Would we all really be speaking German if the US hadn't intervened in WW2?

Question

I keep on hearing this, and was wondering, is it true? Would we really be speaking German?

Answer 1

Germany did not have the capacity, at any point, to invade Britain. Even if Germany somehow "wins" the Battle of Britain, the Royal Navy and the remnant of the Royal Air Force will be strong enough to either defeat an invasion or prevent its ability to resupply, even if they suffer incredible losses in doing so. The best Germany can do is land a few thousand troops (many will drown when their river barges capsize in the rough Channel waters, others will be killed by aircraft, naval gunfire, artillery, mines, and torpedoes), without heavy weapons or armored support, with only the food and ammunition they carried with them - they will be killed or forced to surrender when it becomes clear that they are trapped, outnumbered, and without reinforcement or resupply.

Answer 2

No.



The Battle of Britain ended any plans the Germans had of invading Britain or forcing a negotiated peace with them in the Summer/Autmn of 1940 - well over a year before USA entered WW2.



This meant that Britain was effectively safe from invasion,and this would ahave remained the situation even if USA had continued to remain neutral throughout the rest of the war.



So,ideas that USA entering WW2 - more than 2 years after Britain declared war on Germany in support of Poland (rather than waiting to be attacked first) stopped Germany taking over the world are entirely mistaken.

Answer 3

No. Germany had neither the capability nor the interest in conquering the US. The best case for Germany(assuming war started in Sept. 1939) is that they knocked Britain out of the war as well as defeating France in 1940. Then they might have been able to destroy the USSR, absorbing some of the soviet states as vassal nations. That would have left North America as the bastion of democracy(with anti-Nazi British fleeing England to Canada), Germany in control of Europe, and Japan holding onto the pacific and eastern Asia.

English would still be the language of the land, with a new cold war settling in.

Answer 4

Im not so sure about that, but I have always believed if hitler hadnt done what he did, German would have been a second language in the US just like Spanish because America has such a high percentage of German ethnicity. But the German American people at the time were afraid to speak German (it was a big second language in Baltimore and many other american cities,towns,etc.) so it died out in time...



Its really sad what hitler did... Besides killing TONS of people, he crippled the German culture in other countries and in the German speaking countries themselves... Although im american living in germany,(i learned German and speak it fluently now) ive talked to my german friends and they say they feel like they arent allowed to be proud of their country like in the US because everyone would accuse them of being nazis. Its such BS :( GERMANS TODAY ARE REALLY NICE OPEN MINDED PEOPLE :DDD

Answer 5

One of those what if's. If we had lost the battle of Britain then it was a toss up between German and Russian.



We won that battle, and we had the commonwealth. Unlikely. If the US had not entered the war then we may not have been able to stop Stalin reaching the UK.

Answer 6

No, We would be speaking English and the Germans would be speaking Russian.

Answer 7

No. Maybe if germany won the battle of britain. Hilter saw that there was no chance in winning the battle of britain so turned his attention towards russia. Russia would have made it to berlin without the us joining the allies but they would have went further towards france and made france,netherlands,belgium,luxembourg and austria communist

Answer 8

by utilising the tip of 1941, we and our genuine buddies, the Canadians and Australians, plus the unfastened French and Poles, had made particular the Nazis would desire to no longer win, and Hitler had dedicated his deadly blunders of attacking Russia. I haven't any doubt that the warfare in Europe could have lasted longer, and Uncle Sam's fats cats could have grown even fatter imparting a warfare on 2 fronts. they could have laughed their thank you to the financial company in 1950 or thereabouts, even extra suitable than they did in 1945, except, of direction, Stalin and (possibly) 1st earl attlee had had the sound experience to repudiate warfare charges, having stored civilisation for the entire factor approximately others, such because of the fact the united states of a. I haven't any doubt, additionally, that on the tip of the warfare, Communist governments could have been set up in the entire of Germany, Austria, Greece, probable Italy and doubtless France, by the Soviet 'liberators'. and there's a concept to set God's u . s . shaking in its footwear - yet I haven't any doubt that Churchill and FDR had concept this one out as early because of the fact the summer time of 1941, and doubtless earlier that. and that i do no longer detract from the undoubted braveness of yank struggling with adult adult males - yet we ought to consistently think of slightly extra deeply, possibly, approximately their and another leaders' motives.

Answer 9

No. I believe we would have won eventually, though it would have taken longer, and more people would have died. The US did not win WW2 single-handed, though they appear to imagine that they did.

Answer 10

No we wouldn't it was known very early on that hitler had no intention of invading britain

Answer 11

Of course not.

Answer 12

no they would be speaking english