It definitely was a failure of imagination for sure - especially since you're wrong about the border disputes being settled after Khalkhin Gol, border incidents, while never getting as bad as Lake Khasan and Khalkhin Gol, continued after Khalkhin Gol and even after the signing of the Neutrality...
Which makes me wonder, why did they expect the USSR to be supporting them in the first place? Did they not think that the USSR wanted to destroy them in 1945 (which they indeed wanted to do, they viewed Imperial Japan as a threat too, at times probably just as much as Nazi Germany)?
If Stalin had committed suicide after the fall of Minsk and Barbarossa succeeded due to the Soviet government collapsing, I'd bet that the Soviet Union would probably be viewed as being less likely to have stood a chance of successfully fighting against the Nazis than France did.
One thing is certainly going to happen - if Leningrad fell in 1941 or 1942, on top of more people starving to death in Leningrad, the Nazis are going to destroy as much of the city as possible before the Soviets can retake it.
Hitler actually already believed by November 1937 at the latest that Britain was a "hate-inspired antagonist" that didn't want Germany to be strengthened further, even if he believed that difficulties in the Empire and unwillingness to get involved in another long European war had already caused...
The Joint Estimate of the Situation in War Plan Red did state that Japan being allied with Britain against the US would be a possibility if Britain decided to go to war against the US.
Yeah, Mondale was trailing far behind, which is why he isn't going to pass on the 2nd debate - he was hoping that another victory would narrow the gap further. Incidentally, "I will not make age an issue in this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and...
Pretty sure the Anschluss would also happen at around the same time or earlier than the invasion of Czechoslovakia if Hitler decides that conditions are favorable due to France falling into civil war.
Interestingly, Hitler in November 1937 stated that a French civil war would be one of two scenarios (the other being France getting into a war with Italy, which he predicted would happen in Summer 1938) that would cause him to immediately order an invasion of Czechoslovakia. Of course, Hitler...
Maybe, but I don't see them as being likely to invade North Korea, especially since the US before the Korean War wasn't exactly eager to give them military aid OTL.
Plus, there was one small messup that Hoover did in his 1932 presidential campaign. He compared his 1932 reelection campaign to Abraham Lincoln's reelection campaign in 1864, which made Southerners upset at him, to say the least.
Indeed. One of the reasons that the Japanese invaded Attu and Kiska in June 1942 was so they would be in a better position to disrupt communications between the United States and the Soviet Union.