fascist italy

In timelines where Fascist Italy either joins the allies (The Footprint of Mussolini), or it remains neutral (La Transizione Imperfetta), Yugoslavia still gets invaded and partitioned by Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria, however, would this actually occur should Italy wish to remain neutral...

8mm to the Left: A World Without Hitler On the 9th of November, 1923, a stray bullet strikes and kills Adolf Hitler during the failed NSDAP Beer Hall Putsch. With the would-be Führer dead on the streets of Munich, the fate of Germany and the world as a whole shifts dramatically… A Crumbling...

This is a timeline idea I had floating around for a month or two, and we'll see how it goes. The short of it is: Mussolini is assassinated in 1934 Balbo takes over Italy neutral in WW2 I will avoid giving more, as the details of the timeline are meant to be trickled slowly. I will also be...

In a situation where fascist Italy remains neutral through WW2, I became curious as to what might happen to East Africa. Everyone always seems to focus only on Europe and Libya, but Italy also had territory in the Dodecanese and East Africa (esp. after the invasion of Abyssinia). Assuming...

Hello everyone i've got a question regarding the Fall of Mussolini in 1943 so... let's say that Balbo stays as air marshal instead of being exiled to Libya thus isn't killed in 1940 and is picked as replacement to Mussolini in 43 instead of Badoglio after the vote of no confidence because he's...

IOTL Fascist Italy took steps to suppress the Sicilian Mafia. Mussolini ordered a man named Cesare Mori to eradicate La Cosa Nostra by any means necessary and gave him his full support. This worked relatively well, with Mori detaining lots of these mafiosi, but it would not be that easy. He...

In the OTL, the Cold War was fought between capitalist states led by the United States, and the communist states led by the Soviet Union. What if the communists were replaced with fascists led by Italy in the ATL? The POD for this scenario is a Central Powers victory leading to an alternate...

Italy and the USSR enjoyed relatively good relations in the interwar period and early stages of WW2, with Fascist Italy being the first country to formally recognize the Soviet government in addition the two countries enjoying strong economic relations and signing a pact of friendship in 1933...

As the title says. What would be things be like for Fascist Italy if they’d stayed neutral or at some point joined the allies? What would their position be in the Cold War and new alliances? Would they be roughly in the same boat as Franco or would they be closer to the west and get in on NATO...

As we all know, Mussolini's Italy and Chiang Kai-sek's China forged a major alliance in their efforts to protect their respective interests in Western Asia, as well as to ostensibly prevent Communist take-overs of allies and neighboring countries. The Anglo-Japanese Alliance was re-forged for...

Tafari Makonnen, then Regent of Ethiopia and heir to the throne, briefly contracted the Spanish Flu, but survived and would eventually become emperor in 1930 after the death of empress Zewditu. WI Zewditu fell ill with the flu and died in 1918, thus putting Haile Selassie on the Ethiopian...

The right-wing coup that kicked off the Spanish Civil War was actually a huge failure for the conspirators, at least at first. Although they took nearly all of the north, important cities like Oviedo, Seville and Córdoba, as well as the colonies (where their best military force, the Army of...

Basically what the title says. This is speculation of course, but what would Mussolini most likely have thought of Fascist Russia, say if Fascist Russia didn't side with the Allies in a hypothetical World War 2? I'm mostly thinking of this being a scenario where Germany becomes communist or...

With Disney’s live-action Mulan remake in the headlines I thought this might make an interesting discussion. It’s inspired by posts from a few months ago: So what if the basic plot of the 1998 animated film was instead transplanted to 1930s Kingdom of Ethiopia? Thus instead of Mulan being...

OTL, the Treaty of Versailles and the construction of Post-WW1 Europe was a complicated affair. Germany was the only Central Power to survive as a major player on european politics, but felt it was betrayed and treated unjustly, despite not actually losing that much land or power. Italy didn't...

This is a thought that entered the pit of madness I have instead of a brain while watching some show about Mussolini, what do you suppose what happen to Fascist Italy in the event of a Nazi victory if Italy remained neutral during the war?

In OTL, a majority of the officers and military leadership in Germany still held loyalties to the Kaiser and the German Empire of old. Suppose that sometime between 1929 and 1936, Hindenburg rallies these officers and those loyal to the old Kaiser in order to oppose Hitler and his Nazi party. If...

Let's say that at some point after he's taken over Italy and made people used to life under fascism, that the duce is served some under cooked *insert animal commonly used in Italian cuisine here* and ends up going to fascist heaven as a result, who would succeed Mussolini, and how would his...

So the subject of a stronger Italy seems to be pretty popular, but I wanted to talk about the opposite. Basically, how can Italy be much weaker than in OTL? What would be some mistakes it could make (before or during the war) so that it could be that terrible?

In a scenario where Benito Mussolini decides to adopt a stance of pro-German neutrality like Franco's Spain did historically instead of joining the Axis, what would the impact of such a decision be? How would the war be affected with Italy staying out of the war? How does the Cold War develop in...