What if Germany Stayed Neutral during World War One? | Alternate History

In today's alternate history scenario we ask what if Germany never issued the blank check to Austria, and remained neutral while Austria declared war on Serbia? Would Austria be able to fend off a coalition of enemies on all sides? Would Germany be crippled politically without their Austrian ally? Will there be a World War?

Featuring Jakub Pedersen as Monsieur Z

#alternatehistory #history #germany #ww1

[Yourlocalwordrobe]

Bro hates Austria-Hungary so much that he gave Russia Galicia

[kygigni]

Please overwork that map. Give Germany Memel and Austria-Hungary Galicia at least please.

[zaukonig]

“Friendship ended with Austria, Britain is my new best friend”
-Kaiser Wilhelm II

[Hussar]

I really don’t see Britain and Germany (even if they remained neutral) just sitting by and letting a great power like Austria get completely dismantled. They would at least help arbitrate a fair peace. And if Russia or Italy refuse, threaten to intervene

[unclesam]

There is no way the Entente would ever allow Germany to be neutral in this Great War, they literally wanted it gone

[naxureearth]

If i had a penny for every time germany needed to carry an Ally who couldn`t hold thier own wheigth in a mayor world conflict i had 2 pennies....
Which isn`t a lot, but its wierd that it happened twice

[youthoughtaboutit]

Now a version where Russia doesn’t get involved sounds interesting as well.

[munchkin]

Britain would have never allowed Russia to influence the entire Balkans and disturb the Balance of power by such a large scale.

Britain and Germany actually grew closer before ww1 with the end of the Naval Arms Race and Britain slowly seeing Russia as the biggest threat.

If Russia did Push further than Galicia Germany and England would have Not just stood at the side and watching Russia becoming the worlds strongest power.

[OndrejTheHistorian]

why do you keep claiming that Serbia had an alliance with Russia? In reality, the Russians joined the conflict between Serbia and Austria only because they were "Slavic brothers". NO formal alliance between Serbia and Russia EVER EXISTED. Russia was also criticized by France and Britain because it made itself the aggressor that escalated the conflict.
Plus Germany would never join a regional conflict in the Balkans.

[justinhammer]

Austria may have wanted war, but they sure as heck weren't ready for it.

[chinesetaxevader]

i do think germany still wouldnt allow parties like italy to get involved in the war and threaten to defend austria if they do so.
i imagine some sort of agreement between britain and germany to contain the war to the east between austria and russia/serbia

[evanneal]

There's a mistake in your video... the "blank check" was for a DEFENSIVE WAR ONLY... Germany agreed to unconditionally support Austria in a DEFENSIVE war but not any offensive war or unjustified war that they might declare. The blank check is postwar propaganda... it was actually only a defensive pact treaty that extended to a justified casus beli war under certain circumstances that just so happens to have been met in 1914 by complete coincidence... a direct assassination of franz Ferdinand WAS a justified casus beli for war and legally should have been supported by the other major powers except that political issues got in the way because everyone had an unfair and unreasonable bias against Germany at the time. Im a real historian and can prove this with historic evidence...

[fiskkeranen]

The easiest way to remove the blank cheque is to prevent the german foreign ministers change to the kaisers message which was all support except for militaristic

[danielsantiagourtado]

Suggestion Guys: What if Spain had managed to avoid the spanish american war?

[roho]

Britain would never let Russia dissect Austrian-Hungary and take over the balkans, even if Russia won a lopsided victory.

Russia was Britain’s biggest rival before during and after Germany’s rise.

[WeaponCrusader]

at 16:40 you put nikolai the 2nd insted of wilhelm, but great video either way.

[hellboyhero]

Nice video overall, but please use the correct austria-hungary map. Why is Galicia part of russia before ww1. It doesnt make any sense and destroys the video

[anvos]

So why wouldn't Austria have tried to pull in the Ottomans, given they both fall into wanting to check the power of Russia, and/or seeing how bad things would go if they join striking a deal with Italy?

Also this feels like a scenario WWI just doesn't happen, given without Germany its unlikely they'd be so willing to not back down to diplomatic pressure from Germany and Russia to accept the accepted proposals.

[luckychops]

Germany would demand a conference and Britain would agree. No way the same guys who argued over if Bulgaria would get access to the Aegean would sit back and watch Russia erase a great power. Austria would likely loose Bosnia and Galicia. Maybe border readjustment in Italy.

[bryceworthington]

16:17 lmao the Kaiser looks a little different