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As the thread title says: What if there was no Second World War? And by Second World War, I mean that there can't be any kind of major European conflict in the period 1930-1960, nor can there be a major conflict between Japan and European states or the United States, which pretty much necessitates eliminating Japanese movement into China, at least past Manchuria. You are free to pursue any post-Armistice POD to achieve this, including modifying the outcome of the Treaty of Versailles. Preferably, you would butterfly or eliminate the existence of revanchist regimes such as Hitler's or Mussolini's altogether.

Now, the details I'm interested in here are:
1) What does the world economy look like up to 1960 or beyond? Who are the major players, what do the individual economies look like? Obviously, the US is going to be worse off than in OTL relative to everyone else, but how much worse? Is it enough to get more liberal policies in place in this period?

2) What does the political scene look like? Is decolonization starting to gear up by the late '50s? Is there a multipolar, bipolar, or unipolar world? Has China stabilized and unified? What are the major powers?

3) What does the military look like? Are nukes around? Jet airplanes are around, right? What about primitive ICBMs or IRBMs? Assault rifles? The idea of a main battle tank?

So...anyone got any ideas?
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