Question:
what would happen if the U.S. never joined WWII ?
2009-11-09 19:33:48 UTC
what if Japan never attacked Pearl Harbor and the US never joined in WW2 ?
Five answers:
P.O.U.M.
2009-11-09 23:20:14 UTC
If Japan had never attacked Pearl Harbor, and the U. S. had never entered World War II, the U. S. would never have been in a position to interfere in the Chinese Civil War or the Korean Civil War - nor would the U. S. ever have invaded Vietnam. The basis of America's foreign policy failures in East Asia rested on their military superiority as a result of the arming of the nation for the Pacific War with Japan, and the use of that military force as such to resolve political matters elsewhere in Asia - the so-called "containment of communism" during the Cold War.
cutie0328c
2009-11-10 03:47:03 UTC
At the rate that the war was going the British would have had trouble fighting off the Germans. The Russians may have helped if Germany still betrayed them. But I think we would have gotten involved no matter what because Hitler was had a plan designed that could fly to New York and drop some bombs, it was only after we entered the war and began to bomb factories that we had blown it up. Also FDR was sending supplies to Britain to aid them, it was only a matter of time before the U.S. entered the war. But If we had not entered at all I think that britain would have lost or the war would have gone on a lot longer than it had. I don't think Russia would have been able to beat them by themselves and I don't think the U.S. would have been able to beat Germany without the aid of Russia.
Naz F
2009-11-10 04:11:29 UTC
Russia would still have crushed Hitler. Besides Eastern Europe, in his 'liberating' mission, he might have conquered France and the Netherlands for Communism too.
thesurfer
2009-11-10 16:20:05 UTC
Hello there

I am the surfer



The british fought alone the battle of britain

they did most of the fighting for Malta

They had good military industry of their own : tanks, submarines, air planes.....guns and more

They fought for Africa

They got valuable help from Canada, New Zealand, India, Australia and South Africa

They got a good navy with air craft carriers

They did the naval attack on Tarento

They decipher german radio codes



The soviets did most of fighting 8/10 german soldiers were killed by red army, no british city was under siege like Leningrad, no terrible battles like Stalingrad....

The germans produced 8,000 stukas, the soviets 30,000 il 2 tank buster for similar dive bomber role!

The soviets had the best allied tank of those hard times!



With out the usa england , british commonwealth and soviet union would defeat germany by themselves , war would take 2 , 3 or more years but in the end germany was surrounded and attacked by west and east by determined enemies who fought until the end!



Internal consequences if usa did not join the war

The entry into the war meant gearing up for mass production and money spending creating jobs

1.) No federal spending on military budget means no increase of production so no factory jobs for those with out jobs so the continuation of poverty

2.) No stock market share for war bonds!

3.) No increase of military production meant us armed forces were ill prepared for foreign war, us military capacity before 41 was like that of Yugoslavia

Canadian navy was little before war, after that the canadian navy became the 3rd world´s largest!

4.) No mayor technological development means no jeep, no great airplanes, no expansion of industrial base to produce the dc 3 and so on!

5.) The car industry got benefits of expansion cause of military contracts so in the absence of war no mayor car production

6) Intelligence gathering capacity. OSS was funded to gather intel on the enemy with out war there would not be post war CIA or NSA......



Consequences for the world after 45



After the war usa become big brother of freedom so with out us the soviets could have won the cold war, europe and british commonwealth were little to oppose soviet expansion



No marshall plan to help Europe to recover from war disaster

The soviets tried to take over Berlin, to remove western presence, so no Berlin Airlift.

The Chinese and north korea attacked south korea and the usa lead the defense of little south korea because usa was big brother so with out big brother south korea and the whole of asia would become red back yard!

No cuban crises, soviets would have no reason to install missiles to oppose a neutral usa.....

No space race

No nasa, german rockets were the start point to reach the moon , so who would take nazi rockets to launch vehicles and men to the moon!? most likely the soviets! but certainly not so the usa!

No vietnam war!

European support for Israel, if america remained neutral , years later the americans and the israelis would not became close friends the way they had or would do so under another scenario!



From the surfer
Sara
2009-11-10 03:47:04 UTC
Russia still would have crushed Hitler.


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