American acquiescence was secured only because Clemenceau agreed to immediately end his country�s occupation of the Rhineland. Instead, the British achieved their aim of preserving the Navy List by agreeing to transfer the lion�s share of Germany�s fleet to the French � much to the chagrin of Italy and Japan. Nor did they succeed in turning swords to ploughshares, as some had intended. The negotiations achieved little in the way of tamping down rising tensions.

(In June 1916, British inspectors at Scapa Flow narrowly averted a plot by German Rear-Admiral Ludwig von Reuter to scuttle his storied command.) The delegates also discussed restrictions affecting naval shipbuilding. to reach agreement on how to apportion German�s High Seas Fleet. Thinking to head off a prohibitively expensive arms race between themselves, five great powers (the aforementioned trio, joined by the United States and Japan) convened in Washington, D.C. The Entente soon dissolved in acrimony as the three major Mediterranean powers � Great Britain, France, and Italy � squabbled over how best to divide both the nearly-spoiled German and fast-crumbling Ottoman pies. The Greco-Turkish War opened in May 1919 and is still being fought. Even as all went quiet on the Western Front, Russia was still mired in a long, bloody process of unwinding that would drag on through 1922. The War to End All Wars did nothing of the sort. Much of the content related to naval issues is taken directly from “The Cherry Trees Spared,” a speculative history of naval treaty discussions on Changing The Times, an alternate history electronic magazine, author unknown.

Mike Bennighoff of Avalanche Press for ideas on Greece and the Dutch. I have tried to write the material in a unique style that simulates a 1930s radio newscast, so forgive the unusual tense.Ĭredit to Dr. They will not be appropriate for everyone.) (Please note that these modifications reflect the play patterns and preferences of specific groups of people. The map is beautiful, but the choice of projection means that huge areas of the play area are irrelevant.īased on numerous playthroughs with my gaming group, I have revised the map so that we can include a greater number of participants and extend the fighting to parts of the map that are often disused.

The modification uses (for now) the HBG 1936 world map. I thought the folks on this forum might have some interesting suggestions. The purpose of this thread is to share the backstory that I am using in a home-brew, card-driven modification of the board game Axis & Allies, which I have discussed elsewhere.

Axis and allies civil war