I don’t think anything particularly big would happen on a large scale because of this but he would certainly have a very different life. I don’t know exactly what his politics were but I wouldn’t be shocked if he fell into right wing politics after the war like many former soldiers. He was already very famous during the war so even without his death he would be a prominent figure and the Nazis would be courting his support. I have to imagine that upon the start of the war he likely rejoins the Army and maybe becomes something like a corporal in the German Air Force.
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Corporal? He'd almost certainly end up a general in the Luftwaffe just like other elite flying aces of the first world war. Possibly a field marshal if he aligns well with Hitler and Goering, but he's going to be a general regardless unless one of the two end up with a severe dislike of him (in which case he'll probably be shuttled off to an unimportant position and end up retired by the time the war breaks out). His fourth cousin Wolfram (of whom he was close with) actually did end up a field marshal in the Luftwaffe. Other family members were politicians and academics who were always right-wing and antisemitic and aligned with the Nazis after 1933, so they were probably typical of other pro-Nazi aristocrats--not the main Nazi constituency, but also not ones to oppose Hitler since they believed he benefitted Germany.
What if Austria-Hungary didn’t dissolve after WWI and tried to carry on as a neutral state during WWII?
Would we have a WW2 with a totally different WW1?
Likely not but people loves the theme "the losers of WW1 starts a WW2 in an attempt to revenge".
Fair point I initially just assumed he would be considered to young to get any position of importance but he would actually be 43 by 1936 so I agree it would be likely that he at least become something like a general.
Austria Hungary could still lose here but somehow remain intact.
WI: Franz Joseph lives to see the end of WW1? Assuming the major details of how rest of WW1 remain the same. Not implausible that he lives that long.
In all honesty, the outcome that is overwhelmingly likely is that he ends up in the hands of Entente and their allies. What happens next and how is the question.
In all honesty, the outcome that is overwhelmingly likely is that he ends up in the hands of Entente and their allies. What happens next and how is the question.
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WI: in aftermath of ww2, francisco franco decides to joining non-aligned movement?
1)Which was the last Communist takeover in the world before the fall of the USSR?
2)Which was the last Pro-USSR (Not necessarily Communist) takeover in the world before the fall of the USSR?
2)Which was the last Pro-USSR (Not necessarily Communist) takeover in the world before the fall of the USSR?
Depends how you define things, I think. If you have a look at the Wikipedia 'List of Communist States' you'll see communist governments listed there starting in the late 1980s, but often they're just renamed versions of previous ones (e.g. the 'People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia' was created in 1987 but was really just a continuation of the 'Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia' from 1974). If you don't count any of those, then I think the best answer is probably the 'Committees for the Defence of the Revolution' in Burkina Faso, established in 1983.
Will anyone be interested in a timeline about Talat Aydemir (it is too long to truly explain the guy, but basically, he was a Hardline Kemalist colonel with some ties to the left, who was also angry at him not being included in the MBK after the 27 May Coup as he was one of the founders of the coup, mainly because he was in Korea at the time) managing to make his first coup successful (which actually has one moment in particular which is like dream for the alternate historian as it is rooted in history and specific, to not-that-greatly quoting the words of @Vidal in the Johnson TL he planned in his villa)?
Why did Joseph Joffre tinker with the idea of invading Germany headlong? Due to Germany's sheer strength in numbers, wouldn't it have been wiser to allow the Germans to invade the "French fortress", get bogged down along the way, and wait until Russia mobilized and sent troops to Eastern Prussia? This was after 1910, so way after France and Russia made up.
How could the Nepalese monarchy survive? Preventing the 2001 massacre is a must, but at that point Nepal was also dealing with a Maoist insurgency, and the country's development had been lagging for a long time.
The country was moving towards parliamentary democracy in the late 50's, but King Mahendra suspended the constitution in 1960 after couping the government and introduced the highly unpopular Panchayat system of royal governance. Is there any way to stop this?
Would present-day Nepal be a fully parliamentary monarchy, like Japan and Britain? Or would it be an executive monarchy where the King holds genuine political power and rules along with a democratic government, like Bhutan and Morocco?
The country was moving towards parliamentary democracy in the late 50's, but King Mahendra suspended the constitution in 1960 after couping the government and introduced the highly unpopular Panchayat system of royal governance. Is there any way to stop this?
Would present-day Nepal be a fully parliamentary monarchy, like Japan and Britain? Or would it be an executive monarchy where the King holds genuine political power and rules along with a democratic government, like Bhutan and Morocco?
I think it was something that mostly occurred in the post war era. Thanks to the British empire English was already spoken by large populations all across the world. During the Cold War and in the period of the Pax Americana that has followed globalization became more and more common thanks to advances in technology and increased trade. This led for a need for a language like English to serve as an intermediary language for global interactions. Now this is the most common reason given and I would say it is broadly true but I would also say the influence of American and other anglosphere nations arguably contributed more to this however. American and to a lesser extent British TV, Movies and music have spread across the world and especially to nations in Europe and Asia and America has heavy cultural influence in all this countries. This along with how widespread education on English in schools around the world gives a lot of insensitive for learning English.
Just keeping the name as Germany or the German confederation or something like that would make sense though it would kind of depend upon the context of the Union.
Well, it's a potential TL where Hitler never comes to power and we avoid WW2.
That I would assume would be more like Austria joining Germany then them being equal partners in a union. Austria is a lot smaller and ethnically, linguisticly, and historically German. So they would more than likely keep the name Germany going forward. Hope that helps!
