What If...

[Bavin]

What if Archduke Franz Ferdinand wasn't assassinated?
What if he survived?
What if Austria backed down because of Russia's posturing and didn't invade Serbia in 1914?

[Tratvia]

Well, Europe would be better off but the rest of the world might not be. Imagine if (say) Eden had the resources of an intact British Empire when he faced the Suez crisis. (No WWI equals no WW2 equals a much stronger Britain (not that that would be a bad thing))

[Agzenzia]

Is this a what if game? because we need one.

[Bavin]

Well, Europe would be better off but the rest of the world might not be. Imagine if (say) Eden had the resources of an intact British Empire when he faced the Suez crisis. (No WWI equals no WW2 equals a much stronger Britain (not that that would be a bad thing))

But it would also mean a stronger Germany
I wouldn't say there would be no WWI. Europe was a powder keg in the 19teens. There was a naval buildup and an entangling web of alliances. The war might still of happened, but later, and with a differnet outcome.
I see what you mean about the rest of the world being worse off. The colonialism of Europe would last longer, and lead to more proxy wars between European powers in Asia and Africa.

[Cheztope]

I doubt germany would have won in the first place. It was a lost cause.

[Milks Empire]

I'm seeing something between Willy and Georgie breaking out, possibly involving the African colonies or the Southwestern Pacific.

[Yootopia]

No WWI equals no WW2 equals a much stronger Britain (not that that would be a bad thing)

Dunno if that'd be true as of the 1950s. The British army especially was in a dreadful state in the mid-1930s, and without credible international foes I doubt we'd have built it up much again.

[Bavin]

It might even have prevented the Cold War, for some time. No WWI means the Romanovs might have held onto power, or peacefully transitioned to a democracy.

[Maurepas]

Thered have been some other reason come up for the Slug-Fest, That Powder Keg was looking to explode, and sooner or later it would, regardless of the eventual cause...

[Tybra]

the assassination caused a chain effect of deceleration of wars. though on a bigger scale the world simply became to small for the European super powers to live on together. One simply had to go. Plans for the invasion of France were already made several years before WWI. However with Germany producing weapons in the extra time they are able to help modernize the Austrian forces creating another strong force. The powder keg bassicaly got filled more and more with a bigger boom waiting to happen with each passing day

[Veblenia]

No WWI equals no WW2 equals a much stronger Britain (not that that would be a bad thing)

Leaving aside the dubious claims above, no assassination of Archduke Ferdinand =/= no WW1. The assassination was an excuse for the war, not a cause of it.

[Occidens Praseodymia]

What If...
In 2020, a coronavirus from China causes a global pandemic where every country in the world goes in lockdown, and the result causes the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
Imagine that?! That would be CRAZY right?

[Farnhamia]

What If...
In 2020, a coronavirus from China causes a global pandemic where every country in the world goes in lockdown, and the result causes the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
Imagine that?! That would be CRAZY right?

*** Warned for grave-digging ***