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-Italy joins the central powers in late 1914 after Germany manages to understand its last chance for a quick victory and offers huge swathes of French territory in the Rhone region and North Africa.

-Italy executes naval invasions of Corsica and Malta to reasonable success and begins a double offensive toward Nice and Savoy. This draws the allied forces away from the front and allows Germany to gain a decisive upper hand at Ypres.

-The Germans then begin a new offensive and take Calais in a sensational victory similar to Tannenburg.

-Italy takes Nice and Savoy as the French retreat to a more defensible position to avoid encirclement, both Italian army groups begin a drive towards Grenoble.

-Austro-Hungary, meanwhile, does not have to deal with Italy in the west and concentrates all its power against Russia. This lessens the pressure on Germany and allows the Germans to allot more forces in the west.
-Austria siezes all of Albania as it wipes away the remaining Serbian resistance. Greece is denied Northern Epirus, the population is angered and Venizelos gains demogogic popularity by his fervent support of joining the allies.

-Greece erupts in rebellion against the unpopular neutrality and, led by Venizelos; forces Constantine I to abdicate, places Alexander on the throne, strips the monarchy of its power and joins the war on the side of the allies. Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey campaign against Greece, but with Austria and Turkey distracted by Russia, the Greeks manage to hold their ground and make tiny gains in North Epirus and Thrace.

-However, German troops enter Paris at the end of 1915 as Italian forces fight the Battle of Grenoble against increasingly weary French and BEF lines, the French government relocates to Lyon and refuses to surrender.

-There is no British invasion at Gallipoli and the Mesopotamian campaign gets severly bogged down as more forces are alotted to the two western fronts. The Turks begin an offensive against Russia but it ends in defeat.

-At the beginning of 1916 mutinies force France to surrender and Britain asks for an armistice. The war in the west is over.

-In the east, Germany and Austria plow through Russia. Turkish forces renew offensives and capture Tblisi, Austrian forces capture Kiev and German forces besiege Petrograd. The Russians surrender. Austria invades and annexes Rumania.

-Meanwhile, Austria, Bulgaria, Italy and the Ottomans begin a massive invasion of Greece. Venizelos quickly loses support and is assassinated.

-The Ottomans and Italians partition Greece, while Austria mediates dispute between Bulgaria and Turkey over Thrace by giving Bulgaria the former Rumanian black sea coast while the Ottomans receive Thrace.

-Germany annexes Poland, Courland, Belgium, Nord-Pas-De-Calais, parts of Picardy and Champagne-Ardennes, the rest of Lorraine, and parts of Franche-Comte. Germany gains the Hinterland of French NA, Dahomey, French and Belgian Congo, Ivory Coast, and Angola from Portugal.

-Italy gains Algeria, Morocco, Chad, and French Somaliland. Italy also annexes Morea, Crete, the Dodecanese, and Rhodes from Greece.

-Austro-Hungary is awarded Madagascar, Senegal, and a chunk of eastern Nigeria.

-Germany invades and annexes the Netherlands and Denmark while the world is helpless to intervene.

-German puppet states (The Kingdom of Belarus, United Baltic Duchy, the Kingdom of Estonia, and the Kingdom of Finland) and an Austrian puppet Kingdom of the Ukraine are consolidated. A-H uses Ukraine to build up a navy post-war (to take advantage of its new colonial possessions), with ships flying the flag of Ukraine but under Austrian control.

-The Ottomans gain Egypt, Cyprus, parts of Persia, the Russian Caucasus and most of Greece.

-The Easter Rising was never put down and spread to the rest of the country. The Republuc of Ireland is recognized by the UK.

-France is engulfed in turmoil after the war and the Third Republic is quickly overthrown. The returning soldiers and disgruntled citizenry rally behind the legacy of the Paris Commune. The French Socialist Republic is founded. A similar revolution in Russia is crushed by the Czar and many Russian communists and socialists escape to France.

-In celebration of the victory, the Ottoman Empire changes its flag to the banner of Mehmed II after the conquest of Constantinople

Europe - 1916

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