A World Without Hitler

Welcome to the A World Without Hitler ATL

This timeline explores the fate of the world if Adolf Hitler was killed before he reached any historical significance.

Basic Timeline
In this ATL, Adolf Hitler is shot dead at the First  Battle of Ypres (1914), although his death does not affect the First World War in any way, and despite the fact that any actions made wihout his input (or abscence of his actions) do not affect the 1920s aside from parts of Southern Germany, it is at the Great Depression where history properly begins to change.

Without a charismatic leader like Adolf Hitler to draw support from the masses, and engineer a strong fascist movement in Germany,  right-wing German movements have much less influence than in OTL. However, the German Communist Party appears to many to have a stable solution to the countries' massive issues of Hyperinflation (in OTL support for the communists did grow, although not as much as the Nazis). Eventually, the Communists suceed in coming to power in 1935, establish a single party people's republic, and form a strong allliance with the Soviet Union. Together, the two powers are able to create a sphere of influence throughout Eastern Europe.

The rest of the world is scared by the sudden rise in communism, riots become common in Britain and it's Empire, France, America, Spain, Japan and Italy, among others. Most movements are quickly dismissed, although many Americans- largely migrant workers feeling abused by the Government after the Dust Bowl crisis- take part in mass revolutions in California; establishing a communist state there. Most democratic and fascist countries become scared of the growing red menace, and successfuly plan an invasion of Germany and the Soviet Union after forming the Anti-Communist Alliance between Britain, France, Italy and Japan, with Spain and Austria( a fascist dictatorship influenced by German Fascists fleeing the communist reigime) as minor members, in 1937. Despite the long and hard struggle they are all aware of, the powers know they must act before the communists can consolidate their position further.

So starts the Second World War, with an invasion from every front of Communist Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939.