Napoleonrules
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In several threads I've noticed a pattern, such as "What if Central Powers win, what happens to Hitler?" that people seem to think that if the Central Powers win then we don't have the Great Depression. I don't believe that's accurate thinking though. I don't believe the Treaty of Versailles itself can be the POD that keeps the Great Depression from happening. The Great Depression was a result of a correction of the Roaring 20s. Without government brakes on an economy you have huge ups, and then huge downs. The New Deal and government regulations didn't take us out of the Great Depression (WWII military spending did that, and more accurately taking huge numbers of men out of the workforce did the most good truly); but it did in fact keep us from having as severe recession as we would have had and the Great Recession we recently had only occurred once those regulations began to be deregulated in the securities, banking, loaning, and energy markets in particular.
So my question is- can someone give me a rationale for why a Central Powers victory SHOULD butterfly the Great Depression away? And if you can't truly butterfly it away... then Hitler can still become quite a force even in a victorious Germany, or at least in a Germany that didn't LOSE the war but instead went to a status quo or limited its wins for the benefit of keeping out the USA.
So my question is- can someone give me a rationale for why a Central Powers victory SHOULD butterfly the Great Depression away? And if you can't truly butterfly it away... then Hitler can still become quite a force even in a victorious Germany, or at least in a Germany that didn't LOSE the war but instead went to a status quo or limited its wins for the benefit of keeping out the USA.