The Emperor scraps the Pearl Harbor strike plan, and invades the USSR instead, but Italy and Germany purposely attack the USA, pushing it on only the European front, causing an entirely different WWII and later Cold War. Apart from that, Turkey and Spain are earlier urged to join the Axis, although of course they are only minor powers. 1955-Insurgency in China reaches extreme levels of severity. Both the Nanking and Washington governments rush troops to stabilise the Northeast. The Soviet Union supports Mao's Communists, as do Korea and South Japan.