Germany is able to win World War 1 because the British have to expend huge amounts of resources defending Canada from invasion by the United States, and is subject to many economic attacks by the United States Navy.

England is also attacked in the Pacific by the United States. This seems more than enough to tip WW1 in favor of Germany, especially with all those things happening against England from the get-go.

It’s not just a case of “a neutral USA causes Germany to win WW1” - unlikely. It’s “Central-Powers aligned USA helps Germany out and they win WW1”

And I think it is actually quite realistic of Turtledove to have authoritarian forces take over in different countries based on the alternate history. IRL Spain, Italy, Germany, Portugal…they all went fascist. Russia went communist. What’s wrong with a distraught CSA following a similar path?

I don’t think Turtledove takes the easy way out of writing history; rather, he believes that certain things in history create cauldrons of inevitability.

I love timeline 191.