The difference is the resources available to the two sides, the Entente had far more resources available to it than the Central Powers, so an Entente victory would probably be seen as far more plausible. I think a defeat for the Entente will be seen as a catastrophic failure by the French in particular on a par with 1940 IOTL.
I don't think the White Russians would have won in a Central Powers victory scenario either. They were a lot more anti-German than the Bolsheviks.
Assuming no Holocaust scale mass murder I suspect it would be largely ignored as antisemitism would have remained mainstream.
Of course this depends on how the Entente lost. If Germany went east first, and Britain stayed neutral, then I don't think an Entente victory would be seen as very plausible. People would point out how much of a mess Russia was and look at the third Republic's internal political issues (justifiably with the former, less so with the latter) and probably say there was no way they could win.
True, but with those last options you have to rewrite so much history that I doubt you get a recognizable WWI.
Depends on the nature of the war, if we propose OTL, but if France collapses ala 1940 (in 1914) and then the Germans trash the Russians (and Italy/Romania/US don't join), yeah I would think so.
Yes. The earlier, the more likely it's seen as 'inevitable' if for example we are positing OTL, but the German army gets expanded instead of the last Naval law and this extra force concentration smashes the French lines (Eg, SPGs/Tanks/APCs/Trucks) in a western Tannenberg, it would to me be seen as inevitable that the qualitatively and quantitively superior Heer would win in France, and consequently rupture the blockade, keep Italy from joining (at least on the Entente side) and then be able to turn their full power to deal with Russia - Given that it is then very unlikely that GB could do anything that's materially important for the central struggle, with the possible exception of the Dardanelles, but it seems likely that there would be sufficient excess German combat power to render the Bosporus unusable even if that succeeded, and consequently I don't think anyone would think it would materially alter the outcome of the Eastern front.
Probably as resulting in a world worse that ours, which is generally a trend regarding more general AH, especially in popular works. Note how many NoHitler works have either someone like him but more competent or an aggressively expansionist Stalin instead, rather than just a boring but nasty and cautious right wing Germany and an incharacterly cautious Stalin
What 1916 POD and subsequent TTL events do you think it would take for a plausible CP victory in 1918 (probably not going to be a "total victory" but closer to a negotiated settlement I imagine)? And what do you think the peace agreement might look like?
Four PoDs that come to mind:
Interesting! Never heard of the bomber sortie you're talking about, what are the details there?
The Germans would find a Whote factions they could tolerate and support them.
