Alt-History: What If Gavrilo Princip Missed? #1

When Diplomacy Fails Podcast

Zack Twamley

Phd, International Relations, Korean War, European History, 17th Century, 18th Century, Politics, 20th Century, Thirty Years' War, History, 19th Century, War, First World War

4.8 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Welcome history friends, as we launch into a little sideshow I cooked up for you all. This is the first in a chunky 2-parter series on alternative history, where we build a different world in the style you're used to, having asked the question - what would have happened if Gavrilo Princip missed, rather than actually successfully assassinated the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand? Using all I've gathered in my years studying the First World War and the July Crisis in particular, I give you my answer, so I hope you enjoy it! Over the course of the episode we will look at several threads, such as the change in Serbian government and increasing tensions provoking reactionary policies across the Balkans, it remained to be seen whether the European alliance system would save the peace or help destroy it. Find out here, and remember to catch part 2!

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0:00.0	Well, hello there. My name is Zach Twomney, and this is when diplomacy fails. But what exactly is
0:05.2	this, Zach? What are you doing releasing an alternative history episode with a similar title to
0:10.9	when you've released, well, about a year and a half before? So maybe you're really, really
0:15.5	confused and you don't know what's going on here. This right here is an alternative history episode.
0:19.9	We imagine what would have happened if Gavrido Princip missed. That is the crux of what's going on here. This right here is an alternative history episode. We imagine what would have
0:20.9	happened if Gavrido Princip missed. That is the crux of what's going on. That is the core of
0:26.4	what we're trying to figure out. And we use characters that are real. We use characters that are
0:31.6	made up. We imagine what would have happened in certain situations based on history as it stood
0:36.3	in this moment in summer 1914.
0:39.7	It is quite an adventure, quite a journey, and well, maybe you disagree with it, but maybe
0:44.3	you think it's plausible, and maybe you think I could even have gone further, or maybe you
0:48.0	think things would have gone even more off the rails, maybe you think that the conclusions
0:51.8	I came to, well, they were a bit too generous on the
0:54.8	people involved. Either way, guys, this right here is something I really enjoy doing. And if you
1:00.8	would like to make sure we do more of these, then please do go over to patreon.com for it slash when
1:06.0	diplomacy fails and you'll see that our goal for $2,000 a month is something you have been asking for
1:13.7	over and over again, an alternative history series on the Second World War.
1:19.5	Hmm, what if Nazi Germany won? Imagine that, what if Nazi Germany won? That is the kind of
1:26.6	story you can support me to go and do.
1:29.1	And if you would like to do that, then, of course, you won't be just supporting that.
1:33.2	You'll also be accessing an hour of extra content every month. You could be playing the delegation game.
1:38.4	You could be doing all sorts of brilliant stuff. So please do, head on over to patreon.com
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