Talk:The Last Chance for Peace

AWesome's compliments and ideas
I like this concept alot, for it is definitly original and sounds like a good, reasonable POD. I will help you with this article, or if you don't want that, I just have some ideas for you.


 * Russia wins the war with Austria-Hungary, and the Russians create something of an "Eastern Bloc" in southeast Europe like they did after WW2 in OTL. With Russia victorious, no revolution occurs, but a Cold War-like rivalry develops between Russia and the West, primarily the United Kingdom and France. This early Cold War is emphasized with an arms race, spying, and the two side's forces clashing in proxy wars, such as the Spanish and Italian Civil wars that occur. The United States stays out of this rivalry, in a deppresion and isolationist. In OTL, the only thing that kept Russia and the West from total war as fear that both sides would be annhilated in a nuclear exchange. But because atomic bombs aren't invented yet, the likleyhood that war would occur is greater in this timeline, so in 1939, some event triggers a Second World War between the Russian Empire and Britain, France, and Germany. Russia finds allies in Italy and Spain, where the Russians were successfull in setting up communist governments. Russia, wanting payback from the Russo-Japanese war earlier in the century, attacks Japan in 1941, and Japan joins the West. When the US embargos oil in early 1941, Japan attacks the USA at Pearl Harbor, and the United States allies with Russia. In 1944, US lands forces in Britain and France, and Russia closes in on western Europe, taking over Germany and parts of France. The atomic bomb, invented in 1945, ends the Pacific War. Starting in 1945, another cold-war like conflict occurs between the United States and Russia, the victors of World War II.


 * Austria-Hungary wins the war against Russia, and the Hasburgs, and Austria-Hungary expands it's territory to the Dneiper River in the East and conquered Romania and Serbia in the South. Austrian monarchs see this as a chance to modernize, and as they modernize, they slowly become more imperial. Austria-Hungary becomes like Japan, and after victorious in a war against Russia, it feels like it can take on it's neighbors (Turkey instead of China, Greece instead of Taiwan, and the Mediterannian Confederation instead of the United States). Meanwhile, in the 1920s when France still hasn't taken back Alsace-Lorraine, Germany and France/Britain fight a war after some spark occurs. Without having to deal with the Russians, Germany wins what was called the War for West Europe. Germany snatches all of Britain and France's colonies, as well as creating puppet regimes in Britain, France, Belgium itself, so Germany becomes powerfull like the United States. Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Poland, and the Netherlands create the Northern European Confederation (NEC) in the early 1930s to counter-balance German power. Inspired by the NEC, Italy takes political control of Spain and establishes the Italian Commonwealth, led by Italy, also to counter-balance German power. Europe, rather then a few dozen nations, is divided into five clear blocs- the NEC, Italy and it's satelites, Germany and it's satelites, Austria-Hungary and it's satelites, and the Russian Empire. In 1939, a huge coup occured, and Britain, France, and Belgium all gained independence from German political control. Germany attacked these new states, and the NEC declared war. World War II begins.

Just some ideas, hope you like them!