorck Class BC's.
These ships were scrapped on the slips or canceled as they were not deemed sufficiently advanced to continue with construction.
With the Kaiser disenfranchised with KLM the u-boats were ordered to strictly adhere to the Hague 1907 convention while the older obsolete vessels of the KLM are stripped of guns and any useful equipment for the Heer.
With the added resources the Heer started to prepare for a new offensive using the newly freed men and resources of the KLM.
The first to feel he brunt of the Heer's newly arriving manpower was the Kingdom of Romania who were unaware of the Heer's build up and joined the war in August 1916. Romania was completely conquered by the end of 1916 in a disaster for the Entente.
With no unrestricted Submarine Warfare, no Zimmermann Telegram was ever sent and with neutral shipping no longer being hunted by the Germans the USA never enters the war.
The added resources allowed Germany and their Central Powers allies to force Russia out of the war slightly early with hostilities ending in July 1917.
This freed troops to help the A-H and Ottoman Empires battle the Italians and Greeks and although they remained in the war until the middle of 1918 Italy and Greece were effectively out of the war.
The Michael offensive when launched in March of 1918 succeeded in breaking the army and spirit of France and by the end of July the Entente finally accepted the USA offer to mediate a peace.
The Treaty of Copenhagen named after where the Treaty was negotiated brought the Great War to an end.
This was a peace with no winners in Western Europe as no border adjustments were made or repatriations paid.
Germany lost her Pacific colonies but got her African colonies returned after agreeing to withdraw from occupied portions of France and Belgium.
The big losers were Italy, Greece, Russia and Romania.
Italy lost her colonies to Germany and had her borders adjusted in favour of Austro-Hungary for their failure to honour its treaty with the Central powers.
Greece was forces to renounce all claims it had to the islands in the Mediterranean and Aegean seas including Cyprus an Crete.
Russia lost the Baltics, the Polish congress kingdom, some of its own territory and the whole of the Ukraine.
Romania ceased to exist as a state as it was split up between the Germans, Bulgarians, Austro-hungary and the Ukraine.
The Ottomans got some territory from the Russians in the region of Transcaucasia and retained their own holdings in the Arabian peninsular though this world prove to be a poisoned chalice in the years ahead.
The Kaisers orders are taken literally by the Heer and bureaucrats in Berlin.
Resources that would have been allocated to further KLM construction including that of u-boats are redirected to the Heer.
Repairs to damaged ships were only allowed to prevent sinking or further damage while of the ships under construction all work was suspended except for the last two mackensen class Bc's and the three Yorck Class BC's.
These ships were scrapped on the slips or canceled as they were not deemed sufficiently advanced to continue with construction.
With the Kaiser disenfranchised with KLM the u-boats were ordered to strictly adhere to the Hague 1907 convention while the older obsolete vessels of the KLM are stripped of guns and any useful equipment for the Heer.
With the added resources the Heer started to prepare for a new offensive using the newly freed men and resources of the KLM.
The first to feel he brunt of the Heer's newly arriving manpower was the Kingdom of Romania who were unaware of the Heer's build up and joined the war in August 1916. Romania was completely conquered by the end of 1916 in a disaster for the Entente.
With no unrestricted Submarine Warfare, no Zimmermann Telegram was ever sent and with neutral shipping no longer being hunted by the Germans the USA never enters the war.
The added resources allowed Germany and their Central Powers allies to force Russia out of the war slightly early with hostilities ending in July 1917.
This freed troops to help the A-H and Ottoman Empires battle the Italians and Greeks and although they remained in the war until the middle of 1918 Italy and Greece were effectively out of the war.
The Michael offensive when launched in March of 1918 succeeded in breaking the army and spirit of France and by the end of July the Entente finally accepted the USA offer to mediate a peace.
The Treaty of Copenhagen named after where the Treaty was negotiated brought the Great War to an end.
This was a peace with no winners in Western Europe as no border adjustments were made or repatriations paid.
Germany lost her Pacific colonies but got her African colonies returned after agreeing to withdraw from occupied portions of France and Belgium.
The big losers were Italy, Greece, Russia and Romania.
Italy lost her colonies to Germany and had her borders adjusted in favour of Austro-Hungary for their failure to honour its treaty with the Central powers.
Greece was forces to renounce all claims it had to the islands in the Mediterranean and Aegean seas including Cyprus an Crete.
Russia lost the Baltics, the Polish congress kingdom, some of its own territory and the whole of the Ukraine.
Romania ceased to exist as a state as it was split up between the Germans, Bulgarians, Austro-hungary and the Ukraine.
The Ottomans got some territory from the Russians in the region of Transcaucasia and retained their own holdings in the Arabian peninsular though this world prove to be a poisoned chalice in the years ahead.