Without Japanese attack on pearl harbor, Hitler might have won the war?

Answer 1

I doubt it. Hitler invaded Russia in June, 1941, which more or less insured his eventual defeat. That blunder, in some's eyes, was the biggest in military history. The US probably would have been drawn into the European War anyway.

Answer 2

It could be debated, but I disagree.

The US gov't had been trying for go to war with Hitler for years. The Help Brittain Defend American campaign was begining to work.

There were many groups in the US fighting to get involved in the war. Pearl Harbor just sped up the process.

The Russians had by far the most powerful army at the time. The Russians would have moved slower without the help of the RAF and Army Air Corps, but eventually they would have been able to overtake Germany with or without help.

France had an active resistance that was doing much more than the French military to fight the Germans.

Italy had a relatively good undergood anti-Nazi spy network setup.

The US would have gotten involved if the British had come closer to surrender-the people in the US were the ones against it, not the gov't.

Stories were circulating about the treatment of Jews. Eventually information would have gotten out.

Between the inevitable involvement of the US and the sheer might of the Russian army, Hitler did not really stand a chance even before Pearl Harbor. The reason he got as far as he did is that no one wanted to fight.

Answer 3

IF Hitler had had resources to match his resolve, had military instincts equal to his domestic political instincts or else had left the war to the generals, had not made the classic error of invading Russia in the dead of winter, et cetera ad nauseum, had not gotten nuttier with each passing day, maybe the "Hitler oaks" and the Third Reich would have lasted a thousand years. Almost anything "might have happened" IF so and so hadn't happened, but, regardless of who might otherwise have ended up winning, the vast might of the U.S. was a critical factor in beating Hitler, and thinking the U.S. could or would ultimately have stayed out of the war would probably be a misreading of history. We might have ended up doing too little too late if it had not been for Pearl Harbor, who knows? Historian Barbara Tuchman expressed doubt that the U.S. would have been intervened in Japanese plans to invade the Dutch East Indies if the Japanese had not bombed Pearl Harbor, but the monumental error of the unprovoked attack, of course, brought us the resolve and unity we needed when we needed it to defeat the Axis.

Answer 4

Negative. Although the US was not officially in the war at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the US was supplying Britain and allies already. Hitler, as said above, would have eventually declared war on the US. Besides, the US would not have stood by long enough to let Hitler win.

Answer 5

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 3 days later, Hitler declared war on the U.S.A. not the reverse. It is true that Roosevelt had desired to enter the war and this gave him the excuse he needed. Thus Hitler's fateful decision to declare war on the U.S.A. was the definitive turning point of the war. Hitler had made a severe military mistakes in his invasion of the Soviet Union by diverting his troops from Moscow in the summer towards the Ukraine and reversed it later when it was to late to take Moscow before the winter onset.
Also his failure to cultivate Ukrainian sympathy be becoming just as big a monster as Stalin.
After December 10, 1941 when he declared war on U.S.A. the die had definitely turned due to massive industrial power, manpower and geographic isolation of the U.S.A. from the European scene. The. U.S.A. was able to supply Russia with massive amounts supplies-500.000 trucks, 14,000,000 boots and rations for the entire Soviet Army for one year.
Hitler was entirely unable to bring the war to U.S.A. shores while the U.S.A. could bring the war to every shore in the world. Second to the atomic bomb, the air craft carrier was the second most formidable weapon that was totally utilized by the U.S.A. and Great Britain, for example.
Furthermore Hitler's reluctance to totally mobilize the country to a total war economy and the troops and materials needed for the Holocaust help to speed along Hitler's defeat.
Finally with the U.S.A. entry into the war it was possible to establish a second front(AFrica, Italy) and later Normandy that sealed Hitler's demise. Remember not defeating England kept the possibility of a future second front alive.
THank You, Norman
Thank You, Norman

Answer 6

Depends on which war you're talking about... Remember, Germany fought on two fronts, Western (against France and Britain) and Eastern (against Russia). Without the Japanese attack on Perl Harbor, the U.S. could end up extending lend-lease to Germany in exchange for cessation of hostilities on the Western front, so that Germany could attack Russia with a renewed strength. There were just enough Nazi sympathizers and Communist haters in the U.S. to pull this off.

The problem with that reasoning is that the U.S. leaders at the time WANTED to have a war with Japan. One famous quote often cited in this context is taken from the private diary of Henry Stimson, who at the onset of war became the U.S. Secretary of War: "the Japanese must be maneuvered into a position from which they take the first shot"...

Answer 7

Are you saying that the attack brought into the war the might of the US which brought about Hitler's undoing ? I'd rather see it another way. There was a lot of people against entering into what they saw as a 'European war.' Issolation ' has been a traditional American practice.The pro-war lobby saw a chance in undermining this opposition by cutting off Japanese access to petroleum. It worked. Japan retaliated and the rest is history.

Answer 8

No, Hitler could not have won the war.
By attacking Russia he gained so much ground that his front was too far away from his supply bases.
Most German logistic columns were horse drawn, a fact that is seldom mentioned, so they were stretched to the limit.
Without US help D Day would not have happened as it did and a second front may have taken several more years.
It is debatable if the US would have stepped in to aid Britain and its Allies as there were strong groups on both sides.
Fortunately the US did get involved, and the rest is history.

Answer 9

Adolf Hitler April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of Germany from 1933, and Führer (Leader) of Germany from 1934 until his death. He was leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), the Nazi Party.

Hitler gained power in a Germany facing crisis after World War I. Using propaganda and charismatic oratory, he appealed to the economic needs of the lower and middle classes, while sounding resonant chords of nationalism, antisemitism, and anti-communism. With the establishment of a restructured economy, a rearmed military, and a totalitarian regime, Hitler pursued an aggressive foreign policy with the intention of expanding German Lebensraum ("living space"). This triggered World War II when Germany annexed Austria, the Czech lands, and invaded Poland, much of which was also annexed to form the "Greater German Reich" (Großdeutsches Reich).

At their zenith, Nazi Germany and the Axis Powers occupied most of Europe, but were eventually defeated by the Allies. By the end of the war, Hitler's racial policies had culminated in the killing of approximately 11 million people, including the genocide of some six million Jews, in what is now known as the Holocaust. By the end of the war, more than 45 million people had died in Europe alone.

In the final days of the war, Hitler, along with his new wife, Eva Braun, committed suicide in his underground bunker in Berlin, as the city was overrun by the Red Army of the Soviet Union.

Answer 10

I believe that the US would have had to enter the war sooner or later with or without Pearl Harbor. It was merely a matter of time.