Wars that never happened 1870 to 1900
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A war between Argentina and Brazil in the 1870s was a very likely possibility, especially after Brazil violated the Triple Alliance Treaty and negotiated a separate peace with Paraguay, resulting in Argentine protests.
Also Brazil sought to end the Argentine economic growth resulting in the 1870s "crise argentina" as Brazil wanted to put an end to the massive growth Argentina was going through, seeing it as a threat to Brazilian national security. IOTL however, Pedro II went against provoking a war between the two countries.
Also Brazil sought to end the Argentine economic growth resulting in the 1870s "crise argentina" as Brazil wanted to put an end to the massive growth Argentina was going through, seeing it as a threat to Brazilian national security. IOTL however, Pedro II went against provoking a war between the two countries.
The Venezuela border crisis with Britain of 1895, the Margary Affair between Britain and China in 1870, and the Boisron-Canal affair between Haiti and the US in 1875 were all diplomatic disputes in the time period, with one participant being much militarily weaker than the other, which didn't escalate into war.
Didn't France already acknowledge they needed a bigger partner as a second one would be a loss?
You could make the French have less geostrategically competent leadership. A lot could have happened in the nearly 30 years between 1871 and 1900, and as Harari reminds us: never underestimate human stupidity.
Perhaps it could have happened if Geroges Boulanger had taken over the government in a coup which he had a good chance of doing in the late 1880s but he decided not to in order to become leader legally. He was an extreme anti German revanchist even for the time, who wanted to reverse German unification and get revenge for the loss of Alcace Lorraine. His supporters were a mix of socialist working classes and traditionalist monarchists forming a strange far right-far left movement which was united by their hatred for the Germans and some historians view him as the precursor to the facsist movements of the 20th century. Given his ideaology if he had decided to go through with a coup he could have easily started an early war with Germany given his idealogy.
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If these two ultimatums in the 1890s had been rejected, there would have been two wars.
(1) Japan defeated China in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1894 – 1895 but was forced to, almost immediately, give up some of her gains due to the Triple Intervention of Russia, France and Germany. Japan was forced to accept these three nations’ ultimatum.
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(2) Great Britain forced Portugal to give up her attempts to have an Atlantic-to-Indian Ocean African empire with a 1890 British ultimatum
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