# Alternate World War Two Scenarios

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 13, 2003, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-world-war-two-scenarios/188236 "2003-07-13T21:23:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-world-war-two-scenarios/188236/21 "2003-07-14T03:24:21Z")

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[sub]losers[/sub]  
'Splain for me, my friend.

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**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-world-war-two-scenarios/188236/22 "2003-07-14T04:18:08Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Ringo \*  
> \*\*How does Germany rein in Japan? She had two factions in her military, one wanting to go north, the other south, who were rarin’ to go. _And_, relations with th U.S. were severely strained, over China primarily. The Germans would have to have given them something.
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> Perhaps soon-to-be-former western European colonies in Southeast Asia? How would the U.S. have reacted to that? \*\*

Hmmm.

Maybe, instead of U.S. colonies and other islands, Japan expands through Russia instead, via Siberia? Or, alternately, without worrying about the U.S. front, it crushes China and marches through the Middle East? That achieves the same goal (oil and such) without the fighting with the U.S.

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