List of alternate WWIs

Melvin Loh

Just though about, from what I studied back in Modern Euro Hist 10 yrs ago, compiling a list of crisis sitns in the early 20th C which could alternatively have led to WWI instead of 1914- these include worldwide wars resulting from:
1909 or 1911/12 Agadir crises
1911-13 Balkan Wars
1896 Fashoda crisis
1899-1901 Boer War expands
1890s- Russian humanitarian intervention against Ottomans over Armenians, or other European nations against Russia over pogroms against Jews

Can anybody else think of any others ?
 

ShawnEndresen

Russo-Japanese War. The use of French refueling stations by the Russians very nearly activated the Alliances which would have brought France and Britain in (on opposite sides). How long before the Germans and/or Americans get involved too? (not long for the Yanks. TR has not yet got over his irrational hatred of the British).
 
Oddball

Oddball

Melvin Loh said:
..., compiling a list of crisis sitns in the early 20th C which could alternatively have led to WWI instead of 1914-
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Norwegian independence from Sweden in 1905.

Never actualy developed into any crisis, but could easily have.
 

Alikchi

Perhaps a greater interest in Italy's war for Libya against the Ottomans?

The Ottomans are a wild card.
 

Wendell

ShawnEndresen said:
Russo-Japanese War. The use of French refueling stations by the Russians very nearly activated the Alliances which would have brought France and Britain in (on opposite sides). How long before the Germans and/or Americans get involved too? (not long for the Yanks. TR has not yet got over his irrational hatred of the British).
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I guess that Nobel goes away then...
 
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