Lets say that Mussolini and German advisers managed to convince Hitler that he shouldn't go to war.
What happens how?
What happens how?
There's a lot more to not having a war over Poland than Mussolini, especially as the Hossbach Memorandum made it clear that the goal of Germany was a general European war. The particular crisis that creates it is incidental to this goal.
I think that Italy and Germany signed a pact in 1939 that no of them will start a new WW.
Lets say that Germany can't get a NAP with USSR and that's the main reason to stop the invasion in Poland.
Ok last chanse Hitler gets an hart attack and dies in July 1939.
First of all everything stays like it is in the spring of 1939.
Germany: Hess takes power around November. A lot of the money that would go into the military is now used for research.
Italy: After taking Albania The Italian military can now rest and Italy has now some time to prepare for the upcoming war.
GB and France are thinking that they managed to trick Germany so nothing really changes there (Churchil is no longer prime minister).
USSR BIG ? here I think Stalin won't be aggressive so no winter war or other offenses.
Japan I think that Japan will send more effort in China and less for the JEN(Japan Imperial navy)
USA Big ? here too will Roosevelt get a third mandate.
I think the WW2 will start in 1942 But everything is like a cloud from here on.
Germany: Hess takes power around November. A lot of the money that would go into the military is now used for research.
Japan I think that Japan will send more effort in China and less for the JEN(Japan Imperial navy)
USA Big ? here too will Roosevelt get a third mandate.
"How about Stalin continue to demand territories from those Nation states bordering his Western Approaches and while he swallows the Baltic States,"
I think Stalin thought that sooner or later there will be a war between UK/France vs. Germany and I assumed that this war might exhausted all capitalistic/fascist nation(like WW1). That means the only thing he has to do is to wait!
The question was what if Germany doesn't invade Poland. Let's go back to that and not posit this idea of Hitler dying.
Let's say Hitler wises up and realizes that invading Poland means war with Britain and France and he's not so arrogant to think he can get a quick victory. So he looks else where, since as has been pointed out, he needs a war now.
So what if he invades Hungary?