The War to End All Wars? :: A 1914 Collaborative Timeline

Yes, another collaborative timeline, but i just wanted to give this concept a try :eek:

This one however will begin on June 28th 1914, the date of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand assassination and the subsequent aftermath and will last up until the present day. It will be similar to others, such as Arkhan's 50 Years and others.

The opening date, as mentioned above is June 28 1914. For now, there will be no entries beyond 1920, just so we can see how the war pans out.

June 28th 1914: Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinates Austro - Hungarian Heir to the Throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, the Duchess Sophie, in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo
 
June 30th 1914 Generaloberst Helmuth Von Moltke orders work on a replacement to the so called 'Schlieffen Plan' due to complaints to 'overestimation of our capabilities' and 'underestimation of the Russian threat', the move is highly controversial with his fellow officers and remains hotly debated.
 
June 31st 1914: Archduke Charles is named Heir-presumptive of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

June 1st 1914: Emperor Franz Josef I issues an ultimatum to Serbia. While the power of the army is firmly wrested in the hands of its Cheif of Staff, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Charles enlists in the Army as a Generalfeldmarschall to keep an eye on things.

(Reasonable?)
 
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3 November 1914: Midterm elections in the United States see the Democrats hold a slim majority in coalition with remaining Progressives and newly elected members of the Socialist Party of America, which claim five elected representatives. The Socialists, under the leadership of Eugene Debs (S-IN), promise to support the Democrats on key votes, but retain the option of 'conscience voting' on major legislation effecting the working class.

17 April 1915: In an agreement brokered by President Wilson and Socialist members of the House (the number of whom has risen to 7 after two special elections), the 'People's Program' is introduced to the House. Democrats hope that will blunt the appeal of the Socialists to working class voters, while Socialists see it as a boon for their party. The program establishes a federal 50 hour workweek, guaranteed overtime pay, nationalization of the majority of the country's railroads, and recognizing the right of labor to organize with the establishment of a National Board of Arbitration.

1 May 1915: The 'People's Program' passes the House.

23 June 1915: Conservative Senators begin a month long filibuster of the 'People's Program' in the Senate.
 
Here are some expected ones:

January 29th, 1915: Mexican nationalist "Los Sediciosos" led by Basilio Ramos call upon President Victoriano Huerta for a "return of Mexican territories"...

July 15th, 1915: Mexican President Victoriano Huerta, upon the advice of Colonel Franz von Rintelen, declares war against the United States in Mexico City, Mexico...

March 9th, 1916: Mexican guerillas under General Francisco "Pancho" Villas launch a raid, with German weapons on Columbus, New Mexico....

July 2nd, 1916: Battle of Laredo; "Los Sediciosos" led by Basilio Ramos launch a raid against American forces at Laredo, Texas...

March 30th, 1917: German saboteur Lothar Witzke bombs the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in San Francisco, California, killing 62 people in the process

August 27th, 1918: Battle of Ambos Nogles; German military advisors aid Mexican forces against American forces at Nogales, Arizona....
 
4 July 1915: With the votes of supportive Republicans and Democrats alike, the 'People's Program' passes the Senate. President Wilson signs the law, calling for a formal end between the class war that had "consumed our nation since the end of the Civil War" and asking for responsible socialists and radicals to celebrate the progress made thus far to that end.

Summer 1916: The Republican Party chooses to nominate Charles Evans Hughes for the White House, the Democrats renominate Woodrow Wilson, and the Socialist Party of America nominates for President Representative Allan Benson of New York. Wilson stresses his opposition to the ongoing war in Europe and the successful passage of reform legislation, while Hughes attacks Wilson for 'socialism' and Benson calls for a broader, working-class realignment of American politics.
 
July 22nd, 1914: Austrian Guns begin to bombard the Serbian capital of Belgrade after the Serbians turned down the Austrian ultimatum.

July 23rd, 1914: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia orders a full mobilisation against Austria - Hungary as a result of the attack on Serbia. On the same day, Germany declares war on Russia as a result of their mobilisation.
 
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July 25th, 1914: General von Hindenburg, on his way to his estates, suffers an accident that will keep him in a vegetative state before his death in 1918.
 
23 May 1915: The Kingdom of Italy declare that will mantain his neutrality on the current european war.
24 May 1915: Giovanni Giolitti and Count Leopold Berchtold signed at Trieste a Trety ceding Trent and the land west to the river Isonzo to Italy and recognizing that Albania is in the italian sphere of influence giving so legitimacy to the current occupation of Valona by italian troops.
3 September 1915: The government of French and the United Kingdom sent a stern diplomatic warnig to Italy about their continuing selling of goods and raw material to the Central Powers
 
August 1st, 1914: In Finland and Poland begin riots by patriotic groups.

August 23rd, 1914: Kaiser Wilhelm II says supporting indepent Poland and Finland.
 
Here are some expected ones:

January 29th, 1915: Mexican nationalist "Los Sediciosos" led by Basilio Ramos call upon President Victoriano Huerta for a "return of Mexican territories"...

July 15th, 1915: Mexican President Victoriano Huerta, upon the advice of Colonel Franz von Rintelen, declares war against the United States in Mexico City, Mexico...

March 9th, 1916: Mexican guerillas under General Francisco "Pancho" Villas launch a raid, with German weapons on Columbus, New Mexico....

July 2nd, 1916: Battle of Laredo; "Los Sediciosos" led by Basilio Ramos launch a raid against American forces at Laredo, Texas...

March 30th, 1917: German saboteur Lothar Witzke bombs the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in San Francisco, California, killing 62 people in the process

August 27th, 1918: Battle of Ambos Nogles; German military advisors aid Mexican forces against American forces at Nogales, Arizona....

I'm gonna call ASB.

To start with, the Germans were never really serious about arming Mexico; that was a pipe dream at best. Huerta wasn't even President in 1915; he had some cockbrained idea of staging a coup, but he was absolutely hated in Mexico; while it is conceivable that he could somehow return to power, he would have the fight of his life trying to keep Mexico together, especially considering his collapsing health and the fact that the United States (Wilson hated Huerta, remember) could just waltz back in to Veracruz anytime it wanted.
 
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