Otl, America was the great haven during the great war, and didnt enter, as Germany promised (and fulfilled) compensation for the lusitania incident, and the Zimmerman telegram was immediately thought to be a desperate British hoax.
And so, September 9th, mere months after Russia's early departure France and Britain agreed to talk terms.
Germany was sympathetic to Italy-and indeed they'd been making progress against austria, so they got off with merely some reparations.
But France, Britain and Belgium?
France was forced to create an independent Corsica, give up their colonies in asia, cede most of eastern france well beyond Alcase-Lorraine (I'm American and know it as the thing it was for centuries, shoot me) and the reparations... ooh boy.
Britain was forced to leave the middle east, all of it went to the ottomans except the Suez that was now german, cede british central and eastern Africa to Germany, leave ireland, and their navy was limited severely. Naturally most of the dominions left the empire soon after.
Belgium was torn into two duchies that were joined into Germany's new imperial block, each getting some of the kongo, but germany got the lions share.
Frankly is it any wonder britain and Austria became fascistic as France collapsed and became a sovietesque republic across the next 20 years before it came to a head in ww2?
How much of that could've been avoided if America had joined? Either side: does an early cp victory avoid the messy world of otl's Treaty of Aachen, or does america join the entente and preserve britain and France's place in the sun?
And so, September 9th, mere months after Russia's early departure France and Britain agreed to talk terms.
Germany was sympathetic to Italy-and indeed they'd been making progress against austria, so they got off with merely some reparations.
But France, Britain and Belgium?
France was forced to create an independent Corsica, give up their colonies in asia, cede most of eastern france well beyond Alcase-Lorraine (I'm American and know it as the thing it was for centuries, shoot me) and the reparations... ooh boy.
Britain was forced to leave the middle east, all of it went to the ottomans except the Suez that was now german, cede british central and eastern Africa to Germany, leave ireland, and their navy was limited severely. Naturally most of the dominions left the empire soon after.
Belgium was torn into two duchies that were joined into Germany's new imperial block, each getting some of the kongo, but germany got the lions share.
Frankly is it any wonder britain and Austria became fascistic as France collapsed and became a sovietesque republic across the next 20 years before it came to a head in ww2?
How much of that could've been avoided if America had joined? Either side: does an early cp victory avoid the messy world of otl's Treaty of Aachen, or does america join the entente and preserve britain and France's place in the sun?