Please answer HOW the Entente COULD have won in the first place?
Please answer HOW the Entente COULD have won in the first place?
Maybe if Britain and france launched operation sea lion in northern Germany or Denmark
Maybe if Britain and france launched operation sea lion in northern Germany or Denmark
I suspect if cooler heads hadn't prevailed the US would have entered the war on the side of the entente after the Texas affair a week into the war.
Seriously, what what were the Germans thinking sinking a US ship in the open like that?
It's a good thing the Germans listened to Roosevelt's demands... otherwise they would've been in big trouble.
Do you think the Americans would've offered the entente equipment for free? Or joined the war?
I want to discuss in this discussion,but I'm relatively new here,so what exactly are you supposed to discuss in DBWIs?
I don't see why the Germans would have not accepted Roosevelt's demands; they pretty much had nothing to lose. I don't think Roosevelt would have entered the war; he would definitely have rather seen a Monarchist Europe over a Fascist one.
I mean the only reason the French got that far was the demands of the Eastern Front; they sucked off German reserves and the West Wall didn't cover Belgium and the Netherlands, so there was only so much they could do. As it was the French only reached portion of the Rhine with their sweep through the Ardennes and Belgium, but then the East was stabilized enough to release the Panzers for a swift counter blow.Thats fair enough. Its worth mentioning, however, that the Russians only really acted as a sink for CP troops. The fall of Russia let the French take the Rhineland, remember. If the Kaiser didn't listen to Guderian and didn't incorporate Panzer divisions in to the Heer, the Germans wouldn't really be able to counter the French in the Rhine. Plus, without the Panzers, Russia might have held out for longer, giving the French an even bigger chance to do damage. If the French get past the Rhine, the Germans might even shift troops away from the East. After all, Germany cares more about its homeland that for Ukraine, Belarus and the Cossaks.
Yeah, no. Why would the Entente dare to violate the neutrality of Denmark? And how would the Royal Navy be able to decisively defeat the High Seas Fleet, or at least keep it in port, made even more challenging because of the distribution of the fleet at Wilhelmshaven and Kiel, which is in northern Germany, the area the British element of Sea Lion was supposed to encompass? Jutland showed that both navies were unable to decisively defeat each other even with all that great firepower from the dreadnoughts. And of course, LOGISTICS. The disaster at Gallipoli would be multiplied tenfold were the operation to be executed, but with the added element of urban warfare, as cities like Hamburg and Kiel would have been completely destroyed.
They could have always attacked the soft underbelly- the Austrian's were still recovering from their victory from the Adriatic conflict in '35, and whilst the coastal defense of Dalmatia was strong, Austria's puppet, Montenegro, was always the weak one- I mean, that's why Italy attacked it when land offensives failed. If the Entente back Italy with a larger and more prepared force for 'Operation Monk-Seal', maybe Britain sends a landing party or two, then the Italians could have gotten a meaningful foothold in Montenegro. If they can get as far North as Sarajevo (No hard task), then that spells trouble for A-H and the CP. Austria lacked the fancy toys the German's had, so it's not hard to see how a British/Italian force could penetrate this far.
Could we see an Austrian collapse in this case