Alternate powers in WWII

How about an independent Israel is created in Palestine early on in the aftermath of World War 1 and by the start of TTL's World War 2, is something of a small regional power and joins the allies.
 
A Germany ruled by a conservative, authoritarian military regime, allied to Stalin's Soviet Union and a quasi-fascist China, versus France, Britain, Italy, Japan and anybody else who wanted a go, while the US disapproves of all of them from the sidelines?

An aggressively expansionist Trotskyist USSR versus an unlikely alliance of Poland, SPD-controlled Germany and France?

A totalitarian Longist USA engaged in a maritime war of two fronts versus Britain and that bastion of parliamentary democracy, Imperial Japan? Those US Marines fighting tooth and nail to take Iceland off the Brits have got it easy compared to the American U-boat crews taking 83% casualties trying to cut off the Japanese LOC between the home islands and Alaska...
 
Well, yeah, I meant an even greater victory and not just the miracle on the Vistula, possibly with Poland taking territory from the Soviets.

I am somewhat dubious about timelines that start with "And then, an even bigger Miracle happens!" :D

Bruce
 
Well, yeah, I meant an even greater victory and not just the miracle on the Vistula, possibly with Poland taking territory from the Soviets.

They did that, too.

:p;)

To be serious, the Poles were winning the war before Red Army started fighting, which figures. What the map you just posted represents is the situation after the Red Army has just finished destroying the Volunteers. It was Pilsudski's articulated policy to sniff his way forward into Belarus and Volhynia, linking up with Poland's local partisans, and let the Reds defeat their internal opposition; and the Reds in turn never met the Poles with real armies after "Target Vistula", which was actually a gigantic recce-in-force to see what they could grab easily and not a real attempt to crush anyone: "Whoops, these Estonians are pretty tough, we'll wind that one up."

In June 1920, the Poles have just swallowed up the chewed remains of the Ukrainian Directorate as another local partisan and proceeded to make an over-ambitious lunge into the flanks of a Red Army shaking itself off for a moment after driving the Volunteers into the Crimea. In weeks, this overstretch will predictably result in a thorough manhandling from the Red Army which comes a bit too close to threatening the very existence of the Polish state (although personally I regard the Vistula as a cinematic but likely victory for the Poles rather than divine deliverance: the Red Army was a long way from home and not very good).

Had the Red Army not overstretched itself in turn, allowing a Polish recovery after which the Soviets decided to cut their losses, and had instead just stopped at the edge of the Pripet marshes and given the Poles a dishing in Galicia, they would probably have taken the better part of the Kresy and kept it. The Poles got pretty far east in OTL, perhaps (many Poles agree) further than they should have.
 
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