Hey Guys,
As I'm sure everyone here knows, the Great War began in 1914 after years of great tensions between the major powers of Europe with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand which had been the first trigger that sparked the War. The ensuing war crippled the economies of the Colonial powers (such as France, Britain, Germany etc.) and also helped the United States become a larger economic power. And so while the previous European powers crumbled slowly, the new power of the US rose out of the ashes.
Now let's say that the driver of the Archduke didn't foolishly turn right, and didn't send Franz to his death. Thus demands weren't made on the Kingdom of Serbia. Now the fact here is that the German Empire is still going to be building its navy up to rally alongside the force of the Royal Navy, France will still be pissed about Alsace-Lorraine, Britain still has the largest Empire etc. The powers of Europe are still teetering on the edge of an all out war, with their alliance still in place.
So how late could a First World War be? How would it look? Is it going to be so late that there's an Imperial Federation of the previous British Empire? Or won't it be much later than in OTL and so not be much more different than OTL? How would it affect the US if it was much later or earlier?
This probably has been done a lot so I apologize but I can't use the search function and so I thought I'd make a new thread about it.