A honorable peace without annexations and reperations. How does this sound?
Like a replay in ten years instead of twentyA honorable peace without annexations and reperations. How does this sound?
Like a replay in ten years instead of twenty
A honorable peace without annexations and reperations. How does this sound?
Sounds like a ripe fruit for Stalin to invade.German armed forces are disbanded and Germany is forbidden from having one
Occupational army of sufficient numbers is created to occupy and if necessary protect German borders
Germans are banned from owning firearms weapons other than revolvers and single shot rifles for police and animal control
Germany is banned from producing firearms other that those mentioned above
Add an Entente Victory Parade through Berlin
in a perfect hindsight environment then the British and French would be stupid to not force a breakup of the German state, or else they condemn themselves to eventual geo political displacement regionally due to economic outputs over time.
A lot of people want a ww2 in the 1920s in this thread.Declare that the German Republic is a complete different subject than the German Empire and therefore can not be held responsible for the actions of the later.
Turn around and leave after burning the castle to the ground...
The second sentence was meant as a joke.A lot of people want a ww2 in the 1920s in this thread.
Didn't Russia mobilize before Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, though? Indeed, I seem to recall BlondieBC previously saying something to this effect.
So, you're saying that Germany's war guilt entitles Britain to also have some reparations from Germany? If so, why not also give the U.S. some German reparations?
Agreed with all of this. (Also, for the record, I didn't make Bosnia and Herzegovina independent since there are too many Serbs there and clear borders can't really be drawn there; indeed, I don't want a Bosnian War, but seven decades early.)
Ukrainian nationalists managed to help bring down the Soviet Union in our TL, though. Indeed, if it wasn't for Ukraine, some kind of union might have survived (true, the remaining SSRs were demanding extremely large devolution, but if the Union is still intact, power could possibly gradually be redirected back towards the Kremlin). Plus, this is not to mention that, without western Ukraine, Ukraine might have very well shifted back into Russia's orbit in 2013-2014 in our TL.
Basically, I am looking at a century-long viewpoint here; indeed, anything which helps to eventually bring down the Soviet Union, the better. (Also, I was thinking of adding Subcarpathian Ruthenia to the Soviet Union, but I was hoping that this could be done after the Stalin era was over. After all, I don't want the Ruthenians to suffer and prematurely putting them inside of the Soviet Union will accomplish just that with no gain (since the Ruthenians weren't particularly nationalistic)). Basically, while I'd like an independent Ukraine (and Belarus) to survive, I would consider this to be extremely unrealistic and thus I'd like to try setting the stage for these countries to regain their independence in the future (probably after 70 or more years).
Hungary gets to keep all Hungarian minority areas.
The Czechs and Slovenian get separate states. The German majority areas are allowed to join Germany, likewise Austria is too.
Poland gets all polish majority areas but they don't get a coastline. Germany remains connected.
Lower reparations they've only got to pay for actual damages.
Serbia only gets Serb areas, Croatia is likewise given Croat areas (divided Bosnia) Serbia given somewhere it can build a port. Which may be a Croatian majority area.
Serbia does have to give Kosovo to Albania.
No Montenegro annexation, Montenegro is given some territory to its coastline.
Japan is given something in Africa and Danzig, because.
Belgium is divided between France and the Netherlands.
France holds a plebiscite in AL
Luxembourg is given the Luxembourg province of Belgium.
Italy doesn't get anything more than the Italian areas of Tyrol.
Italy is given a few islands which have Italians in Dalmatia, as well as something German in the Pacific.
No-one is blamed outright it's an effort to keep it from happening again.
Denmark doesn't get anything.