Ok so this my first post on the forums, feel free to rip this to bloody shreds if need be. I wwasn't sure if this would need a pre-1900 PoD or not but since WWII happened after I figured I'd put it here.
So I would like to ask is if it is possible to have the major powers divided as thus:
England
France
Japan
vs.
Germany
Italy
vs.
US
USSR
I've thought about this some on the time I browsed this forum reading threads and tryied to come up with a soewhat plausible scenario. First the Aglo-Japanese Alliance isn't disolved, as a buffer against the Soviet Union. England and France in order to keep Japan as a happy ally and make sure the Communists are boxed in are less vocal about the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. Japan then of course engage in battles of Khalkhin Gol against the Soviets with results as in OTL.
The US however stays vocal against the attacks on China and even protests the attack on the Soviets and a rift begins to form between the US and England and France who are doing nothing to really stop this. Of course the US is shipping into isolation and doesn't do much themselves but public opinion is shifting away from traditional allies.
On other fronts the Nazi-Soviet pact is still signed and this draws the eye of the Allies who watch wearily. Things ocur pretty much on schedule with OTL with the Soviets actually now more interested in joining the Axis but Hitler being an insane bastard still goes through with Barbossa, alienating them.
In OTL the Soviets would join the Allies but ITTL since Japan is a member of the Allies, that pushes the Soviet Union away from the Allies due to the border incident two years prior and the Soviets become a third party in the war fighting the Axis but not supporting the Allies.
Japan sees Barbossa as an oppurtunity to get back at the Red Army for the defeat two years ago and oce again strikes at the Soviets. England and France not trusting the USSR after the Nazi-Soviet Pact don't really care and go into de facto war with the Soviet Union.
enrages the US
However the US does take notice and given cooling public oppinion toward the Allies, condemns the attack on the Soviet Union, after this, the previous attacks on Manchuria and the Soviet-Japanese broder conflict of '39 and Barbossa the American people are beginning to see that neither the Axis nor the Allies can be trusted and see the Soviets as victims. The US begins discreetly shipping weapons and supplies to the Soviets.
Englan and Japan find out about the US supply shipments to the USSR and begin to stop US merchant ships and commondere their cargo. This enrages the US even more and as it continues the US begins to send naval escorts resulting in a breif scuffle between the USN and the Royal Navy/IJN as the Allies see this as ptientially hostile. In the crossfire the US merchant ship is sunk as well as its naval escort.
This proves to be the straw that broke the camel's back and the US declares war on the Allies and enters a formal alliance with the Soviet Union. A shprt time after the Axis powers also declare open war on the US.
So what do you think is this scenario plausible, if not is there another plausible scenario that could cause a WWII like this? Also how do you think such a war would end and what would its effects on the world be?
So I would like to ask is if it is possible to have the major powers divided as thus:
England
France
Japan
vs.
Germany
Italy
vs.
US
USSR
I've thought about this some on the time I browsed this forum reading threads and tryied to come up with a soewhat plausible scenario. First the Aglo-Japanese Alliance isn't disolved, as a buffer against the Soviet Union. England and France in order to keep Japan as a happy ally and make sure the Communists are boxed in are less vocal about the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. Japan then of course engage in battles of Khalkhin Gol against the Soviets with results as in OTL.
The US however stays vocal against the attacks on China and even protests the attack on the Soviets and a rift begins to form between the US and England and France who are doing nothing to really stop this. Of course the US is shipping into isolation and doesn't do much themselves but public opinion is shifting away from traditional allies.
On other fronts the Nazi-Soviet pact is still signed and this draws the eye of the Allies who watch wearily. Things ocur pretty much on schedule with OTL with the Soviets actually now more interested in joining the Axis but Hitler being an insane bastard still goes through with Barbossa, alienating them.
In OTL the Soviets would join the Allies but ITTL since Japan is a member of the Allies, that pushes the Soviet Union away from the Allies due to the border incident two years prior and the Soviets become a third party in the war fighting the Axis but not supporting the Allies.
Japan sees Barbossa as an oppurtunity to get back at the Red Army for the defeat two years ago and oce again strikes at the Soviets. England and France not trusting the USSR after the Nazi-Soviet Pact don't really care and go into de facto war with the Soviet Union.
enrages the US
However the US does take notice and given cooling public oppinion toward the Allies, condemns the attack on the Soviet Union, after this, the previous attacks on Manchuria and the Soviet-Japanese broder conflict of '39 and Barbossa the American people are beginning to see that neither the Axis nor the Allies can be trusted and see the Soviets as victims. The US begins discreetly shipping weapons and supplies to the Soviets.
Englan and Japan find out about the US supply shipments to the USSR and begin to stop US merchant ships and commondere their cargo. This enrages the US even more and as it continues the US begins to send naval escorts resulting in a breif scuffle between the USN and the Royal Navy/IJN as the Allies see this as ptientially hostile. In the crossfire the US merchant ship is sunk as well as its naval escort.
This proves to be the straw that broke the camel's back and the US declares war on the Allies and enters a formal alliance with the Soviet Union. A shprt time after the Axis powers also declare open war on the US.
So what do you think is this scenario plausible, if not is there another plausible scenario that could cause a WWII like this? Also how do you think such a war would end and what would its effects on the world be?