xxJFKxx said:
well mate, you forgot a quiet important detail in your description, allow me to complete it.
"during the offense in france a german communication officer got killed, the german soldier - born in austria - called adolf hitler died serving his country. lets remember this, as the last big war in europe and memorize all soldiers that gave their lifes to protect their countrys ... on both sides"
Yeah, many of the WWII personalities would never be known. Based on this Central Powers victory:
1. First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill would be a key agitator to the British Crown after the armistice is signed. With the diminished role of the British navy, he would move to Canada to ride out the remainder of his life. He would largely be blamed for not having landed sufficient troops to remain on the continent at Calais and would be considered in the British Empire as the man who lost the Great War.
2. Lieutenant Charles de Gaulle would escape the 3rd battle for Paris in 1920 and would later have revolutionary ideas around the restoration of France as a world power. From his base at Marsaille, he would become a key leader of the Communist Party of France. With the aid of his confidant, Leon Trotsky of the newly formed Peoples Republic of Russia, he would start a rebellion that would plunge France into a costly civil war. By 1934, with war raging on either side, the remainder of France would be jointly administered by the German empire to the north and east and Facist Spain to the south and west.
3. Joseph Stalin would be jailed for 20 years for igniting a revolution in Ottoman held Georgia in the late 1920s. The re-emergence of the Ottoman empire from the brink of disaster during the early 1910's as the "sick man of Europe" to a dominant force in near Asia and the middle east. The ever increasing dependence on oil by the world positioned the Ottomans as a superpower by the late 1920's.
4. Corporal Adolf Hitler would return to his native Austria after the war and would have a modest career in painting along the Danube.
5. Newspaperman Benito Mussolini saw the defeat of Italy in the war as a rallying cry for his Black Shirt movement. By 1925, he has taken full control of the government and sponsored open revolutions in the northern parts of Italy controlled by the Austrians. Austria was beginning to feel the pressures of the multitudes of nationalities under her control, and with the collaspe of France to the west, the Italians were able to drive the Austrians out of the remainder of Italy by the late 1920s. Facists now controlled southern Europe and the mediterrean from Spain through Italy.
6. President Woodrow Wilson did not agree to the armistice but knew the US could not fight the Central Powers alone. His final days revolved around communicating the need for America to remain un-isolated from the remainder of the world. He would die in 1921, largely blamed in the US as not being able to make the world safe for democracy.
7. Representative Franklin Delano Roosevelt would use the defeat in the Great War as a spark for his long political career. He would be elected American president in 1932, after the US has grippled with the costs of reparation for 12 years plunging the US economy into depression for the last 7 years. His platform of reform included some radical ideas, including formalization of treaties with Imperial Japan and battered England for mutual protection, and the lend-lease program for Japan in her fight to rid East-Asia of the German colonies. In 1936, he would sign the Pact of Steel with Britain and Japan against further encroachment by the Central Powers.
8. Neville Chamberlain would rise to the Prime Minister's office in Britain in the early 1930's, coinciding with Roosevelt. At first, he was a proponent of appeasement to the Central Powers, wanting to keep the peace in the French crisis. His famous speech at the Orleans conference allowing for the partition of the remainder of France between Germany and Spain kept Britain out of war and ensured "Peace in our Time". However, continued agression by Germans, the Ottomans and soon the Facists made it clear that another war was imminent.
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By 1936, the world was divided into four camps.
The first was allied through the "European Alliance (EA)", including Germany, Spain, Italy, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire. The EA was targeting the administration of the Americas having controlled most of the Euro-Africa-Asian mega continent.
The second was the "Pact of Steel" between the United States, Japan and the remnants of the British Empire (Britain, Australia, Canada). India had declared her independence and neutrality soon after the end of the Great War.
The third was the People's Republic of Russia. The world's first communist country was also one of the poorest, and was targeted for further exploitation by the EA.
The final was the countries of South and Central America, China and India. Neutral throughout, they would continued to be exploited by the two major powers, and would serve as the skirmishing battlegrounds throughout the 1930's as constant revolution took place in these countries.
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The second great war would start in 1941. Continued German influence in the Mexican elections resulted in the presidency of a Pro-EA candidate. As he was ending his second term and about to leave office, FDR consulted with the congress and agreed that he would remain in office until the "Mexican crisis" was averted, while suspending the US constitution in extraordinary fashion. On December 7th, 1941, a day quoted by famous German politician Erwin Rommel, that will live in infamy, the Pact of Steel troops supported mostly by Americans poured across the Mexican border. The American "lightening war" or Blitzkrieg as called by the German press, overran the Republic of Mexico within 3 weeks. The EA called for the immediate American removal, which was not going to take place. The EA response was swift as a full invasion of the British Isles would be undertaken.
How would Russia side....could China, India and the South Americans make a difference. Would England survive? Would America? Who would be the first to make the terror weapons?
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Again, my original comment stands, what a great scenario.