stop World War 2 in as few steps as possible

[NicolasMarinus]

Hold on, Germany didn't really start WWI. Technically yes, but they had no choice. Every state in Europe including Russia had just declared war on them. The Germans just had the forsight to have a plan ready should it come to that (the Schlieffen Plan) and carried it out ASAP.

Besides, hatred between these European superpowers ran so deep that total war would have been inevitable, no matter what.

They didn't really start much. I was focusing on the alliance with Austria that would have left Germany out of this mix of it all. I don't know every alliance in the book, but if the Kaiser was dead, then they wouldn't have funded Austria and their attack on Serbia and then if WW1 still happened, Germany would be in a different position, possibly not even involved.

The alliances between Germany and Austria were more culturally inspired than political. You know, brothers of the same Germanic race (just like Russia who came to the aid of its Slavic brothers, the Servians). Most likely whoever would have taken Wilhelm's place would have done the exact same thing.

It is an interesting idea though, what would have happened without Wilhelm?

 

[CarlMin]

The economical depression caused thew war. Hitler just managed to be the first one to use it to his advantage. The war can be traced all the way back to the first world war, which can be traced all the way back to the imperialism which wouldn't be possible if it wasn't for the napoleon war.

See, from an historical perspective, a second world war was almost inevitable.

 

[Jack Cheal]

don't fund Germany so they can start their war effort, meaning that more work from the US, UK and other members of the allies can put pressure on the eastern front, assuming it started, all in all, the war should end soon enough.
also, accept an early plan to assassinate hitler as soon as war is declared
although, this would cause me to be not born, since i was only created through the war in a manner too contrived to explain.
so PARADOX.

 

[reddfawks]

Step one: Find a genie
Step two: Wish to go back in time
Step three: Wish for World Peace

(Step four: Wish for more wishes. If that fails, wish for a new genie)

 

[Nihlus2]

Step 1: Have them hire the Umbrella Corporation
Step 2: Finance
Step 3: ...Wait. You know what's bound to happen behind their lines sooner or later.

 

[Dan Steele]

Make hitler become an artist, like he wanted to be rather than make him chancelor of germany

 

[Feralcentaur]

Bomb the some key areas on the planet with Nuclear weapons from the future, but don't use them enough to destroy anything too important, let all of the nations know the Centaurian Republic (look at my Username to get it) is the one responsible and in fear and anger they will either all unite and attack me instead out of anger and fear or if they don't do that threaten them that I will just keep doing it again and again each time on a more important target if they don't stop their conflict and return the people, possesions and land to the countries they belong too and imprison/ execute those who ordered the most heinous war crimes if I wasn't able to stop the war before they happened, but not send any Jews back to Germany or any other Axis nation for obvious reason and instead let them have a choice of some more accepting countries for them to live in. Or could just let the war go at it's normal course so I don't screw up History too much.

 

[DarkRyter]

Stop WWII.

 

[Hoplon]

Take Frank Whittle jet engine in 1930 when he first proposed it, share it with the Americans. have a fleet of jet fighters and bombers to punch the snot out of the axis powers.

Get Alan Turing and Tommy Flowers working on universal turning machines as of 1936. this could have working digital computers by 1939.

Get Robert Watson-Watt's team to build a full system of radar to a turing digital computer to get better interpretation of the results from the radar.

Get the EM2 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EM-2] project fully fledged before the out break of war.

 

[Aabglov]

Hitler lives with his father. His name becomes Adolf Shicklegruber, which is too silly to chant.

 

[Macrobstar]

Kill everyone on the planet

 

[RoBi3.0]

Tell Hitler's dad to pull out!
WINNING!

 

[coolkirb]

hmmmm in as few steps as possible........ Im going to say have Napolean succesfully conquer Britain and thus expand its empire to all of europe preventing the diversity that led to WW1 and II since the Napoleonic wars were the last major wars till WW1

 

[RaikuFA]

Kill Kaiser Wilhelm.

There is no WW1; there is no Treaty of Versailles; there is no economic turmoil in Germany; there is no WW2.

damnit you beat me to the punch

 

[zombie711]

Step 1: Have them hire the Umbrella Corporation
Step 2: Finance
Step 3: ...Wait. You know what's bound to happen behind their lines sooner or later.

You realize you just made the starting event of an uwe boll movie.
You've doomed us all.

 

[Feste the Jester]

Redesign the Treaty of Versailles to help rebuild Germany rather than force massive reparations from it.

 

[countkillalot]

First off:

-Time travel to the 1860's

-Move Nikola Tesla to France in shortly before Lobotomising Thomas Edison and have him finish his research and make his badass weather machines and Tesla Coils.

-After the machines are finished, give it to the Dutch or the Swiss. (Alternetively start a nuclear fission research project in France and give atomic energy and the A-Bomb to Holland and Switzerland respectively. Hopefully you have created a Non-cray military-technological police force in Europe for the time being.

-Meanwhile start a small military conflict between the different German states most importantly Bavaria and Prussia as to make sure the German Empire is never established.
(This conflict will not boil over as everyone else will still be recovering from the Crimean War, also it will let the Prussian people let off some steam.)

-Help the Balkans out of Ottoman rule (somehow supporting the ressistances in Yugoslavia Greece and the revolutionaries in Venice) and try to avoid Russian involvement if at all possible. If in the aftermath of the Ottoman liberation the different new balkan states start fighting support either the Bulgarians or the Greeks.

-Have the US governement develop interest in colonialism as to keep the bus for the next few years. Maybe a small conflict with the French in south-east-asia.


Now all this has been taken care of all that is left is The middle east, north-africa and central asia. I will have to assume that any conficts presented here will not boil over to a global conflict.

This is as far as I can go off the top of my head.

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[countkillalot]

woops double post :S

 

[Akyho]

HANG ON!

Are we doing some kids history homework?

Well if WW1 was to happen here is a higher chance WW2 wouldnt have happend

LET HITLER INTO ART SCHOOL!