Einstein and other German scientists were already in the US by this point, so I don't think it's beyond the realm of possibility that the US would still develop the atom bomb. It would take longer, since we wouldn't be facing the pressure of the war. But Germany's scientists could also continue their research, so it would be a much closer race to get the bomb.
Russia has never been conquered militarily by an outside force-- as the saying goes, Russia's two greatest Generals are General Size and General Winter. The Russian winter would cripple the new Allied forces just as much as it did the Nazi forces in the real world. They might advance a bit further, but not much. Japan would also be very well entrenched, especially since British and German forces would have to come halfway around the world to get to the front lines. Since Britain and Germany have already expended much of their resources fighting each other, and given these obstacles they face, they would initially show promise but ultimately would be turned back just as the Nazis were in our world.
The USSR would seize the opportunity to conquer not only Eastern Europe, but Western Europe as well, probably by 1947. Communism would take hold throughout Eurasia. Once the Allies were defeated, the Japanese, encouraged by their victory, would turn once again towards America. They would allow maybe a year or two to gather their strength and to reassure America that everything is ok, but in 1948 or 1949, North America would face invasion. The Japanese would attack Pearl Harbour and a small Russian force would join the Japanese in an attack on Alaska, hoping to draw US forces to the Pacific before the primary Russian assault on the East Coast. The Resistance in Europe would hinder Russia's ability to decisively take the East Coast, but Japan would advance from the West with little difficulty. Washington and New York would eventually fall, and a temporary free American capital would be set up in Chicago. It would take a lot longer than our WW2, since America is much larger than Europe and the invading armies are already weary from years of war, but North America would be unable to fight back against both the Japanese and the USSR.
The Japanese would take Chicago, probably by 1955. Resistance movements in Europe and America would continue to hold on through the late 60s, but would be largely ineffective. Having seized the results of American research on the atom bomb, Japan develops it first, possibly using it on several American cities in the final days of the war. Like our own world, Russia is not far behind in stealing the technology for their own bomb. With the twin, nuclear-armed superpowers of the USSR and the Empire of Japan, a new Cold War takes hold. The space race replays itself, and Russia launches the first manmade satellite and the first human in space. Japan is hopelessly behind, struggling to keep control of a continent thousands of miles from the homeland.
In 1973, OPEC raises oil prices, hoping to bring to bear some influence on the superpowers. The resulting economic collapse is too much for the Japanese Empire, and it falls apart completely in early 1974. Some regions in Canada and the former United States form democratic republics, but communism sweeps the globe, dictatorships and democracies alike falling to the promise of equality and-- more importantly-- jobs that communism offers.
By the mid-80s, Marx's worldwide communist revolt is nearly complete, but internal pressures are increasing in some of the oldest communist regimes. Corruption and scandal keep the USSR from a communist paradise, and threaten to undermine the whole empire. Cracks appear, and widen, and in the late 1990s the entire system collapses from within. The USSR falls apart, and Europe tastes freedom for the first time in 50 years. Communist nations throughout the world face turmoil as the motherland collapses; many of them face internal revolutions. Some of those result in fledgling democracies, other in totalitarian dictatorships. As this alternate world approaches 2006, it's overall level of technology is comparable to the early 1970s of our world, set back by decades of war, revolutions and economic depression. There is no superpower, but hundreds of small states vying for supremacy, many of them armed with Japanese and Russian nukes. A nuclear holocaust approaches, but maybe, if the right people make the right decisions, it can be avoided...
2006-07-23 13:28:45
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answered by Tim 4
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I have no problem with alternate histories just as long as the are viable. In fact I have enjoyed writing them myself. But this is not a viable scenario. The allies would not have any reason or rationale to support or aid Germany in a conquest of the Soviet Union. That said, I think peace with the west is the key and Germany probably would have been able to take down the Soviets fighting a one front war. I also doubt the lack of a conflict between Japan and the US. While the Japanese may not have attacked Pearl Harbor, they were still in desparate need of raw materials for war production and conflict was their only option with the supposedly "neutral" US pressing an embargo of those supplies.
My guess would be Germany takes down the Soviet Union, solidifies its position in western Asia and Europe, decides North Africa is a non-issue and withdraws to the mid-east, retaining the supply of oil.
Japan has precious little to change the eventual outcome as it original occured since the US would most assuredly been involved in a shooting war in the Pacific. And since all resources could supply that theatre instead of two as actually occured, my guess would be an earlier end to the conflict including an invasion of the Japanese home islands since the atomic bomb would not yet be prepared. As such, Japan would more than likely remain a US territory to this day.
2006-07-24 12:54:57
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answered by Who cares 5
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2016-12-10 14:24:05
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answered by briana 4
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