What if Germany Actually Won WW1 by Christmas?

[@karlfranzemperorofmandefil5547]

I feel like what many enthusiasts forget about the Germany captures Paris scenario is that all French support lines ran through the railways in Paris and there’s no major alternative railway routes that could supply France’s armies in Lorraine. They would essentially be forced to return to supply traines by mule and horse which would doom their chances to contest Germany in attritional warfare

[@LeroxYT]

Also Germany would then have a big part of frances industry and better supply routes and occupie the french territorys with the highest population,which would have reduced frances manpower and Equipment significantly.

[@alcibiades---7]

That, and the fact that in a victory in the Marne scenario, the French second army would be forced to retire from the Moselle, because otherwise it would be encircled by the German 5th and 6th armies. Which in turn means France abandoning Verdun, and its most densely fortified region, while also leaving a lot of heavy equipment to the Germans, and a more comprehensible frontline

[@karlfranzemperorofmandefil5547]

@@YuriPeres-hw8nn how come ?

[@Ower8x]

@@alcibiades---7 But that would only come into play if the war drags for longer, and the Germans can hold Paris and are not forced to retreat its not an immediate factor, so not much in play in this scenarion. Just taking Paris unless they destroy the rails on their retreat is not as much of a factor as people make it out. Now if the Germans are able to dig in and hold in you are right that would be crippling for the French Army at the German border. and may even force them to retreat from that area.

[@weswolverine]

@@YuriPeres-hw8nn and what's the problem with that?

[@T.Hebert]

Ok, but what if the Entente won WW1 before Christmas

[@barsukascool]

By Christmas 1918

[@shantanubaddar2559]

no shot

[@PixelGunplaya-ei9fs]

@@5213q Both events are unrealistic

[@Legend21for]

I mean if thw entente won really fast then the treaty of Versailles would be really soft

[@CrimsomGloryXD]

What if they made peace because of Christmas

[@zacharymccann6632]

The worst thing about this timeline is that there is no Christmas Truce song by Sabaton

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

I have that in my Christmas playlist

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

I guess we aren’t all brothers tonight

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

Im more saddened by the lack of anime.

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

@ 🤓

[@nobodylovesyou-y5b]

no Versailles either but we got Nuremberg or something like that

[@Ryanlovedits]

7:03 Kaiser jumpscare

[@Parziti14]

Lol😂

[@beetlebg3759]

Kaiser Wilhelm: Electric Boogaloo II

[@Piva-q8t]

I noticed It too

[@kaiserinjacky]

boo

[@LordJimsworth]

Kaiser was peak

[@CrassSpektakel]

There is one thing missing: A victorious Germany would have the best prospects of becoming the first nuclear power in history. There is a scifi novel "Atomgewicht 500" written in 1929 and published in 1934 about nuclear technology, people eben back then knew exactly what nuclear power meant and it was so popular that this story became a best-seller back then. Just imagine Germany would have developed nuclear power and weapons in the 1930ths.

[@alexzero3736]

Anyway Nazi scientists stuck with heavy water. Novel is just Novel.

[@averagedemocrat9546]

Oh yeah that's a big one. The rise of the nsdap basically gave half of Germany's scientific power to America but even then, Germany was still really far ahead in many areas of engineering. In this kind of timeline, Germany would enjoy a similar dominance in science America does where professionals move there for the best education and opportunities which was already a trend happening.

[@AwwsomeHistoryYT]

0:13 nah bro, I’m doing if WW2 ended by Christmas bc I’m built different💀

[@KobeRogers-vw8nx]

Same I’m doing a What if WW2 Ended By Christmas in 1941 With Two Endings A Peace Ending and Another War Ending

[@AwwsomeHistoryYT]

@ I’m making it so WW2 ends on the Christmas of 1939

[@KobeRogers-vw8nx]

@@AwwsomeHistoryYT Nice

[@qhu3878]

​@@AwwsomeHistoryYT what so the germans and soviets take poland and the allies choose to sort out a peace treaty instead of dragging out the war?

[@AwwsomeHistoryYT]

@ you’ll see😏😈

[@GustavSvard]

How about: What if France rejects Genua's offer to sell them Corsica? "Why would we want a pointless island that's already in years into an open rebellion when we can demand juicy concessions on your mainland holdings?"

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

It’s called Genoa in english

[@lucianapalmisano918]

As an Italian *yes* (Possible History when are we getting an Italian Napoleon video)

[@GustavSvard]

@@lucianapalmisano918 Napoleon as the uniter of Italy, starting from a republic (Corsica) and ending in an Emperor in Rome. It's a pretty obvious tale to tell!

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

@ that wouldn’t result in an Italian Napoleon. Sure Napoleon would exist, but he would do much

[@eljedimexicano6737]

@@goldenfiberwheat238 Napoleon would quite likely still be sent to french military schools and serve as a general for the french republic (since the revolution obviously happens). But he could find support in a project of making an italian republic from the corsican republic, as he was a huge fan of Pasquale Paoli.

[@maximusjackassicus3042]

I don't know if it's unthinkable that France would surrender after Paris was captured, that's what happened during the Franco Prussian war, it's EXACTLY what happened during WWII. i can absolutely see France surrendering if the Germans capture Paris.

[@comba3694]

Absolutely not In the Franco-Prussian war and WW2 the French army were destroyed Here we have an army in good shape and an absolute hatred of the Germans with 40 years of propaganda and preparation to regain Alsace Lorraine

[@bulkax303]

in the franco prussian war frances army was destroyed and napoleon was captured. By the time ww1 happened the battles where two armies meet and fight didnt happen and even if france lost paris the army would be still intact

[@prussia77]

will that happen in ww3 when russia capture Paris?

[@schemsch_1692]

@@prussia77Russia would not even reach the German borders

[@bulkax303]

@@schemsch_1692 Poland would stop Russia with Nato

[@3chmidt]

Realistically, if Wilhelm has something to say, then he would push for a milder peace treaty, since he never had any intent to expand in Europe, while politicians and military staff would say otherwise

[@enysuntra1347]

Let's see. Bismarck was quite overrated, but a brilliant strategist and quite powerful. There are reasons why he's on statues of Wilhelm very often depicted. William II just sacked him. Most German politicians came from the same Prussian aristocracy William came from. Industrialists tried to emulate the aristocratic lifestyle. It is quite possible that Germany and Austria-Hungary would even have ceded territory to the Polish buffer state they had started to create in 1914 - possible, not necessarily probable. Apart from that, Germany was but 43 in 1914, and the last remnants of it being just a lose confederation coming together in foreign and defence policies were abolished post-1933. The iron ore areas were common sense to annex to prevent France from again arming up in such a short time, but even Luxemburg would be left alone (it still is a monarchy). Germany had the territory it wanted, perhaps it would have taken some colonies to complement the ones it already had - but again, this would have happened already in 1871.

[@sethanpayne6324]

But taking that small strip of French Steel was easily a must. It wasn’t that much on the map

[@enysuntra1347]

@sethanpayne6324 Not necessarily; otherwise, it would already have happened in 1871. If it would have happened after WW1, however, France could still have compensated for it through imports from the colonies. Let's also not forget that IRL, France found ways to neutralise 2/3 of the German steel regions (Saar and Ruhr, with the 3rd being Silesia) of German steel production without annexing anything at all.

[@azlanadil3646]

@ Which French colonies produced Iron in any meaningful quantity? Not being sarcastic, just genuinely want to know.

[@pacivalmuller9333]

Germany would get many colonies

[@breadster1981]

What if everything went perfect for Hungary but it's just a timeline without Austria

[@ulfzurirksourzukfzofzoufzo5377]

What if the Italians kept speaking Latin ?

[@oc8636]

Does that mean that the Austrians stay Bavarians and never split off or that Germans never even settle Austria?

[@mishaf19]

I literally never see the Italians keep speaking Latin Italy was and is the most linguistically diverse place in Europe as a result of strong regional loyalties. Changing that means changing all of Italian history.

[@karlfranzemperorofmandefil5547]

@oc8636maybe Bavaria wins the war of Austrian succession and the Habsburgs become the sovereigns of Hungary only

[@dinosauropiccolo742]

​@@mishaf19 Charlemagne does not promote culture and so no definitive cristalization of the Latin Language as an attribute of the clergy emerges so every single Romance speaking people can just claim to be speaking the current day version of Latin. That's pretty much the only way this could happen, if you mean it as everyone speaks Latin and not only State Institutions.

[@TeSu-fs7mp]

I've got a suggestion: What if the 1922 union treaty wasn't signed, preventing the SSRs from uniting (but keeping them as a vassal to the RSFSR)?

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

Can’t imagine that would change anything. Stalin would absolutely treat them as part of the same state

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

I guess post Soviet borders would be different, mainly in Central Asia

[@RexPomaro]

I don’t see how this would even happen. Pretty much all of the revolutionaries wanted a union treaty, so it might just have happened later

[@TeSu-fs7mp]

@RexPomaro Kid named suspension of disbelief:

[@RexPomaro]

@@TeSu-fs7mp fair enough, but it’s just unlikely it would change anything. That treaty was more a formality than anything else

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

MERRY CHRISTMAS POSSIBLE HISTORY! 🎁🎁❤️❤️❤️🎄🎄🎄

[@Piva-q8t]

Merry christmas!

[@Bartholomew-h9q]

Merry Christmas to y'all

[@talesferreiralimadossantos8806]

Merry Christmas!

[@tuki3674]

Feliz navidad 🎄

[@FlowerPotsM]

@@tuki3674FELIZ NAVIDAD

[@essander7826]

As a German this is certainly a merry Christmas for me.

[@thecatfather857]

As an American who feels the world would be in a better place today if we had aligned with the Central Powers rather than the Entente…. I agree.

[@GlizzyGoblin757]

@@thecatfather857americans are so embarrassing

[@LordJimsworth]

​@thecatfather857 fr bro in ireland if the central powers won we wouldn't have to have an independence war (also i just like the idea of the kaiser)

[@OneLostTexan]

@@thecatfather857as another American I concur.

[@harmenaltena6883]

As an anti-French, this is also a very merry Christmas to me

[@NickAndriadze]

Great video, I think it's pretty accurate in terms of early German victory concessions, it's true that even if it as short, such a global and unconditional war would still see Germany pushing for a TON of gains. *11:25* I usually don't check the ''sneak peak for upcoming videos'' thing you bring up in most of your videos, but I'm super excited for the what if Decembrists won. It could spiral out into a much, MUCH more competent and powerful Russia, plus no Soviet Union.

[@overworlder]

i like you showed the dual monarchy as a dual monarchy

[@kuro1132]

@@overworlder Ye, alt-hist youtubers are finally evolving and actually doing their research on Austria-Hungary

[@enysuntra1347]

16:45 Franz Ferdinand was in Sarajevo in the first place because he prepared to reform Austria-Hungary into a Trialist state, Austria-Hungary-Croatia. It is very possible it would have integrated Serbia into its Croatian part, but Austria and Hungary itself was devolving to a great extent. You see that IRL in that the successor states of both Alt-Österreich and the Kingdom of Hungary were successful from the start, devolution post 1866 already gave them a great deal of autonomy. What this video is ignoring is that A LOT of the European nations were "overseas", and Algeria was considered an integral part of France until the 1960s (meaning, France didn't consider Algeria as a colony, but as France proper). Belgium had the Congo, annexing Belgium would mean Germany had to administer the Congo where Belgium created a model of how NOT to govern a colony. Luxemburg would of course stay independent. It was a monarchy. Until the 1920s, and to a certain extent until ~1935-38, Germany was not a unified contry but a close confederation of sovereign states that had relinquished foreign and defence policies to the Empire. Even if Luxemburg was made part of the Empire, that would mean it had a common currency (it had that until €uro with Belgium), and its foreign policy would be made in Berlin. Czarist Great Russia was beyond saving. It didn't fall to external force, but to internal rifts the war but accelerated, same with the Ottoman Empire.

[@SuperCrow02]

Wouldn't work. The empire would be even more unstable, he made a video on this.

[@enysuntra1347]

@@SuperCrow02 So, politicians in the KuK empire deliberated on this, what it may have resulted in looks like a kind of a European Union a bit closer together, it had worked for 60 years already in the KuK monarchy, but it wouldn't work because Some Guy on the Internet™ "made a video about it"? Colour me unconvinced. Fact of the matter is, there's a reason why historiography abhors speculation. There are "safe bets" that collapsed, and instances of something being "too unstable" prevailing so their successor states exist to this day. It is true that my guess would be that had Trialism prevailed, there would have been three nations afterwards that eventually, like the British Commonwealth, only shared the representative rôle of the monarch; but a multi-ethnic state was and is the norm, not the exception - in fact, the majority of people today live in multi-ethnic states like China, India, Indonesia, or Russia.

[@schad1738]

Ain't no way we're getting what if everything went perfect for AUSTRALIA before ITALY bro RIP italy guy, someone check on him

[@heart4740]

Austria-Hungary doomers usually ignore the fact that the empire was economically stable and prosperous.

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

Prosperous only for the elites

[@bagrbagrovsky]

And the fact that most of thei industry was in bohemia which was one of the most stable region

[@kuro1132]

Yeah, they're unable to comprehend that it was a functional state and could have continued in its status quo for decades more

[@arden7713]

It really wasn't that prosperous for the the majority of the empire

[@kuro1132]

@@arden7713 Statistics unfortunately disprove your argument

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

Theres a difference between puppet and satalight. In a puppet state the overlord is directly involved in the puppets government, it has no sovereignty. Where as a satalight state has a government that operates independantly, but must pay homage to the hegimon or be invaded and made in to a puppet if not annexed.

[@shizhauwe]

Almost at 200k, nice christmas gift, PH

[@GermannDude]

Idea: What if Possible history reaches 200.000 subscribers before the end of the year.

[@tt_sallie]

As of the time I'm watching, he's done it.

[@planetarystargazer]

Astronomy Idea: What If the hypothetical planet between our Sun and Mercury (Vulcan) existed today

[@theirishgamer10]

Vulcan would invade France with Germany, ending the war (and probs the world) in 1914

[@matthijsreus9656]

You are under estimating the british riverine fleet. It would at least be 1915

[@Xidir68]

what i always wonder about is what if the germans put their focus on russia first only holding their lines with france (obviously without attacking belgium so they have more men for the east and also not to anger the UK atleast until russia is defeated). I know its not the same as in real life but when i play hoi4 ww1 mods thats how i do it and it feels way easier then first focusing on france and then russia.

[@Xidir68]

how realistic do you find the hoi4 kaiserreich scenario?

[@karlfranzemperorofmandefil5547]

I feel like Germany would at least want to expand their polish puppet into some of the insanely fertile Belarusian soil and I don’t see Germany not trying to get the Baltic’s, which had a large industry and large German population (for Russia’s standard)

[@Schnitzelfox]

as austrtian I am a big prussia/germany hater, but I have to say that I hate it that it never gets mentioned, that democracy/progress/liberalism or however you call it was on the rise in germany. in 1912 the social democrats became the biggest party with 29 percent. And the Kaiser bassicly lost a lost of influence and power cause of him being crazy. If the trend continued germany would probably have become a proper constitional system with strong left/liberal/progresive influences. And that was 1 of the reasons why the generals/prussian militarists/right wing government wanted to have a war now. Because they (IMO rightfully) feared that in a few years, they would not have the influence and controll over germany to be able to go to war.

[@abdurrehmannasir5963]

in that case I can still see liberal democracy be delayed because of the prestige and glory of the war. Sort of like when Bismarck only really agreed to having colonies so as to support the conservatives in their elections.

[@Schnitzelfox]

@@abdurrehmannasir5963 Very true, the conservative forces would have gotten a popularity boost. but I dont see any of the long term trends wich caused teh liberalisaiton of germany to change.

[@edgarhilbert4797]

I hate you most than Hitler, but the Kaiser sympathy to the demonics was the thing that killed Germany. You shall never symphatize with the religion of name democracy, nor with the crowd of workers shall have the right to steal.

[@cattraknoff]

@@Schnitzelfox If this had happened though then it would be possible that the biggest genocides of the 20th century could have been prevented - although at the cost of the forgotten Armenian one getting even worse. But tens of millions who died under Stalin, along with the holocaust, and even the rise of Maoist China, could have all been prevented in this timeline which would allow Germany to continue to liberalize gradually while it also dominated Europe. The rest of Europe would have become more liberal as well as Germany led the way.

[@amazingdragonboy1202]

Please do what if everything went perfect for San Marino

[@barsukascool]

Bruh

[@searingsword-4-21]

That's the current timeline. Hundreds of years of peace and independence by doing litterally nothing but being friends with the two people that mattered (the Pope and Garibaldi)

[@squirtleawesome1064]

Re-forms the Roman Republic

[@drosera68]

It's a Christmas Miracle

[@stephenquinn3447]

Now do what if the Entente won by Christmas

[@amsalkhan4754]

U have to wait till next year

[@mramogus1032]

nothing would change lmao

[@azlanadil3646]

@@mramogus1032 Uhhhhh… the Soviet Union wouldn’t exist, and the Ottoman Empire would still exist. That’s two right there.

[@mramogus1032]

@@azlanadil3646 The Ottomens would collapse no matter what they were already crippled and the russian empire was already so weak it would collapse anyway into the soviet union

[@azlanadil3646]

@ “The ottomans would collapse no matter what” Why? “The Russians would collapse int other Soviet Union” again, why? You’re making a lot of assumptions that have absolutely no basis. To be frank you’re showing a complete misunderstanding of History to the degree that it casts doubt on your ability to function in other fields of your life. Also, you misspelt Ottoman.

[@Leander05]

The Main Problem with the Schlieffenplan was that the Italians didn’t joined the war immediately on Germany’s side, because it was planed, that they play a crucial role in the defeating of France (if the Italians joined the Schlieffenplan would probably be way more effective and successful)

[@edgarhilbert4797]

More successful or successful?

[@ItzLucky90]

@@edgarhilbert4797yes

[@bibbedcracker121]

What if Possible History actually made a, “What if everything went PERFECT for Italy?” video?

[@Ercwe]

Suggestion; What if everything went perfect for Romania?

[@lohtupottu]

It's nice to see that the maps are slowly getting more and more detail.

[@dqnkdoggo_]

Great Video, and Merry Christmas!

[@LT.KiraHertling1701]

11:21 Please, What if everything went perfect for Brazil?

[@prussia77]

territories they get Uruguay French Guyana Bolivia Paraguay Northern Chile Southern Colombia Guyana Dominican Republic Angola Grece Lydia Edirne Kamerun Togoland Mozambique Guinea-Bissau Cape Verde Lübeck, Bremen and Hamburg

[@skol1004]

​@@prussia77 They also get Alaska and the entirety of the British Empire

[@foshershmul1648]

The French did in fact almost lose around a quarter of their army that was defending against the initial assault by encirclement. Only German communications issues prevented it.

[@Traderns2020]

Please continue this timeline🙏

[@FrancisMugo-j9g]

Love your videos

[@alexisg1147]

Merry Christmas, everyone, and keep it up with the amazing work PH

[@tatertotpotato7157]

I love your videos man they are all so interesting!!

[@flyingpig557]

Love your content, God bless you

[@shizhauwe]

22:06 rewriting history reference??

[@rewriting-history]

We all know that Possible History watched Kaisertum

[@GermannDude]

​@@rewriting-history french nationalist?

[@HeckticGame]

Then more people would be eating pfefferpotthast for breakfast

[@Hraher]

Sounds like a dream

[@mariosvourliotakis]

And speak German

[@carlstein9278]

what is pfefferpotthast!?

[@Just_some_dude_guy]

8:30 If Russia gave up Serbia to the Austrians, Bulgaria might not even matter. What stopped Austria from overruning Bulgaria was the fact that they had almost all of their forces in the Galician Front

[@JackSardonic]

Merry Christmas Possible History and subs

[@cane1657]

I think that you undervalue the impact that german capture of Paris would have. French national spirit would be drastically weakened, the most industrial area of France would be lost, a lot of soldiers would die in the defence of Paris and alternative battle of the Marne. Germans would push for bigger concesions from Russia, even if it would require longer war. One of the biggest reasons for germany to go to war was to attack before Russia manages to industrialize, something like creating an Ukrainian state would make entente unable to compete with germany even after Russia industrializes.

[@Perrirodan1]

I also think the video forced the war to stop early, Germany would want the baltics and Ukraine Belarus (basically Breat litovsk.

[@chrisalex82]

btw where is the link to your google drive with all the maps ?

[@cazza358]

In real life, it seems like democracy and decolinisation were an inevitable part of progress, but I wonder in this timeline if things would be different, or if eventually they would still happen.

[@grandmanitou6563]

Ok so a little precision, this entire period wasn't called the "victorian era" and that sure wasn't a proof of british hegemony or whatever the Anglo historical revisionism complex pushes as true. The only people that use that term are the brits themselves, it's like saying the Meiji Era in Japan is proof of Japan's hegemon status, that's beyond absurd. Also, no, Britain was obviously not above other nations at that time, that's just propaganda, while they did have the biggest economy and could maneuver European politics from the safety of their island status, they were actually quite the second fiddle in every major European conflicts and always had to rely on playing a support role for stronger powers, like France in WWI or the various coalitions during the Napoleonic Wars. It is as such the total opposite of what you are saying, Britain was the very nation resigned to fighting for second place, and always doing their hardest to prevent the strongest continental powers from growing too much and reaching hegemon status, since any of those not being distracted by conflicts between each other would have meant Britain being gobbled up by the victor with no chance to resist. In fact the one thing that broke this cycle poor Britain was trapped into was the rise of the US, now the UK can just grovel at the safety of the hegemon's feet since it is their biggest ally.

[@bigenglishmonkey]

i see you got salt for christmas.

[@grandmanitou6563]

@@bigenglishmonkey I wish I could have had your argumentative skills instead.

[@bigenglishmonkey]

@grandmanitou6563 I don't. Need to make an argument to prove you wrong. History, reality, and your giant comment to try and change history is proof enough. 2 world wars, only country Germany was afraid to fight was Britain. Only country that could cut off entire continents from the world was Britain. Britain even had the 3rd largest army in the world during those wars too, so that's the not competing claim out.

[@CoeGr]

Merry Christmas PH!

[@stefanblumberg4928]

I think its possible that Germany will pressure France into sceeding Savoy and Nice and maybe even Corsica to Italy and therefore tempering with Italo-French Relations. They would in turn demand from Italy to finally drop their claims on Austrian Lands.

[@lizrickman7875]

Do you think you could make a scenario were Georgia stays loyal to the crown during the American revolution, and becomes like a Canada of the south, assuming the other 12 colonies still get their Independence, how would this effect future wars, 1812, the civil war?

[@talesferreiralimadossantos8806]

Merry Christmas, PH!!

[@BritainXD]

congrats on 200k!

[@NasirFarooq-hv3pm]

Congrats on 200k Subs❤

[@cookiekiller90]

Why is this guy never doing any useful alt history scenario. "France would never surrender because of Paris blablabla goes on with idiotic assumptions based on nothing." Then basically gets debunked by his own YT comment section pointing out the most obvious stuff.

[@aarontheamazing1985]

I love this guy's videos

[@GödekeMichels_72]

I think in this scenario it will also be hard for Russia and the UK to stay on good terms in the long run. With losing the Balkan Russia's imperial ambitions have to swing back to the far east again where they will once again clash with British ambitions. It's why many people say had WW1 not broken out when it did the global situation might have been quite different since the UK and Russia already started to o not ge on good terms once again.

[@Official-IP]

Cool video and Merry Christmas!

[@franzxaverjosephconradgraf6850]

Even Karl's more reconcilatory approach when he came to power or perhaps Franz Josef surviving as the symbol of Unity for his Empire, a more liberal Austria-Hungary is still possible in my opinion in 1918 but no way the Ottmans can hold together after nearly all of its Southern territory was overrun by 1918 and even Anatolia,the Turkish homeland likely facing invasion..They will likely fall apart just like in our timeline

[@CZARADODARUSSIA]

20:47 even russia fell to self improvement videos

[@barsukascool]

Lol

[@Stormgamer-xb7gv]

Merry Christmas! 🎅🎄

[@chasecoughlim751]

We need a pt2 on this

[@chasecoughlim751]

@possiblehistory

[@gimelnus]

thanhanks foruploading a vid while i wait for the rest of my family to wake for well... today.

[@CZARADODARUSSIA]

so we can have japan atacking pearl harbor in ww2 as an allied power and USA joining central powers?

[@Bryzerse]

ooo fancy cinematography - how long before 3d rendered globe with detailed topography and solar cycle sim??

[@SerialDesignationIce.34]

Marry Christmas @Possible History

[@NikunjA1027]

If you put thought to it, the Germans weren't the bad guys in WW2, the Serbians were. They hired a shooter to kill Austrian monarchs, thus Germany helped its ally, but then Serbia called in Russia, Russia called in it's ally who despised Germany, and France(the Russian ally) called in Britain. With this scenario, France wouldn't exist but other than that, the Weimar Republic would've never formed, as the Kaiser would be in power, so no Adolf taking power, no him adopting the misconception of eugenics to murder Jews, no WW2 and ultimately a lesser divide between America and the Soviets, but America would've also prospered, as they could maintain neutrality, other than competing with the Soviet Union(in a mild competition), no expansion of communism into Europe as it would be occupied by Germany, who at some point would become democratic, and Britain, would likely cede a lot of their colonies to handle things back home, leading to decolonization significantly faster, which Germany at some point in the future would follow. A smaller less powerful France would probably exist, but us humans would not have nuclear weapons(or we would have a lot less of it), making the world a much more peaceful place today, as America never had to fight in WW2 because it never happened, so no nuking Japan, and overall, just Germany winning the only World War would make the French people unhappy, maybe a revolt or two that restores their power without harming Germany too much, but it would impact the world so much, and make it a better place today.

[@checker297]

lolwut, all major powers pre-ww1 were looking for an excuse for a war. The assasination was just a convenient excuse for a casus belli. Even assuming nothing happened for say 30-40 years, nuclear weapons absolutely would have been still invented and probably would have been used because they would have been stockpiled similar to the cold war, but there would be no public idea of how deadly they could be, thus more hawkish views of war could prevail.

[@alt1f4]

make a what if everything went perfect for brazil PLEASE

[@stargazer-elite]

Suggestion: What if the good relations of the USA and Russian empire turned into a full on alliance after the sale of Alaska?

[@PropagandalfderWeiße]

What a lot of People miss about the Schlieffenplan was, that it also entailed a feigned retreat from alsace laurraine, letting the french believe that they are capturing it and have them pour even more troops into the kettle, kind of a revolving door movement (tat is actually how it is described in the german manuals), which actually fully alligned with the french battleplan, who wanted to go into alsace laurraine full force. The only problem why this didn't happen is the damned bavarians, who were supposed to be beaten back by the french, and the damned bavarians couldn't stick to the plan and pushed the french back, going into the offensive.

[@WormholeJim]

We can see how it might have turned out in 1914/1915 if the Schlieffen plan has worked to spec, if we look at Fall Gelb during WWII. The main two reasons that the plan didn't come to fruition with the capture of Paris in '14/'15 was in the overall perspective a lack of the mobility, the plan necessitated. This mobility was available in force 25 years later, and was then further emphacized with Guderian's famous push through the Ardennes, which can be argued was what put the French and the british Expeditionary force decidely on the defensive fror the upcoming battle of France. Second reason is that the Russians invaded Germany sooner than it was anticipated. Even if the Russians was initially stopped (among other means by the war's first use of chemical warfare, although highly unsuccesful) and then pushed back by september 1914, German highcommend still prioritized reinforcing the eastern, using the troops that was allocated the assault on Paris to do so. The Schlieffen plan was put on hold indefinitely, then cancelled as the French defenses rapidly grew more complex and soon made the plan impossible to carry through.

[@alexzero3736]

Nah, we can't. Fall Gelb was altered with Mansteins offer of Breakthrough in Ardennes. And French army acted in different ways. In WW2 they rushed to Belgium to Dale river to establish advanced defense. In WW1 run to the sea happened after Battle of Marne.

[@Bartholomew-h9q]

Aye lets go Possible History uploaded anyways Merry Christmas to you all

[@timtyoutube87]

I think its good 1914 christmas winning and changing the entire timeline. I like it. Thank you for sharing.

[@Someone42527]

Hey, can you please make a part 2 to your what if the Axis won WW2 video? I want to know what you would predict the post war politics to be like

[@georgian4516]

I think you should do a kaiserreich second weltkrieg review and how Germany/the Third International/Russia could or couldn't win.

[@theslimeking7138]

Why is no one talking about the updated map good job man and merry Christmas

[@nick66914]

Wonderful video

[@DumbCup]

Merry Christmas everyone

[@fissis1955]

B-b-based timeline?!

[@qwerty3-zt1oo]

cringe because Austria Hungary still exists

[@LJamesAltadonna3]

Can you do an Ultranationalist France. That would be fun to see.

[@pacquac9958]

For a true winter season, how about a scenario about Antartica?

[@theirishgamer10]

What if the penguins attacked in 1983?

[@SomeDudeWhoIsntDead]

remember, in most realistic central power victories france has some fight left in them, so if they completely capitulate the peace deal might be *worse* for france than traditional central power victories

[@yuraiakuma]

I would be interested over a what if video that theres a Scramble of China like the Scramble of Africa.

[@legaullonapoleonien8760]

And what if the Entente won by Christmas, especially France. We als believed we would have won by Christmas.

[@robertdowling4673]

Day ten of asking for videos I'd like to see. -What if the confederacy won the civil war. -What if Italy was militarily competent in ww2 -what if Italy sided with the allies in ww2 -what if the dinosaurs never went extinct (this isn't really history but still cool) -what if the cold war went nuclear -what if Italy sided with the central powers -what if Charles Babbage had successfully completed his analytical engine

[@joaojonito3764]

1- Mostly Impossible 2- Hardly possible 3- Mildly possible 4- Based 5- Possible 6- Hardly possible 7- Idk about this one

[@Aranthappyrobot]

With the Cold War one, short term, we’d all die or be starving. Long term, the balance of power will tip in the global south’s favor, make no mistake, they’d still be impacted quite terribly, but when’s all said and done they’d have the potential to recover better.

[@dividewalker5673]

The only way I'd accept a CSA victory video is if it's like his WW2 Germany victory video where he focuses on the horrific human rights violations that would ensue from such a regime being unleashed on the world.

[@robertdowling4673]

​@@dividewalker5673 A confederate victory scenario wouldn't be that dystopian compared to an axis one for two reasons. 1-A csa victory would be pretty much excluded to the American south. Or at the very most the Mexican gulf region of North America. Where as an axis victory would be more global. Affecting much of afro-Eurasia. So any damage that would be done would be pretty minor. 2-I doubt the confederacy would keep slavery legal. As the practice was not only morally no longer acceptable but economically unsustainable. At most they'd probably have it until around 1900. At which point they'd probably replace it with an apartied like system. Since that basically happened in a world where they lost. It could be argued not much would change. Except things would be slightly worse for African Americans for a little bit longer. Since the north wouldn't have to deal with the racist south. It's possible minority rights would of been better in the remaining us. Making this timeline somewhat of a blessing in disciuse.

[@robertdowling4673]

@@dividewalker5673 ​ I'm sorry i thought youtube didn't get my comment through. So I posted it twice.

[@lemon5730]

MERRRY CHRISTMAS ALL MY GOOD HISTORY FANS AROUND THE WORLD

[@lerneanlion]

Well, Britain needed to shift the focus to the Panama Canal after they lost the war and also need to strengthen the position of the Falkland Islands in order to safely use its shipyards as naval bases as well. And for the time being, Britain needed to maintain the alliance with Japan much longer and might even be willing to recognize the latest among the secret agreements between Russia and Japan about the division of their spheres of influences in China while also fostering good relations with the U.S in order to gain access to the Panama Canal. With the Panama Canal secured and Canada remained one of Britain's dominions, the British shipping companies can have goods to Russia either through Canada or through the Panama Canal. Also, you mentioned nothing about the results of what happened in Asia at all. So does Germany still have New Guinea after the war ended or have they been seized by Japan and Britain already? And if the latter is the case, do they have to return them to Germany after the war ended with victory for the Central Powers or do they get to keep them if Germany proritized Europe and Africa over New Guinea? And in case of the Ottoman Empire, the Sublime Porte may eventually come to realize that their time in the Balkans is over and shift the focus to the Arabian peninsula instead in order to secure the oil there in an attempt to restore the economy. As a result, the Hejaz Railway and the railway from Berlin to Baghdad will be among the top priorities of the Sublime Ottoman State. This is, of course, if they no longer wanted to provoke a war with Italy over the claims over Rhodes and the rest of the Dodecanese Islands, of course. And they may also have to compromise with the Armenians as well by allowing limited local autonomy by looking at how Bosnia is being governed ever since it was taken in 1878 by Austria-Hungary such as issuing the decree of religious tolerance and allowing the locals to elect the mayors in their own cities. As for Austria-Hungary, they most likely go through with reorganizing the Dual Monarchy into the Triple Monarchy, aka Austria-Hungary-Croatia and also have the Serbian government itself purged of all influences of the Black Hand and install the new government that is pro-Habsburg Monarchy like you said in the video in order to safeguard Bosnia. But with Bulgaria is now in control of most of Vardar Macedonia, does this mean they have to abandon the plan to make a dash to Salonica or decide to compromise this out with Bulgaria later on? Back to Italy a bit, do they have to return Vlorë back to Albania after they invaded and have it occupied with the war ended in victory for the Central Powers? If they do not retreated, will it led to a war with Greece? After all, Greece has plan for Albania too if I remembered correctly.

[@DefinitelyACircle]

11:24 I paused the video for a while, and when I came back to watch the video about 3 hours after pausing it, I get jumpscared with a "Thank you"

[@ntm4]

I wonder what WW1 would have looked like with a reverse Schlieffen plan. Germany decides to hold the French along the much shorter front in Alsace-Lorraine, while devoting most of their army to knocking out the eastern front before the full might of the Russian Bear can be mobilized.

[@alexzero3736]

Well, Russia would retreat from Poland and Lithuania just like IRL. France would have time to mobilize and push into Germany ( General Joffre was strong proponent of offensive warfare) . So Germans would have to traverse their armies west and counter-attack France. British participation in war would be delayed, but they would join Entente eventually. TL DR: German situation would be worse, but Austro- Hungarian situation would be better as Russians won't be able to push into Galicia. You basically offer what Germans did in WW2, but Russian Empire is bigger than Poland and lacked railroads so armies moved with speed of infatntry, and 1914 France wasn't defeatist, they wanted a revanche for 1871. Also there were no tiredness of war in 1914 Russia, yet.

[@wockreaper]

That was the main strategy of the German military prior to the schlieffenplan. It might have resulted in enough gains to secure a victory after Russia surrendered or capitulated.

[@alexzero3736]

@@wockreaper but would Russia surrender? IRL they didn't want to sign peace even after failed Kerensky offensive in 1917.

[@EarthenDam]

Losing Poland is not getting off light for Russia, that was a huge source of food for Russia, on par with Ukraine.

[@joaogabrielimperial7777]

hmmm

[@gerandace9]

The most valuable agricultural land in Russian Empire was in Eastern and Southern Ukraine and the Central Black Earth Region around Kursk and Voronezh. Whilst Poland does have some Chernozem soil it’s nothing compared to Russia and Ukraine.

[@gerandace9]

That being said Congress Poland was the largest exporter of zinc in Europe and had a large textile industry. Agriculture was still important but the main value is that it was one of the most important industrial areas of the Russian Empire after Moscow and St Petersburg. In conclusion not a deathblow to the Russian economy but certainly not light either.

[@Nater_Po_Tater]

Hi I have been watching your all your videos and the redone peace deals really intrigued me an I was wondering if you could link the maps please so me and my friends could do something similar

[@ΔημήτρηςΔημόπουλος-ο7ψ]

7:34 he called germany "rome" 💀

[@EliMillhiser-w7q]

Germany is Rome wdym?

[@wappa2832]

Merry Christmas!

[@oooshafiqooo]

This is far better than what i anticipated would happened if the plan succeeds, that scenario i made is dated like months ago i think

[@aidenlemar3414]

You should do a sequel! Maybe New Years?

[@Counteris16]

The only thing I think you kinda missed is Cyprus. Before WW1 Cyprus was still technically de jure part of the Ottoman Empire and the British only formally annexed it on November 5, 1914. But seeing that the Central Powers were probably close to finishing the war by that time - either Britain doesn't annex Cyprus on November 5 or it is forced to denounce the annexation and fully de jure and de facto return the island to the Ottomans. I understand your saying that it would've had to be a white peace, but since Cyprus was technically not British before the war - they wouldn't be allowed to "expand" by keeping it. I'd love to hear what you think would've happened with Cyprus in this scenario.

[@thelastnumenoren5900]

Oh my goodness It just came out I'm excited

[@lmpious]

what if the Angel of Mons event was real? (fictional world where heaven joins the entente’s side during ww1.)

[@15deinosuchus]

can you do "what if everything went perfect for japan", or "what if everything went perfect for finland"