Franz Lives!

List of Nations

British Empire (Franz Lives!)

United States (Franz Lives!)

Russian Empire (Franz Lives!)

Republic of China (Franz Lives!)

Foreword
I intended this to be a far less ASB equivalent of Princip Arrest.

Foreword over
POD June 28 1914 - Gavrilo Princip's Gun Jams and he cannot kill Franz Ferdinand. Tensions rise.

1910s
1916: Elihu Root defeats Wilson in the elections

1917: Franz Ferdinand assumes the trone of Austria Hungary.

1920s
1923: Tsar Nikolai is killed by Bolshevik terrorists headed by Kamo. Alexei Romanov takes the crown. He is far more moderate than his father and gets Russia to draft a constitution, with a target for parliamentary elections in 1925

1925: the first parliamentary elections take place in russia. Leon Trotsky joins the Duma as he considers it "better to use the ballot box than the bullet", and the SDs come second to the Crown Party.

1926: the Great War (Franz Lives!) Breaks out between Germany/Italy/Austria-Hungary/Japan (The Ottoman Empire had collapsed)/Mexico and Britain/America/Russia/China/France/Serbia/Siam/Romania

1930s
1932: The Great war is over as the Central powers surrender. Russia gets everything up to the Danube, Romania gets all of Transylvania, America gets Much of Northern Mexico in a seemingly Carthaginian agreement. After Goddard writes an article in the New York Times about the possibility of Space travel, the Scramble for space begins

1933:

1940s
1940: after severa years of toiling, Russia gets the first satellite into space.

1941: The British Empire responds by trying to get a man into space.

1970s
1972: Ronald Reagan is elected. he puts forward plans to congress for a man on mars.