100 Years: The World Changes

Welcome to 100 years! A collaborative timeline in the spirit of "XXth century" and "50 Years". Beginning on May 18th, 1910 and ending on May 18th, 2010, this timeline will explore just how much difference 50 years can make. The butterfly effect will be used in full, which means that anyone born more than 9 months after May 18th, 1910 (in other words, December) will either not exist, or be a different ALT "brother" or "sister" than from OTL. This also means a number of people who did not exist in OTL will show up and make their marks on history. Now, let us begin, on May 18th, 1910. The world over people are concerned over the passage of Halley's Comet. As long as the PODs described are not ASB in nature, the POD will be accepted!!


May 18th, 1910: Earth passes through the tail of Halley's Comet. Charles Taze Russell, head of the "Jehovah's Witnesses" movement commits suicide in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania after proclaiming "the Rapture"...

August 29th, 1910: Korean Emperor Sunjong calls for active resistance to Japanese military rule in Seoul, Korea....
 
September 2nd, 1910: Koreans rebel against Japanese rule.

December 25th, 1910: The 'Christmas Revolution' begins in Peru and Bolivia. 28 officials killed throughout the day.
 
July 30, 1910: Former President Theodore Roosevelt succumbs to a massive heart attack while visiting family. At the age of fifty-one, the 'Trust-Buster' is out of the picture.

August 1, 1910: President Taft calls for a national day of mourning in remembrance of Theodore Roosevelt.
 
May 31st, 1910: Emma Goldman is killed in a car accident in Spokane, Washington, sending shockwaves through the labor community...

May 8th, 1911: Mexican Magonista guerillas launch an attack on San Diego, Califonia, sparking tensions between the United States and Mexico....

May 10th, 1911: Captain Jack Mosby, USMC, leads raid of American troops against Magonista positions in Tijuana, Mexico....

January 24th, 1913: Franz Kafka announces the completion of his novel Amerika in Prague, Austria-Hungary....
 
July 1st, 1913: Korea gains independence from Japan

August 5th 1913: Turning point of the revolution in Peru and Bolivia. Rebels are winning.
 
Well I hope these aren't too implausible. I had to stop myself from saying Gavrilo Princip failed.

Early 1911 - Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili (or Joseph Stalin as he is more commonly known) is found while attempting to escape from his exile in Solvychegodsk, and killed. The junior member of the Okhrana that found him was later killed after he disobeyed orders to simply recapture this man.

April 15, 1912 - The RMS Titanic successfully completes its Maiden Voyage (the Iceberg was spotted early enough and course was corrected)

October 16, 1912 - Fred Snodgrass easily catches a flyball in Game 8 of the 1912 World Series. The New York Giants defeat the Boston Red Sox 2 to 1.

November 5, 1912 - Woodrow Wilson was soundly defeated by the incumbent Taft in the Presidental election of 1912.

December 12, 1912 - Hearst Newspapers publish sensational stories, reportedly being written by a worker in the American Embassy in Mexico City. These stories raise the tensions between the United States and Mexico. War is now closer then ever before.

Christmas 1912 - President Taft secretly contacts the British to plan for a possible arbitration should the United States and Mexico do declare war.
 
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November 5, 1912: Franklin Roosevelt is re-elected to his seat in the New York State Senate, despite taking a break from campaigning to work for the failed Presidential bid of Woodrow Wilson.

In the years' Congressional election, Democrats hold control of the House, but with reduced majorities, as the Republicans keep control of the Senate. Notably, many members of the nascent Socialist Party take up seats in the House, owing to the strong showing of Eugene V. Debs in the Presidential Election (10.1% of the popular vote).
 
June 7th, 1912: Nikola Tesla is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on wireless power transmission in Stockholm, Sweden....

March 20th, 1913: "September Morn" by Paul Chabas becomes a big hit of the art world in Paris, France...

April 19th, 1916: "Spectric" Art Movement is established by Emanuel Morgan and Anne Knish in New York City, New York...

August 5th, 1917: Nikola Tesla unveils "radionics" tracking system for the U.S. Army at Wardenclyffe, New York....
 
September 27th, 1911: The Italo-Turkish diplomatic crisis is settled in Italian favour by Germany, who is unwilling to see her allies fight. Italy annexes Libya but pays a small monetary compensation to the Ottoman Empire. In turn for the negotiation help, the Ottomans join the Central Powers. Germany signs a defensive pact with the Ottomans, as does Austria.

December 10th, 1912: After an ultimatum, Montenegro, Serbia, Greece and Bulgaria declare war on the Ottoman Empire, certain that their enemies will not intervene.

December 11th, 1912: Germany demands that the Balkan powers cease hostilities. They refuse. Austria-Hungary declares war.

December 12th, 1912: Germany declares war. Russia, knowing that Serbia was the agressor but also knowing that it can't let her allies fall, declares war on the Central Powers.

December 14th, 1912: France joins the war on Russia's side.

December 19th, 1912: In trade for a declaration of war on the Entente, Italy receives an influence sphere in Albania and Kosovo, as well as Austrian Trento. Italy declares war on the Entente.

December 20th, 1912: Germany invades Belgium, following the Von Schlieffen Plan. Britain declares war. Japan refuses to join the war, being busy with the Korean revolt. In the Balkans, the Serb advance stalls after conquering Kosovo thanks to having to fight a two-front war.

Is this plausible enough to be accepted?
 
June 6th, 1913: Paris falls to the Central Powers.

June 7th, 1913: Emporer Wilhelm II suffers a stroke and dies later that same day.
 
Well I hope these aren't too implausible. I had to stop myself from saying Gavrilo Princip failed.

Early 1911 - Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili (or Joseph Stalin as he is more commonly known) is found while attempting to escape from his exile in Solvychegodsk, and killed. The junior member of the Okhrana that found him was later killed after he disobeyed orders to simply recapture this man.

The event can certainly be added, but it would certainly help if you added a date for the ATL.
 
January 4th 1913: Young Charles de Gaulle dies in Battle of Verdun.

February 19th 1913: Adolf Hitler dies in Serbia.

May 4th, 1913: Czarevitsh of Russia Alexei injured and dies from bleeding.

May 9th, 1913: In Poland is demonstrations where demands autonomy.

June 5th, 1913: In Finland is violations.
 
October 14th, 1912: German zepplin airships bomb Sheerness, Kent, sparking calls for resignation of the War Minister...

February 22nd, 1913: British naval transport HMS City of Leeds is sunk off the coast of Spurn Point, England...

March 22nd, 1913: Pope Pius X dies in the Vatican City, sparking a succession crisis, many people attribute the stress of the war...

April 23rd, 1913: Basilio Pompilj (a.k.a. Benedict XV) is named Pope by the College of Cardinals in the Vatican City...

September 6th, 1914: Pope Benedict XV proclaims the war in Europe as "the suicide of civilization" during a mass in Rome, sparking international attention...

December 23rd, 1914: Pope Benedict XV calls for an armistice from both sides of the European conflict, through diplomatic channels and during Christmas Mass....
 
February 14, 1913 - the Valentine's Day raid upon San Diego occurs, the Taft administration is hesitant to declare war

March 22, 1913 - Hearst newspapers call for "A war upon Baja". Less than a week later, a Senate vote is called. The 63rd Congress votes 74 to 22 in favor of a declaration of war upon Mexico's "Baja Peninsula". The Baja War has begun.

September 11, 1913 - The Revenue Act of 1913, which would implement a federal income tax is not passed by the United States Senate, as a response to the Socialist bloc increasing the income tax rate to levels that Senator Elihu Root (R-NY) called "ludicrously high". Despite the successful passage of the 16th amendment. Republicans blame the Socialist bloc in the House of Representatives. Taft, who supported the tax is now a lame duck president.

November 5, 1913 - The Battle of Ensenada occurs, approximately 800 American soldiers die in the battle. The Secretary of State warns him about the continuing chaos of the Mexican revolution and privately says to Taft, "The instant we got involved, we made this whole Revolution explode."

Christmas 1913 - William Randolph Hearst, following his extreme dissatisfaction with the Democrats conduct during the Income Tax debacle, pens an editorial where he announces that he is "switching bandwagons". The support of Hearst newspapers in the 1914 midterm election would prove a valuable tool for the Republican party.

April 11, 1914 - Japan embarassed by Korea's successful bid for independence and bitter regarding Russia behavior during the incident, decides to exploit an opportunity presented by the war in Europe, and declares war on Russia, while trying to remain neutral in the war in Europe arguing that the war in Asia will not effect the European one. Emperor Taisho declares war upon Russia. The Second Russo-Japanese War has begun.

November 5, 1914 - Across the country vicious smear attacks appear against many democrats. Many of the secrets that Hearst editors kept in their files when their boss was a democrat, were now ammunition against the Democrats, following Hearst or as his editors knew him as "the Chief" switch to the Republican party.

The Republicans maintain their hold and actual gain ground in the Senate with a margin of 57 to 39. The House Democrats lose 17 seats but the Republicans don't gain those seats either. 207 Democrats, 195 Republicans, 25 Socialists and 8 Independents. One of the few new democrats was House Representative Fiorello Henry La Guardia.

OOC: So now we got an early Great War, the United States at war with Mexico and trying to get out of it and the Second Russo-Japanese War. The United States is having a rough time with a war in Baja, along with some vicious political fighting in Congress. The Election of 1916 should prove interesting. Anyone know Russian history well enough in this period to come up with something, as they are now fighting a war on two fronts? I don't think this is too ASB, Hearst always seemed on the precipice of switching parties and much larger income tax bill would provoke his anger.
 
September 10th, 1913: The German High Seas Fleet and the British Grand Fleet clash in the biggest Naval Battle since Trafalgar near the Dogger Bank in the North Sea. Superior training and tactics lead to a clear and decisive Victory for the British, loosing three Dreadnoughts, HMS King George V, HMS Vanguard and HMS Orion. The Germans losses are far worse, only SMS Kaiser Wilhelm II is undamaged, and only three other ships of the Battle Line make it back. It is the end of the German Surface Fleet since Emporer Wilhelm III decides that the resources should be put to use in the Army. However Tirpitz and the rest of the SKL hope to rebuild the fleet after the war is won. All ships under construction are scrapped and any guns, if existing, are turned over to the Army Artillery.


July 14th, 1914: German troops under Field Marshal Falkenhein eject the last Russian troops from German and Polish territory. The Germans and the Austro-Hungarians gear up for a new offensive designed to break the Russian Army once and for all in spite of the recent Austrian losses in men.
 
February 10th, 1913: Military officials in Toronto, Ontario report several German zeppelin airships hovering over the capital, causing riots and civil unrest in both Canada and the United States...

June 30th, 1914: Residents of Alta, Norway report several German airships flying over Elvebakken and Bosekap, sparking fears of an expanding Northern Front for the war...

November 21st, 1914: German zeppelin airships bomb Tjolta, Norway, destroying the Skjaervaer Lighthouse, killing 24 people....

December 22nd, 1914: German zeppelin airships bomb Morganbladet, Norway, killing 213 people...

February 8th, 1915: Birth of a Nation released by director D.W. Griffith. Many see the film as a call for resistance against "Republican tyranny" in Hollywood, California...

August 17th, 1915: Jewish factory owner Leo Frank is lynched in Atlanta, Georgia over the alleged murder and rape of Mary Phagan. Lynch mob members place the sign "Moneybagger" is hung on Frank's neck...
 
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January 4, 1913 - The German's win the Battle of Verdun (Considering de Gaulle's death, and Germany taking Paris three months later.)

June 28, 1914 - Franz Ferdinand survives an Assasination attempt. The man who tackled Gavrilo to the ground and holding him until police could intervene, Nikolai Wolfgang Neretva a manager at a local bank is awarded a medal by Franz Ferdinand. In later years Neretva would become a prominent voice of support for Austro-Hugarian empire, and a friend of Franz Ferdinand.

December 11, 1914 - Arthur Zimmerman is fired as Foreign secretary of the German Empire, following Wilhelm III hearing about Zimmerman's plan to ally with Mexico against the United States. The telegraph is never sent. (Oops forgot Wilhelm II died. Presenting his imperial majesty Wilhelm III)

December 26, 1914 - German Zeppelins begin bombing runs deep into Russia, prepping for an invasion in April. Following suit many other powers begin constructing their own Air Legions.

January 1, 1915 - The Japanese land in Port Arthur and Vladivostock, and begin moving North, cutting off the Trans-Siberian Railway, crippling Russian Logistics in this theater.

January 12, 1915 - Italian troops besiege the city of Marseilles, France. Italian supply lines have been stretched to their limit following an effective trench defensive strategy by the French, and bad weather delaying German Zeppelins.

February 1, 1915 - Wilhelm III, seeks to end this war of his father. Germany now controls about half of France and has ejected all Russian troops from Poland. He seeks to end the war in Europe. He wants an accord with Britain, reparations from France, and a demilitarized zone in Western Russia.

February 5, 1915 - Under the cover of darkness the German ambassador meets with British officials in Copenhagen, to begin talks of an armistice. Considering that the British control the Seas, but Germany controls both France and have effectively defeated the Russians. The German ambassador states during the meeting, "Mr Ambassador, the German Empire has no desire to make an enemy out of Great Britain. You have proven your supremacy on the high seas, and his majesty Wilhelm II wants to reach an accord to end the war with Britain. Any accord would require your neutrality regarding France, but considering the last time Europe was at war, Napoleon dared to attack your shores. Leave France to their fate and there shall be peace in our time."

February 12, 1915 - Tsar Nicholas II is assassinated. Okhrana uses the assassination as an excuse to round up dissidents and political opponents. Lenin,Trotsky and others flee Russia for Britain. There is no clear line of succession and Okhrana places Nicholas daughter Tatiana as Tatiana I of Russia (Grand Duchess Olga, Tatiana's older sister had gone missing while tending to wounded on the frontlines. Rumors abound about her capture by either Austro-Hungary or Germany). Lenin, Trotsky and 2 other Bolsheviks elude the Okhrana and flee Russia.
 
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