Vastly different 20th century PODs

Most TLs on the 20th century are somewhat recognizable to us. The players, movements and issues may very in names and their may be vastly different winners and losers but overall everything appears similar.

With a POD of January 1 1900 how can we make any alt 20th centuries unrecognizable to anyone in OTL's 21st century?

Is this possible?
 
Most TLs on the 20th century are somewhat recognizable to us. The players, movements and issues may very in names and their may be vastly different winners and losers but overall everything appears similar.

With a POD of January 1 1900 how can we make any alt 20th centuries unrecognizable to anyone in OTL's 21st century?

Is this possible?
Avoid WW1
 
Avoid WW1
Have Leon Trotsky become leader of the Soviet Union and fund leftist political parties to moderate capitalism.

Another way is to have Germany continue supporting China rather then Japan during World War 2.

Nazi Germany and China both devolve into genocidal, crazy hellscapes.

Culturally the world would be unreconizable.

No anime, no Cold War, no James Bond and who knows what else.

The world of the 21st century is left a polluted genocidal hellscape.

Could also have Reagen win in 1976, screwing up massively and getting into an unpopular war with Iran. The resulting Republican Revolution is a Democratic Revolution with Ted Kennedy becoming President of the United States. This alters the Conservative movement in the United States radically.
 
Empress Dowager dies on 1 January 1900 and a more reformist regime takes control of China. A stronger China changes the geopolitical equations which allowed WWI and II and Chinese cultural influence starts to spread more globally much earlier and without cultural impoverishment of the Cultural Revolution. No Russian Revolution, cultural influences of a more pluralistic Russia. Romania never falls under Soviet yoke, former Austria-Hungary federalises. No Holocaust and continuing Jewish cultural influence across central and Eastern Europe. Surviving (probably truncated but surviving) Turkish Empire. No post-Nazi angst in Western Europe and no cultural impoverishment in Germany 1933-45. Greater use of Solar power as no WWI allows early trials to continue. Slower retreat from colonialism means stabler African countries with better infrastructure and better tropical medicine. Japan not able to expand into a strong China takes a different path. Irish independence through constitutional non-violent means with implications for later colonial disengagements.
 
Lenin dies years before October Revolution. So we would see very different Russia. Without Lenin there wouldn't be Bolchevik coup - No Hitler (altough Germany might still get some authotarian regime) - No WW2 or it would be very different - No Communism in East Europe nor China (and even easier if you kill Mao too)

Another way is let Central Powers to win somehow and it probably would avoid WW2 or at least it would be very different.
 
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