This is just mainly a question that's been on my mind, and I thought I may as well ask here! Are there ways the Great War would've could've been avoided and how would this affect the world?
Regarding the.bad thingsGood things:
- Europe will be more developed and economically in better condition.
- No Bolshevik Revolution - No Stalin, Hitler and Mao.
- No Holocaust.
- More stable Middle East.
- Generally Europe remain quiet peaceful altough there is probably some local wars.
Bad Things:
- Colonialism and imperialism will be around longer and possible decolonisation might be much bloodier.
- Racism and ultra-nationalism would remain acceptable when there is not Holocaust.
- Black Civil Right Movement in USA would happen much later when there is not WW2.
- Women rights wouldn't be so advanced as in OTL when they can't prove that they can do same what men have traditionally done.
- Military leaders think that it is possible combine new technology and tactics of Napoleonic Wars. So any war would be even worse.
- Without horrors of world wars people have much more glorified picture about warfare.
Damn, I always prefer sequels.By definition, if there had never been a World War I there would have been no World War II!![]()
How and why? i see the theory and science is there..but the push? USA spend a good part their GDP under a war to get it, and other needs espionage and cooperation to get it too. Here there not might be that push, a manhattan project might take like a decade rather 4 years, still depends....why some magic weapon rather invest in navy or army?Even if World War I never happens, nuclear weapons will still be developed eventually.
How and why? i see the theory and science is there..but the push? USA spend a good part their GDP under a war to get it, and other needs espionage and cooperation to get it too. Here there not might be that push, a manhattan project might take like a decade rather 4 years, still depends....why some magic weapon rather invest in navy or army?
I could see Russia having many 1905 like revolutions for a decade or two which they put down brutally or by concessions they back track on after things chill out. This eventually leads to a very large revolution by the 30s or 40s which is a socialist and communist leaning one. Russia will industrialized by 20s but probably be full of sweatshop like factories and have a very large poor urban class. Most industries are either foreign controlled or run by incompetent aristocrats. Germany could chip away at Russia during this revolution and create a Baltic and Polish puppet kingdom. Japan maybe takes some of the Far East of Russia. Also Ethnic Russians will also be much much larger in numbers. Central Asia could be majority Russian so could more parts of Ukraine. This would probably help them keep more land when things go bad. A tsar Russia will be a paper tiger that is vulnerable to unrest. It will have a large industry and a large military but the military will probably be poorly trained, corrupt, and not organized well. Much of the military might have to stay at home to keep order within Russia. Furthermore, Jews would be fleeing the country in larger and larger numbers.This is really a huge topic.
The July Crisis of 1914 could very much have been avoided, though it should be noted that it was the only the latest of several similar arguments and its more plausible to have a great war start earlier.
One thing I think historians miss is that it was Russa (and to some extent Turkey), not Germany or Austria-Hungary that was the powder keg or bull in the China shop. The Russian government was both most likely to fall to revolution, given that IOTL it was the first great power to fall to revolution and no one else had gone through anything like 1905, and embarking on a massive military build-up that would have by far made them the biggest military power in Europe, including a large and modern navy. Part of the problem with the July crisis was the (understandable) thought held by German military and political leaders that if they didn't go to war now, Russia would get too strong if they went to war later.
If something like the Russian revolution still happens, that has a big effect on the balance of power in Europe and what other countries do. It would be like the French revolution in that way. If the Tsars hold on and Russia becomes the biggest military power in Europe, they could start a war of conquest but probably what happens is the diplomatic alignments change to reflect the new balance of power, my guess is the British would switch sides.
Avoiding World War I itself is not difficult and would have huge repercussions. Having no general and really destructive wars in Europe in the twentieth century is not impossible, but really hard.
If the major European nations were kept from each other’s throats, there was still a major incident.
Would the Armenian Genocide put the ‘Christian European powers’ united v the Islamic Ottomans in another ‘crusade’ / world war on religious grounds rather that political differences?
Also if WW1 were avoided would the great flu pandemic have occurred?
How? no WW1 means FF might try his plans for the empireIf Germany got parts of Austrian empire they could turn Czechs areas majority