User:Robby The Redshirt/Sandbox

=Isolated US= An engineer's design is approved, a telegram isn't sent, and a ship isn't sunk. How will this affect the world? We'll see.

Points of Divergence
In 1911, Gunther Burstyn designs the first cross country fighting vehicle with a swiveling gun called the Motorgeschütz(motor gun) which is based off an American agricultural tractor. The Kaiser, desperate to win the war, took interest in the design and started putting it into production. He sends the design to Austria, which also begins doing so. Germany begins winning more and more battles as the Motorgeschutz proves more powerful than French and British tanks. Using the new cross country tanks, Austria mounts successful invasions and conquests of various areas of the mountainous Balkans. Due to these land gains, the Central Powers become less focused on U-Boats strangling allied supply lines and try to stay out of the way of the US in hope that they will not join the war. The US becomes more isolationist. In 1915, the Germans do not sink the Lusitania. More isolationist politicians come into power. In 1917, the Germans do not send the Zimmerman Telegram as they want to keep the US out of the war. Meanwhile, most of the Balkans are conquered and the Russians backing out of the war to deal with crippling famines and keeping the country together after the revolution and in the midst of civil war. Germany occupies large parts of Russia.