...Would the French and British even be able to afford a peacetime rearmament? They barely afforded a wartime rearmament.So this is after Germany has taken over Czechoslovakia but before they attacked Poland? Hitler really wouldn't have backed down at that point since after Munich he thought that France and Britain were only paying lip service to their alliances at that point.
But, if he did decide to stop before invading Poland then all he does is buy France and Britain time to properly prepare themselves for the oncoming war. Ultimately it doesn't work in Germany's favor since their OTL success was due to some novel tactics, incredible ineptitude politically and militarily by the British and French, and a really good string of luck.
Britain and France were already starting to rearm when the Germans started to do so and this dramatically picked up after Munich. The Royal Navy and RAF were initially meant to be fully rearmed and war-ready somewhere between 1940 and 1943. Alongside them, the French general Gamelin had set up a 4 year plan to get the French forces back up to snuff with more of a focus of infantry and armor....Would the French and British even be able to afford a peacetime rearmament? They barely afforded a wartime rearmament.
...Would the French and British even be able to afford a peacetime rearmament? They barely afforded a wartime rearmament.
If WW2 started in 42 Britain would of been 3/4 of the way to the bomb by then.We ordered 400g of uranium hexafloride from ICI in 39. That is before we went down the plutonium route.We were using gaseous diffusion if we kept at it we could of had four or five primitive gun type bombs by late 43 early 44. Game over Britain would be the only superpower until the Soviets tested joe 1 in 49.
So this is after Germany has taken over Czechoslovakia but before they attacked Poland? Hitler really wouldn't have backed down at that point since after Munich he thought that France and Britain were only paying lip service to their alliances at that point.
But, if he did decide to stop before invading Poland then all he does is buy France and Britain time to properly prepare themselves for the oncoming war. Ultimately it doesn't work in Germany's favor since their OTL success was due to some novel tactics, incredible ineptitude politically and militarily by the British and French, and a really good string of luck.
Britain would have had similar improvements though, cannon armed fighters, better armour (without the immediate overriding need for fighters RR can take a little more time to develop the Meteor, but get it out earlier), better radar, etc.If Hitler delayed war to 1942, he would have been in a better position at the beginning of the war against France and GB. France and GB's war doctrine is what lost the the war, and Hitler would have only had more armor, superior FW-190s and more pilots.
If we still get a division of Poland we probably still get the Molotov line, which means dismantling the Stalin line. Similarly, I don't see Stalin holding off the purges for too long, so I wouldn't expect the army to be in a much better position either. The saving grace might be the better technology.Hitler would have still developed the V2 and not the a-bomb and attacking Russian in 1943 would have proved disastrous, as Stalin's border fortifications would have been as well made as the Stalin line OTL and Stalin's army would have been much larger, especially without the Nazis practically doing everything right and killing millions of soldiers in 1941 as per OTL.
If anything Butterflies US entry it's Japan getting pounded to a pulp after the US shuts off the oil and their plan to grab the Southern Resource Area putters out in the face of strong opposition from European powers not occupied with a war in Europe.This all probably butterflies out US intervention, as the moment Hitler ran into a much more formidable Russian foe, he would have never declared war on the US. It is possible u-boat doctrine still would have left to US entry.
Britain would have had similar improvements though, cannon armed fighters, better armour (without the immediate overriding need for fighters RR can take a little more time to develop the Meteor, but get it out earlier), better radar, etc.
Poland gives Germany the corridor...Hitler averts war...but what would he ask for next?
There is the possibility that the Soviets initiate WWII with a 1942 start date. Who knows what will happen then.
Yes would of been sending less men into France. The meteor jets would of played hell with the German bomber crews and the bomb would end WW2 in 45 Japan would pull back after we dropped one on them.
I don't think he would for a little while. Maybe he might put pressure on Poland in 1940 over something, but claim-wise there was nothing in Europe for Germany to reasonably claim after the Corridor. Once Germany gets that revision of the Polish border Hitler just can wait until he's ready for war in 1941-42 and then start trouble then.
Huh? And how would the british come up with it before the Americans?