Earliest WWI?

With a POD after 1900, I'm wondering how early the first World War could have been kicked off?
 
Bosnian Crisis in 1908, only reason it didn't was because Russia backed down.
Fun Fact: It was the shit that Russia didn't eat that killed her, if they backed down again in 1914, the war wouldn't have ruined her
 
Get Winston Churchill's definition accepted and it becomes 1754

(He considered the 7 years war to be the first world war)
 

Anaxagoras

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Morocco crisis 1904

That would be interesting. Russia was fighting Japan in the Far East and Great Game tensions between Russia and Britain were still high. The ink was barely dry on the Entente Cordiale; would the British have supported the French over Morocco?
 
Fashoda crisis would be pretty fun. With Victoria still around. If the butterflies could create an earlier balkan incident we could have a pretty beefed up war.
 

Flubber

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The ink was barely dry on the Entente Cordiale; would the British have supported the French over Morocco?


Not only would the British support the French, they did so without hesitation.

The 1905 Moroccan Crisis and the resulting Algeciras Conference should have been a wake-up call for Germany. Germany thought they'd chosen the time for their ploy with care, Russia was distracted fighting Japan, the Entente was new and untested, etc., hoping the crisis would detach Russia from France and/or isolate Britain. However, when incident played out, Germany found itself isolated instead.

Only Austria-Hungary supported Germany and then halfheartedly. On the other side supporting France were Britain, Russia, Spain, and Italy a purported Triple Alliance member. Even the US joined the pig pile on Germany.

From the German point of view, the Moroccan Crisis had the unintended consequence of strengthening the Entente.
 
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