muy_thaiguy wrote:If the US had joined on Germany's side, Britain and France would have been royally screwed over, to say the least.
But the impact would go much much farther than that. There never would have been a Hitler, and there certainly wouldn't be a Holocaust because the Jews would never be blamed for losing a war that wasn't lost. Austria-Hungary would probably still be around in some form today. The nuclear age would have taken much longer to get around than it did and probably would've taken a much different face, with Germany, or more probably, the Soviet Union making the first step into it. As for the American fate, we would have gone reclusive after the war like we did, but without another world war to get involved in, we would have stayed out of foreign affairs, or at the very least, in our own hemisphere.
/edit: Japan would have become the major power in the Pacific and would have easily taken British Malaysia after Britain's humiliating defeat at the hands of the Central Powers and America, and America would not have seen a need to intervene in the invasion of British Malaysia, so there would be no oil and steel embargo on the Japanese, and Japan would not have subsequently felt the need to challenge America's industrial power and attack Pearl Harbor.
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