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IMO in a negative sense. The V-1 was so inaccurate that it couldn´t be used to attack airfields or radar stations. Terror attacks wouldn´t break british morale. At teh same time, while crude, they still had to be build and swallowed resources and fuel for one-way trips. So the luftwaffe would...

Historically the western allies demobilized pretty fast after the war ended. The USSR did only to a much smaller amount. But the US had the bomb. In this scenario either the western allies do not demobilize as historical (IMO extremely unlikely both for domestic reasons and becasue they do not...

Plus hitler would have fewer foreign policy successes early in his reign. If the rhineland is not demilitarized, there can be no reoccupation. I believe his successes in overturning the ToV step by step helped him greatly to consolidate power.

No. The were only 3 batallions moving in, and they had orders to withdraw if there would be an intervention. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheinlandbesetzung_(1936)#Einmarsch_deutscher_Truppen_am_7._M.C3.A4rz_1936 Am Morgen des 7. März rückten drei Bataillone der Wehrmacht in das Rheinland ein...

Yes, but IMO unlikely. But if the USSR attacks poland, and UK and france back poland, that would be a great opportunity to get rid of the restrictions of the ToV. "Let us rearm and we join you and supply a couple million troops for the defense against communism" would be attractive for...

I am not sure whether you have to go back that far. IMO you certainly need a pre-39 and probably pre-38 POD. That still leaves 33-37. OTOH I just don´t see the UK participating in a war of aggression against the USSR. They had intervened in the civil war, for little effect. WW1 was something...

It wouldn´t be a british empire, but an indian empire. How racist is india ? If OTOH it would be designed as a "white dominions only" federation, it would be implicitly and maybe even explicitly more racist.

Not just tribal. A three-year siege sounds like "real" war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_Empire#Sack_of_Niani Mama Maghan, mansa of Kangaba, campaigned against the Bamana in 1667 and laid siege to Segou-Koro for a reported three years.[86]

But why should they ? All three had nationalist governments for which "international cooperation" was not exactly natural. Italy was allied with UK and france and only became estranged later over ethiopia. Japan was on the other side of the world. Germany and Japan had been enemies in WW1.

But even if you do that, they still have to compete with human and animal labor as has been pointed out above. It took comparatively very expensive human labor to make it worthwhile to invest into steam engines and their development. Maybe have another plague to make human labor scarce and...

http://www.welt.de/print-welt/article359035/Hitler-zahlte-keine-Einkommensteuer.html Maybe he could get him for tax fraud ?

That is putting it mildly. The GDR had lists of whom to arrest in west germany, how to rename streets, etc.

USSR. The only way the USA could strike first would be a massive nuclear attack. Anything conventional needs NATO, and anything involving NATO is simply impossible due to the need to get at least the major NATO governments to come along. Just imagine the phone calls to london, paris, bonn, rome...

Oops. I just noticed you said "slovenia". The same, only maybe even more so. Youslavia was somewhat pro-german at the time, and italy would have been extremely unhappy.

Completely ASB. Danzig was german till 1919. About 90% of the population were germans. The NSDAP had won the local election in 1933. The weimar republic was not willing to accept the eastern borders as final (no "east locarno"). Slovakia OTOH was a poor part of austria-hungary nobody in germany...

We did in War in Europe. But that´s not really fair/historical, as it assumes good weather in late may / early june. So of course the germans do better.

We did it with the europa series (Fire in the East and Scorched Earth). We cancelled all rules for a german surprise, and let the soviets start one turn earlier. We did have the soviets attack even at not so good odds on their first turn (otherwise they would not have attacked at all), and...

It would also make a major difference when the republicans win and which republicans win: early republicans with a strong anarchist wing possibly willing to cooperate with france in 1939, or later republicans largely dominated by stalinists which might cooperate rather with the...

So "greece" is no longer a member of UN, EU, Schengen, NATO, IMF, ..... I guess negotiations for the new states to join any of these organizations will be "interesting".

http://www.documentarchiv.de/wr.html https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichspr%C3%A4sidentenwahl_1925#cite_note-2 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichspr%C3%A4sidentenwahl_1932#2._Wahlgang The first ballot required an absolute majority, the second only a plurality. The second was not a run-off...