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In any hypothetical scenario involving an alternate outcome to World War Two, said outcomes could be innumerable and hard to predict accurately. I'd like to go into detail of one particular alternate history setting:


Our timelines diverge in 1914, an Austrian corporal Adolf Hitler becomes yet another nameless figure in the seemingly infinite casualty dossier in WWI. Shot by a British soldier. Years afterward, World War One is lost, the allies won and the Treaty of Versailles is enacted. It is now 1921, and a fragile Weimar Republic teaters on the edge of collapse, with the stock market crash of 1920. Fast forward years later and during 1930, she starts to get back upon her feet again, slowly but surely. The treaty of Versailles still constricting her armed forces. And with no NSDAP forming into the Nazi Party, various political powers vie for control over Weimar. Most Putsch are put down, and governmental crackdowns are few. But a new power is rising. Fascist Italy. In this setting Italy invades Abyssinia early, in 1932, but receives small, but costly sanctions from the other nations and the League. This cuts her off from resources, and deprives her military of crucial raw materials. With no attention on a Fascist Germany, the eyes of the world are set on Italy. Without proper resources to fight (Italy already had resources problems so any sanctions would further extrapolate the problem further), Italy looses the war with Abyssinia. Still reeling from defeat, years later in 1934, she starts again, after initiating military reforms.
Benito Mussolini strikes next at Albania, and successfully takes it. This time, world pressure is turned on Mussolini. Italy begins to experience even more sanctions from the now stronger League of nations. But in Germany multiple political rivals enter into conflict, throwing Germany into disarray. Factions arrive and the military completely dissolves into different regions, each wishing to claim Germany for itself. World eye is now on Germany, and the growing crises. Italy sees this as a chance to secure critical resources at its neighbor, Greece. They mobilize their navy and land forces on Greece. Greece, still recovering from the Stock Market crash of 1920, cannot defend its islands against Italian strikes. In a campaign that is nearly reminiscent of the
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