1940

Historically, Philippe Petain was the leader of the collaborator French State after the Fall of France and the Armistice with Petain, hitherto revered as a war hero, being someone who permanently stained his reputation with his collaboration with Nazi Germany, authoritarian domestic politics...

If Germany wins WW1 by a successfull Schlieffen Plan (so a faster war), what will happen to France? How will the political system develop? Is there a continue of the Republic, a large red revolution (Paris Commune XL) or maybe some far-right regime change by for example the Action Française...

Of course, Herbert Hoover could never have been elected President again, considering his very poor handling of the Great Depression during his Presidency. But suppose Calvin Coolidge had decided to run for a third term in 1928, with butterflies resulting in Ottinger defeating FDR in the race...

So, in a scenario inwhich the Italians do not enter WW2 during the fall of France, and thus the African and Balkan campaigns don't happen, how could the Germans fare on their own during and after their invasion of the Soviet Union? As a rule for the thread, Romania and Finland can join the war...

So, I’ve been reading the Fall of France and it really seems like the Allies lost due to a huge strategic blunder. That being rushing into the Low Countries and being completely cut off through the Ardennes. The best and most well equipped Allied divisions being annihilated or abandoning their...

As we all know, the exiled Kaiser of Germany, Wilhelm II, fled Germany in 1918 and lived for the rest of his days in the Netherlands until his death in 1941. However there is an interesting subplot during the Nazi's invasion of the Netherlands in 1940 that Churchill was offering the former...

--- The Troubled Germanies | An Anthology Series POD - 1840 STORY PERIOD - 1930-1950s --- POD Summary: The 1840 Revolts have come and gone, and the monarchies and autocrats throughout Central Europe responded harshly to the calls of democracy, nationalism, and worker's rights. With saber...

If in 1940 peace is made between the waring European powers what are Japan's strategic options? Specifically, in a peace that left the entente's colonial empires largely intact in Asia, does Japan still strike south? Do they give up, fearing the full attention of the British and French navies...

What if during the Ribbentrop-Molotov agreement, the Abwher would invite some polish agents to witness it, undercover of course and see the secret agreement about the splitting of Poland. This might be seen as a sign of good will from Germany's side and turn the polish government against the...

Lets imagine that for some (ASB reason) Hitler orders the Wehrmacht to go Poland on Denmark? Meaning the utter destruction of larger danish cities like Copenhagen and Aarhus? Maybe after heavy danish resistance to the german advance? Killing and wounding between 300.000 - 400.000 danes between...

What if there is a Pro-Nazi candidate that wins in 1940 against Roosevelt, this would ruin America's power reach in the long term as it would be the Russians who would have the spoils of the war after the allies won.

On May 10th 1940, on his way to the meeting with Chamberlain, Halifax, and Margesson, Winston Churchill dies in a car accident. How does this affect WWII and beyond?

If Hitler's ordered invasion of France in 1940 had run into some big enough bumps as to make it lose the element of surprise and momentum, and result in a WWI-like stalemate, how would his nominal ally at the time, Stalin, and the USSR as a whole, react to such unfolding of events? 1: Actively...

From what I gather, the Mechelen Incident is what prompted German High Command to switch to the Manstein Plan since they were spooked that the original Fall Gelb had fallen into Allied hands, and that had the incident not occurred they would have activated what amounted to Schlieffen 2.0 – which...

So, say Petain still comes to power in 1940, but his efforts to make peace with the Germans fall through (say he has significantly higher standards for what constitutes an amicable peace, or Hitler is even crazier and has plans for a General Plan West). What are the effects of the Petain regime...

If Operation Green was put into action how would it play out? What would life be like under German occupation? What would happen to any Jews in Ireland? Would any cities be bombed during the invasion?

What if Hitler did some really dumb thing like trying to turn Mexico against the US and the US found out? Would it be a repeat of WWI or would the situation be practically the same as OTL WWII?

Imagine the Halifax becomes PM and pursues a policy of peace with Germany before the evacuation of dunkirk (dunkerque?). France is independent, mutilated but not killed whatever peace is signed. Imagine it is as Halifax said and he is actually committed to returning to the war at some point. At...

Actually 2 or 3. Was a Halifax ministry possible under the May 1940 wartime conditions? And, if Halifax were to become minister, would he really have made peace with the Germans? The circumstances of such a peace would be disastrous in both the short and long term for Britain. It would probably...

Your mission is to have FDR die earlier in the office of president of the United States. Weather is polio is worse or whatever. Also it doesn't have to be from 1933-1945. It can be alternate scenarios.