You Must Stop World War Two

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HemlockGrey wrote:Suddenly, you are summoned by an extradimensional being. He shows you an alternate universe where things will play out exactly like our own.

He then tasks you with stopping WWII. You will be dropped off in the city of your choice, circa 1930, with the equivelant of $100,000 in local currency.

If you fail, you will die.

What will you do?
IMHO, WWII was an inevitable result of WWI and the Great Depression. You can't prevent it, only delay it.

I would take my money and live a life of luxury until Q comes to kill me, because me drinking pina coladas is no less effective than anything else I might try.
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Travel around to various countries and preach hatred long enough to institigate a series of smaller, seperate wars so there would be nobody left to fight WWII......

What?
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Cyborg Stan wrote:Travel around to various countries and preach hatred long enough to institigate a series of smaller, seperate wars so there would be nobody left to fight WWII......

What?
Hey, if it works... :wink:

Mine would probably involve getting the rest of Europe to help restore Germany's power, then supporting China to make it possible for them to repell a Japanese attack.

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Re: You Must Stop World War Two

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HemlockGrey wrote:Suddenly, you are summoned by an extradimensional being. He shows you an alternate universe where things will play out exactly like our own.

He then tasks you with stopping WWII. You will be dropped off in the city of your choice, circa 1930, with the equivelant of $100,000 in local currency.

If you fail, you will die.

What will you do?
Will I be myself, or someone else?

If I was someone else, probably Warsaw. I'd try to get into the Polish political machinery soon enough to push for an alliance with Czechoslovakia.

Back when Hitler had wanted the Sudetenland, the Czechs were ready to fight, but nobody had supported them. Give them one ally with the capability to fight Germany by land, a Germany that was far from being re-armed, and you could stop the spread in its tracks.

Alternatively, if I was myself, Rome. Mussolini originally had very good relations with the Austrian government pre-Anschluss, and was displeased with German meddling there, and if I could somehow influence Italian Fascist policy, that could a split between Germany and Italy over Austria, or possibly even a confrontation.
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1920, in city with highest valued currency.

Snipe Hitler, or just bash him over the head with big stick in the beer hall rebellion thingy.

Invest money in US, use money to help Japan in depression or help China (depending on exact sistuation) in 30s......but I doubt military dominated government would go out of power. But if you keep the Germans out of the war the oil embargo wouldn't have happened and WWII wouldn't have occured.

Franco, who cares. Snipe him if attempt on hitler fails by 1930 just in case.

Stalin, tough stuff.... Outdualing a evil, paranoid, cunning dictator masterful in obtaining power is one tough job. Even throwing money at trosky probably wouldn't help. All I can say is snipe him early, snipe him tough, snipe him when Russia is still in post WWI choas. After Stalin is out, respond to whatever is needed.

I'd so perfer to be dropped in 1916-1917 to kill the boshovicks, but thats not an option really....or stop wwi in 1913-14

And showing of nukes is asking for Stalin to get his own.....
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Icehawk wrote:If you really wanna get things done you have to somehow stop that idiotic Treaty of Versailles from coming into place. Or at least make it an actually reasonable treaty, and set up a better functioning system instead of the moronic "League of Nations"
That's right!!!

The source of the problem is residing in the Versailles Treaty.
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Durran Korr wrote:Buy a bunch of Hitler's artwork.
interesting aproach. finding a girl for him might be even more effective.
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salm wrote:
Durran Korr wrote:Buy a bunch of Hitler's artwork.
interesting aproach. finding a girl for him might be even more effective.
I think I recall reading a theory about why Hitler hated Jews... It was said that he got gonhorrea (sp?) from a Jewish prostitute, and has hated them ever since.

I'm not too sure how accurate this information is...

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