What if World War I ended in Christmas 1914

[stevep]

Dec 31, 2020 11:04:45 GMT gillan1220 said:

Dec 28, 2020 15:05:25 GMT stevep said:

  Once it realises that the idea is practical and that other powers are working on the idea.  It won't have quite the same incentive as the European powers because of its geographical and political isolation, especially if/when its realised that early bombs will be very large.  However by the latest, once their proven, the US will want a version.

Basically I'd see it the Europe will have its own primordial multi-polar Cold War against Empires. It will take another powder-keg to spark off another conflict.

More or less U.S. isolation will probably be like until the 1950s or 1960s because for sure it won't stay isolationist any longer in a rapidly, changing world.

  It would take a real power keg or a total idiot who wasn't controlled by his subordinates to start a war in that scenario.  The results would possibly horrendous.

[gillan1220]

Part 2 of the Cody's take on the subject has been uploaded.

What if WWI Really Had Ended By Christmas? (Part II)

[SpaceOrbisHistory]

Dec 25, 2020 9:06:11 GMT gillan1220 said:

I've been watching several takes on the Christmas Truce of 1914 in what has been regarded as the most wholesome event of WWI. British and German troops on that day ceased hostilities and came across each other, singing Christmas songs, playing football, and exchanging letters. The soldiers of the trenches hoped that the war would end then and there on that point. Unfortunately, that was not the case. The war would drag on for four more years. Twenty years after that, another world war would occur.

I do find the implications of a World War I ending in Christmas 1914 interesting. In that case, the rest of the century would look completely different from our timeline. Soviet communism may even be butterflied away.

Alternate History Hub - What if WWI Really Had Ended By Christmas?



Here are some animated history on the Christmas Truce:

Simple History - Christmas Truce (1914)



WW1 Christmas Truce: Silent Night - Extra History - #1



The Infographics Truce - WWI Christmas Truce - When the British and Germans Became Friends For a Day

My view is that if this were to happen the Soviet Union never developers and Hitler is just some nobody that failed to get into an art school. I think with a faster war on the western side of things at least the empires may survive a bit longer. But I don't see them living past the 1950-1960s. 

I think the idea the war ends this way is highly unlikely. Nobody in power is going to want to have it end without first getting some hits on. 

[simon darkshade]

The British and French Empires did carry on into the 1960s, so that doesn't seem to be allowing for much change.

WW1 changed so much politically and economically, yet the larger consequences came socially and culturally, as well as in terms of beliefs and outlooks.