Originally posted by Quiero Mota
"We'd all be speakin' German! Yuck!"-R. Lee Ermy
I'm asking cause yesterday I was watching a good WW2 doc on TV called "War" and found out that Germany actually attacked the U.S. during WW2..Damn I didn't know that...Like their forces literally came to the U.S. to strike it.
German subs attacked cargo carriers from the shores of Boston to oil tankers in the Gulf of Mexico. In 1944 they downed like 3-4 a week for like a half a year.
Then you had Japan taking over all the islands in the pacific and just almost , Hawaii. So it did come pretty close.
After all, Germany's army was twice that of the U.S. and they had a technologically superior war machine going for them so. I just imagined if they'd won.
I think the way WW2 played out so much went right for the US. I won't go into great detail but so many of the people and events went in favor of the US that if they hadn't Germany and Japan would have certainly won the war.
Two that i will quickly mention were the Battle of Britian and the loss of the intelligensia from Germany i.e. scientists like Einstein. These were two critical factors that led to America's costly but ultimately successful victory over Germany and Japan.
The question as to what would have happened had Germany and Japan won is pretty clear. Japan would control most of the Pacific including the West coast of the U.S. While, the East coast and all of Europe would be controlled by the Nazi. One player to keep in mind is the USSR. Even if the US and Britain would have failed against Hitler and his Nazis, the Russians almost certainly would ha e kept on fighting and the war could concievably have gone on for several more years.
Originally posted by History Buff
I think the way WW2 played out so much went right for the US. I won't go into great detail but so many of the people and events went in favor of the US that if they hadn't Germany and Japan would have certainly won the war.
Orale! The US practically carried the Allies.
Originally posted by Joli Bug-Azi
How much more of a mess do you guys honestly think we'd be in?People are still massare'd by the thousands every day. Just in different ways.
The world would be drastically different. The US would be split into a Japanese sphere of influence (all states west of the Mississippi) and a German one (all states east of it). According to the History Channel.
Originally posted by FistOfThe North
I'm asking cause yesterday I was watching a good WW2 doc on TV called "War" and found out that Germany actually attacked the U.S. during WW2..Damn I didn't know that...Like their forces literally came to the U.S. to strike it.German subs attacked cargo carriers from the shores of Boston to oil tankers in the Gulf of Mexico. In 1944 they downed like 3-4 a week for like a half a year.
Then you had Japan taking over all the islands in the pacific and just almost , Hawaii. So it did come pretty close.
After all, Germany's army was twice that of the U.S. and they had a technologically superior war machine going for them so. I just imagined if they'd won.
It's true they declared war against them, but it wouldn't have mattered since Roosevelt already before the declaration of war from Hitler was helping Britain with supplies and it would only have been a matter of time before US had joined a 100%, and no the German forces never sat foot on american soil they had enough to do in USSR.
That's correct.
No Japan launched a blitz war against USA, but they knew they would lose all sources from that point of time point to that if there was anything they wanted to avoid it was war with USA.
No there army wasn't twice as big else USA couldn't have afforded a war on two fronts on the scale that they waged it. Also the German war machine wasn't superior to any other army just organised in a more efficient way.
The thing about ww2 is Hitler didn't want war with Britain or the US, mostly because we won last time. Also, there is evidence that it was the jews who brought both into the war...both wars. A Jewish group known as the Zionists also thought up the Treaty of Versailles, and Germany was controlled by Zionists. Is there any wonder why Hitler hated the Jews?
Originally posted by Joli Bug-Azi
How much more of a mess do you guys honestly think we'd be in?People are still massare'd by the thousands every day. Just in different ways.