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i doubt that, they went to war with britain over belgium, they would have taken a large ammount of belgian territory, antwerp almost certainly.

how? france, russia and austria hungary were in decline, Italy was never really a major world power, Germany would have been the dominant power within europe, by the 1920's they would have had a fleet to seriously rival Britain. They would have maintained their africa and asian colonies and they would have been a world power.

france wold not have become a monarchy again, after the death of the prince imperial in 1879 the bonapartists never had a strong core figure, they failed to return after the dreyfuss affair, they would not have done so after a 1914 war. The orleanists were totally discredited, they would sooner have been ruled by the germans.

FRance would have probably fallen under a military government, like it did in 1870, then a fourth republic - like the weimar republic, then in the 1930's it would have probably become a petainist dictatorship, like franco.

Italy would have gone with whoever was the strong power, mussolini would probably still have come to power, but maybe a decade later. Although in a great war of france vs germany its difficult to know which side he'd choose.

Hitler would have gone into politics, and failed miserably. A kind of german vidkun quisling, he might gain 1-2% in elections, but nothing more.

Germany would have certainly been the economic centre of europe until 1929.

The USA would have become a super power, and would probably have engaged in a war with japan in the 1930's.

then what would happen in Russia then? the tsar's position was untenable after 1905, he lost his aura, the communists had an organisation that no other opposition group had.