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  1.  @nathanbrown8680  Goeben is also the most historically significant ship that most people have never heard of. WW1 would've probably been much shorter had she not managed to reach an Ottoman port (since while an alliance already existed on paper between the Ottoman and German empires, the Ottoman government was pretty much split down the middle on whether to actually join the way). Without Ottoman forces freeing up more German troops for the Western Front, Germany's defeat would likely have been rather more decisive, perhaps forestalling the "stab in the back" mythology that helped the Nazis come to power. Staying out of WW1 also would've extended the life of the Ottoman Empire, and whenever the inevitable collapse came it wouldn't have left the Ottoman territories under British and French occupation. Meaning that the disastrously drawn borders that gave us the modern Middle East wouldn't have happened. The war also would've ended before the US would've entered, and before the Russian Revolution would've happened. Thus, the US would've had less influence on the world stage going into the 20s, and it's possible that Communism never would have become a major factor in the world. (There's a strong possibility that the February Revolution would still happen, but without the Provisional Government having a war to pledge they'd keep fighting and without Germany sending Lenin back to Russia to cause trouble, the October Revolution becomes unlikely.) In short, if Goeben had been sunk in 1914, the world today would be almost unrecognizable.
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