AHC: Make WWII as bad as possible

One possibility:

On the Eastern Front, Germany does better in 1941/42 (taking Stalingrad in the summer, sparing tens of thousands ds of casualties, or taking Moscow in 1941). This sets the Sovs back several months, and Berlin falls in late 1945.

On the Western Front, the Allies launch Operation Roundup in 1942. The invasion is a failure, and hundreds of thousands of allied troops (mostly british) are killed and captured in late 1942/early 1943. Churchill advocates invading France from the Med as an alternative to Overlord.

Torch is pushed to 43, Husky/Avalanche take place in late 1943/early 1944. Dragoon takes place in late 1944, and the allies are bogged down in the Vosges Mountains like in OTL. The allies break through in 1945, but they have to clear the channel coast before driving to the Rhine. As a result, the allies meet the Sovs near the Rhine, instead of the Elbe as in OTL.

In the Pacific, just copy and paste Red's Decisive Darkness TL. The Japanese fight on after the nukes are dropped, so the US invades Kyushu and Honshu while the Sovs invade Hokkaido and take all of Korea. millions of deaths, Japan divided, and Asia laid to waste.

Stalin might be more willing to take on the West in this TL, so you could see the Sovs invading France and fighting the US in Japan.

Now if we can get the Brits to launch Op Vegetarian or South America to get in the war...
 
One possibility:

On the Eastern Front, Germany does better in 1941/42 (taking Stalingrad in the summer, sparing tens of thousands ds of casualties, or taking Moscow in 1941). This sets the Sovs back several months, and Berlin falls in late 1945.

On the Western Front, the Allies launch Operation Roundup in 1942. The invasion is a failure, and hundreds of thousands of allied troops (mostly british) are killed and captured in late 1942/early 1943. Churchill advocates invading France from the Med as an alternative to Overlord.

Torch is pushed to 43, Husky/Avalanche take place in late 1943/early 1944. Dragoon takes place in late 1944, and the allies are bogged down in the Vosges Mountains like in OTL. The allies break through in 1945, but they have to clear the channel coast before driving to the Rhine. As a result, the allies meet the Sovs near the Rhine, instead of the Elbe as in OTL.

In the Pacific, just copy and paste Red's Decisive Darkness TL. The Japanese fight on after the nukes are dropped, so the US invades Kyushu and Honshu while the Sovs invade Hokkaido and take all of Korea. millions of deaths, Japan divided, and Asia laid to waste.

Stalin might be more willing to take on the West in this TL, so you could see the Sovs invading France and fighting the US in Japan.

Now if we can get the Brits to launch Op Vegetarian or South America to get in the war...
If we can get the Falangistas on power in Spain, they can try to retake their former American colonies. Some side with them, others against them.
 
If we can get the Falangistas on power in Spain, they can try to retake their former American colonies. Some side with them, others against them.
Speaking of Spain, what if Franco loses the Civil War, and Spain joins the allies?

Germany invades in 1940 and either occupies the nation or makes it into a puppet state along the lines of Vichy. The Brits lose Gibralter, and once the WAllies are preparing to invade Europe, they now have to attack Spain to guard their flanks. This could buy the Nazis a few months in the West
 
Wouldn't having to also garrison Spain against naval invasion make the defenses much weaker? The Atlantic Wall would be even longer.
 
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