Challenge: No First World War

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find a way avoid a major war in Europe between June 1914 and August 1945. Small wars are acceptable, even up to the scale of the Balkan wars, but no major conflagrations and no total war.

And BTW are there an TL's out there that avoid major war in Europe at the start of the century? It'd be interesting to see how things would develop.
 
There was a similar thread to this recently, and as for TLs, well there are several, but many of them are years old.

Anyhow, if Franz Ferdinand escapes assassination, or you manage to keep Europe at peace until 1916, then war may be avoided, as Germany believed it would be overtaken by Russia industrially before 1916 and wanted to deal with her before then. After that date, Germany would likely not want to be fighting against Russia.
 
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