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Inspired by the threads on the Third World War and the Russo-Chinese War, this thread will have the same collaborative format and will focus on a late CP victory occurring in 1918. The POD's for this scenario are the following 1). America stays neutral. 2). Italy joins on the side of the CP's and 3). The 1918 Spring Offensives are successful. The situation in the East is pretty much the same with Brest-Litovsk happening as in OTL. I'll start.

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New York Times, November 12, 1918

PEACE IN EUROPE!

The cataclysmic conflict known as the Great War, which for four bloody years had devastated Europe and had taken away millions of its sons, ended yesterday with an Anglo-French surrender and columns of the Kaiser's proud soldiers marching triumphantly down the Champ-Elysee. As the last British forces leave occupied Belgium, negotiations are beginning in Paris for the signing of an official peace treaty that would forge a definitive settlement for the order of postwar Europe. Based on earlier statements from Berlin, experts and observers have agreed that a vengeful Germany would demand heavy reparation payments from the losing powers, swathes of colonial territory in Africa and massive limitations on France and Britain's future armed forces. The only hope for Paris and London to avoid these dreadful terms relies on the skill and determination of their diplomats and representatives in the negotiation table. The Kaiser's diplomats on the other end, don't have much to loose with the east of the continent already under Germany's veritable rule.
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