Alternate History of Europe: Three World Wars Wiki

## **Welcome to the Alternate History of Europe: Three World Wars Wiki!**

This Fandom Wiki is dedicated to a fictional alternate historical scenario, created by **Realtime Mapper**, who is better known for his creations and content that is shared in social media platforms like: *YouTube*, *Reddit*, *Discord* and *Twitter*. This scenario is highly related to one of his *mapping* series that can be found on *YouTube* called **"Alternate History of Europe: Three World Wars"**.

The whole idea of this fictional wiki project is to express a different feel of an alternate world in which many different geopolitical events would shape the course of our history in an interesting, unseen path which in return would have its own unique outcomes.

## **About Alternate History of Europe: Three World Wars**

As it is clear by the original title of this scenario, **Alternate History of Europe: Three World Wars** is focused around three main key events referred to as ***"Three World Wars"***, taking place mainly in Europe although the author himself does not particulary mention or elaborate all the other events that are supposed to take place in other continents, meaning that their fate is hopefully left to be envisioned much more later. The offset of this timeline begins in the year of 1900, with the beginning of the 20th century, lasting equally one hundred years and ending in 2000, with the beginning of the 21st century.

## **Backstory**

The very beginning of the 20th century was marked by massive changes which the world would not see for decades. Old world order would be eventually swapped by a brand new, revoliutionary one, after many strong global powers sought to reassemble the massive power polls and scramble up to the very top of the leadership in the geopolitical arena. Empires like: **Germany**, **Great Britain**, **France**, **Russia**, **Austria-Hungary**, **Ottoman Empire** were the main competing imperialistic powers in these affairs. There was only a need of one event - the unexpected assassination of **Archduke Franz Ferdinand** of Austria-Hungary in the Bosnian city of *Sarajevo*, which was committed by a Serbian nationalist and terrorist **Gavrilo Princip** *(Serbian: Гаврило Принцип)*, when all of a sudden that escalated into a massive southern Slav uprising and a therefore, a major reason for a large scale armed conflict between the biggest powers and their allies to take place. Beginning with the very first stages of the war, it was expected that it would last for a very short period of time, where only one strong side would win. This is the reason why this armed conflict was referred to as *"The Great War".* It was believed that every single problem Europeans faced at the time would be overcome. However, the more days passed the more people realised that this is not the path which would be imagined at first. The Great War lasted for more than four years and ended in a stalemate between the **Central Power** and **Entente** countries, further leaving many uncertainties and prolonging revanchist ideas by the weakened and defeated powers.

## **Important articles**

* Rules of this wiki
* Timeline of major events
* List of countries
* List of leaders by country
* List of maps
* List of armed conflicts by year