What? :confused: The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed on August 23rd, 1939 OTL (though it may of course be later or earlier in an ATL depending on circumstances) and with no Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact much of the Wehrmacht's higher echelons would have been opposed to a war with Poland since it...
Butterflies, more Sinophiles in the British government and/or in the ruling administration of Singapore, perhaps a more aggressive Chinese nationalist movement in Singapore, a more extensive campaign where Singapore is thoroughly devastated by the Japanese in a longer battle and the costs of...
A PoD of 1949 is pretty implausible. However, a PoD sometime in the 1930s or even later in the 1940s could work, with many flukes of luck for Nationalist China in Singapore, a stronger and more aggressive Nationalist China with better relations with the British (or abysmal if they want to take...
Any best case scenario for Communism would be pretty one-sided. :p
First you could have butterflies change his mind - Hitler was quite a dynamic individual and most of his views weren't really set in stone other than the obvious eventual war with the Soviet Union which had to come at sometime...
Indeed. I suppose to have a more united left, you'd either need Italy to become a refuge for Communist exiles from the Soviet Union (but it's unlikely they would be beneficial, being perhaps even more divisive and generally implausible that such a situation would even occur), a charismatic...
Well, with an exceptionally unnatural (what some would call ASB, I suppose) level of luck (though looking back at it, Hitler's rise to power and successes until 1942 might also seem very unnatural in some regard) for Communism, you could have almost all of Afro-Eurasia be red by the early 1960s...
I suppose so, but Soviet aid on the level of the OTL Spanish Civil War (supplying aircraft, tanks, artillery, munitions, arms, etcetera) would not be too unfeasible and if there were large defections from the Royal Italian Army then the Communists would perhaps possess the expertise to operate...
I think the problem with Red Turin was the fact that they caused the Fascist movements to become more popular because of Red Turin's violent nature and clashes with the government. The lack of a Red Turin paramilitary group would perhaps soften the threat of Communism in Victor Emmanuel III's...
Some historical knowledge is being gained as members have posted similar or close events that occurred in history, but if you believe it is not enough then shouldn't the entire section of future history be shut down?
No one is trying to feel "cool" from what I can see, and it's obvious you have...
I'd assume that Lyndon B. Johnson could take over the majority of the president's roles (other than maybe decisions of the very highest regard, such as perhaps declaring war and ordering a nuclear strike which he wouldn't really need to do conceivably for the next several months anyway)...
Your only point is that it is unacceptable to talk about how a real-life event could have become tragic because
1. It's too soon.
2. We do not have enough knowledge of what effect it could have.
My counter was that:
1. If you go down the line that it is too soon and remove this thread, then...
First Victor Emmanuel III becomes disapproving of Fascism rather than quietly approving as in OTL. Next, the government takes a more hardline stance against the March on Rome and ultimately a short Fascist uprising is crushed in a brutal but costly campaign which destroys the most economically...
:rolleyes: 9/11 was an actual tragedy that occurred whereas this was not OTL, and try to suggest that (the notion that it is acceptable to talk about a worse 9/11 simply because of time that has passed) to the families of those killed in the attack. If people wished to discuss such topics then...
Easy, an even worse Great Depression which leads France to cut the defence expenditure to a greater amount and more stiff opposition from other French military leaders and politicians in regards to a mobile war fought with tanks and aircraft.
This could have the butterfly effect of the French...