challenge : An Italian Empire

cashew

Banned
Is it possible to make Italy the most powerful agressor in WWII?
By 1944 the Italian Empire encompasses the old regions that had been the Roman Empire, mainly France, parts of Germany, Spain North Africa and the Balkans.
What would need to have taken place in Italy in the 19th century to make it a more powerful country than it really was in our time?
Does the German unification factor need to be removed?
 
If you somehow get rid of Hilter and the Nazi's and keep Germany a smaller player, you could see a limited war between Italy and Britain and France maybe. Perhaps with Japan jumping on both of their Asian holdings.

Italy would have to modernize earlier, and probably industrialize more.
 
Is it possible to make Italy the most powerful agressor in WWII?
By 1944 the Italian Empire encompasses the old regions that had been the Roman Empire, mainly France, parts of Germany, Spain North Africa and the Balkans.
What would need to have taken place in Italy in the 19th century to make it a more powerful country than it really was in our time?
Does the German unification factor need to be removed?
After 1900? ASB.
 

Germaniac

Donor
It's not going to happen after 1900, southern Italy was far to backwards. You need a POD around the French Revolution for that. You need an industrialized south to even consider it.
 
Unless for some reason France completely disintegrates after WWI, the UK is totally embroiled in empire-wide uprisings or loses the RN in a major oceanic catastrophe that somehow leaves Italy unscathed, and Italy inherits a full working industrial economy that solves all its economic and parochial issues, then no way.

However, an Italy that rules Dalmatia, Albania, Greece, Libya, Tunisia, Corsica, Savoy, and Nice...and perhaps (big if) Egypt and Algeria...and perhaps has a lot of influence over Francoist Spain and Salazar's Portugal is theoretically possible following an *Axiswank, but will be doing so only at the tacit permission of Germany.
 
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