What If Everything Went PERFECT for the Central Powers?

I like how no matter what scenario it is Britain always barely loses land

Champ Clark actually would have been the best pick for 1912 from a Central Powers perspective.. He wasn't just an anti-interventionist like Bryan, he was outright hostile to Britain, and caused a diplomatic incident by musing about annexing Canada. I think you also could have gotten ways of getting Sweden, Romania, and Greece all on the side of the Central Powers.

It’s funny how PH considers Bulgaria as Germany’s most competent ally.

Italy was the clear winner of the war, they obtained almost eveything they could have wished for without fighting a long war. It's not bold to assume that the monarchy would be very popular in this world

I think other than the idea of Germany and Austria-Hungary giving up land to keep Italy/Japan out, the most unrealistic part of this scenario is the Entente convincing Romania to join while the Entente was clearly losing. In the real world scenario, the king was pro-German and it took extensive promises to convince them to join. These promises included both land after the war and a certain number of troops both of which would have been much less convincing in this scenario. I guess, there could have been some sort of alternative where they join earlier to justify Bulgarian gains at their expense, but arguably the more favorable outcome for the central powers as a whole would have been Italy and Romania deciding to honor their alliance with Austria (in the real world they argued that Austria was the aggressor and their alliance was defensive). Romania also had territorial claims against Russia (which they successfully pressed in the real world after the war).

The ottomans actually almost won in their Caucasus offensive, it was mostly because of a general going against orders and them attacking in winter. Same with their attack against the suez, it was a sneak attack that failed because soldiers were being too loud. Edit: also germany believed that the ottomans greatest strength was that they were the caliph. the ottomans declared jihad against the entente in hopes of mass Islamic rebellions but not much came of it.

We need “what if everything went perfectly for bavaria”

I like how you don’t just turn the winning sides into unstoppable super powers and take the historical context and perspectives into account

For me, a perfect scenario for the Central Powers, in addition to having performed much better than in our reality, having achieved everything they wanted in our timeline and Germany having been able to prevent being blockaded by the British and being able to maintain its maritime trade , it would mean having many more allies than in our reality. WW1 was extremely unfair to the Central Powers, which were just 4 nations against practically the entire world, more allies for the Central Powers would have balanced things out.

Oh hell yeah. 30 minutes of alternate History. What a vacation gift! Thank you!

Small nitpick You said Kriegsmarine but it was called Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy). The Kriegsmarine was formed in 1935

My fellow central power stan, let's enjoy this probably masterpiece.

I always love reacting to World war 1 scenarios, and i believe that this is one of the best ones.

The what if America was completely neutral video was really great, I thought you were going to implement the same approach for America with this video. It’s a shame we didn’t get a part 2 of that video, but I’m glad you’ll be making a follow up for this one.

Just a small change, I would personally make. Serbian territory highlighted in green at 27:50 would most likely remain Serbian (northern Morava) while at the same time the Bulgarian white sea coast would grow up until the Strymon river, encompassing the coveted port of Kavala.

Possible History and Oversimplified easily giving me free A's for my history tests.

I would love to see a scenario where Austria heavily reforms in a federation or something instead of it simply collapsing. Collapsing just seems a very boring outcome.

I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on the German-American identity too, that had to have been impacted by the US remaining completely neutral.

I always wondered, wouldnt it have been an option for germany to try and coerce the netherlands to join the central powers, by promising them flanders? Or did they just not matter enough?

Nothing better than a Possible Hisory video after school