world war ii

What is the absolute most territory the western allies could've liberated in WWII? Were there any otl plans that had the possibility of a major western push? The only two countries I see as inevitably Soviet spoils are Poland due to it's unfortunate location and East Germany due to commitments...

This is a collaboration with Ameck16: After Japan surrendered after World War II, the country was placed under Allied occupation. The country was divided into four zones, looking very similar as to how Germany was divided in the aftermath of the war. One section of Japan was under United...

President Franklin D Roosevelt was close to running for a record 4th term in 1944 before he of course decided not to due to the advice from his doctors. FDR’s popularity of course led Vice President Henry Wallace to get the nomination despite a strong challenge from Missouri Senator Harry...

This is scenario that's been in my head for a couple of times now. One thing I learned is that Japan wanted the United States to abandon the Asia-Pacific in order to respect its imperial ambitions. Of course, the Japanese messed up at Pearl Harbor and learned the hard way not to awake the...

The Soviet Union planed on invading Hokkaido during the brief Soviet Japanese War in August 1945 however a week or 2 before the planned invasion the Japanese of course surrendered. Truman at the Yalta conference gave a ok to the Soviets taking the Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands however I think...

Similar to the scenario of the game Paradise Lost.

Like it says on the tin. Say the Saar Offensive is a smashing French success, the Sickle Cut is a humiliating failure, whatever. Either way, the Allies reach Berlin in 1940 or 41 at the latest. What does post-war Europe look like? Does Germany still get carved up? Would some of the countries...

Would he be tried for wars crimes? Or would he be a officer for the JMSDF by 1954 just like how Minuro Genda became third Chief of Staff of the JASDF? Or would he run for politics such as the Diet?

On Jun 23, 1941, a day after the beginning of Operation Barbarossa Hitler breaks his neck when he trips and falls down a flight of stairs while Stalin suffers a stroke that takes his life. Who are there likely successors and how does this affect the war?

Prologue In June 1941 the separate wars in China and Europe already known as World War II exploded into a truly global struggle as the United States and Soviet Union were both drawn fully into the fray. It is generally known the true consequences of this and the critical miscalculation that...

In most of the Western world, the mainstream perception is that Hitler was history's greatest monster, while Mussolini was his bumbling sidekick. Your challenge is to have this be the other way around.

Good day lads, Some of you may know that I'm working on now alternative story timeline with many points of divergence , the first one being a creation of Israel 10 years prior our timeline, occupation of Romania because a prime Minister wasn't assassinated, and a fictional stealthish bombing...

With a POD any time after Mussolini coming to power, can Italy be made neutral or even allied in WW2? What effects would this have on postwar Italy?

I'm not familiar with Thai politics of the time so I have no clue how plausible this is. However, it occurs to me that Thai co-belligerence was a major boon to Japan's war effort in mainland Southeast Asia.

During the Beer Hall Putsch, Hermann Goering suffered a bullet wound to his leg. The treatment he received caused him to become addicted to morphine, an addiction that would persist until the last year of his life. Many historians believe that his addiction adversely affected his performance...

Could Japan have won the Battle of Midway? How would that affect World War II?

Which of the following would have been more costly for the Western Allies (the United States, the United Kingdom, etc.) in terms of blood and treasure that would have been spent: Operation Unthinkable (that is, a war with the USSR launched almost immediately after the defeat of Nazi Germany...

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?

Spoilers for a movie that is over ten years old are ahead. So, on a superficial level, Inglourious Basterds would have left Nazi Germany and the entire European Theater of World War II in a spot quite similar to the scenarios often spun on this site and elsewhere about a successful 20 July...

In the Second Great War (commonly known as World War II), the Axis Powers represented right wing authoritarian nations like Germany, Italy, Japan, and Spain. The Allied Powers represented more left-wing nations such as the Soviet Union and China. The three major Western Powers (Britain, France...