Alternate History Thread III

As can be seen, Russian revolution fails. (I'm supposing that the allies have something to do with it, cooperating with the White Russians to a greater extent in the 20's?)

It doesn't exactly fail; RSFSR is quite strong, stronger than it looks (though still weaker than the OTL USSR, ofcourse). And the Entente hadn't all that much to do with it, not initially anyway.

Beer Hall Putsch suceeds?

Nein!

(or, perhaps, a greater military coup in the same vein?)

Ja, but that's not the PoD. Also, depends on what exactly do you mean under "in the same vein" - Hitler is nowhere near power, though the Weimar Republic has also died earlier than in OTL.

Looks like Japan tried to attack Phillipenes

No. Well, it did, but already as part of the Far Eastern War.

and got crushed by US and its Eastern Siberian ally.

That much is true.
 
Ja, but that's not the PoD. Also, depends on what exactly do you mean under "in the same vein" - Hitler is nowhere near power, though the Weimar Republic has also died earlier than in OTL.

Socialists have taken power?
 
Nein! The opposite happened, really; the Nazis weren't the only right-wing movement in Germany, hell, they weren't even very right-wing themselves (in the traditional sense anyway).
 
So does that mean Wolfgang Kapp? Did his putsch succeed somehow?
 
Nein to that too. The coup that occured was not even attempted in OTL, to the best of my knowledge.
 
Hmmm...well, you said that the PoD had some effect on World War I, so is it between August '14 and November '18?
 
Yes, yes it is.
 
The PoD is not that Hitler was killed, since you at least did not make it sound as if he had died in an earlier statement. The combat was also not drastically changed, so it's not like the Germans surrendered earlier or anything. Again, it's a change of some individual, probably. The Weimar Republic also came into being, so it was not immediate military revolt at the end of the war or the German Revolution.

So, whatever happened clearly involves some individual or individuals of some later political importance, most likely on the German side.

Just throwing out a guess: Zimmerman note is never sent, and America either does not enter the war, or does not do so to any meaningful capacity? Overall American impact on combat was low until the very final stages and it was really the unrest at home, more than the inevitable arrival of American numbers, which brought Germany to its knees. They were still going to have to "race the clock" with their 1918 offensive anyway to outrun civil outrest, and even without American troops it could likely be repulsed; same net result.

The lack of American impact lessens Wilson's input and the treaty is altered variously; the French and British have a freer hand to exact revenge without American mediation. Germany still has to pay war debts, perhaps Austria was included too, and eventually the former annexes the later (and parts of Czechoslovakia) as a means of financing this. America's distance from the original conflict leaves the French and British willing to look the other way.

It's probably wrong, but it's a shot in the dark. Clarifiers: are there any ongoing wars, and what were the terms of Versailles ITTL?
 
Wrong. ;)

Clarifiers: are there any ongoing wars, and what were the terms of Versailles ITTL?

No official ongoing wars, although there are some insurgencies in the Philippines and the French Indochina. As for the terms of the Treaty of Versailles itself, they are, in the end, as in OTL (but with less emphasis on self-determination).

As a hint, you all are looking for the PoD in the wrong places.
 
Wrong continent, or just "not Germany"?
 
My quess is longer than OTL Russian civil war which ended up indecisive. Poland propably got beaten by the soviets so badly that it alloved germans to retake much of their western prussia.
 
I have absolutely no clue about the PoD. I have a feelng it is in Russia, although the American dominated Cuba is intriguing.

Anyway, I must make a couple complaints about American city placement that seem to happen with almost every map:
1.) You have no Chicago? What is wrong with you!!!! ;)
2.) St. Louis is completely off.
3.) Miami is far too far north.
4.) New York is too far south.
 
I agree. Normally, I look the other way, but recently several maps have turned up that, because they were based on das's maps, had horrid American city placement. It is my hope as an uber-nationalistic Chicagoan to secure their position on the maps of the NES forum.
 
Israelite9191 said:
I agree. Normally, I look the other way, but recently several maps have turned up that, because they were based on das's maps, had horrid American city placement. It is my hope as an uber-nationalistic Chicagoan to secure their position on the maps of the NES forum.
So make a blank map with cities.
 
Israelite9191 said:
although the American dominated Cuba is intriguing.
Don't quite think it is; it's "Celtic Green" (Spring Green) compared to the Aqua of America; the colors do look fairly similar though.
 
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