Zachariah
Banned
Even after covert support by France to the Republicans ended in December 1936, the possibility of French intervention against the Nationalists remained a serious possibility throughout the Spanish Civil War. German intelligence reported to Franco and the Nationalists that the French military was engaging in open discussions about intervention in the war through French military intervention in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, and in 1938, after hard-fought victory in the decisive Battle of Teruel, Franco feared an immediate French intervention against a potential Nationalist victory in Spain, through a French invasion and occupation of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, and Spanish Morocco. So then, what if, in an ATL, the French had actually gone ahead and done this, intervening militarily and launching their invasion in March 1938? Could this have potentially kicked off WW2 in itself? Or with the Sudetenland crisis looming, might WW2 have kicked off in September 1938 instead, with the French military intervention in Spain giving them a greater obligation to defend Czechoslovakia along with the Soviets as per the terms of their mutual military assistance treaties (and placing Poland into the Axis camp ITTL)? How do you think that things might have played out, if the French had intervened in the Spanish Civil War as expected?