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This is a timeline I made some time ago, it isn't finished and I would love to have your help, this is a level 2.5 alternative history, so I try to be as more realistic possible while adding some more things and changing OTL things (as an example, the personality of some world leaders). First of all, I bought some books from the site "Royal Russia" and watched some documentaries and discovered something that I never think was possible: In 1907 the Russian emprie bypassed the USA in the country with the fatest industrialization in the world, I also found more info that Kaiser Wilhelm II was advised that until 1925 Russia would have passed Germany industrial output, and some french economist (who I forgot the name and I'm too lazy to check again) predicted that by 1940 Russia would be the world leading industrial and agricultural power, but then the revolution came and we all know what happened :(

So here is it:

No justice amoung men, it shows a cold war between the old autocratic, traditional world against the new liberal, democratic world

1899-1901 - The boxer Rebellion, after the eight nation alliance defeats China, Russia occupies Manchuria, the Qing dynasty losses all his remaneing prestige
1903 - Case Tuva, a telegram is decripted by Okhrana showing the location of all bolshevik leaders, they are hunted down one by one until the remaneing escape to western europe
1904 - War against Japan , without the 1905 revolution the Russian reinforcements arrive in time in manchuria, Russia defeats Japan in the battle of Mukden and pushes them back to the Yalu river, but are unable to cross it, persident Roosevelt from the United states negotiate peace between the two, Russia keeps Manchuria and Sakhalin but Korea is annexed into Japan
1912 - Balkan war, the Ottoman empire is defeated in the balkans. Later Bulgaria is defeated in the second balkan war and the Ottoman empire recovers parts of Thrace. Italian invasion of Lybia, mustafa Kemal Pasha is killed during an Italian air raid, the Ottoman position in Lybia collapses and the empire cede his agean islands and Lybia to the italians. The Qing dynasty falls and China is throw into civil war
1914 - The heir of the austrian throne, Franz Ferdinand is killed in Sarajevo by Serbian nationalists, Austria sends a ultimatum to Serbia with demands, Serbia partially accept them, Austria declares war on Serbia, Russia declares war on Austria, Germany joins austria and execute the schieffer plan to take Paris in 40 days, they are stopped in the marne after the Kaiser directs divisions to fight the Russians in the eastern prussia
1915 - Serbia falls, the British army manages to land at Gallipoli and attacks Instanbul, Austro-hungarian and Bulgarian divisions coming from Serbia flanks the Anzacs and force them to surrender, the central powers makes 200 thousand Anzacs prisioners, the German offensive in Poland is stopped close to warsaw, Japan joins the war and begin seizing German colonies in pacific
1916 - The Brusilov offensive happens in may, 40 Russian divisions advance against the central powers, the Germans and the austrians are pushed from Poland, russia invades Hungary and almost Seize Budapest, Romania enters in the war. In the middle east the British empire captures jerusalem and begins his march to Bagdad
1917 - Operation Peter the great, over 50 russians divisions begin a massive attack into central powers positions, Brusilov uses his stormtroopers tactic to overrun the enemy positions, the Austrians are driven out of Budapest where the Russian army is received as liberators, at the same time the germans are pushed from Prussia, Koningsberg is captured in september, the Kaiser asks Hidenburg and Ludendorff to prepare a massive ofensive against Paris to negociate peace with France and fight a one front war against Russia, the great German summer offensive happens, but is stopped only 10 kilometers from Paris, Italy joins the entente and strike at the light defended Austro-hungarian positions in Trento, after a huge victory at piave, Pola is put under siege, combined Russian-romanian troops reaches Sofia and Forces Bulgaria to surrender, the Ottoman empire follows after Instanbul is menaced, in 18/11/1917 the German empire calls for a peace treaty, after a naval mutiny in Kiev and a huge general strike happens, the world war have ended
1918 - the treaty of Versalles is signed, the Austro Hungarian empire collapses, the Kingdom of Hungary, the Kingdom of Czehia and the kingdom of Slovakia declares independence, Serbia forms the united Kingdom of the Serbs, croats and Slovenes (renamed to Yugoslavia later), the Austrian Republic is declared. The Grand Duchy of Poland receives parts of western prussia from Germany, Eupen is give to Belgium, France regains alsace Loraine, Denmark takes slevig, the ottoman empire is split between the winning powers, Kurdistan becames a Russian protectorate
1919 - Due the increasing russian influence in eastern and central europe, the Czar Nicolau II declares the creation of the League, a alliance of monarchies, Greece refuses to joing it, so Russia keeps Constantinople
1920 - Interbellum golden age, the league and the entente are prospering, while Germany and Austria are slowy recovering from the war, the inflation is very high, the Kapp putsch happens but fails to defeat the republican government
1928 - German federal election, the monarchist DNVP and the Social democrat SPD are the two major parties, SPD wins for a small margin
1930 - Wall Street crash, the american market is plundered to the ground, most of western europe is affected, while the League act fast and by combining state intervention and many baillouts (Sergei Witte style) manages to survive almost untouched, the situation in Germany is critic, meanwhile in China Wang Jingwei and the blueshirts society takes control of the national government with japanese support, Jiang Jieshi calls him as a traitor and with support from the Entente declares his own republic of China and promisses to free it from foreign influence
1932 - German federal election, preliminary pesquises shows that the DNVP and the SPD are almost matched, at the end the SPD get elected, the DNVP members manages to dissolve the reichstag, a new election is called for 1933, the SPD declared that to protect Germany from "Foreign powers" and garantee his soberany, Germany must come closer to his western partnes, at the same time the DNVP, renewed after the 1929 crisis and enjoying a huge approval from landowners and industrialists want to restore Kaiser Wilhelm II to the throne



Europe

Europe is divided between the league, led by the Russian empire (still a despotic autocracy), the grand duchy of Finland, under personal union with Russia, the grand duchy of Poland, under the personal union too, the Kingdom of Czechia (a autocracy too), the Kingdom of Hungary ( It is constitutional, but the King is granted 80% of to power against 20% to the parliament), the Kingdom of Slovakia ( the same as hungary), the Kingdom of Romania (it is the only constitutional state in the alliance, because they entered in the war on the russian side in 1915, so there was no major change in his government, they don't really wanted to join the league, they only did because the orthodox church made a pettition to government, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (also know as the kingdom of the serbians, croatians, eslovenians, albanians and Bosnians) and the Tsardom of Bulgaria (Tsar Ferdinand still is in power)

In the other side we got the entente, is pretty much OTL europe, but even more liberal, after the total failure of gaining some power, much of the marxists gave up and joined some liberal groups (one of the great examples is Antonio Gramsci, who now is a liberal that believes in the idea that the only way to defeat the League is with a subversive tactic know as "Cultural liberalism")

Asia:

Asia is in chaos (and I really mean chaos), since the fall of the Qing dynasty, passed by the failed Yuan Shikai empire and now in the warlord era, the country have seen many failed harvests, the country is in state of chaos, in the north we have Zhang Zuolin (yellow), the Qing loyalist, he have been supplied by the Russians, he is also the recognized leader of China. In the middle (dark red) we have the national government of China, led by the japanese-supported Wang Jingwei, he was a member of the chinese marxist movement early in his life, but gave up and joined the republicans, after losing the presidency to kai shek he managed to cause a civil war (inside the civil war) due a japanese incursion who occupied nanjing (he is not allied with the japs though), then we got the Republic of China (light blue), that is supported by the entente by supplies comming from India, it is lead by Chiang Kai Shek, while it is a republic in the name, Kai Shek acts like a dictator, and finally in the south we got the Guangxi clique aligned with the national government, the yunnan clique aligned with the republican government and in the west we got the Russian supported Zhang-allied Ma Clique

One of the reasons that made europe be so divided, is the mentality in both sides, while the entente sees the league as a barbaric backwards alliance, the league sees entente as a sinfull anarchic liberal union of uncivilized states, the male citzens of the league still use large beards, they chew tobacco and like classic music, opera and in some countries, swing. In the entente the male population smoke cigarettes, listen to Jazz, Swing and even blues

A final thing in touch is that this world is dieselpunk (no, there is no pirates of air), but the architecture, the use of flying fortress (Zepellins with 200mm armor and eight 250 mm cannons), both sides love the "Epic" architecture (a Russian version of the Empire state have been built in Kiev, there is a mass use of railways, and a lot of other stuff
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