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WI / AHC: All of the Great Powers get 'wanked' PODs


There are many threads that ask about scenarios where how would Great Powers like Britain, or Imperial Germany, take over the world?

The aim of this thread is to take several nations at once, and try and set up conditions such that all of them in the same timeline get a little step closer to 'plausible world domination / Empire survival'. i.e. given we have changed history for nation A, with those same changes what might we have to do to nation B?





The idea being to create the timeline that is best for all the listed nations, at the same time.




There are three rules:

1. No 'allience of Great Powers'
...who carve up the world on purely a diplomatic affair, each Great Power should retain it's ability to flex self-determination. That does not mean that alliences cannot exsit between nations, just not all nations concurrently.


2. 50 years of history 1900 - 1950
...let's keep the timeframe fairly compact since beyond a decade or 3 it becomes very difficult to predict may what happen. We'll do a pause, save (I'll concatenate a summary of history so far) and continue on if this is successful for the latter half of the century.


3. Actions and Repurcussions
...While you might have your pet timeline for how the Central Powers win the First World War, sombody else may have their own pet timeline for the best allied victory as well. Try and state the deviation from history, and it's likely repercussions, rather than state a full history. Thus making it easier to consider multiple PODs concurrently.

Bare in mind that even as you discuss PODs for one nation, others will have discussed PODs for another, the idea is to get all nations to the pinnacle of what they could be.



The nations to be 'wanked';

The British Empire
Ensure the continuation of the British Empire as a dominant hegamon throughout the era.

Third French Republic
Can the Republic rebuild the glory of Napoleon, or assimilate a global colonial empire to rival Britain, the passionate French certainly feel it!

Imperial Germany
How far can the unification of Germanic states go, and can Imperial Germany rise to becoming a full colonial great power of its very own exerting great influence over continental Europe?

Austro-Hungarian-Balken Empire
Can Austria-Hungary get over its internal tensions and reforge the splendour it enjoyed throughout the 19thC and come to unify more peoples under it's Imperial rule?

Imperial Russia
Can the Russian peoples industrialise to keep a-pace of western Europe, will great thinkers upset the balance of rule and start a glorious global revolution, only time will tell...

Imperial Japan
The worlds youngest major industrial power has flexed it muscles against the world and found a place, but can it expand or maintain it?

United States of America
The land of the free, and the land of dreams. Will the American Dream pave the way to social utopia or must the American Eagle set out with imperialistic claws to reach its manifest destiny?
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