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Germany agree to begin unrestricted submarine warfare in the previous year, at the beginning of 1916. Is the United States also previously accede then to the war?
Agreed; after all, weren't tanks (which helped end the stalemate on the Western Front) only put into widespread use in 1918? If so, a lot of U.S. troops might experience the full, hardcore realities of trench warfare in this TL.The US gets a taste of the meatgrinder.
US American casualties would multiply in such a scenario. Even if they win, the impact left of the US' collectivre psyche will be gigantic.
Agreed; however, ironically, from an extremely Machiavellian perspective, one can argue that the Communists did the West a favor. After all, without Communist rule, Russia would be more populous, territorially larger, and wealthier right now (in 2016) than it actually is right now in our TL.Well for starters Russia wouldn't fall to communism.
How exactly did Wilson screw up the Versailles peace, though?The war probally ends slightly earlier then it did in our time line, america's biggest contrabution was more resources, material, and people then a qualatative edge. Really it was just going to take time to get germany to crack and that process could only be sped up so much. That said Wilson gets a bigger seat at the table and probally screws things up worse then he did in OTL.
I don't see how Germany would agree to that because the only ones that supported such an action were the H-L clique that were not allowed near power until Falkenhayn's strategy discredited the traditional power structure and brought Hindenburg to power. Even then H-L couldn't make it happen before 1917 and a 'peace offensive' to justify their action with the US by first working with Wilson to negotiate and end to the war; they knew the Entente would never even negotiate so they approached Wilson to attempt to get a negotiation going and when the Entente refused to participate and Willson was furious with the Entente then the H-L regime though they had cover to launch USW again and have the US stay out. So they were very careful about trying to diplomatically maneuver into a position to have a reason to restart it and wouldn't have done so in 1916 given the personalities in power at that time.Germany agree to begin unrestricted submarine warfare in the previous year, at the beginning of 1916. Is the United States also previously accede then to the war?
How exactly did Wilson screw up the Versailles peace, though?
Seriously? By insisting on Self Determination and then not implementing it universally when it suited the Allies.
The 14 points resulted in the Polish Corridor (which ignored self determination in West Prussia)
and left a festering sore that gave the Nazis a cause célèbre to unify the nation against the West.
By removing the Kaiser for reasons
then attempting to crush Germany anyway made the Weimar Republic a lame duck from minute one. Then, after setting fire to the whole house, jumping on a ship to bugger off home before the Ottomans had even been dealt with summed it all up really.
The inconsistencies in this could have been fixed diplomatically over time, though. Heck, Britain and France allowed Hitler to annex both Austria and the Sudetenland in the late 1930s!
Actually, the Polish Corridor (excluding Danzig) had a Polish-majority population.
Actually, Hitler appears to have been more concerned with the German areas in former Austria-Hungary as well as with the Soviet Union than with Poland; heck, didn't Hitler even offer an anti-Soviet alliance to Poland?
Actually, the German people themselves did that.
Actually, with the exception of the reparations (which would have been renegotiated later), Germany got a pretty generous peace after the end of World War I. Indeed, technically speaking, Germany wasn't even forced to surrender to the Allies at the end of World War I!