The 20th Century

The point of this timeline is to explore (at least what I think) the world would be like if Franklin Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin were killed before they became who we knew them as. I present my new version of the 20th Century

Point of Divergences (1905 - 1941)
1905 1914 1917 1918 1919 1923 1924 1929 1931
 * Josef Stalin is killed during the 1905 Russian Revolution while participating in guerilla activities against Czarist forces
 * The Great War breaks out in Europe. On one side are the forces of the Entente Powers (France, Great Britain, and the Russian Empire) against the Central Powers (German Empire, Austro-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire.
 * After three years of bitter war and increasing hardships the Russian Revolution of 1917 breaks out. Admist adoring crowds the Vladmir Lenin arrives in St. Petersburg. By the end of the year the October Revolution has taken place leading to the Russian Civil War.
 * Lenin and Leon Trotsky successfully negoiate Russia's exit from the Great War. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk is harsh upon Russia, forcing them to give indepedence to Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine. However states such as Armenia, Ukraine, and Belarus would be quickly reannexed by the USSR
 * Like Russia in 1917 the German populace grows tired of war and the German Revolution begins and from the revolution results in the abidication the Kaiser and the formation of the Weimar Republic.
 * The Treaty of Versailles brings an end to the Great War placing harsh reparations upon Germany. Forcing them to give 13% of its territory, reducting its armed forces to a handful, and forcing them to pay massive war reparations.
 * The Russian Civil War ends with a Communist triumph
 * The Bear Hall Putsch takes place in Germany, led by Great War veteran Adolf Hitler. The plot fails and Hitler is sentenced to five-years of prison. He is released after 9 months due to politcal pressure.
 * Vladimir Lenin dies from a stroke while attempting to recover from a series of them. In accordance with his will Leon Trotsky is named Chairman of the Council of People's Commissiars of the Soviet Union.
 * The Great Depression occurs. The world is plunged into economic chaos, the hardest hit are the United States and Germany
 * Trotsky draws up the Industrilization Policy. The plan would buy off vast amounts of farms from landowners and farmers and then construct industrial complexes on the land.
 * Imperial Japan invades China, quickly taking oil-rich Manchuria
 * WInston Churchill dies in car crash