New Alliances

The timeline of New Alliances first deviated from OTL when the French Empire wins the Franco-Prussian War in 1871. This meant that firstly: the French Empire dis not fall and secondly that the North German Federation, led by Prussia collapsed. This had several knock-on effects. Austria then the most powerful of the German states managed to unify most of OTL Germany under the Austro-German Empire, with several exceptions

World War One started and progressed similarly (but not identical) to OTL, it differed in several respects: The War was eventually won by the Allies The Treaty of Versailles differed greatly from OTL: World War Two did not occur, this was due to: However France and the US went to war with Japan after in invaded French territories in the Pacific, Russia joined the war on the side of Japan in order to counter US incursions into it's sphere of influence. The UK remained neutral during this conflict. Eventually a Treaty was brought in ending the Pacific War with no clear victor.
 * Hanover, which remained an independent Kingdom with the backing of the British Empire
 * Duchies of Schleiswig and Holstein, which were in personal union with the Kingdom of Denmark; were absorbed fully into Denmark
 * Because of the defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, Alsace-Lorraine remained part of France.
 * The Austro-German Empire's priorities were conquering the German-speaking areas of Europe (Hanover, Schleiswig-Holstein and Alsace-Lorraine) which meant it fought a war in the west on three fronts: with France, Hanover (backed by the British) and Denmark. The concentration on the west allowed the Russian Empire several key victories in the east, leading to the Austro-German Empire losing much of it's eastern territories.
 * Due to it's early victories, Russia was not subject to the revolutions which took it out of the war and eventually overthrew the monarchy.
 * The Austro-German Empire was unable to effectively use it's U-Boat strategy, meaning that the US never entered the war.
 * The Kingdom of Italy, allied with France and Britain, invaded several Austrian territories around it's borders.
 * The Russian monarchy was not overthrown by the Bolsheviks. Meaning the Russian Empire continued to exist up to the present day
 * The US was not part of the war and therefore had no presence at the Paris Peace Conference
 * The Austro-German Empire collapsed
 * The terms and reparations were much worse on Germany, due to the US' absence
 * France obtained the Rhineland & other territories from Germany
 * Italy obtained all of Tyrol, Dalmatia and Istria from the Austro-German Empire
 * For supporting French interests at Versailles, France gave Italy Corsica, Nice and Savoy. Italy also gained France's former position in providing military defence for Monaco, bringing Monaco into Italy's sphere of influence rather than France's.
 * France also gave the UK Normandy and Brittany, as Britain backed France's takeover of many German Territories.
 * Russia gained most of the eastern territories formerly belonging to the Austro-German Empire.
 * Continued Alliance between Britain, France and Italy
 * Germany was unable to make itself a powerful nation as it was constantly fighting the much more powerful France
 * Austria remained a neutral and independent country.

The US never became the dominant superpower of the world, although powerful, Britain still had much more influence and it's Empire was not eroded (as WW2 never happened)

Rather than abolish the British Empire, it's former territories federated with Britain to form the Imperial Commonwealth Federation which became the foremost superpower in the world.