AHC/WI: How would WWII turn out with a transcontinental Axis Powers?

With a POD in the Interwar period, let's assume that a Eurasian nation joined the Axis Powers due to either:

- No USSR. Russia becomes fascist, or remain a monarchy
- A resurgent Germany with a different leader who could tolerate a communist ally.
- A communist Germany allied with the Soviets
- Other plausible reasons

The end game should be Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia/USSR, etc. in the Axis Powers, and the Allies are US, UK, France, etc.

How would WWII turn out with this setup?
 
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Victory via conventional warfare is right out. Victory via nuclear bombardment is possible, assuming the altered Axis alliance does not ultimately manage to produce nuclear ordinance themselves..
 
Hitler made some decisions that changed the course of history.The Nazis found out about an atom bomb but they did not give them the money to build on and to mass product a faster airplane than the allies.

But y'all missing the point.The USSR was part of the Axis from 1939-41. When the Nazis invaded Soivet Russia,the USSR became part of the Allies from Stalingrad til the end of the war.
 
Yeah, Germany and USSR were never technically allied; Russia was a 'co-belligerent' in the invasion of Poland.
 
Hitler made some decisions that changed the course of history.The Nazis found out about an atom bomb but they did not give them the money to build on and to mass product a faster airplane than the allies.

The WWII German atomic bomb project was a joke. Not only had Heisenberg screwed up the calculations for how much uranium was required, but he had also been completely wrong about the reaction itself. If the project had ever proceeded the ensuing nuclear accident would have killed virtually every scientist involved, and irradiated a good swath of Germany. As for the Swallow, speed isn't everything, and it couldn't do much beyond go fast. The engine was made of shitty materials (because Germany didn't have access to the higher quality ones) it could only operate for something like 300 hours, total, before having to be replaced.

Anyhoo, to the OP. Basically the main problem is the same as happens in any alternate WWII scenario. The answer can be summed up as "the United States takes its other hand out from behind its back." America has such a massive lead over EVERYONE in industry and production that simply having it on one side gives said side an overwhelming industrial advantage.

Even allied to the USSR Japan will not be able to win in the Pacific, because the Soviets can project no power in the ocean, which is where Japan desperately needs help if it wants to win.

Meanwhile in Europe his alliance is incapable of striking at the UK for a similiar reason, leaving the Allies able to build up an unassailable position of strength right on the doorstep of their foes. The opposite is not true. There is no position in the Americas to threaten the United States, nor can one be developed.

The end result is probably either nuclear annihilation of the ATL-Axis, or the Allies blocking Europe from international trade, while fighting low level conflicts against them in the Middle East and Asia.
 
I see this devolving into a Cold War. After a the Anglo Americans are ousted from the continent, I don't see them coming back. I think you guys are overstating the power of the nuclear forces of the time. I doubt the Anglo Americans can reach Easten Europe with bombers, if Western, and Central Europan air space is penetrated. By the time ICBMs come in to it the Axis/Comintern will have nukes of there own. Also you are forgetting the German Nerve Gas, and the USSR's biological weapons. Even if the Axis/Comintern Atomic Bomb is s total failure they can and will unleash hell on the UK. Also if German rocketry is anything ITTL like he was OTL, the Axis/Comintern will be able to strike the USA before, the USA can strike them. I'd say that war would never really end, and slowly turn our blue marble into a death marble as slvo after salvo of ICBM are launched.
 
Hitler made some decisions that changed the course of history.The Nazis found out about an atom bomb but they did not give them the money to build on and to mass product a faster airplane than the allies.

But y'all missing the point.The USSR was part of the Axis from 1939-41.

No it wasn't, it was a co-belligerent. VERY big difference. Also the Nazi A-bomb project was so fantastically behind the ball thanks to shutting out so called "Jewish physics" and forcing the various science wings to compete for resources instead of co-operating. What do you mean "since Stalingrad" Finally Nazi/Soviet alliances tend to fail since the Nazi world goal was to gut the USSR for resources and land, enslave or kill a majority of it's population and destroy their political system (Bolshevism). That was their WHOLE fucking game. Though ignoring this enormous factor and allowing this ASB alliance to occur and assuming no backstabbing, a German/Russian alliance would be very formidable, but not with the Nazi's running Germany. If it came down to the wire I'd still put money on the Allies, American industrial potential is beyond staggering.

The OP needs to be clearer on things however, technological advances don't exist in a vacuum and things are going to be very different technology wise.
 
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