What POD do you think would best lead to WWI ending in late 1916? Victor doesn't matter, just wondering how the War to End All Wars could have been cut in half, sparing millions.
What would be the consequences of this in the long term? Does AH survive? How do Russia and the Ottomans cope? British, French, German and Italian colonial ambitions would need to be considered too.
I can't think of a good POD, but even with an Entente victory, if the war ended two full years earlier I don't see peace being so harsh, particularly for AH. Serbia, Russia and Italy are compensated territorially perhaps, but it's possible that without US involvement and without nationalist tensions rising as much as they had by 1918, AH wouldn't be completely dismantled? Though who knows, they may rip themselves apart in the 1917 Ausgleich...
What would be the consequences of this in the long term? Does AH survive? How do Russia and the Ottomans cope? British, French, German and Italian colonial ambitions would need to be considered too.
I can't think of a good POD, but even with an Entente victory, if the war ended two full years earlier I don't see peace being so harsh, particularly for AH. Serbia, Russia and Italy are compensated territorially perhaps, but it's possible that without US involvement and without nationalist tensions rising as much as they had by 1918, AH wouldn't be completely dismantled? Though who knows, they may rip themselves apart in the 1917 Ausgleich...