Timeline With the Most Potential?

Then, the great fascist nation may be a.... revenchist France. From Charabydes to Scylla...

Possibly but there are many many more possibilities. The downfall of the British Empire, a White Russia, German hegemony in Europe, a lasting Ottoman Empire, a fascist United States, etc.
 
It depends cause as in A Shift In Priorities. You could have a social-democratic revolution in Germany or another state.

I dont want to sound like a Francophone supremacist there, but France have a bit more.. liberal and democratic tradition compared to Germany, in my eyes, up to this era. A victorious Germany may not end up in that direction.
 
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To be honest any event can answer this OP in some way since we would never be able to track or chart all the butterflies that have or ever will exist. There is likely at least one point in the Early Morning of the First of January, 1900, that would have radically changed all of history, but would seem minor at first to us.

Anyway, one that pops into my head is having Nixon take over to Ike sometime during the Fifties. Eisenhower had numerous health issues at the time, and could have easily died resulting in Nixon's accession; under those conditions I do not see the Republicans being turned out of the White House until '64 at least, though it depends really on how Nixon's earlier Presidency is handled. Being relatively young still, I could see him going into other roles such as the Senate or Governorship after his Presidency; if he remains popular that is.​
 
I dont want to sound like a Francophone supremacist there, but France have a bit more.. liberal and democratic tradition compared to Germany, in my eyes, up to this era. A victorious Germany may not end up in that direction.

I agree but if they lose the war there is a tendency toward a revanchist nationalist France. There is also def the chance of a liberal socialist France as well. It depends on the course of events. Either way it is a radical difference from OTL. And Germany has about the same traditions regarding nationalism and liberalism. Nationalism just won out in OTL due to their loss in WWI. Without that loss it is quite possible of an imperialist or socialist reign.
 
Franz Ferdinand dodges assassination.

Ottoman Empire survives.

Lenin stays in Switzerland.

Woodrow Wilson loses in 1916.

Kindlier Treaty of Versailles.

Hitler never born.

No Great Depression.

1930 Argentine coup fails.

Franklin Roosevelt kills before inauguration.

WWII between Fascist Russia and Communist Germany.

Argentina without Peron.

Cold War between USA and Nazi Germany.

Space Race between USA and Nazi Germany.

Chinese Nationalists defeats the Communists in the Civil War.

Allies drops nuclear bomb in Berlin.

Stalin alive 20 more years.

Beria takes over the USSR.

Nixon defeats Kennedy.

USA without Vietnam War.

North Korean victory in the Korean War.

Mao Zedong dies 20 years earlier.

Successful Bays of Pigs.

Nixon without Watergate.

Carter defeats Reagan.

USSR survives up to present day.

USSR without Afghan War.

Bin Ladin kills in 1979.

Bush defeats Clinton 92.

Gore defeats Bush 00.

McCain got the Republican nomination in 2000.

9/11 never happens.

Hurricane Katrina butterflies away.

2007-2009 Financial Crisis never happens.

Clinton defeats Obama in Democratic nomination.

McCain defeats Obama then McCain dies and Palin takes over:p
 
The most interesting for me are in the first two decades of the twentieth century. That said, Upton Sinclair being elected Governor of California in the 1930's is both an interesting and, to my knowledge, unexplored prospect.
 
Barb Wire not invented-> Different WW1 and different opinion on war

FYI, barbed wire, while infamous, took at best third place to rapid-fire artillery and reliable belt-fed machineguns.

Gas, poor operational theory, obsolete tactical theory, an over-reliance on wired communications, magazine rifles, and a variety of other factors played a part at least on a par with barbed wire.
 
Hitler never born.

That's not post-1900.

FYI, barbed wire, while infamous, took at best third place to rapid-fire artillery and reliable belt-fed machineguns.

The Somme, if it had happened at all, would have gone a little better for the British if there had been no barbed wire.

Anyway,

No 5th October 1910 Revolution.

The Battle of France ending in a German defeat and Operation Pike going ahead would be interesting.

No Phony War, and an allied invasion of Germany during that period.

No decimalisation of the Pound Sterling.

No British adoption of the metric system.

Britain rejecting the EEC.

The EEC not evolving into the EU.

No pan-European currency.

No OPEC embargo.
 
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