What kind of a WW1 outcome butterlies away WW2?

I think my current TL may give the basis for this (though a WWII will end up happening with the Soviet Union).

A Peace where a few of Germany's colonies are taken, and A-L returned to France, with similar minor territorial gains from Austria could work.

Mind you, A-H will get pretty hairy in my TL, so this mighn't do the trick.
 
Why dont you write a CP victory TL of your own then? There are a lot of them lying around, and most of them have plausible win conditions for the CP-s.

The Scottish Education System (damn it). Although actually the TL I'll writ ewhen I find time and money is an early-Entente victory one...
 
It would be interesting to see who would spark the next great war. Russia perhaps? If the Reds still get power, then a certain 90.`s video game comes to life.:D

Yeah. Red Alert in OTL FTW!

But seriousely, I doubt the USSR would do as good as it did in the game (until they lost, that is).
 
World War I should have been ended by a compromise, like every other war that preceded it. Instead, the Allies insisted on the total disarmament, impoverishment and humiliation of Germany, and the dismemberment of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires. This harshness seemed to set the stage for World War II.
Had they restrained themselves from such vindictiveness, the rest of Europe would probably have been led by rational leaders with traditional ideas of governance, rather than by crazy radicals of the left or right. And if Stalin or Hitler has become a threat, a strong Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empire would have been better equipped to deter or deal with aggression than the patchwork of small and militarily weak states that replaced them.

What rubbish. The so-called "impoverishment" of Germany happened in 1929 after the collapse of the global economy, which gave power to the wingnuts. Your average German, I suspect, couldn't have cared less about Versailles, disarmament, Danzig, the Ruhr or Anschluss. He might have believed in a nebulous conviction that "Germany had to be respected again on the world stage", but it's work (and therefore bread) that occupies people, not foreign policy.
 

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What rubbish.

Is they're really a need to use words like that? When you tell someone that their opinions are "rubbish" you're telling them they're rubbish.

Besides, these are events that happened a LONG time ago. No need to get all worked up.
 
What rubbish. The so-called "impoverishment" of Germany happened in 1929 after the collapse of the global economy, which gave power to the wingnuts. Your average German, I suspect, couldn't have cared less about Versailles, disarmament, Danzig, the Ruhr or Anschluss. He might have believed in a nebulous conviction that "Germany had to be respected again on the world stage", but it's work (and therefore bread) that occupies people, not foreign policy.

The impoverishment of Germany happened over the course of 1922 and 1923, when the hyperinflation wiped out the savings of the middle class and brought the Germany economy to a standstill.

The 'Great Depression' (which is something of a misnomer for the German experience, since it wasn't actually all that great for them), also, did not start in 1929 in Germany, but rather 1928.
 

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What rubbish. The so-called "impoverishment" of Germany happened in 1929 after the collapse of the global economy, which gave power to the wingnuts. Your average German, I suspect, couldn't have cared less about Versailles, disarmament, Danzig, the Ruhr or Anschluss. He might have believed in a nebulous conviction that "Germany had to be respected again on the world stage", but it's work (and therefore bread) that occupies people, not foreign policy.

Hate to break it to you, but the average German very much did care about what was happening to Germany. The attempted destruction of Germany as a great power was very much a painful subject for the soldiers that had sacrificed for years in the trenches only to have their country pruned by the vindictive victors. Though propaganda helped stoke the fires of nationalist sentiment, it existed independent of efforts by the extremists. Didn't the French act very bitterly toward the loss of Alsace-Lorraine in the last war? What really highlighted the sentiment to me was reading a quote from a German feminist in the 1920's who mused about starting another war so that German men could regain their manhood and stop living under a sense of self-imposed shame.
 
What rubbish. The so-called "impoverishment" of Germany happened in 1929 after the collapse of the global economy, which gave power to the wingnuts. Your average German, I suspect, couldn't have cared less about Versailles, disarmament, Danzig, the Ruhr or Anschluss. He might have believed in a nebulous conviction that "Germany had to be respected again on the world stage", but it's work (and therefore bread) that occupies people, not foreign policy.

No rubbish!!

If the map of Europe was less scattered after WWI it could have been not so easy for Hitler to walk over Austria en Sudetenland. Provided the remaining countries would be stable.

And, as noted earlier, it was the War repayments that lead to the hyperinflation in the early 1920s.
 
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