What would happen if WW1 had been prevented?
https://www.seeker.com/what-if-world-war-i-never-happened-1768742022.html
Summary
What if the guy who shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, missed, and they never had been assassinated?
Basically a lot of things we know today wouldn’t have happened if there wasn’t a WW1, or the things would have just been delayed.
For example, WW2 may not have happened, and without millions of deaths the countries would probably put more resources into building their economies.
“The United States would have remained more isolated, less intertwined with the rest of the world, and also less tolerant of the rights of women, blacks, Jews and other minority groups.”
Also without the War, their probably wouldn’t have been much technology advancements, like nuclear weapons, computers, nor the internet.
Antibiotics would probably be delayed, and there would not be information about revolutions.
Lebow said in an interview; “In the United States, maybe the best thing about the second half of the 20th century was development of tolerance. The U.S. before 1945 was a pretty backward and racist place.”
There are many ‘what-if’s’, but we may not know for certain what would’ve happened, if the war never happened, because it happened. But they would probably still have a war somehow, because of the countries increasing in weaponry, wanting more resources, etc.
Reflection
This website answered my question pretty well. It explained many things I was also wondering. I could go further with this question, and figure out more details, and find out more things that would not have happened. I could also go with a different question, because this one can never be answered fully. I might just revise the question a bit and see if it can go further on.
The thing with this kind of question is that there is no answer… There wouldn’t be anything to prove because the possibilities are endless. If you were to follow this topic, maybe frame your question around the positives instead, rather than what might not have happened, what did happen because of the war? That way, you can find evidence to prove it. You’d need to focus it though, maybe something about WWI’s effects on computer technology? Or advancements in medicine because of WWI – then you could compare survival rates of diseases or something.
This question definitely needs revision because as it stands now, it’s not answerable.