What would the world be like if we had stayed out of WWII?

Question

What would we be living without?

"we" as in America. If WWII still happened, we just remained defensive and not offensive rather than participating like everyone else.

Answer 1

Who do you mean by we?
If we ALL, including Germany, stayed out of it there would have been no World War.

Edit:
Personally, I like my idea of everyone staying out of it, especially Germany.

Answer 2

As Nelle says war was unavoidable for the USA. We were dragged into it kicking and screaming.
Let's say that the USA sued for peace when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. What they wanted was a free hand in China and Southeast Asia, and the US oil embargo was hurting them badly. It's anybody's guess if Japan could have defeated China. The Japanese Army killed Chinese people.as fast as it could, and it still wasn't enough.
Russia and Germany is another story. The Germans weren't prepared for a long war. The USA provided Russia with vital supplies and raw materials - not a great deal in tonnage, but some of the supplies (like chrome) were strategic minerals necessary for making stainless steel. It's likely that the USA would have continued to supply Russia. Given that, the Russian victory at Stalingrad was a point of no return. By 1944 the Russians were winning the war with Germany anyway. They were producing more and better tanks and more and better planes, and their multiple rocket launchers were truly fearsome. The probable result would have been a complete Russian victory. Everything east of France would have become communist.

Answer 3

To tell the truth, isn't that what America was trying to do? They were trying to stay out of the war. Britain was the last Ally who had not fully given in to Germany. (France was mostly conquered so that their leaders had to flee to England)

so, if FDR had not gone through with the war, for one, the Great Depression would have continued way longer. War makes economies move, and in the Great Depression, our economy was losing money and the people were poor. one of the reasons FDR went for WWII (Yes, he was setting us up for it at the very beginning) was to give people their jobs back, and get the economy running again.
also, Britain would be in trouble. they were barely holding it together. Germany kept attacking their citizens (which was previously against the rules in war, but the Germans were frusterated that they couldn't find millitary bases thanks to Winston Churchill and his genius making wrong maps of England scheme) and England was in big trouble.
if Britain was in trouble, the rest of the Allies would be in trouble. As you know, the Allies were formed of the big powers like Britain and France, and little powers such as the Netherlands, Belguim, some nations in South America...
i don't think WWII could have been avoidable. FDR was gearing America to it. he got the economy moving by assigning jobs like making weapons. when the Japanese attacked pearl harbor, that was just the last straw in a series of clever moves to get America into the war.

so yeah, the world may have been different, for one the Germans, Italians, and Japanese may have won. for another, America would still be in the Great Depression. but the real significance is that WWII was UNAVOIDABLE.

Answer 4

We could have stayed out but After Germany defeated Britain and Russia we would have had to fight them and Japan without the Help of ANYONE> So you might not have any of the freedoms that you Have now!!!!!