What is the one decision that if made differently would have changed the course of history the most?

What is the one decision that if made differently would have changed the course of history the most?

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The Barth of Jesus

But Jesus didn't exist. Sorry user.

Unironically the only correct answer is paleolithic people taking up agriculture.

Sulla deciding to spare Caesar.

Which ones, retard? He said one decision, not the tens of thousands of ones all across the planet, independantly.

Greeks taking on the coal engine

England stays out of ww2

Stalin attacking Germany first

Germany doesn't send Lenin to Tsarist Russia

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The Aeoliphile, just image if the ancient greeks fully developed it's power.

just imagine... steampunk hellenism

That one Confederate staff officer doesn't drop Special Order 191

That Merkit horseman keeping it in his pants and not stealing Genghis Khan's wife.

the act of terrorism on our electrical infrastructures.

one that goes we will revert back to our most primitive nature.

>England stays out of ww1
This is the correct answer

Probably when during the Cold War both the leaders of the US and USSR simultaneously decided not to start nuclear war

How bout the birth of the talented jewish theologian who made up Jesus then?

Im from the Ron Paul winning in 2008 timeline. Ask me anything

Hitler's father jacking off one morning.

darn, was looking for the ron paul winning 2012 timeline, better luck next time

the defining of the word "history".

If only, the world would be so different.

Franz Ferdinands driver not fucking up.

>ctrl + f "cuban missile crisis"
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You know war would have happened anyway. England wanted a war with Germany regardless.

Yeah but it might've turned out/started differently.

See

what the fuck are you talking about, Bartholomew was like the least important disciple

Peter III deciding not to be a cuck.

lol nice one

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Native americans inventing a wheel. Seriously, they didnt have horses so what stopped them from trying to innovate? Population density?

casinos

Napoopy not listening to his shit adviser and dismantling austria and prussia, or not attacking russia

>If only Britain acted against all of his national interests
That's how you sound

The Jews hailing Jesus as the Messiah in 32 AD.

Hitler won.

This.
I thought it might be a little recent to affect *history,* though.

If Abraham never made a covenant with God.

this guy failing at his invasion of England

Any of the several decisions by people who saw nuclear launches reported and said "nah, it's probably a bug" instead of "SHIT, SHIT, FIRE ZE MISSILES!"

>What is the one decision that if made differently would have changed the course of history the most?

If the Romans or someone else wiped out the Jews completely.


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There should be an anime about this.

Did he save us?

If Karloman had survived

How about Sir Edward Grey never goes behind the backs of the rest of the British cabinet to give the French a secret security guarantee in the event of war with Germany? How about instead of a "World" war, the Great War simply shapes up as a continental conflict seeing Germany defeat France and Russia by the end of 1916? How about Germany, Britain, and the US heed Cecil Rhodes' vision of the three of them leading the civilized world into a bright new future together as fraternal allies?

Why not Veeky Forums? WHY NOT?!?!?!?

what would have stopped him?

You mean what if he wasn't a tampon sucking prick goblin of historic proportions and simply kept his dealings as Foreign Sec above board? Simply don't offer the French the security guarantee which have allowed Britain to remain reluctantly neutral in the Great Continental War. This would have likely been the case despite the German actions in Belgium and closing the Danish straits. Britain would have looked upon Germany's actions with great disapproval, but neutrality would have carried the day. It was the abstract sense of honor engendered in that war guarantee that served as the straw that broke the back of British neutrality.

i mean hypothetically, continuing the fantasy if you would. but holy crap i laughed at that initial reaction.

>You mean what if he wasn't a tampon sucking prick goblin of historic proportions

wew

Ah. Well I think it's pretty well established among historians that Germany's insecurities in the early 20th century lay more toward Russia than France. Russia's state of being, despite it's enormous size, resources, population, etc...lay in archaic disorder and antiquated political, social, and economic norms. But for how long? Nicholas II had made moves and statements signalling his openness to liberal reforms. How long until Russia implemented more modern reforms allowing it to harness a greater share of it's potential? It was the fear of Russia as a mighty continental power that motivated German foreign thinking. Oh, and the naval "arms race" with Britain had been called off years before. Britain won it. How cold they not? They're an island after all. Shipbuilding is kind of what they do.

Of course France had to be knocked out of the war first. That's just how it had to be given the nature of a two front war. Russia would take longer to mobilize so the French would have to come first as a matter of practical necessity. Germany would have wanted territorial concessions from France on the continent, mostly territories that had been under dispute for a while anyway and not likely significantly affecting France's overseas empire. German territorial ambitions in the east are harder to pin down. There would certainly have been a large financial burden on a defeated Russia, however, including access to Russian natural resources.

Niall Ferguson even makes a controversial point that a German victory in such a conflict could have led to the beginnings of a more integrated Europe decades before the EU. What course that hypothetical integration would have taken is unknown.

But think of it. European empires largely unshattered. The bad blood had been let out. Britain and the US unaffected. No communism. No second war. No iron curtain. No decades of nuclear standoff. No resentment...or if there is it'd be with the French, but so what?

goddamnit. all i'm asking is what you think would have stopped him from going from not giving the guarantee to giving the guarantee..does he get hit by a car, slip and cut his throat on a fire extinguisher?

Oh. He choked on some scones. No big deal. Replace his ass in the cabinet. We don't need to get James Bond-like unnecessary evil here. Just get him out of there.

>James Bond-like unnecessary evil
no shit, that would mean someone knew he was going to give them a SECRET guarantee and it could have been anyone to do it as far as you know rendering your hatred for him silly