WW2 ends in 1941

POD: 1940: Lord Edward Halifax becomes British Prime Minister.

November 1940: The British Secure Sicily and Sardinia & Use them as a Bargaining Chip in the Peace Treaty.

April 23, 1941: The Second Treaty of Versailles is signed, thus ended the German-Polish War.

* Greater German Reich: given their old western borders & African colonies, Free Reign in the East & British Millitary support against the USSR.

* Italian Empire: Ceded Tunisia, Western Syria, British Somalialand, Cyprus & Parts of Northern Sudan.

May 9 1941: The Commonwealth, France, Belgium, Spain, The Netherlands, Greece, Denmark & Norway sign the Triparte Pact now the Quintuple Pact (With Britain & France as the 4th & 5th powers)

March 14, 1942: Operation Barbarossa begins the Second World War (1942 - 1949). The Allies & Axis combine to form the Allied Powers.

1942: Persia grants millitary acsess to the Allies. The Germans, the Eastern European Allies attack the Soviet's Western Border & Capture Western Ukraine, Belarus & the Baltic States by the End of the Year. The Finnish & Norweigans with British support advance into Russia & Capture Karelia & even manage to take St.Petersburg. The British attack from India & easily Capture most of Turkestan by Winter. They also go through Persia & Take the South Caucasus.

August 1942: The Germans realise they made a huge mistake alligning themselves with Japan & at the behest of the UK alligns with China. The Japanese & USSR find themselves in a reluctant alliance (The Moscow-Tokyo Axis).

1943: The Germans advance to 50 KM of Moscow by November & Encircle it, however the Soviets break the Blockade. The British take the Caucasian Oilfields & Kazachstan & Link the two. China with Allied aid slowly push back the Japanese.

1944 - 1948: The War drags on with the Germans unable to take Moscow but slowly weakening the Soviet Union while the Chinese push the Japenese out of China by 1947 and take Korea and parts of the Russian Far East in 1948. The Stalemate ends in October 1948 when the Germans are entrenched 15 KM from Moscow.

1949: The Germans finally take Moscow and Stalin commits suicide. The Japanese surrender.