What if Fascist Italy replaced Nazi Germany.

1922 - Fascist Italy rises.

1922-1925 - Fascist Italy builds up it's economy and it's military.

1928 - Italy takes over Austria.

1930 - Italy takes over Germany (Weimar Republic).

1931 - Italy takes over France, Denmark, Belgium, The Netherlands.

1932 - Italy takes over Poland.

1933 - Italy takes over the Baltic and Balkan regions of Europe.

1934 - Italy takes over Norway and Sweden.

1935 - Italy takes over Ethiopia.

1940 - Italy takes over Somalia.

1942 - Italy takes over the Belgian Congo.
 
The only way this POD happens is if Italy stays out of WWI altogether save as a massive war profiteer that keeps both sides fighting to far worse exhaustion and death, with the war ending in 1920 or something.

But in that situation, Italy is not going to become fascist because it will be richer than everyone else by far. It still would be quite imperialistic.

Italy also would need a lot more national unity and overall competence to build this kind of power. It still won’t have the population to dominate Europe and Africa like this, not with 40 million people.
 
Perhaps some factions in the German government revolted and helped them out from the inside, believing that Italy would put them in command in the end as a twin allied power, maybe to partition France together. Instead, Italy after the crisis is solved, backstab the already weakened fascist factions in Germany and place their own filo-roman puppet in command.

Then with a puppet Germany, they attack France & the three amigos. from two sides. A stronger Italy will balance the weaker Germany and the result will not be much dissimilar from the OTL one.

I doubt they will go for Scandinavia and the Baltic after that though, they will probably focus their next conquests on the Mare Internum instead, going for Spain, Balkans, Greece Africa etc.

Also, it will be impossible to control such a massive territory directly, so they will be forced to create several puppets along the way, perhaps turning their territory in some kind of Federal Empire, made by different nations (both Kingdoms and Republics) answering to Rome.

It's going to be a big mess, but it's not totally and utterly impossible to be considered ASB... I said it is certainly implausible.
 
This will never happen. Italy's industrial capacity was no where near as strong as Germany's. A-H held strong against them and they had to deal with the eastern front. There's a reason the Italian reputation for war is not great (in fact this has been a stereotype even in the Renaissance due to the Italian Wars. The Prince for example addresses this.)
 
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