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Originally Posted by The Colonel
A big question being do the Western Allies re-arm at all if the Anschluss and Sudentenland Crisis are averted, or do the non-interventionist factions win out? Has Britain bothered with the Spitfire without the lessons of 1939 to show the limitations of the Hurricane (let alone of clown-planes like the Defiant)
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Re-armament was started by the beginning of 1936. It may well not run as fast without Hitler, but it will be happening.
The Spitfire first flew in 1936, and as designed at the same time as the Hurricane. It took a long while to start production, because it used new construction techniques that hadn't been used in the UK on a factory scale before. The Hurricane was the final iteration of the inter-war steel, wood and fabric techniques, and Hawker had to use the new methods for their next aircraft, the Typhoon. That was one of the reasons it was late, and had structural problems.
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Is whoever has taken over also a rabid anti-Semite or are some of the very talented Jews who fled Germany in our timeline still at home doing their bit?
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Anti-Semitism had been a major and popular feature of the NASDAP from early on, and the Nuremberg laws came in in September 1935. It may change after the civil war has happened, but doing that would not be a quick route to popularity.
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Originally Posted by Anders
When was the very brief Japanese-Soviet war where Zhukov proved his mettle?
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August 1939. Happened at the same time as the invasion of Poland, so wasn't much noticed at the time.