Map Challenge: 1966, Three-Way World Order

OK gang, here's the challenge.

This is the world in 1966. Yellow is the Fascists (Germany, Italy, Japan, United States), Blue is the United Kingdoms (Britain, France, Portugal) and Red is of course the USSR. Lighter colors of each are aligned with the various blocs.

I have an idea of how this came about in my head, but I wanna see how some others here think of it. :D

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If all four go fascist and ally before World War II, the whole map is yellow.
Correct. A map/timeline scenario with three blocks would require the US allied with the UK's or the USSR -- which would definitely happen with a fascist CSA in the mix.
 
I think the premise is possible with no Pearl Harbor and Roosevelt losing an election to Lindberg (or similiar) who is pro-Germany and isolationist. US stays out of the war, Germany focuses all of their efforts in Russia and the UK retakes a rump France.

But Germany would have to be at 1942 levels, and Japan would have significant territorial gains in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. USSR would have to be a rump state like in Fatherland, pushed back to the Ural mountains.
 
OK, Ruschurch got most of it.

USA stays isolationist, hence they don't get involved in the war. Their involvement comes after the war, when the US boots over the allied-supported democratic government in Iran in favor of the Shah. Iran is of course a staunch American ally, and its forces eventually took over much of the Persian Gulf. The Allied nations largely rely on oil from Indonesia, Canada, Nigeria, parts of South America and the North Sea. The US today is wealthy and doesn't have extreme racial purity demands, but is extremely racist (few people of color remain in the USA, most long ago hightailed it to Canada) and very authoritarian.

Germany did force the USSR right back to the Urals and Japan through much of the east, but Japan got overextended, and eventually through much help from the allies the Russians did eventually Germany and Japan back to their 1941 borders. The war on that front ended with a stalemate in 1948, with the Soviets devastated and Germany owing big to the USA. Germany's 1950s and 1960s economic recovery was slow - they are first world, but the Commonwealth nations are way ahead. Germany suffers from a power struggle in the early 1950s after Hiter dies, but Nazi rule remains - and largely as a result, Soviet Rule in much of Eastern Europe is completely unchallenged, as the people of Eastern Europe know what the alternative is.

China went well for Japan until about 1940, when Britain, France and their empire (which is mostly independent states) had re-armed to the point where they could do more than just keep the Germans out, and they armed up the Chinese. The Allied Army crushed the Japanese at Imphal and then drove them straight out of India. I borrowed the ideas of my Commonwealth rather liberally from Zionist Uganda and Rule Britannia. (Great TLs, but the way. :)) This united British Empire has the result of the Royal Navy and its "Squadrons" owned and operated by the individual nations vastly outnumbering everyone else's naval power. Japan focuses its imperial efforts in China, as the Dutch have no issue allowing Japan to buy oil and the Japanese don't want to pick a fight with the RN. As China's nationalists got allied support and Mao got Russian support as the Red Army angrily stormed into Europe, it turned into the ugliest civil war in history. Kai-shek's nationalists fought valiantly but were unable to beat either Mao or take Formosa from the Japanese. Kai-shek lives in Singapore, and wealthy Chinese industrialists dominate Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia.

Peron managed to get the military to support him, hence Argentina remains well into the fascist camp. Brazil however has an entirely different tact. The two frequently jockey for control in Latin America.
 
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