Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-7559950-20130911012534/@comment-24385974-20140720185109

A strong italy that managed to win the western desert campaign in 1940, and defeate Greece without German help could have turned the tide. After defeating greece Turkey may also have joined, seeing a chance to retake some Ottoman territories, and defeat communism as turkey was pro-democracy. A joint Turkic-Italian invasion of the crimea and Caucasus would have freed up German troops to possibly capture Leningrad, and even Moscow. Assuiming the cities can be taken russian productivity and more importantly its ability to move troops around would drop greatly. Rommel also would have been ablt to command an army on the eastern front, and such a military genious could have been ablt to push the Russian army back to the german objective of the A-A line. Such a defeat could have been enough to convince England that the war was never going to be won forcing them to sue for peace. Another critical occurance has to be that Germany does not declare war on the USA, as happened OTL. Leaving us with an American-Japanese war in the pacific (American Victory) and a German victory in the Great European War.