interwar

What happens if the Austrian NSDAP actually mansges to produce somewhat coherent plans? Their initial Stoßtrupp manages to kill/capture the whole government and not only Dollfuß like IOTL. In their subsequent actions they manage to cut communications and to spread even more chaos. All in all...

This timeline explores the possibility of a peace treaty between the Western Entente and the Central Powers in 1917. The pod would be a greater acceptance of President Wilson's Peace Note in 1916. The timeline will mostly be told in expository writing but I may write part of it in narrative...

Title So, the challange is to create a POD that resulted in no WWII. The world must be at relative peace (a.k.a no full scale war greater than any OTL interwar conflict) until, say, 1975. Bonus point if there's some short of Cold War going on. Bonus multiplied for every separate power in said...

Historically, French diplomatic strategy in the Interwar period was based on two pillars: a)Attempting to contain Germany b)Preserving an alliance or at least entente with the United States and particularly the United Kingdom The end result of this was arguably successful, in that despite a...

Hello All, I'm Reydan and you may know me from various timelines, particularly Spectre of Europe and 10 Downing Street Kantei! I'm trying to get back into writing on here after real-life issues forced me to absent myself for ages. In warming up to getting back to Spectre of Europe and working...

"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment." - Robert M. Hutchins For Which it Falls - An Authoritarian America TL May 7th was a quiet day. World War One raged on in the trenches of...

Was it possible for the kaiserreich to return to Germany either during the Weimar or Nazi leadership?

At the Treaty of Versailles there was a significant debate between the French and the Anglo-Americans over what sort of army the Germans should have. The French thought that a conscript army should be utilized by the Germans to constrain them, as a conscript army would preclude them from having...

"It is sweet and proper to die for the fatherland." - Horace It was always a spectacle when the First Citizen’s Zeppelin landed at the Capitol in Hoover, delivering the Princeps of mankind to the seat of his power. From the honour guard of navy jacketed Swiss soldiers of the Principal Guard...

In 1934 Engelbert Dolfuss was assassinated in Vienna by Austrian National-Socialists, what if he survives, and presumably survives any further assassination attempts by Nazis? I do not see him caving to Munich as his successor did. Would he prepare to fight a military conflict before giving into...

As Polish troops advance into the Ukraine during the 1920 Kiev offensive, they linked up with the remnants of the Czechslovak Legion, who after capturing the Tsar's Gold reserves in 1919 attempted to head for Vladivostok only to be caught in a battle near Omsk and sent fleeing in the opposite...

Jean Louis Barthou was a French politician of the Third Republic, who served as Prime Minister of France for eight months in 1913. Barthou's brief time as Prime Minister saw the introduction of laws to safeguard female workers before and after childbirth, as well as the provision of social...

Even before the 1917 Revolt, the Russian government had tried to draw British capital into the development of the Sakhalin oil fields which had been discovered by then. Preference was given precisely to British rather than Japanese capital; after the Russo-Japanese war, the southern part of...

Let's say that due to some small unspecified (and unrelated) changes, Mussolini dies on the Isonzo front in 1917 (instead of only being wounded) and Italy is granted their fair share (including Dalmatia) at the end of the war. Would this be enough to steer Italy away from fascism? What would...

In books talking about the development of armor as a replacement for horse driven cavalry post-WW1, they never specify when horse cavalry was fully phased out of militarized, especially in Europe. One can assume by a certain time period everything will be fully mechanized, but what if you are...

1935-Hitler reveals his military Programs to the World. Alarmed, France begins trying to mend fences in Central Europe to form a counterweight to German Expansion. With French Oversight, the Cieszyn-Zaolzie issue is settled between Poland and Czechoslovakia via Plebiscite. 135,000+ Poles vote to...

Kurt von Schleicher actually had a pretty good opportunity to stop Adolf Hitler's rise to power by extending the Reichstag's recess until the spring of 1933, which would allow von Schleicher to consolidate power and popularity and let the NSDAP devolve into infighting. K. von Schleicher also...

Radola Gajda was leader of the NOF and a hero of the Czechoslovak legions during the first world war and collapse of the Russian Empire. The Czech Fascists were mainly based on Italian Fascism and rather anti-German. Apparently they boasted several hundred thousand members at its peak, and Gajda...

If the Polish failed to repulse the Soviet invasion, and the Soviets annexed Poland in 1922, how would it affect Central Europe and the interwar period?

AT THE BEGINNING (7th October 1918 - 16th February 1919) 7th October 1918 - Polish Regency Council proclaimed independence from Germany as Kingdom of Poland. 12th October 1918 - Regency Council seized control over Polish Army. 20th October 1918 - Lvov joined newly formed Poland. 31st October...