-Kaiser Wilhelm somehow decides against violating Belgian neutrality for concern of British involvement
-French execute plan XVII and encouter much tougher German resistance than expected, Germans settle on defensive and bleed much of the French army white
-Russian forces begin probing German defenses, armies face each other with results akin to Tannenberg in OTL as French suffer (seemingly) appalling casualties for minimal ground
-Germany moves additional forces to Russia and has OTL Masurian Lakes equivalent, Russians are out of Germany and Germans move on Poland
-British see these events and begin figuring out how to enter the war, eventually deciding that the Germans should not be allowed to gain ground in France or Russia if at all possible
-Germans begin moving on Poland and expel Russians by mid-1915, UK responds by demanding either Germany make peace with independent Poland or withdraw for status quo antebellum
-France makes minimal progress at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives, the pictures of the trenches from the Alsace Front are burned into minds across the globe
-Italy is courted by both sides for entrance into the war but remains neutral
-Without an Italian front to worry about the Austrians send reinforcements to Russia and apply additional pressure, allowing Romania to capture Chisnau and fortifying the Dniester river to the central Pripyet Marshes. Germany begins driving to Riga while the Austrians eye Kiev though know it will be some time before they might take it
-UK joins war effort in early 1916 and sends BEF to the Alsace front, helpful somewhat but not enough to turn the tide after German units are shifted from the East to shore up defenses. Germans remain on the defensive
-France/UK continues to slowly gain ground in Alsace but at horrific cost, by 1917 the French are devastated and morale is quite low
-Russia announces surrender in mid-1917 after Riga and Kiev fall, Germany gets Polish and Baltic puppets, Austria gets puppet Ukraine, and Romania gets modern Moldova
-CP assault hits West led by Germans and by Italians who are promised Corsica, Nice, Savoy, French Guiana, French Somaliland, and Tunisia in exchange for entrance against France and the UK. France does not expect the attack in the South and the on in Alsace is devastating, resulting in Paris falling less than 3 months later
-France loses the rest of Lorraine to Germany and Morocco becomes a German satellite. Italy takes Alps Maritimes and Savoy, while Austria takes indemnations. UK quietly backs out realizing that there is little they can do practically, they do take German Southwest Africa as a consolation prize
-Austria-Hungary has significant internal problems but eventually forms a Triple Monarchy with the Reichsdiet formed from 9 sources: Austria proper, Czech lands, Galicia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Transylvania, Bosnia, and Imperial appointment. An Imperial Council is also redrawn to be made of the regions elected governors while an Imperial representative sits on the elected councils for each province. German and Hungarian are made mandatory languages with massive expenditures in education across the nation. Other provinces teach native langauges as well, though they are not official for the whole of the government. This serves to keep AH alive although by no means unified.
-Ottomans are still alive and well but not nearly as friendly to German interests as they sat out the war, ironically this drives them into friendship with the UK
-Russians devolve into parliamentary monarchy with strong White leadership, communists are unable to come to power as peace is achieved with less loss of territory than OTL (Ukraine is smaller, Estonia and most of Byelorussia are still under Russian control).