[Fiji Hill]

There are a lot of interesting WWII "what ifs."

• What if France hadn't surrendered in 1940 and continued to fight from Normandy and Brittany and from its overseas territories? Would Italy, finding its African colonies surrounded by Allied territory and its navy facing a combined Anglo-French fleet, have sued for peace?

• Instead of invading the USSR, what if Hitler had sought to finish off Britain in the Mediterranean? Would the Vichy French forces holding Lebanon and Syria have resisted a German invasion?

• What if Stalin had believed the intelligence about German intentions gleaned from the Sorge spy ring in 1941? Would that later result in the Warsaw Pact stretching to the Pyrenees?

• What if Stalin had aided the Polish rebels in Warsaw and as a result, broke the German defense line at the Vistula and poured into central Europe while the Allies were still mired in Normandy?

• After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, what if Hitler had kept his mouth shut and refrained from declaring war on the US?

[jmacusa]

What if just one of the atomic bombs had failed to detonate and the Japanese recovered it.