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If Hitler knew the allies will declare war on him when he invades Poland, would he still go forward?
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I doubt it. It's know he was stunned by the declaration of war.
I found out that the legitimate lineal heirs of Manuel II of Portugal are the House of Saxony(whose male line that have a claim to Portugal is going to get extinct) and the Catholic Hohenzollern-Simmaringen.
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What If Britain and France had not declared War in 1939 but worked on building up forces and infrastructure.
3 questions:
1) Would Hitler still invade the USSR?
2) What would be the ultimate tipping point for UK and France? Soviet invasion? Middle East invasion?
3) Do the Japanese still attack Pearl without Britain and co distracted?
3 questions:
1) Would Hitler still invade the USSR?
2) What would be the ultimate tipping point for UK and France? Soviet invasion? Middle East invasion?
3) Do the Japanese still attack Pearl without Britain and co distracted?
Why? They'd already done that to an extent in 1938, here they'd just let the Germans steamroll Poland for some reason?
Probably, sooner or latter. Europe was a powder keg at the time...
They let them take the rest of Czechoslovakia despite the ‘Peace in our time’ paperwork so and considering the dirty deal with the Communists why should Britain lift a finger? Esp to help a rather nasty regime in Poland?
And yet in 1938 they finally started throwing money at their militaries. Part of the reason they were so willing to negotiate with the Germans in 1938 was because their armed forces were in a terrible state and they overestimated the Germans. In 1939 rearmament is just starting to bear fruit, and they were much more confident in their armed forces. If they let Germany expand and essentially control Central Europe they would look weaker and Germany would get a lot stronger.
By Sept 1939 they already controlled a huge section of central Europe - the military of Britain and France where rebuilding and expanding, but given Hitler's personality, treaty breaking, and stated aims of more land to the East, why not wait and let the Nazis and Soviets stare at each other as logically one side (with SAS help perhaps) will break, while building up even more of your military and getting the Empire onto a war footing?
The point of After-1900 is to have plausible alternate history scenarios and debate what happens etc. You can't just handwave stuff for the most part.
Its quite possible, in the 1942 film One of our aircraft is missing the escaping RAF personnel hide out on such a thing.
Semyonov is defeated early and we have a early Communist Revolution in Mongolia?
All just a little more early to be honest.
I think he was a true believer in the cause of communism.
He wasn't exactly a mobster or Caucasus Al Capone who joined the party for opportunism in his early years. He actually rob banks of the Tsarist state because he was a communist.
I just use this as example.
Later. He was smart enough and it the right place and in the right time.
Lenin dies and he is in the 'Center', being put in a better position than the Right faction of people like Bukharin and the Left faction of people like Trotsky.
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