Pretty simple, really. What's your best guess as to what the world looks like now if Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria had won The Great War? It's hard to predict this alternate 2024 because there's so many variables in the century that follows it, but one thing's for sure it's not anything like the one we know.
It's honestly hard for me to say for sure, but my best guesses:
It's honestly hard for me to say for sure, but my best guesses:
- Colonialism/Imperialism still exists at least to some degree, though decolonization would still occur in a slower and more natural matter.
- Communism as an ideology only remains a theory, because the Soviet Union doesn't exist in this timeline as the Bolsheviks are crushed.
- Germany is now THE top power of Europe, and barring some unforeseen events (like their version of WWII where they lose) remains so today. And it's a lot bigger. It goes without saying that cities like Konigsberg, Danzig, Stettin, Breslau, Memel, Reichenberg etc. would remain as German cities.
- The United States today is a lot more linguistically diverse and more informed by Central European cultures, in large part because there wouldn't be a mass persecution of German culture in this timeline (this assumes the Central Powers win without the US joining the war). There would still naturally be assimilation to a degree, but not nearly to the same extent without it being so forced, and we'd see a lot more German speakers probably on par with Spanish. By this point, I'd expect for there to be cities in the US that are dominated by the German language (like Milwaukee and Cincinnati), and like Spanish, they'd have their own TV shows, books, magazines, music etc. catered specifically for them. Not to mention the other languages that were widely spoken through Middle America (like Polish, Hungarian, Dutch, Swedish etc.).
- The Ottoman Empire still exists and is the top power of the Middle East, after they discover their vast supply of oil. This also means that the Middle East is a much more consolidated region in terms of geopolitics.
- Israel doesn't exist.
- Poland doesn't exist, instead the Poles remain an ethnic diaspora throughout Europe and the Americas.
- Technology might be different, perhaps at a lower level, without things like World War II and the Cold War to speed up technological development. Though who's to say other conflicts don't arise to do the same?