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I have some sort of idea or scenario in my mind, which I'll describe below. Your challenge is to make it plausible with a POD after 1900.

After World War I, Germany gets a less harsh peace. Alsace-Lorraine is lost, as well as Posen and the Polish corridor, but Danzig and Upper Silesia remain German. Austria-Hungary is detroyed, but less harshly as in OTL. Hungary can keep Crisana and some other areas with a Hungarian majority, like OTL's southern Slovakia and a part of Banat. Slovakia is created too, but has less land in the south and gets Carpathian Ruthenia too. Hence, the country is called Slovako-Carpathia (or, informally, Slovakia-Ruthenia). Czechoslovakia is never formed. Bohemia and Moravia become separate countries. Czech Silesia is given to Germany and the very south of Bohemia and Moravia is partly given to Austria. Burgenland is Hungarian territory and Galicia is Polish. Lithuania, Courland, Livonia, Latvia and Estonia are created and are expanded eastwards a bit. Lithuania is expanded southwards too. However, that territory is only de jure possessed, as the Soviets occupy it since they haven't signed the peace treaty. Belarus is created but immediately occupied by the Soviet Union. The Balkans are an unstable region with Serbia, Slovenia (also called Carniola), Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Slavonia, Dalmatia, the free cities of Trieste and Ragusa, both under Italian adiminstration, Bulgaria (only the north; without eastern Rumelia), the Romanian Federation, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia (the entire region), Albania (with southern Epirus), Greece (without southern Epirus and Macedonia, but with the area around Smyrna, all islands in the Aegean Sea, the Ionian Islands, the peninsula of Chalkidiki, Thessaly and the Gallipoli peninsula) and Turkey (the Ottomans have lost Hejaz, Armenia, Kurdistan and parts of Mesopotamia, but still have the north of Levant, while having lost Syria, partly, and Judea and Palestine, but they still have Thrace and eastern Rumelia). And the Sinai is jointly administered by Turkey and Egypt, which is now independent and possesses Sudan and Nubia, but not OTL's South Sudan, which is British Nuer. I won't explain all changes in Africa, that's something you can create, imagine or whatever yourself.

Anyway, the peace is different after World War I and France experiences a radical change in government towards national-socialism, just like Germany. France, Germany and Austria become allied countries. National-socialism rises earlier than OTL and after a couple of years, Germany (after Hitler having gained power, though not as autocratic as OTL) argues in a League of Nations conference that there should be a plebiscite on whether areas with german majority in the Polish corridor should become German. A crisis erupts over this question and tempers get very frayed between Britain (plus its dominions) and the US on the one side, and the fascists on the other. Italy, by the way, is not fascist and is almost Switzerland-like peaceful, democratic, neutral and isolationist. When a solution is almost found, unrest starts in German Upper Silesia where Poles are in majority. Similarly, there is afeeling that problems are going to arise in German majority areas in Poland, Slovenia and the Czech nations. World War II eventually starts, when Hitler doesn't do what he has promised - he invades the Polish corridor right away and the rest of Poland is invaded shortly thereafter. Britain and the US immediately declare war on Germany and its allies. Hitler's aim is to expand Germany eastwards (Poland and the Baltic, and possibly even Ukraine, Crimea and further into the Soviet Union) and he wants to re-create the Austrian Empire and the French Empire. Spain and Portugal join the allies when the Facist Axis (France in this case) invades the Iberian peninsula.

Anyway, World War II goes on and on... But then Hitler dies in combat. A more moderate leader takes over power. A stalemate is formed. the war comes to an end when the Allies finally defeat the Fascist Axis after a succesful attack simultaneously in Britanny and northern Germany.

What I 'want' to happen after the end of World War II, is another war, World War III, in which the Allies overthrow communism in the Soviet Union. A democratic Russia is established. I also need a POD and background behind this.

And maybe, but that's just a random idea, there could also be a World War IV. The fascists flee to South America and set up fascist dictatorships there. The people in South America don't manage to overthrow those autocratic goverments, so the Allies intervene in the situation.

What do you think? And what could be a post-1900 POD?
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