At the start of a POD whose promotion, demotion, or indeed demise (whether by natural or foul means), would you instigate in order to have a meaningful change in the events of WW2?
For example:
- Yamomoto dies in a plane crash in the summer of 1940, result no Pearl Harbor attack. Do they seize the DEI & perhaps Malaya, - delaying US involvement, or do they also go for the Phillipines and War with the US?
- A royalist coup in Italy assinates Mussolini, result Italy stays neutral - no live desert training desert ground for the RAF & British Army. And Rommel joins Kliest on the Russian Front.
- Perhaps FDR losses the election (1941?) to 'America First' Wilkie, no Lend-lease, the US stays strictly neutral, Japan conquers China!
What a thought!
Any other minor commanders? Plausible ideas please, but no Hitler got shot in WW1 result no WW2! Where's the TL in that!?