In early 1941, Hitler is convinced that Germany needs to focus on defeating Britain and thus elminating a second front and all but blocking American intervention. So throughout 1941 the Nazis take the Balkans as well as dramatically increasing air support air cover over the Med and the British isles. The Blitz continues but with much bigger raids similar to those in the Eastern front in OTL. By July 1941 the Germans take Malta and shortly after reach the Suez Canal and proceed to march all the way to Jerusalem. Shortly afterwards the Germans reach the Turkish border and more or less force Turkey to join the Axis. The massive air raids on Britian continue and the Luftwaffe manages to get air superiority over southern England to some extent.
Although they are laying waste to British cities and have stepped up raids on convoys Churchill still refuses to surrender however in April a vote of no confidence wins by a slim majority. The new Government agrees to surrender as long as Britains independence of what remains of it's empire is threatened. Hitler is jubilant as are his people, the war with the west is over. Now the war in the East can begin. However by the time the luftwaffe and the majority of the German army have relocated it is late summer and reports on the Red Army claim that it has improved greatly since the summer of 1941 and have mobilised shortly after Britians surrender. With this and the fact the Germans only have 2 months before the terrain becomes difficuly unlike the 6 months envisaged by the original plan Hitler decides to postpone Barbarossa for the April of next year.
Meanwhile with the lack of a western front, Stalin has turned his eyes east and in August 1941 the Red Army take srevnge on Japan and invades Manchuria. Whilst the Soviets do not perform as well as they had in the summer of '39 they manage to take Manchuria and Sahalin by the end of the year and orea the following spring. For the Japanese the Soviet invasion has ruled out any possibility of action against the American and the Europeans as all resources are put into fighting the Soviets. America takes a neutral stance to this but many in the governemnt as well as the US public sometimes openly support either side but seeing as 2 of their greatest foes are bashing each other they do not intervene.
The lack of any German invasion from the West and evidence that the Soviets are preparing to invade Hokkaido leads to the Japnese to surrender by October 1942 and make peace to both the Soviets and the Chinese. Stalin now turns to the west but Stavka informs him that an attck on Germany and her allies would be too risky and would probably lead to a bloody stalemate. Meanwhile the Germans come to the same conclusion and from then onwards defending their giant border from each other takes priority to crossing it for each side as relations slowly worsen.
So the Cold War has begun with the Nazis and the Soviets, both are incredibly owerful and both have allies whilst America and Britain are much weaker than OTL. So how does this pan out?
Although they are laying waste to British cities and have stepped up raids on convoys Churchill still refuses to surrender however in April a vote of no confidence wins by a slim majority. The new Government agrees to surrender as long as Britains independence of what remains of it's empire is threatened. Hitler is jubilant as are his people, the war with the west is over. Now the war in the East can begin. However by the time the luftwaffe and the majority of the German army have relocated it is late summer and reports on the Red Army claim that it has improved greatly since the summer of 1941 and have mobilised shortly after Britians surrender. With this and the fact the Germans only have 2 months before the terrain becomes difficuly unlike the 6 months envisaged by the original plan Hitler decides to postpone Barbarossa for the April of next year.
Meanwhile with the lack of a western front, Stalin has turned his eyes east and in August 1941 the Red Army take srevnge on Japan and invades Manchuria. Whilst the Soviets do not perform as well as they had in the summer of '39 they manage to take Manchuria and Sahalin by the end of the year and orea the following spring. For the Japanese the Soviet invasion has ruled out any possibility of action against the American and the Europeans as all resources are put into fighting the Soviets. America takes a neutral stance to this but many in the governemnt as well as the US public sometimes openly support either side but seeing as 2 of their greatest foes are bashing each other they do not intervene.
The lack of any German invasion from the West and evidence that the Soviets are preparing to invade Hokkaido leads to the Japnese to surrender by October 1942 and make peace to both the Soviets and the Chinese. Stalin now turns to the west but Stavka informs him that an attck on Germany and her allies would be too risky and would probably lead to a bloody stalemate. Meanwhile the Germans come to the same conclusion and from then onwards defending their giant border from each other takes priority to crossing it for each side as relations slowly worsen.
So the Cold War has begun with the Nazis and the Soviets, both are incredibly owerful and both have allies whilst America and Britain are much weaker than OTL. So how does this pan out?