History WhatCouldHaveBeen / KaiserreichLegacyOfTheWeltkrieg

* Quentin Roosevelt was initially was absent from the mod, [[AllThereInTheManual albeit the older wiki said]] that he was an America First sympathizer. In newer versions, Quentin became a progressive Republican and Floyd Olson's running mate.

* Pre-German rework, Hermann Goering was the starting leader of Mittelafrika, and could potentially seek to assume absolute power and carry out horrific atrocities against the native population. He was replaced by Karl Ritter on the basis that his route ends up creating the implication that the only reason that Mittelafrika was so horrible was because it was run by Nazi-adjunct figures and not because of more systemic issues tied to German colonialism[[note]]which itself was responsible for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_and_Namaqua_genocide genocides]] perpetuated in what is now Nambia against the Herero and Nama ethnic groups, well before the Nazis even took power[[/note]] as a whole and that all he does is exist as a failstate collapse path for Mittleafrika, which deprives Germany of any support during the Second Weltkrieg from their external colonies.

* Prior to the Germany rework, the most furthest right path for the American Union State was the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Silver]] [[TheKlan Legion]] under William Dudley Pelley. This path was removed on the basis that the entire premise of the KKK and far-right spiritualist nutcases taking over the US was extremely tasteless, that there was nothing for the player to do in that route except be as pointlessly evil as possible, and that Pelley's imposition of extreme racist laws ultimately severely weaken the United States and would make playing a extreme right AUS extremely difficult for the player outside of memes and VideoGameCrueltyPotential. Post German Rework, Pelley has been replaced as the Natpop route with Huey Long himself, who starts off as Natpop and can remain Natpop if he follows through with his principles, or compromise with the establishment as an Authoritarian Democrat. In addition, a moderate authdem path has been added for the American Union State representing elements of the AFP increasingly opposed to Long's dictatorial policies.

* Prior to the Germany rework, the most furthest right path for the American Union State was the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Silver]] [[TheKlan Legion]] under William Dudley Pelley. This path was removed on the basis that there is nothing for the player to do except be pointlessly evil, and that Pelley's imposition of extreme racist laws ultimately severely weaken the United States and would make playing a extreme right AUS extremely difficult for the player outside of memes and VideoGameCrueltyPotential. Post German Rework, Pelley has been replaced as the Natpop route with Huey Long himself, who starts off as Natpop and can remain Natpop if he follows through with his principles, or compromise with the establishment as an Authoritarian Democrat. In addition, a moderate authdem path has been added for the American Union State representing elements of the AFP increasingly opposed to Long's dictatorial policies.

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* Pre-German rework, Hermann Goering was the starting leader of Mittleafrika, and could potentially seek to assume absolute power and carry out horrific atrocities against the native population. He was replaced by Karl Ritter on the basis that his route ends up creating the implication that the only reason that Mittleafrika was so horrible was because it was run by Nazi-adjunct figures and not because of more systemic issues tied to German colonialism[[note]]which itself was responsible for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_and_Namaqua_genocide genocides]] perpetuated in what is now Nambia against the Herero and Nama ethnic groups, well before the Nazis even took power[[/note]] as a whole and that all he does is exist as a failstate collapse path for Mittleafrika, which deprives Germany of any support during the Second Weltkrieg from their external colonies.

* Prior to the Germany rework, the most furthest right path for the American Union State was the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Silver]] [[TheKlan Legion]] under William Dudley Pelley. This path on the basis that there is nothing for the player to do except be pointlessly evil, and that Pelley's imposition of extreme racist laws ultimately severely weaken the United States and would make playing a extreme right AUS extremely difficult for the player outside of memes and VideoGameCrueltyPotential. Post German Rework, Pelley has been replaced as the Natpop route with Huey Long himself, who starts off as Natpop and can remain Natpop if he follows through with his principles, or compromise with the establishment as an Authoritarian Democrat.

* Originally, Germany broke through the North Sea blockade by being victorious in a Second Battle of Jutland, a scenario that is considered to be very unlikely. The current lore cuts the battle and replaces it with an incident where a British submarine torpedoes an American vessel founting the blockade and killing several Americans, leading to Britain lightening the blockade, both of which are far more plausible.

* The original lore for Pu Yi's restoration apparently involved Chinese republicans ''inviting Puyi back onto the throne'' because they were ''sick with democracy''. The ridiculous scenario was replaced with the Zhili clique opportunistically restoring Pu Yi to court German favors in the China rework.

* The update of National France originally included a second national populist path led by George Groussard, a military officer who historically resisted the Vichy regime from within. The path would have featured a 'Stratocratic Republic' ruled by the Oriflamme, an offshoot of the social liberal Parti Radical named after the medieval French symbol of the same name. The Oriflamme regime would have launched a "Great Crusade for Democracy" while demonizing any opposition as autocratic despite its own ideology.

* The National France update was originally going to include a second national populist path led by George Groussard, a military officer who historically resisted the Vichy regime from within. The path would have featured a 'Stratocratic Republic' ruled by the Oriflamme, an offshoot of the social liberal Parti Radical named after the medieval French symbol of the same name. The Oriflamme regime would have launched a "Great Crusade for Democracy" and demonized any opposition as autocratic despite their own ideology.

* Prior to the China rework, Jiang Qing, UsefulNotes/MaoZedong's wife and leader of the hardline "Gang of Four" in real life, can set herself up as a [[DragonLady Triad boss]] ruling Legation Shanghai.
** Prior to the rework, the Triads can actually take over the Legation Cities and run the city as a pseudo-government. This can lead to intervention from several major nations (including Japan and Canada), resulting in them declaring war on the Cities, and usually defeating them easily.

* [[UsefulNotes/TELawrence Thomas Edward Lawrence]] of Arabian fame was formerly a path for the Union of Britain. In earlier versions, he stayed in Britain and survived his historical death in 1935. During the Second Weltkrieg, he would lead an underground resistance campaign in Germany (leading to the nickname "Lawrence of Germania"), and could coup Mosley and either restore Syndicalism, keep himself in charge, or [[MoleInCharge invite the exiled monarchy back onto Britain]]. His path was removed and he was instead made a possible recruit for Canada's intellegince agency, and since 0.11, the only way to bring back the UK is through a victorious Entente invasion of Britain.

* In earlier versions of KR, there was exactly one path that prevents the Second American Civil War (from Floyd Olson or Charles Curtis before him). It has been removed as of [=KR4=] 0.9.
* Before [=KR4=] 0.8, Charles Curtis was a Republican candidate in 1936 elections and the instrumental figure in the path that prevents the Second American Civil War. After the update, Curtis gave way to Alf Landon as a Republican presidential candidate and to Floyd Olson as a candidate who can prevent the Civil War. In another update after that, the path to avoid the Civil War was cut entirely.

* Prior to 0.8, the PSA was characterized as a separatist state [[OneNationUnderCopyright dominated]] by {{Mega Corp}}s who wanted to preserve their profits. After 0.8, however, they became the last bastion of American democracy in the face of [[CommieLand Reed]], [[PresidentForLife Long]], and [[MilitaryCoup MacArthur]].

* The original setup for China was completely different to its current incarnation. The country (excluding Tibet and Mongolia) was originally divided between just the Qing, the Fengtian Republic, the Allgemeine Ostasien-Gesellschaft, the Shangqing Tianguo, the Yunnan Clique (led by Long Yun from the start, and also fully controls Sichuan), the Ma Clique (who controlls all of Northwest China, including Xinjiang), and the Legation Cities.