Timeline (For Want of an Inch)

This article offers a full timeline of events in For Want of an Inch.

Autumn, 1916: Divergence
On the 7th of October, Corporal Adolf Hitler is hit by shrapnel in a artillery bombardment near the  commune of. Unlike in our timeline, where this resulted in a non-fatal wound to his left thigh and Hitler's return to active service in March of the following year, in this timeline he suffers an arterial bleeding and succumbs to blood loss before reaching an aid station. After four and a half months of fighting with negligible territorial changes to show for it, the Battle of the Somme stalemates by the 18th of November. In spite of Hitler's demise, one million soldiers have still died, fallen wounded or gone missing in a World War that will drag on for two more years. It is the death of a lowly dispatch runner, however, that will come to mark 1916 as a turning point in history.

1916 to 1929: Interlude
The remainder of the war and the better half of our occur in this timeline largely as in ours.
 * 1916—1928 - Following the and the  of 1915/16,  takes hold of . The country is  in late 1928 by the  under Jiang Jieshi, but its authority remains weak outside the central-eastern part of the country. Adding to their worries, a  against Mao Zedong's  is brewing, as an expansionist  lurks from the east.
 * 1917—1924 - A topple the, ,  and  monarchies, resulting in the separation of , ,  and , the founding of the  and  republics, and the emergence of a   pursuing.
 * 1919 - The victorious deal out harsh punishment to the former  at the . Besides demands for demilitarization and hefty reparations from Germany, national boundaries are arbitrarily redrawn—feeding revanchism and general animosity between countries for years to come.
 * 1922 - Benito Mussolini
 * 1924 - The founding Premier of the Soviet Union dies.
 * 1929 - Onset of the.


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