What would world look like if?

Question

D day was cancelled and in two years atomic bomb was dropped on Germany.

Answer 1

The Red Army would have occupied more, maybe all, of Germany, and maybe Northern Europe and parts of Western Europe too. V-weapons would have destroyed more of the British cities. Western Europe would have been liberated via Italy end 1944 - beginning 1945, as Churchill wanted. The war would have ended a year later in 1946. And the Soviet Union would have been even more angry at the Western Allies for not opening a Second Front sooner.

"After the 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa), the Soviets had done the bulk of the fighting against Germany on the European mainland. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill had committed the United States and the United Kingdom to opening up a “second front” in Europe to aid in the Soviet advance on Germany, initially in 1942, and again in spring 1943."

"The British, under Churchill, wished to avoid the costly frontal assaults of World War I. Churchill and the British staff favoured a course of allowing the insurgency work of the Special Operations Executive to come to widespread fruition, while themselves making a main Allied thrust from the Mediterranean to Vienna and into Germany from the south. Such an approach was also believed to offer the advantage of creating a barrier to limit the Soviet advance into Europe."

"In larger context the Normandy landings helped the Soviets on the Eastern front, who were facing the bulk of the German forces, and, to a certain extent, contributed to the shortening of the conflict there. Noteworthy, the fact that significant German forces were tied on the Eastern Front contributed to the success of the Normandy landing."

"The lodgement established at Normandy was vital for the Allies to bring pressure on German armies in western Europe. By this time the Soviet forces had the capacity to crush Germany in Europe on their own, and therefore a western invasion was not strictly required to defeat the German Reich. The military forces at the disposal of Nazi Germany, moreover, steadily declined from 1943 onwards. On D-Day, the Red Army was steadily advancing towards Germany and engaging four-fifths of all German land forces. In France, and Italy, the western Allies faced the remaining 20% of the German army. Some historians, such as Richard Overy, have thus concluded that Normandy was not very important for the outcome of the war. In the view of these writers, the battle of Normandy only shortened the war."

"In addition, Hitler was anxious to hold on to the Belgian and northern French coasts as bases for the "V" weapons to be launched against England."

"Given the Soviets' later domination of Eastern Europe, if the Normandy invasion had not occurred there might conceivably have been a complete occupation of northern and western Europe by communist forces[citation needed]. Alternately, Hitler might have deployed more forces to the Eastern Front, conceivably delaying or even preventing a Soviet advance beyond their pre-war border. In practice though, German troops remained in the West even in the absence of an invasion."

"After the war Hitler's foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop presented three main reasons for German's defeat:"

"- Unexpectedly stubborn resistance from the Soviet Union."
"- The large-scale supply of arms and equipment from the US to the Soviet Union, under the lend-lease agreement."
"- The success of the Western Allies in the struggle for air supremacy."

"Battle of Normandy" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Normandy

"Churchill had hoped that a breakthrough [of last major German defensive line in Italy, south of Bologna], in the autumn of 1944 would open the way for the Allied armies to advance north eastwards through the 'Ljubljana Gap' to Vienna and Hungary to forstall the Russians advancing into Eastern Europe (although the US Chiefs of Staff had until mid September strongly opposed the idea). Paradoxically therefore the major long-term impact of the remarkable German defense [in Italy] in the autumn and winter of 1944 was to facilitate the post-war domination of Eastern Europe by the Soviet Union."

"World War II : Germany's underbelly" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ww2#Germany.27s_underbelly

Answer 2

If D-Day had been canceled Germany would have invented the atomic bomb first. The bomb would have been dropped on London and/or Moscow in that case.

Answer 3

If D-day did not happen, hitlers forces would have taken britain and eventually reached america. By then one or two atomic bombs on a german city would probably not have been enough to stop thier war machine which with japanese forces would be attacking the US mainland on all fronts.

Answer 4

It would look like s h i t.