Japan gained colonial holdings in China and the Pacific while suffering negligible losses. Why would they fight a multi-front war against Russia, Britain, and France instead?
Would American intervention have even been decisive by 1916? I could see it accelerating the push for a settlement, but not an outright German defeat as IOTL.
Going along with this, Germany would lose its colonies and Alsace-Lorraine. Austria-Hungary survives but loses Bosnia, Trieste, and...
At the outset of the First World War, Romania was neutral and divided between a nominal alliance with Austria-Hungary and a Hohenzollern king on one side, and a generally pro-Entente political class on the other. Carol died later in 1914, and his successor favored the Entente, with the country...
That's the standard victory, but I've seen people game endings where the SPD is at or above 50% in the Reichstag. There's also an ending where you form the popular front with the KPD to win the civil war, resulting in a Soviet-aligned Germany (can't imagine France would tolerate that; chances...
How long can you plausibly keep the WASP "Eastern Establishment" dominant in elite American society with a post-1900 POD? Connected--how much longer can you keep "white ethnic" identity stronger as opposed to assimilating as rapidly as it did outside certain urban pockets?
The 1996 US presidential election in End of History, a Campaign Trail mod by Astronomics. The POD is the success of the August Coup, which reignites the Cold War and leads to a significantly more violent breakup of the Soviet Union over the next several years. Bush narrowly wins re-election over...