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| - | ===== Points of Divergence : World War II ===== | ||
| - | ==== Description ==== | ||
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| - | A collection of event, decisions, policies, and so on which might have changed the course of WWII - not necessarily Axis wins, but maybe prolonged wars, shortened wars, less deadly wars, and so on. | ||
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| - | ==== PoDs ==== | ||
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| - | === 1930s === | ||
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| - | * **[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=251487|The effects of the Luftwaffe not being founded as a completely separate branch of the armed forces]]** | ||
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| - | === 1939 === | ||
| - | * The Allies attack Germany when they occupy the Czech lands | ||
| - | * The Allies attack Germany after the latter cancel their non-aggression pact with Poland (April 28th) | ||
| - | * Hitler tries to coerce the Corridor from [[timelines:Poland]], helped by Russia, instead of fighting a war over it | ||
| - | * As [[timelines:Adolf Hitler]] would've said: "Some //schweinehund// comes up with a compromise in the last minute" - WW2 starts later | ||
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| - | * Poles manage to stop the Germans before they can take the Polish heartland | ||
| - | * Poles make an attack on East Prussia | ||
| - | * Poles make a thrust against Berlin | ||
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| - | * The Allies attack Germany in the west, breaking through the westwall | ||
| - | * [[timelines:Italy]] joins the war on Germany's side | ||
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| - | * The Nomonhan Incident is successful for Japan | ||
| - | * The Nomonhan Incident leads to war between Japan and the Soviet Union | ||
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| - | * Finnish-Soviet War goes different (Finland wins; Stalin overruns all of Finland; Allies send the Finns help; war extends into the Baltic republics) | ||
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| - | === 1940 === | ||
| - | * Britain can occupy the Norwegian harbors before the Germans arrive | ||
| - | * Denmark decides to resist | ||
| - | * German losses at Narvik higher | ||
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| - | * German plans for the attack in the west aren't lost, so the old plan is executed instead | ||
| - | * Germans can't take Eben Emael | ||
| - | * Dutch destroy their dams, so Holland becomes an island which the Germans can't take | ||
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| - | * French use their tanks in the same way as the Germans, as de Gaulle suggested | ||
| - | * Fights in France are harder, the war takes longer | ||
| - | * [[timelines:Adolf Hitler]] doesn't slow the army at Dunkirk | ||
| - | * [[timelines:Britain]] doesn't retreat from Dunkirk | ||
| - | * The enclosed [[timelines:France|French]] stay in Dunkirk and use the equipment left for a tough fight | ||
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| - | * Germany manages to get [[timelines:Spain]] to join in the war | ||
| - | * Germany manages to get the [[timelines:Soviet Union]] to join in the war | ||
| - | * Germany manages to get the Vichy Republic to join in the war | ||
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| - | * [[timelines:Mussolini]] doesn't attack [[timelines:Greece]] | ||
| - | * [[timelines:Mussolini]] doesn't attack [[timelines:Egypt]] | ||
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| - | === 1941 === | ||
| - | * In the Battle of Britain, Germany bombs military bases instead of cities | ||
| - | * Germany attempts Sealion | ||
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| - | * Hitler lets Mussolini deal alone with the Brits and Greeks | ||
| - | * Yugoslavia stays neutral | ||
| - | * Yugoslavia joins the war on the Axis' side | ||
| - | * Germany loses less paratroopers on Crete | ||
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| - | * Hitler decides for a [[timelines:Hitler's Mediterranean strategy|Mediterranean strategy]] | ||
| - | * Rommel gets more troops, conquers Alexandria or more | ||
| - | * Germany takes Cyprus | ||
| - | * Germany supports Axis sympathizers in Iraq, Iran | ||
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| - | * [[timelines:Germany]] doesn't invade the [[timelines:Soviet Union]] | ||
| - | * Germany integrates the Slavs fully | ||
| - | * Hitler doesn't postpone the attack six weeks | ||
| - | * Hitler attacks in 1942 | ||
| - | * [[timelines:Stalin]] leaves less troops vulnerable near the border | ||
| - | * Hitler orders to take Leningrad | ||
| - | * Dietl takes Murmansk (or breaks the railroad to Leningrad) | ||
| - | * Hitler doesn't slow the army on the way to Moscow | ||
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| - | * [[timelines:Japan]] doesn't attack Pearl Harbor | ||
| - | * Germany doesn't declare war on the [[timelines:United States of America|US]] | ||
| - | * Bulgaria also joins the war against Russia | ||
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| - | === Later === | ||
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| - | * Germany doesn't fight its minorities | ||
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| - | * The bazooka is developed earlier | ||
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| - | * Göring is removed from his post early in the war | ||
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| - | * Speer responsible earlier for armament | ||
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| - | * [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=1227&page=2|D-Day-Repulsed]] | ||
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| - | * And so on | ||