I don't know what the alliances would be, but I do know Germany would start it.
Why?
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I don't know what the alliances would be, but I do know Germany would start it.
The things that led to the rise of the Nazi party were in Germany before World War I. There was a desire for "Lebensraum", there was a rising belief in German superiority, the Military-Bureaucracy was losing its stake on power, and the German economy would have tanked after the war. Germany would start the war, much like it did in OTL, except this time it would be much more powerful and entrenched.
The things that led to the rise of the Nazi party were in Germany before World War I. There was a desire for "Lebensraum", there was a rising belief in German superiority, the Military-Bureaucracy was losing its stake on power, and the German economy would have tanked after the war. Germany would start the war, much like it did in OTL, except this time it would be much more powerful and entrenched.
And unless TTL WW1 is over very soon, the Germans would have to pay a high toll in lives. They'd have to think twice about starting another war. And as was said, France, Britain and Russia would wish for revenge, as Germany, Hungary and Bulgaria did IOTL. Germany would have to hold down its newly acquired lands in Europe and Africa, and A-H and Turkey would have the same problem, even if they didn't annex anything.
Isn't the most plausible German victory, though, a quick German victory? At least on the Western front?
And a good deal of this didn't apply to France as well? Revaunchism (which is in itself a form of self-superiority), entrenched racisms, an intense desire to restore both France's former power and borders, a post-war economy that both struggled to deal with reconstruction and American loans, another potential Great Depression...
If anything, that's an argument that France will make the first move, not Germany.
Fenwick said:So the best option is to start an expensive war with economically weaker powers? Also the "things" you talk of I can only assume as class difficulty, economic troubles, belief in Greater Germany, and dozens of other things, that to be honest would be in England, France, Italy, Russia, America, and almost every country ever.
Imperial German victory would not have prevented the rise of the Nazis for it is an inescapable part of German culture.
Imperial German victory would not have prevented the rise of the Nazis for it is an inescapable part of German culture.