FYI, Zionist settlement in the area began in 1878. By the time of the Balfour Declaration, about 70,000 Jews had immigrated to the area for Zionist reasons. And considering that Zionist migration continued even after the British backpedaled on Balfour in 1922, there's every reason to think that it would continue absent Balfour in the first place.
I probably should have been clearer there but I meant that further large scale Jewish immigration into the Holy Land did not take place afterwards ITTL (mostly due to French opposition).
Did you give Belgium Eupen and Malmedy?Map set in 1939 (a remarkably unremarkable year ITTL) of a hopefully unique take on a German victory in WWI, that of a compromise peace in late 1917/early 1918 (compromise taken to mean that neither side gets everything they want, not that neither side wins).
Treaties of WWI:
- Treaty of Strasbourg (Western Front & Colonies)
- Germany evacuates Belgium in its entirety and pays reparations to help rebuild the nation.
- Alsace-Lorraine to become a condominum of France and Germany and to be demilitirised.
- Status quo ante bellum for Italy. Italy initially refuses and tries to keep fighting at which point the British and French leave them to hang. They finally surrender after an Austro-German force annihilates the Italian front and rapidly captures Venice and Milan, throwing the defenders across the Po. Benedict XV, who was the main arbitartor of the Strasbourg Peace Conference, successfully intervenes and negotiates a relatively lenient peace in which Austria only annexes border territories, Greece gets Rhodes, and A-H gets war reparations (which was the Austrian plan anyway, but the Italians don't know that).
- All of the German colonies are split between Britain (& Dominions), France, Belgium, and Japan, except for Togoland, which Germany retains in exchange for the condominum over A-L and also gains resource rights in the Belgian Congo for the same reason.
- The Central Powers agree to restrain the peace with Russia to Congress Poland, Lithuania, Courland, and southern Caucuses with an indepndent Finland and potential for renegotiation if the Bolsheviks don't accept.
- Balkan Entente states thrown under the bus.
- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Russia)
- Russia to cede Congress Poland, Lithuania (long version), Courland and parts of southern Caucuses to CP and recognise Finnish independence. Bolsheviks don't initially accept and the Germans continue the advance, with a naval invasion capturing St. Petersburg. Russia sues for peace afterward. Second version of the treaty includes aforementioned clauses plus Livonia, Estonia, and Bessarabia to be ceded to CP (with the latter to be ceded to Rumania by Austria-Hungary), recognition of Georgian and Azerbaijani independence, and war reparations to Germany and A-H.
- Treaty of Belgrade (Balkans)
- Bulgaria to annex all of the Serbian occupied territories except for Kosovo.
- Kosovo to be granted to Albania, a de facto Austro-Bulgarian puppet.
- Rumania to cede border territories to A-H and all of Dobruja to Bulgaria. (see the OTL Treaty of Bucharest)
- A-H annexes the Montengrin coast.
- Remainder of Serbia and Montenegro to become Austrian puppets.
- Greece to cede occupied territory to Bulgaria.
- Treaty of Damascus (Ottoman Empire)
- Independence of Hejaz, Jordan, and Iraq recognised under British protectorates.
- Independece of Yemen and Asir recognised.
- Lack of advance into Syria and giving up complete reconquest of A-L causes France and Britiain to come to an agreement for a condominum over the Holy Land. No Balfour Declaration and no Jewish settlement in the Holy Land.
- Benedict XV's role as the arbitrator of the Strasbourg Peace Conference greatly boostes his own standing and that of the Church throughout Europe. Emperor Karl and King Albert also got major boosts in popularity as the most pro-peace heads of state at the Conference.
- The left-leaning French government that came to power a few years after the war attempted to go harder on the anti-clericalism, but found that they had seriously misjudged the mood of the common people and the army. A coup by conservative officers in 1926 declared the Fourth French Republic, a conservative, pro-Church republic (albeit one whose leaders have significant monarchist sympathies, who have been in contact with the Comte de Paris, and who have been spreading large amounts of monarchist propaganda throughout the country). The new government's initial internal focus combined with the A-L condominum working out surprisingly well has led to a rapproachment between France and Germany.
- German underwent constituional reform after the war, strengthening the Reichstag at the expense of the Kaiser. German democracy has remained strong in the decades since, with its eastern satellites also prospering, even as Poland moves increasingly closer to Vienna than to Berlin due to its Habsurg king.
- Italy fell into civil war in the early 30s after a failed socialist coup. The royalists narrowly won and are still recovering.
- Austria-Hungary reformed itself into a quintuple monarchy of Austria, Bohemia, Hungary, Croatia, and Galicia-Lodomeria. The country is now called the Union of the Crowns of the House of Habsurg, with most people referring to it as the Habsburg Monarchy or as Leithania.
- The Ottoman Empire was reformed into a parliamentary monarchy and a federal state over the decades. Whiel the vilayets have large amounts of autonomy, cultural and relgious matters are not under their purview or of the federal government and have instead been placed in the hands to national councils, who govern according the Austromarxist principle of national personal autonomy, which has worked out rather well.
- The German offensives during the closing days of the Eastern Front put the Bolsheviks at a large disadvantage and allowed White Forces led by the Directory (or its ATL version anyway) to win the Civil War. They reluctantly acceded to the terms of Brest-Litovsk ratified by the Bolshevik government while they turned to internal rebuilding. A federal parliamentary republic was established to govern Russia which has gone through a series of unstable coalition governments, though the democratically elected government continues to stumble along, with many dreams of retaking the lost territories.
- The Empire of India gained earlier independence ITTL and is parliamentary federal contistutional monarchy. It remains in personal union the the UK and Dominions.
- Japan, having annexed all of Karafuto during the intervention in Russia and having gained all of their desired territories from the war remains content. The developing Japanese democracy has been going strong and they have not gone into China except for some minor interventions (mostly of the naval variety). Otherwise, they remain content to sit tight and support their preferred candidate of the Imperial government in Beijing.
- China has a PoD a couple of years earlier than the rest of the world (mostly because I wanted to do something with Yuan Shikai). Yuan Shikai is more successful in his proclamation of a new Imperial dynasty. Although much of the country stills falls to warlordism during the late 1910s and early 1920s, he manages to hold onto much of north, east, and central China. The Chinese frontlines have remained largely static for a couple of decades but rumours coming out of the Forbidden City suggest a massive offensive by the Hongxian Emperor and his loyal forces to crush the warlords once and for all.
That is a mistake, thank you for pointing it out. Should be fixed now. I was using a 1922 basemap and totally forgot about Eupen-Malmedy.
Ah, Italyscrew, a classic. Germany literally has to concede stuff, definition is "no-one gets everything they want", but Italy is literally forced to fight alone for being in better shape than the French and left to hang.
Usually is an Italyscrew because it's absurd that the colossus of stability and military competence that was Hapsburg Empire is forced to concede even an hinch of territory, be gratefull that's unity has not be reversed and we are back to the pre-risorgimento situation.