>After an assassination attempt on his life in 1939, Henry Ford decides to run for President. He wins the 1940 presidential election on the Republican ticket with Howard Scott as his running-mate. Ford campaigns on a promise of industrial development and strict neutrality.
>The change in administration in the USA alarms Churchill who was counting on their support. Churchill thus makes the decision to 'make another deal with another devil' and approaches Japan with the offer of a formal alliance. In-exchange for unlimited Japanese support, Britain would support Japan's plan to annex China with the exception of Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Hainan which would be annexed by Britain. Britain would also aid Japan in any future conflicts and vice-versa. Japan accepts these generous terms, betraying Germany.
>Upon Japan's foolish attack on Pearl Harbour, The USA is de facto forced into joining the Axis. While the Allies achieve initial success (notably annexing China) while they maintain unchallenged naval and air superiority, by 1944, the tide has turned due to USA industrial supremacy, and by 1947 the war has essentially ended with Axis victory.
>However, it is not until 1948, with a coup d'etat in Britain and the establishment of Oswald Moseley as Lord Protector, that the Allies enter surrender negotiations with the Axis.
>Lord Moseley manages to maintain the United Kingdom as a truly independent state, but at the cost of giving up Northern Ireland to Ireland. The various European empires and the Japanese empire are all completely dissolved. The Soviet Union is annexed by the Third Reich. The largely non-White 'global south' is essentially broken into hundreds of USA puppet-states with mutual-assistance treaties and US-style constitutions (similar to IRL Japan). The new state of Israel, supported by the Reich as 'an open air prison' is one such state. Canada has been annexed and integrated into the USA.
>The USA establishes the UN, to consolidate and formalize her global dominance. The Third Reich establishes the Imperial Federation of Europa (IFE) that includes all of Europe and Northern Asia. Something between a friendly rivalry and cold war ensues... at it's core a competition between the USA and Third Reich. In this competition, Britain becomes the global diplomatic hub due to being the most powerful sovereign state that is neither part of the UN nor subject to the IFE.
>The story takes place primarily in Britain, but main characters do visit Japan as students.
<The setting for my alt-history Yuri series nya~