Question I'm a conservative republican. I've often heard the idea that we have our freedom because we have fought for it, but I've never heard a good answer to any of the following questions: (you don't have to answer all of them) What would life be like in the US if we had never entered WW2, or, what would life be like in the US if we had lost WW2? What freedoms would we have lost? Obviously it is impossible to answer a "what if" question with any certainty, but what are the likely possibilities? Your answer may be be as brief or concise as you like.
Answer Well, the what would have happened if we never entered would be a little tougher to answer than the what would happen if we lost part.
If we never entered WWII it is likely that Germany would have successfully invaded England. Now what this would mean is that any kind of a D-Day invasion was out of the question because England was essential as a staging area.
The Soviet Union would be the big question mark. Could they have withstood Hitler by themselves or would they have signed some type of treaty? If they signed a treaty, it would only be a matter of time until the A-Bomb would be dropped on them by either Japan or Germany since they were both working on its development.
So a nuclear Germany and/or Japan would demand (and probably get) the U.S. to give up all kinds of things (like Alaska to begin with), and the U.S. probably would be fighting alone somewhere down the road with the rest of the world either neutral or allied against them.
The other scenario is easier to foresee because the Germans had a plan for the conquest of the U.S. Japan and Germany were going to split it up pretty much by the Mississippi River. Germany would rule the east, Japan the West. I don't recall if there was a role for Italy in this post-war scenario.
In anycase, the Germans planned to create a caste system where the proper races (Swedish, English, German etc.) living in America (and their descendants) would "rule" the less desirable races. Of course, German Germans would make all the decisions. The plan was to teach subsequent generations of Americans to speak only German, and teach them to count only up to 100 (all anyone needed to know to be able work for their masters), unless they were part of the "ruling" caste. The plan for the least desirable groups, Jews, Blacks, mental defects, and other non-white races, of course, was to be rounded up and killed.
How the Japanese side of the former U.S. would run things is not as certain, but if you look at the way they treated people that surrendered (an act they thought was despicable)to them in WWII (like the Chinese)life probably would not be that much different from the German side. Lots of people killed, the rest made into slave labor.
Please don't ask me where I read about the Nazi plans for a postwar U.S. I read it back in the late 1960s somewhere, but such a plan did exist on the tables of the Third Reich.
