A Bitter Loss: World War 1

What if the Central powers won world war 1?

This timeline explores a scenario in which the Central powers won the first world war.

History and Introduction
In late 1917 the Russian empire dropped out of the war to deal with their revolution. With the war in the east over the central powers fully mobolized aganst the french.Without new foreign aid and dealing with several mutinies, the French and British were pushed back. After a few weeks France surrendered and the rest of the allies followed as well. Both sides met in Oslo to discuss the future of Europe. The German Empire would take various portions of Belgian, Russian, and French land. Puppet states would be established in Poland, the Baltic states, the Ukraine, Belarus, the Caucasus, and Belgium. The Belgian Puppet state would be given northern french territory in order to give Germany access to the English Channel. Ireland would be made and independent nation. Germany would take huge amounts of British, French, Portuguese, and Belgian colonies in Africa. French morroco would be given to Spain. Bulgaria would take Greek and Romanian land, The Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires would take their fairshare of land but would however not survive long after the treaty. The treaty of Oslo was signed on March 6th 1918. Britain was quick to mend ties and form a new relationship with Germany, however the hatred between France and Germany grew stronger. Overtime as Europe was struck with a devastating economic depression, the ideas of ultra-nationalism become more and more popular.

Planned additions:

 * Collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
 * Collapse of the Ottoman Empire
 * Russian Civil War
 * German Empire
 * Poland
 * Ukraine
 * Belarus
 * The Baltic States
 * The Caucasus Republic
 * Russian Republic
 * Belgian State
 * Czechoslovak State
 * Austrian Empire
 * Kingdom of Hungary
 * Kingdom of Romania
 * Bulgaria
 * Switzerland
 * United Kingdom
 * United States
 * Republic of Ireland
 * Italy
 * France
 * French Civil War
 * French Empire
 * Spainish Civil War
 * Nationalist Spain
 * Republican Spain
 * Cession of Western Switzerland
 * Calais Crisis
 * World War 2
 * Treaty of Moscow