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As everybody knows, WWI officially started because the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne got assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914. Now let's assume the visit of Sarajevo and assassination both take place twelve months later. Would WWI still start ? And how would its unfolding be changed by the altered balance of power ? Indeed, Russia was a rapidly growing nation, and one more year of railroad development and industrial growth might tip the scales in the war...
Also, one major butterfly to consider is likely the entry of the Ottoman Empire in the war, which IOTL happened when the British kept the dreadnoughts they had built for the Ottomans and for which the Ottomans had already paid.
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