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No WWII
Frank3k:
If Private Henry Tandey would have chosen duty over sentimentality, Hitler would have ended 1918 with his brains spilling into the mud of a WWI German trench.
Without Hitler, I'm sure Stalin would have been emboldened without a strong continental European foe; maybe a strong Czechoslovakia like MAD mentioned would have helped slow him down. I'm sure Stalin would have wanted to poke at Poland again (and probably lose) and at Finland (definitely lose) so there would be some activity in Europe.
The Japanese empire was going gangbusters in China without Germany's help, although the West wouldn't have noticed or cared until Dutch, British and US interests were threatened. The original Mussolini would have been contained by the UK and maybe even Germany and France as soon as they threatened their interests in the Med, Levant or Africa.
GTX_Admin:
Some random musings:
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M.A.D:
Perhaps Poland and Czechoslovakia establish a deep alliance to counter both the Soviet Union and resurgent Weimar Republic 🤔
This could mean that the Polish military can modernise quicker using then state-of-the-art Czech industrial power, drive and know-how...
Story:
What if the Turkish leadership wasn't so gunshy from the Ottoman experience in WW1?
In 1938, the Turkish Army at peacetime strength consisted of 174,000 soldiers and 20,000 officers forming 11 army corps, 23 divisions, one armoured brigade, 3 cavalry brigades and 7 frontier commands.
Old Wombat:
The Weimar Republic was on rocky ground at the best of times & it was only a matter of when, not if either the Nazis or Communists took control of Germany. Without the charisma of Hitler to focus their drive & ambition the Nazis & Communists would have been of about equal effectiveness, so I'd think that Germany would have devolved into civil war.
If the communists won & were in control in the USSR & Germany, it's a fair bet that the British & French (& possibly the USA) would have bolstered the militaries of Finland, Poland, Czechoslovakia & Hungary, at the very least. Neither the USSR nor Germany would have been capably of organising a coordinated attack on Poland for quite some time.
If the Nazis won then neither they nor Germany would have been in any condition to quickly mobilise for war, so a much longer build up would be likely.
This hiatus would have given the Czechs the opportunity to mature their industrial capacity, which was only just beginning to find its own feet in the late 1930's. Mutual defence pacts between the Poles, Czechs, Hungarians &, possibly, Finns, along with various Anglo-French alliances, would have made any attack on any individual country problematic. Czechoslovakia could have begun supplying military hardware to its allies in Eastern Europe & Scandinavia.
These changes may not have prevented a WW2 but they may have significantly delayed it (possibly by decades).
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