No Great War



This timeline follows a world where the War to End All Wars never happened.

POD
In OTL on June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was riding around Sarajevo and heading to the local hospital when his driver made a wrong turn. When the driver realized his mistake, he stopped to shift into reverse. Gavrilo Princip was sitting in a nearby cafe and saw his chance. He ran outside and killed the Archduke and his wife. This was the spark to ignite the largest and deadliest war Europe had ever seen.

What if the driver never made a wrong turn? Princip was still in the cafe, and the motorcade drove in the opposite direction. The Black Hands attempt to kill the Archduke ... fails. Kiel Week is able to finish and the participating nations leave in good relations. July goes by uneventfully, opposed to the diplomatic crisis in OTL.

The failure will have major repercussions, Italian irredentism overrules alliance, Austria opens up to democracy, Fascism takes root in different countries, and military technology lags behind.

Immediate differences from OTL

 * Nations don't yet know the atrocity of chemical warfare.


 * The tank goes undeveloped.


 * The airplane doesn't get the chance to effectively prove itself.


 * The evolution of aircraft carriers slows; the age of dreadnoughts continues.


 * Tactics of armies advancing line-abreast remains to be thought a viable strategy.


 * Austria-Hungary federalizes in 1919.


 * Fascism finds a different home.

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