1941

Had Leningrad been captured by the Wehrmacht in 1941(the Germans clear out the left bank of the Volkhov instead of attacking Tikhvin) or 1942 (Operation Nordlicht instead of Storfang), would Finland have become an SSR after the end of the war? Yes, in a typically convoluted manner, Stalin could...

So, in a scenario inwhich the Italians do not enter WW2 during the fall of France, and thus the African and Balkan campaigns don't happen, how could the Germans fare on their own during and after their invasion of the Soviet Union? As a rule for the thread, Romania and Finland can join the war...

(Got the idea from this thread) When it became clear to Stalin that the Germans were invading the Soviet Union, his response was... less than admirable. He lashed out in anger and fear, then shut himself up in his dacha for three days refusing all outside contact. Once Molotov and some others...

So, I’ve been reading the Fall of France and it really seems like the Allies lost due to a huge strategic blunder. That being rushing into the Low Countries and being completely cut off through the Ardennes. The best and most well equipped Allied divisions being annihilated or abandoning their...

Second of the Scharnhorst class, Gneisenau was an unlucky ship, meeting her demise as an active combat ship due to an unlucky bomb hit in February 1942, after the Channel Dash. However, perusing her Wikipedia page, this comes up...

Whether its reinforcing the PI early in the war, deploying more B-17s, or at least more USN submarines in the region, How will these prevent the Japanese conquest of the Philippines?

Ok so seeing as today is the day of the attack I decided to whip up an alternate history scenario. The video below is more to set it up. - - What happens if due to better intelligence-gathering the United States knows about the attack on Pearl Harbor some time before it happens. So the loss of...

In Fateful Choices, Ian Kershaw writes the following in the context of the choices available to Stalin after the Nazi victories in the West. What if Stalin had approved Zhukov's plan? Certainly the time for manoeuvre was limited (although they did not know this for certain at the time) and any...

What if the US Pacific Fleet stayed based in San Diego, while the US kept all other relations with Japan as OTL. Instead of an attack on Pearl Harbour to open the war, could Japan have pulled some kind of submarine attack on the Fleet at anchor on the West Coast? Some combination of mass...

"What do I do now?" the old man asked himself. His face bore heavy traces of sweat, making it glisten under the compartment's dim light. He adjusted his glasses with a shaky hand. With his mind racing, he had already forgotten the names of two men that left him to his thoughts barely two minutes...

What if the Turkish Straits Crisis escalated earlier, the Turks refuse to let Soviet shipping through (as a statement against communism or something), and Stalin decided to invade Turkey in early 1941? Probably February 1941. How would a Soviet invasion of Turkey perform given the resources...

Suppose that the Germans had been able to capture Moscow before the end of 1941. How serious a blow would this have been to the Soviet Union?