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The concept of this AH is that Plan 17 of the French Army in the First World War succeeds. Germany is quickly overthrown, and dissolved in France, that keeps Belgium, Luxemburg, Silesia and Austria as protectorates. Therefore, the Second World War never came. This causes France to be the leading power in the world, not by territory, but by strategical position.

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Point of divergence

At the beginning of the First World War, Plan 17 of the French army succeeds, and Germany is succesfully invaded in the first months of war in 1914. The French dissolve much of western Germany in France, and establish protectorates in the remaining parts of Germany. Part of Austria-Hungary is taken by the French too, who divide the country between themselves and Russia by the Treaty of Salzburg. Northwestern Germany and Schleswig-Holstein become part of Britain as a reward for their help on the Western Front with their British Expeditionary Force. East Prussia becomes part of the new established state of Poland.

League of Nations

The United States, fearing a Francophone world, establish a League of Nations in 1915. France, Britain, Russia and the United States become leading powers in this league. One of the first deeds is tracing the borders of Eastern Europe again, one of the main requests of the USA and Woodrow Wilson in particular. After uprisings in Russia trigger a civil war, China and Japan both conquer most of Siberia. Newly Bolshevik Russia fights China in a civil war, and takes over Siberia and Mongolia. Peace is restored at the Treaty of Warsaw, 1919. At the same conference, the leading powers decide to give the League of Nations an peace army to claim territories that are under dispute. This makes the League of Nations so powerful, that it eventually governs large, almost uninhabited parts of the world, such as the Sahara and Central Asia, as well as Siberia and parts of Africa.

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