User blog comment:YNot1989/The Sandwich that Changed the World./@comment-899576-20090730035323

I agree that WWI was inevitable, but this would likely lead to the war being far greater as tensions over the control of China grow. So I'm thinking a great conflict started in Asia that naturally spreads in Europe and eventually envelopes the world. No Hitler, the Tsar would still go down, but an older and more mature Marxist movement in Russia could lead to some interesting results. No treaty of Versailles either. What would happen to the global economy if the war broke out in the 1920s? No depression, avoided by the outbreak of war. What of the spanish flu pandemic of 1919-1920 in the US? Who would be the superpowers after the war was over. With a longer arms race prior to the war, would the weapons be far more terrible? A Dreadnought 300 meters long? Would Robert H. Goddard's work be advanced by the arms race? What of Einstein?