Tanks, not ??
Best I can come up with is that 'Christmas Truce' in the trenches is followed by some *really awful* weather, drifts into a semi-official Armistice, becomes a de-militarized zone when Tsar calls for help against the Reds...
One significant POD is that, without an established stalemate in the trenches, Tanks don't get an outing.
Now, given that armies usually prepare to fight the previous war again, some-one will work on the ideas for trench-crossing track-layers etc, and they'll probably appear by 1920-25, as would better aircraft. The bitter taste of submarine warfare *should* alarm navies that considered the Dreadnaught to be queen of the seas...
Without the manpower losses, a lot of European life might just revert to pre-war patterns: Think Boer War(s)...
I think US might be more concerned with Mexico and Central America than with Europe...
I did some research on 'butterflies' as POD for a world with giant sea-planes ( 6 turning, 4 burning ;-), a *different* EU, and a rather backward / in-turned US. The Moon Missions were launched from Woomera by an Anglo-German team supplemented by a few US & Russian pioneers. Technically civilian, sponsored by The Interplanetary / Geophysical Society, the rocket-plane and rocket-ship programs were unashamedly backed by the RAF/Luftwaffe, as test-bed and showcase for their combined global reach...
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IIRC, I had a 'Pearl Harbour' attack, with the Japanese air-strike decimating the US fleet but returning to find their own carriers sunk. A 'Fin' of the Combined Anglo-German U-fleet operating out of Australia had been shadowing them for a week. The U-fleet went on to sink the Japanese Mercantile and Navy. After the Home Islands had starved a-while, the surviving US battleships led a combined fleet into Tokyo Bay to collect the surrender...
Incidentally, that took nuclear *weapons* out of the time-line.
Best I can come up with is that 'Christmas Truce' in the trenches is followed by some *really awful* weather, drifts into a semi-official Armistice, becomes a de-militarized zone when Tsar calls for help against the Reds...
One significant POD is that, without an established stalemate in the trenches, Tanks don't get an outing.
Now, given that armies usually prepare to fight the previous war again, some-one will work on the ideas for trench-crossing track-layers etc, and they'll probably appear by 1920-25, as would better aircraft. The bitter taste of submarine warfare *should* alarm navies that considered the Dreadnaught to be queen of the seas...
Without the manpower losses, a lot of European life might just revert to pre-war patterns: Think Boer War(s)...
I think US might be more concerned with Mexico and Central America than with Europe...
I did some research on 'butterflies' as POD for a world with giant sea-planes ( 6 turning, 4 burning ;-), a *different* EU, and a rather backward / in-turned US. The Moon Missions were launched from Woomera by an Anglo-German team supplemented by a few US & Russian pioneers. Technically civilian, sponsored by The Interplanetary / Geophysical Society, the rocket-plane and rocket-ship programs were unashamedly backed by the RAF/Luftwaffe, as test-bed and showcase for their combined global reach...
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IIRC, I had a 'Pearl Harbour' attack, with the Japanese air-strike decimating the US fleet but returning to find their own carriers sunk. A 'Fin' of the Combined Anglo-German U-fleet operating out of Australia had been shadowing them for a week. The U-fleet went on to sink the Japanese Mercantile and Navy. After the Home Islands had starved a-while, the surviving US battleships led a combined fleet into Tokyo Bay to collect the surrender...
Incidentally, that took nuclear *weapons* out of the time-line.
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