If America would have remained isolationist and not entered WWII, what would the world be like today?

Question

US commerce in the Pacific started WWII. We planded and anticipated Pearl Harbor in the 20's. Our expansion into the Philipines and Indonesia made Japan's moves neccessary. If we would have signed an agreement with Japan, all of Europe would speak German and the Russians would all speak Chinese...

Answer 1

Hitler wanted Britain on his side for very good reasons. We are the most invaded Island in the world and are descended from some of the most brutal cultures who invaded and settled here. He probably would have just tried to stop us interferring with his invasion plans. He had tried to basically get consent from Britain to invade Poland.

The auxiliary military units would have destroyed a Nazi force invading Britain. Auxiliary units were trained to become terrorists and attack the invading/occupying army, recruit and train more for the same. During the Iran/Iraq war, when US and UK supported Saddam Hussein and sold him chemical weapons which he used on the Kurds, Iraqi officers came to Britain to train to use this auxiliary method in the event of an invasion. You could see it happen when we invaded Iraq this time....Iraqi forces went guerilla as soon as they new they were going to lose and then start a war of covert destruction. You can see that method in action every day on the news.

If America hadn't been bombed at Pearl Harbour, they would have stayed out of it. America was already involved with it's own Eugenics program of compulsory sterilization and internment way before the war. Eugenics was at the heart of Hitler's master race idea and many in America had equally bigoted ideas. How long ago was it that racial integration was forbidden in the US? Oh Yeah, there are still colleges where inter racial relationships are forbidden, aren't there?

I expect that the rest of the world would have much healthier diets and terrorism would be much rarer. Vietnam would not have happened and many more Jews, gypsies and Freemasons would have been slaughtered by the Nazis.

I think that Nazism would still have destroyed itself.

Answer 2

This is an intriguing question... in some ways the US could not avoid intervening on the part of the Allies... the US was too invested in Great Britain not to help her. Also, with the attack on Pearl Harbor, the US was automatically ending its "isolationist" ideology.

However, if the US only attacked and destroyed Japan, it is highly possible that the US and Germany would have joined forces against the Russians. Many soldiers on the ground level both Germans and Americans wanted to do that. They saw the Communists as the real enemy, not the Germans. In fact, once Hitler was removed from power, the German people were a lot like the Americans... civilized, urbanized, industrialized, Christian, and hard-working.

I don't know that our world now would be all that different, really. I think the German people would have ousted the Nazi's on their own... perhaps a civil war. The common people of Germany were not "content" with the fuhrer.

Wow... great question.

Answer 3

We would probably not be here as we know it.
If Germany conquered all of europe.Russia & controlled the resources it was after, sooner or later they would have tried to invade north America with the help of Mexico, & South American allies.
The Japanese would have controlled the pacific islands ,China, southeast asia ,Australia,New zealand etc.(the pacific co-prosperity sphere)
With those resources at hand, they too would attempt invasion of north America from the west.
Women would be used as breeding stock for slaves & men would be pulling plows.
Not just a wild rant, the alliance between Germany & Japan
had plans in place for an eventual joint world takeover.
I suspect the Germans would have turned on the Japanese since though they were useful, they were also inferior to the "master race".
The Japanese thought the same of the Germans so the war would have continued until there was nothing left of civilization as we once knew it.
That is only one of many scenarios that could have played out.
Makes you wonder what's coming next.

Answer 4

I don't know what the rest of the world would be like, but I think our own Civil Rights Movement wouldn't have happened if the U.S. didn't joined in WWII. Black veterans who fought in WWII saw the irony in stopping Hitler's racist policies while coming home to segregated businesses, schools, housing, etc. I know people say Rosa Parks started the civil rights movement, but it was the black veterans who gave it momentum.

The Russian communists and Japanese imperialists had different ideas on race, so their societies would vary. However, if the Nazis took over Europe, and Jim Crow remained in place, the U.S. and Hitler's Europe would operate under similar assumptions of racial hierarchy and practice political oppression of minorities. Just a thought about history folks, don't get up in my case about reverse racism and liberal guilt, blah, blah....

Answer 5

It's a question that cannot be honestly answered. The fact is that there was WWII and that is that.
No one can predict or say what America would be like now if we hadn't.
The fact stands that we did and you cannot change facts!
Did anyone ever really believe that America would grow to be such a nation with so much crime, violence and degredation of morals? I doubt that but it's here and if we don't fix it now people speculating on it later won't change it either!

Answer 6

I don't know that the "additional details" you've posted are correct.... I don't know that they aren't.
I do know that Hitler was a monster. I'm glad we "intervened"....
Are you sure that something WE did in the 1920's necessitated a Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor?? Sounds like stretching a point.... }:>

I will say that anyone who actually READ the terms of the treaty after WWI could have reasonably predicted WWII.....

Answer 7

bouldercrap to all the people that said the US would be speaking German.

Those krauts wouldnt be able to get anywhere NEAR the core of the US. If we can penetrate all of Europe, then i guess weve got the muscle to keep them out. Hell, of all things, Germans would be the most despised people currently, on top of African Americans (no offense to any, im not racist, just realistic).

But about the other parts of the world? god save them.

Answer 8

Similar question to the one that was asked on Saturday Night Live many years ago. "What if Napoleon had a B-52 at Waterloo?"

Answer 9

If America hadn't entered WW2, the British and Soviets would've won it on their own. It would've cost them more lives and more money, but they still would have won. But without our involvement in WW2, America never would have become a world power. And without us around, no one would have been able to stand up to the Soviets. Communism would never have fallen.

Answer 10

to be honest, i really don't know. I thought that isolationism end in WWI. We wouldn't be as powerful as we were. NO Untied Nation. Heck, Without WWII, We have no interested in American history. No General Patton either.