For Want of an Inch

POD 1916 - Corporal adolf Hitler is hit in the leg by a bullet. But unlike OTL, the bullet hit a vein.

1922
Mussolini takes control of Germany.

1924
Stalin takes control of the USSR.

1927
Stalin begins swinging the economy to a war march.

1932
Mao Tse Tung takes control of China. Chang Kai Shek flees to America where he spends the rest of his life in Exile in San Francisco.

1934
Kirov is murdered in Leningrad after Stalin considers him too powerful. This leads to the great Purge.

1936
Mussolini is overthrown by the British/French/Germans in a brief war after atrocities in Abyssinia.

1937
Germany, France and Britain form a pact known as the Pact of Liberty. Ethiopia joins the pact as well.

1938
PoL military spending is roughly 20% behind that of the Comintern (China, Russia, Spain, Romania, Persia)

1939
The T-34/85 tank enters mass production

1940
World War 2 (For want of an Inch) breaks out over the Soviet Invasion of Poland.