Twilight of a New Era (1914-1964)

Twilight of a New Era (1914-1964)

In 28 of June 1914 in Sarajevo (Austria-Hungary) Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the Imperial throne, was assassinated. A month later the World War I started.

In hindsight for many contemporary observers and historians, World War I was an inevitable event that would happen anytime. It could probably have started in the Power keg of Europe (the Balkans) or any another place. To many causes or long term conflicts lead to this. The tensions of the naval arms race between the United Kingdom and Germany, unsolved territorial disputes, intricate system of alliances, internal political tensions, nationalisms across Europe, economical and military rivalry in industry and trade, imperial and colonial rivalry for wealth, power and prestige and colonial expansion dispute. 1914 is considered by many historians and laymen has the end of an era. Just picture that general optimism in 1910s in the advancement of society was replaced by sensation of pessimism and decadence in the 1920s.

The Point of divergence (POD): What could happened if he wasn't murdered? This alternative history explores and develops that idea. The main purpose is to built and imagine a World that would follow another path.