Franz Lives!

POD June 28 1914 - Gavrilo Princip's Gun Jams and he cannot kill Franz Ferdinand. Tensions rise.

1910s
1916: Warren Harding defeats Wilson in the elections

1920s
1923: Tsar Nikolai is killed by Bolshevik terrorists headed by Kamo. Alexei Romanov takes the crown. He is far more moderte than his father and gets Russia to draft a constitution, with a target for parliamentary elections in 1925

1925: the first parliamentary elections take place in russia. Leon Trotsky joins the Duma as he considers it "better to use the ballot box than the bullet"