AHC: French-Italian Interbellum war

Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to force France and Italy to wage war againt each other in what is today regarded as the Interwar period (1918.-1939.). Begin!
 
Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to force France and Italy to wage war againt each other in what is today regarded as the Interwar period (1918.-1939.). Begin!

Such a war is very likely to involve other powers, especially power who side with France. My bet is that, if Italy stands alone, there would be quick and painful, albeit not necessarily total, defeat for Italy (of course, if the Italians are so sensible to ask for terms, which may not be assured, since they would not have had the sense not go to a doomed war in the first place).
Interbellum was quite plenty of Italo-French divergences, it's not hard to imagine some if them escalate: Libyan frontiers, Spain, firmer French stance about Ethiopia, plenty of that.
The relatively "hard" part is to have fooler Italian rules, that are really willing to at war.
 
Have Fance go Fascist, and Hitler choose them as an ally over Mussolini. Hitler gets anschluss with the support of his French ally (with whom he has secret treaties pertaining to the dividing up of Belgium and parts of Italy between them) who later goes to war against Italy.
 

yourworstnightmare

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Italy ally with Hungary and Bulgaria to take down Yugoslavia. Romania and Greece join in to protect the Yugoslavs, but Italy still have an edge. France declare war on Italy to protect French interests in the Balkans.
 
Have Fance go Fascist, and Hitler choose them as an ally over Mussolini. Hitler gets anschluss with the support of his French ally (with whom he has secret treaties pertaining to the dividing up of Belgium and parts of Italy between them) who later goes to war against Italy.

That doesn't sound like an ill-thought out computer game scenario.
 

yourworstnightmare

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Have Fance go Fascist, and Hitler choose them as an ally over Mussolini. Hitler gets anschluss with the support of his French ally (with whom he has secret treaties pertaining to the dividing up of Belgium and parts of Italy between them) who later goes to war against Italy.
French Fascists hated Hitler.
 

Frentanus

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Asb makes mussolini more hitler-like, and he declares war in order to annex french colonies (fascists claimed even Benin and Camerun in the 30's) and nice and savoy.
In a war during the 20's italy will have better chances than later, but anyway the most likely outcome is a stalemate on the alps and a fast french conquer of libya. Then, italy surrenders.
 
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