if germany had have won world war 1, would there have been a world war 2?
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it's nearly impossible to say, but it would have been different\nbecause of the reperations from WWI, germany was in an economic disaster\npeople were angry and unemployed, and hitler gave the people a scapegoat
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This is always kind of a tricky question, because the implication is that the US did not do enough by trying to win the war as soon as possible. And remember, the final solution did not begin until 1943, so pre-war relaxation of immigration standards would not count. I don't accept that premise but try this out.\n\nThe American and British bomber air forces could have shifted their attacks from economic targets to the transportation network supplying the camps with victims. This might have slowed the number of murders, but would also have allowed the German military to defend Germany (and thus the camp network) better and longer ending with more American casualties and a considerably later end to the war with therefor very little difference in the total number of murders.\n\nThe United States could have made a point of broadcasting the unconfirmed reports of attrocities in German occupied Poland with a propaganda effort to strengthen recruiting of people in the occupied territories for underground resistance. The result would probably have been lukewarm at best. The only successful underground movements in occupied Europe were the Communists; this was not because they were more patriotic, but before the war they were already made criminals and were the only ones used to acting clandestinely. Besides, in 1943 at the Katyn Forest in eastern Poland, the Germans discovered a pit with the bodies of 10,000 Polish officers murdered by the Red Army when they occupied in 1939; because of this, when the Russians began liberating death camps in Byelorussia in 1944 no one believed the reports.\n\nThe USA could have exchanged German prisoners for concentration inmates. This might have had some limited success. Early in the war (about 1940-41) some labor camp prisoners were allowed to go to Switzerland in exchange for the repatriation from Uruguay of the crew of the pocket battleship Graff Spee. By late 1943, the Western allies had captured some U-boat crews and the Afrika Korps in Tunisia. The end result, because these were highly trained (U-boat) and highly motivated (Afrika Korps) soldiers, they could have been returned to very successful active duty instead of using younger and less trained replacements. If the West Wall had been manned with the Afrikan veterans instead of so many Ukrainian and Silesian slave soldiers, there could have been a great difference in the end of the war.\n\nAnyways, try those on for size.
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Most certainly. If he had won the war, he probably would have abolished Christianity and established some crazy new cult of Hitler-worship in its place.
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Brazil won the last World Cup, they went into the finals with Germany and beat them 2-0.\n\nThere were no matches in 1948 and 1942 because of the World War 2.
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WWII was thought of Germany's "revenge" or rebirth after the shame it was brought due to the Treaty of Versailles. Germany was made to pay the countries it affected after the war and limit the number of military troops. Germany was not present during the discussion of the treaty and it felt wronged. Hitler used this is a spin to bring the Germans to rally behind him. WWI is actually considered the "unfinished war" and WWII was just a continuation.
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At the time of World War II.
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German resistance would have collapsed sooner.  The Allies were going for "Unconditional Surrender" no matter who was in charge for the Germans.  The result for the most part would have been the same, probably saving a significant number of lives on both sides. The political climate may have been more friendly between east & west over the next 60 years.  There might not have been the partitioning of Germany the way it was.  And maybe it could have freed up a lot of needed resources to get the Pacific war ended sooner also.
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We only call it World War 1 now, in retrospect.  If there had not been a World War 2, it would have made no sense to call an earlier war WW1.  Just think of video games, is there ever a game called "Something 1"?  No, because they can never be sure that there will be a second one.  We may call the first Sims "Sims 1" but only now, after Sims 2 has been released.  An exception to this is Kill Bill, in which the movie was originally intended to have multiple parts.\n\nSo WW1 was "The Great War" because it was supposed to be "The war to end all wars," they didn't think another one would ever happen.  But it did, as we know now.  \n\nOn a side note, some historians believe that the Napoleonic war was the true WW1, which would make what we call WW1 into WW2, and Hitler's war would be WW3, but really... it's just names.
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WWII, basically the same thing. Germany was blamed the  most for everything.
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At the time of the First World War, Germany was an Absolute Monarchy, governed by Kaiser Wilhelm; in 1939 at the start of the Second World War, it is arguable that Germany was a democracy, as although the Nazis had been democratically elected to the Reichstag (Parliament), they were not the majority Party, and had been handed power by the senile Chancellor Hindenburg.  They had also suspended all elections and banned all other political parties, so they did not meet the accepted criteria of being a democracy.\n\nAs for today: two democracies had a small war earlier this year - Israel and Lebanon are both democracies, so the answer to that part of yor question is "yes".
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Is this for real?Sounds bizarre,I missed"Fatherland"about what it would be like if Germany won WWII.
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World War II, also, The Second World War, or WWII, was the global military conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945. World War II was the largest and deadliest war in history.\n\nThe war began between Germany and the Allies. Germany was later joined by Italy, Japan, and others, jointly known as the Axis. The Allies at first were made up of Poland, the British Commonwealth, France, and others. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and in December, Japan attacked the United States. China, which had been at war with Japan since the mid-1930s, also joined the Allies, as eventually did a number of other countries.\n\nItaly surrendered in September 1943, Germany in May 1945. The surrender of Japan marked the end of the war, on September 2, 1945.\n\nIt is possible that up to 62 million people died in the war; estimates vary greatly. Most were civilians who died as a result of disease, starvation, genocide, and the aerial bombing of cities. Estimates place deaths in the Soviet Union at around 23 million, while China suffered about 10 million. Poland suffered the most deaths in proportion to its population of any country, losing approximately 5.6 million out of a pre-war population of 34.8 million (16%).\n\nThe war was responsible for the re-drawing of national boundaries and the creation of new nations, the end of western colonialism, and the beginning of the Cold War. [1]\n\nAfter World War II, Europe was informally split into western and Soviet spheres of influence. Western Europe largely aligned as NATO, and Eastern Europe largely as the Warsaw pact. There was a fundamental shift in power from Western Europe and the British Empire to the new superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union.\n\nIn Asia, the United States' military occupation of Japan led to Japan's democratization. China's civil war continued through and after the war, resulting eventually in the establishment of the People's Republic of China. The former colonies of the European powers began their road to independence.\n\nKey alliances are formed\nOn September 1, the German invasion of Poland began World War II. Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand all declared war on Germany on September 3. Nepal, Newfoundland, Tonga, South Africa and Canada followed suit within days. On September 17, the Soviets invaded Poland from the East. The following year, the USSR annexed the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) together with parts of Romania, and attacked Finland. The German-Soviet agreement was brought to an end by the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941.\n\nThe United States of America joined the Allies following the attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941. The Declaration by United Nations, on January 1, 1942, officially united 26 nations as Allies. (The Declaration also formed the basis for the United Nations.) The informal Big 3 alliance of the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and the United States emerged in the latter half of the war, and their decisions determined Allied strategy around the world.\n\n\nDates of joining Allies\n Poland: 1939, 1 September \n United Kingdom: 1939, 3 September \n Australia: 1939, 3 September \n New Zealand: 1939, 3 September \n France: 1939, 3 September \n Nepal: 1939, 4 September \n Newfoundland: 1939, 4 September \n Tonga: 1939, 4 September \n South Africa: 1939, 6 September \n Canada: 1939, 10 September \n Denmark: 1940, 9 April \n Norway: 1940, 9 April \n Belgium: 1940, 10 May \n Luxembourg: 1940, 10 May \n Netherlands: 1940, 10 May \n Free France: 1940, 18 June \n Greece: 1940, 28 October \n Kingdom of Yugoslavia: 1941, 6 April \n Soviet Union: 1941, 22 June \n Tannu Tuva: 1941, 25 June until 1944, 11 October \n Panama: 1941, 7 December \n Philippines: 1941, 7 December \n Costa Rica: 1941, 8 December \n Dominican Republic: 1941, 8 December \n El Salvador: 1941, 8 December \n Haiti: 1941, 8 December \n Honduras: 1941, 8 December \n Nicaragua: 1941, 8 December \n United
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By today, it would be an idependent  federation of states, with a Prime Minister of each. The Head of State would be HM Queen Elizabeth II (who, is it must be noted, non executive)\n\nIt is possible that the Civil War might have been avoided, although slavery would have been abolished, probably gradually in the mid 19th Century.\n\nThe British would have taken America into the First World War in 1914, and I doubt that the people of America would have allowed London to retain such power over foreign policy afterwards, although perhaps they would have been influenced enough by London to join World War 2 in 1939.
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What would have been worse was that Japan would have secured the resources it needed in the Pacific to really wage war against the US.  Pearl Harbor was done to cripple the US in the Pacific so that Japan can invade and take over what they needed to maintain their war machine.\n\nAlso, lets not forget Hitler.  If the US had not entered the war, Germany would have taken England and would have had a pretty strong hold on Europe.  There is nothing short of war that could have stopped him.  Sanctions would not have worked because Germany was very industrial and could produce just about anything it needed.  If they needed it and could not make it, they would just invade whomever had it.  Diplomacy would not have worked because Hitler had a grand plan and you would not have been able to talk him out of it.
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World War was was inevitable. If it wasn't started by the assassination, it would've been started by something else.\n\nHowever, Germany should not assume the blame. The Brits, Russians, French, and Austrians are just as much at fault.
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Basically World World II was like a continuation of World World I. Essentially this is what happened. World War I starts (aka - The Great War pre WWII) and afterwards its like everyone took a break. I'm not joking either. It was like a pause for 20 years. In the early 1930's, Japan invaded China. China actually had the most amount of casualties, not Russia or Eastern Europe. \n\nMost countries blamed Germany and so Germany had many sanction and restrictions put on the country. Hitler played off of these emotions and blamed the Jewish population for all of Germany's problems. At this time, Hitler was also quickly moving up in the ranks and finally became Dictator. \n\nHitler then started annexing countries in the mid to left 1930's and every country began to appease him. After he took over Poland and much of France, it was too late. The non-aggression pact between Germany and Russia made Hitler essentially invulnerable because from Eastern Europe was essentially all his to take over minus Russia. (Hitler would later reneg on the non-agreesion pact)\n\nThe United States needed an excuse to get into WWII and they finally got one on June 6, 1941 - Pearl Harbor. \n\nAbout 6 million jews were killed and 6 million gypsies, homosexuals, etc were killed. \n\nIn China, about 20-25 million were killed.
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Was there a WW1? Did WW2 follow? Think about it