If Russia was defeated by Germany in World War II, would there be a Cold War after that?

Question

If Germany's invasion of Russia was successful during World War II. Would there be a Cold War after that?. Or would it turn to be a Cold War between Germany and U.S.?. or would it be only Germany as superpower?. or only U.S. as superpower?.

Answer 1

If Russia was defeated, Germany could have conquered Europe and will try to invade US as the next target.

Answer 2

We will never really know. There are several scenarios. Germany defeats Russia, The allies defeat Germany. Then Russia falls under the term of a conquered nation and like Japan, they are turned into a democracy. At this point they are an open society and have no fear of the US so we are friends.

Scenario 2: Same as above only the allies let Russia stay the way the were, a dictatorship, and we still have a cold war.

Scenario 3: Germany defeats Russia and the allies. Then we are under a dictatorship and speaking German as they have conquered the world.

If all of Europe had fallen to the Germans, their next move would have been South America, Brazil and several SA countries were allied with Germany. Germany even tried to get Mexico to attack the US. Then they would have moved up through Mexico into the US. We couldn't have held out against Germany and Japan.

Answer 3

A successful quest into russia most like would have ended in a truce on the eastern front, allowing Germany to focus completely on the western front and perhaps stopping the allied invasion of germany. With a prolong conflict, the possiblity of Germany's production of an atomic bomb would be far more likely, resulting in a stand off of nuclear proliferation between to industrial powerhouses. Without an effective defense against a mutually assured destruction, a cold war between Germany and the U.S. would have been a likely scenario. however as we've seen with Russia, Germany would be dealing with an even more diverse and unstable empire than the USSR. Perhaps the fall of the Germanic Empire would plunge Europe into depression and a new darkage of civil war?

The other question is whether Japan would have eventually aligned with the U.S. or with Germany, once it had achieved it's goals in Asia.

Answer 4

Any one who knows the history of Russia will tell you that any
invasion of Russia before 1980 would be doomed to failure.

I know it is a hypothetical question, but I can not even imagine how
the Germans could possibly have won that campaign. Napoleon
tried it and failed as well.

But I suppose that the cold war would have been between us
and Germany.

Not a happy prospect, since Russia's own political system
caused there downfall and Germany did not have that problem.

Answer 5

Your inquisitiveness leads me to believe you are highly concerned about geo-political composition.

If you want to take your questions up a notch or two, try pondering what a world would look like without a super power.

Did you ever envision where people we don't know are meeting in private to discuss mapping the world to their satisfaction?

Could this be at all possible?

Could the composition of world players be fine tuned so that everything goes according to master plans being devised by people we don't know?

Certainly had Germany won W.W.11, we'd live in a different world.

The world would go on, but the music would be more like Bach and Mozart instead of Stones and Rap.

After W.W. 11, the world became dominated by democratic players who use capitalism to get them extraordinary wealth.

With capitalism now running out of control, I often wonder where it will all end up.

I mean, there is so much money flowing around that it's very possible that something will go wrong, and screw up all the markets in the world, and that might be a highly interesting event to witness.

Answer 6

An impossible question. Russia could not have been defeated. If you accept this premise then the question becomes absurd. It is like saying that if my grandmother had balls she would be my grandfather. Germany's INHERENT inability to defeat Russia was part of a historical wave which no one could stop. The cold war had to happen because the agression of the 20th century became mitigated and muted as a disease becomes muted at repeated mass infections.

Answer 7

Well it would have been very tough for Germany to do that,they had already exhausted half of there strength to the western fronts.Had Hitler realized the railroad tracks were guaged at a different scale in Russia,he might of had a chance,slim but maybe to take the Moscow and the Kremlin,If Hitler wouldve gave the atomic scientist a chance to develop the ideas they had first then we'd all be speaking German

Answer 8

Well, if you've read any of the second book, which was unpublished until well after the war, he indeed had a plan to invade America. Could he have succeeded? I seriously doubt it. To much ocean, no islands to "hop." I would assume that there would become a state of perpetual war. Due to what the Nazi's stood for. Plus Americans in that generation had a certain amount of pride in country that doesn't exist as much today. I don't think it would be possible for either side to win.

Answer 9

only germany will be the superpowers and the world will like living in an only perfect human person existing and slavery rampant, racism is the norm and only the white aryan nazi ruling and running the wealth of the world and if you don't speak the german language you are DEAD or A NOBODY,

Answer 10

Czechoslovakia was dominated by the Soviet Union after WWII. Stalin set up a communist government in Czech. that was an ally of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev's foreign policy was that the USSR would not intervene in Eastern European nations if they were changing their government. Yugoslavia was composed of 6 republics. In the 1990s the republics declared independence, their was fiighting and the Yugoslavia broke up into separate republics.