Which additional countries could have realistically become Axis members in World War II? Yugoslavia is an obvious candidate for this if the 1941 coup doesn't occur there, as is the Soviet Union if the late 1940 negotiations in regards to this would have actually succeeded:
However, who else could have realistically qualified for this? (Note: Not all eligible countries actually need to be in the Axis simultaneously in this TL or even to be in the Axis at all.) I have previously thought about Poland, but I'm inclined to agree with @sillygoose's argument that if Poland joins the Axis, then a Franco-Anglo-Soviet alliance becomes much more plausible, which in turn makes World War II much less likely to occur in the first place since sparking such a war would very likely be too risky even for the Nazis themselves.
Could Lithuania have become an Axis member? Or perhaps Greece if Mussolini would not have had his own designs on it? Or perhaps Turkey if the Sevres settlement would have actually permanently lasted/survived?
And who else might have realistically qualified for this? China, perhaps, if Nazi Germany chooses it rather than Japan? And who else?
However, who else could have realistically qualified for this? (Note: Not all eligible countries actually need to be in the Axis simultaneously in this TL or even to be in the Axis at all.) I have previously thought about Poland, but I'm inclined to agree with @sillygoose's argument that if Poland joins the Axis, then a Franco-Anglo-Soviet alliance becomes much more plausible, which in turn makes World War II much less likely to occur in the first place since sparking such a war would very likely be too risky even for the Nazis themselves.
Could Lithuania have become an Axis member? Or perhaps Greece if Mussolini would not have had his own designs on it? Or perhaps Turkey if the Sevres settlement would have actually permanently lasted/survived?
And who else might have realistically qualified for this? China, perhaps, if Nazi Germany chooses it rather than Japan? And who else?