Map Challenge: Europe with these borders after WWII

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So how did this happen, exactly?
 
FDR dies or retires in 1944 due health issues and Wallace becomes president. Stalin manages Wallace making more confessions in Germany and accepting Austria becoming Soviet satelite. Tito dies very end or soon after end of WW2 and someone more pro-Soviet leader rises to power in Yugoslavia. Communists win Greek Civil War.
 
The ardennes offensive is more successful or the D-Days landings are delayed until early 1945?
delaying DDay by even a month could get you there. Weather was bad; Eisenhower almost didn't go. That would also probably delay Dragoon (Invasion of S France). So allies might not even get to Brussels before November.
FDR dies or retires in 1944 due health issues and Wallace becomes president. Stalin manages Wallace making more confessions in Germany and accepting Austria becoming Soviet satelite.
Yalta (February 1945) was more or less a reflection of "facts on the ground" - where the different allies were then and were likely to end up. US still hadn't crossed Rhine; Russians were in Budapest. Yalta was just drawing a line to avoid another war. Not some big plot. If Market Garden had succeeded Czech and maybe more of Germany would have ended up in Western zone.
 
Isn't this literally the immediate post-World War 2 map from "For All Time"?

Correct, and for some reason the timeline never mentions why Greece, or Yugoslavia end up in Stalin's camp.

-Just to top everything off, the Tehran Conference, from late November to early December, sets the stage for the post-war world. America and the Soviet Union agree to divide their efforts on nuclear projects as they share knowledge; the Soviet Union will work on the gun-type bomb, while the Americans will work on the implosion-type. As per the war in Europe, all the powers agree to offensives in the summer of 1944.

The British Empire, Americans, and Free French will go north through Sicily and the rest of the Mediterranean, while the Soviets will strike again in the Ukraine. The Soviet Union also pledges to declare war on Japan within a month of Germany's surrender. Very preliminary plans for the post-war world are drawn up; the Soviet Union will occupy Austria, along with eastern and central Germany, until democracy can be established, while the US, the UK, and France will hold the rest.

That doesn't explain why Tito would heel, and he didn't mention the Greek Civil War playing out differently!
 
D-Day delayed has already been suggested, but something like a less successful Barbarossa and concurrently bigger Soviet rebound could also do it.
 
I think there's a few ways to do it. Most in 1944 or 1945...

1. The Battle of the Bulge goes a bit more in Germany's favor. Bastogne falls before weather clears and Germans push closer to Brussels/Antwerp. Allies spend another week or two clearing out German forces

2. The Germans better hold the West Wall and/or destroy more bridges along the Rhine. This slows the Allied advance to a halt for another week or two, basically guaranteeing the Soviets more territory
 
Another possibility would be to have someone more stupid commanding the German forces in the South Balkans/Greece. In OTL, the German forces retreated peacefully from Greece, allowing the King and democracy to return to the country. If the person commanding those forces refuses to retreat and orders the units to fight until the bitter end, then they could get cut off from a strong Soviet offensive towards the Adriatic. The USSR would cooperate with EAM in Greece to install a communist regime, and with many German forces destroyed when they got cut off would mean a significantly weaker army defending the South-East. This way, the Soviets could push from there towards Austria and Bavaria, and could then demand them at the negotiating table.
 
Correct, and for some reason the timeline never mentions why Greece, or Yugoslavia end up in Stalin's camp.

Markos Vafiadis's DSE are implied to have won the Greek Civil War (no Truman presidency = no Truman doctrine = no American aid to the monarchist government). And at this point, Yugoslavia is only in Stalin's camp because Tito is putting off his rebellion until the right moment arrives.
 
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