Imagine a world where the Wehrmacht's Army Group Centre reaches Moscow by the end of 1941 only to find itself overextended, encircled and destroyed. A world in which the CPC's Hundred Regiments Offensive goes disastrously and the Japanese manage to agree a peace with the KMT by early 1941, but where the Americans are still brought into the European War by the end of the year by some other mechanism. A world in which the Italians are wiped out of North Africa with a complete Operation Compass, and the Mediterranean is a British lake. In TTL's January 1942, the Germans are in a terrible position, far worse than in OTL. But where do they go from here? Having taken the initiative, how long will it be before the Soviets are able to start pushing back towards Germany? And what do the Western Allies do?