Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-400920-20130110195525/@comment-32656-20130111092156

Being realistic, probably not.

In the 1940s, there was a total of 5 actual empires, and a lot more that had a bunch of imperial territory. Italy being one only by virture of stealing the title from Ethiopia.

So... that means Italy/Ethiopia, Japan, the British Indian Empire, Manchukuo, and Vietnam.

Overall, Japan is the only one going to last the war in your timeline. India has to get independant at some point, Manchukuo is artifical, Vietnam jad only existed in name only for a long time, and the Italians aren't goign to keep Ethiopia... which won't last long as an empire, either.

Now, the colonial states? Same as otl, except maybe in Asia.