AHC: Italy as a major power

Best way is that Italy remain neutral during WW1 or even neutral during WW2 but first one would be better. Italy economy would rise and it can keep Libya and finally find oil from there. That way you probably get so powerful Italy as possible.
 
Something that gives Italy a better experience in WW1 - maybe engineering an earlier collapse/peace with Austria so the strain of the war doesn't become too much
 

BigBlueBox

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Italy has no mutilated peace, it receives everything promised to it in the Treaty of Rome after World War 1. This leaves Italy as a much stabler country in the interwar.
 
-Russia does much better in early WWI

-Italy stays out for longer anyway, selling to both sides

-Italy discovers oil in Libya around 1915 and has the US begin to help setting up drilling capabilities by 1920.

-Russia drops out of War in late 1917, with the factors of a better start and no Italy largely canceling out.

-Germany launches failed Spring Offensive, Italy joins Allies in summer 1918, forces AH defeat in fall while suffering almost no casualties.

-No political instability or Fascist incompetence post war

-Only limited political instability during Depression

-Oil coming out of ground by 1935, substantial amounts by 1940

-Italian majority in Libya in 1940, no Ethiopia War

-Almost no WWI, no Ethiopian War, no sanctions, no corporatist Fascist economics, oil production makes Italy much wealthier and slightly more populace by 1940.

-WWII breaks out, stay neutral and sell to both sides. Assuming a Dday in 1944, join the Allies at that point to get a seat at the victory table. Send token forces to help fight Japan after Germany gets beat.

-By 1946, Italy is richer than almost all of Europe.

-Start developing nuclear weapons, get permanent seat on UN Security Council, gets Marshal Aid, join NATO, help found EEC

-Remove Malaria from Italy and colonies. Step up colonization efforts in Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia.

-Get nukes.

-Don’t do anything dumb.

-Spend 3% of your GDP on defense in the 21st century




By 2018, this should get us an Italy that is as wealthy as Germany, has a conventional military superior to Britain and France, its own nuclear arsenal, and a population larger than Britain.
 
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