What would the world have been like if Hitler would have won World War 2?
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If the ivasion of Normandy failed and if Germany didn't invade the USSR, then Germany would have held onto Europe until the Allied victory over Japan.  The question at that point is whether Germany would have been able to develop the atomic bomb prior the US being able to use its atomic weapons on Germany.  This may have been possible.\n\nAfter the US dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, the US didn't have a third bomb that was ready for use.  And I believe Germany was about one or two years away from developing their own atomic bomb.\n\nAnother key element is that Germany would need long range bombers that could reach the US East Coast.  If Germany had this and the bomb, then Germany may have had enough leverage to sue for peace with the US.\n\nIn such an event, Europe would have remained German occupied.  The cold war would have had 3 players:  US, USSR and Germany.  Mutually assured destruction would have resulted in a German Europe being intact until today.\n\nThe unified German/European state would be perhaps the largest economy, with the US coming in second and Japan third.  The fall of the USSR would have occurred earlier since it would have had to spend even more on its military to cope with 2 competing superpowers.  The US would be less influential, as its economy would be tapped to fund a contined cold war with strategic weapons until today.\n\nThe Middle East would again be the flashpoint.  The need for oil would force both the US and Germany to colonize the Middle East.  The US/Vietnam War and the Afghanistan/USSR War would have been avoided since both the US and USSR would not have wasted their resources on those territories.  Conflicts between superpowers would have been funneled towards the Middle East as the super powers' militaries would have more quickly depleted oil supplies and forced them to claim their stakes in the Middle East.\n\nWorld War 3 would have been fought in the Middle East using 1980s technology.  The superpowers would have refrained from using nuclear weapons which would have rendered the oil fields useless.  A stalemate would eventually be declared and different areas of the Middle East would be occupied with demilitarized zones.  The three territories would be owned by the US, Germany and a Russian and Chinese alliance.\n\nThe world as a whole would have less wealth.  Much more money would have been spent fighting wars.  Our lives would be consumed with the "enemy".
188954
I once had a 6th grade teacher that said that nobody could rule the world because it would spread them to thin. I subscribe to that theory because it sounds reasonable to me. Just because Germany or Japan took over France there was still a resistance that contributed to the victory by the allies. If it was here there would also have been an underground that would have made it tough to keep us in line. So the answer to this is no I think that English will always be the language of the land regardless if we pass on a war or not.
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Hitler took a destitute country and built it into a major world power in only a few short years.  If he'd stopped there, he would have been recognized as a genius.
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~The only way that Germany could have won would have been with the support of the US and by tapping into US industrial might, just as was the case  with Britain and France.  The good thing about sitting on the sidelines until the fight is almost over is that the Johnny-(Sammy)-come-lately gets to pick the winner.  \n\nThus, the occupation of Moscow would have been shared by the US and Germany and the cold war would have been unnecessary.  Britain would have retained some semblance of its present self, but we wouldn't have had to suffer the Lady Di crap. Most likely, Britain would have pulled an Italy and switched sides.   The rest of Europe would be the non-entity it is and was, with US and German troops ever present to keep it that way.  Lech Walesa and Solidarity would never have happened.  The Berlin Wall would not have come down because it would have never been built.\n\nThe trip to the moon  would have happened sooner and much more efficiently.  Synthetic fuels would be the norm rather than the exception.  The Euro would have come into being 5 decades sooner.  The Common Market  would have come into being much sooner, under a different name.  Italy would still by a nice place to visit, but not much else.  The Soviet Union would have been an Anglo-American-German colonial protectorate.  Israel would not exist, Algeria would have gained independence much sooner and Nasser would not have had to, wanted to or needed to nationalize the Suez Canal.  Qaddafi and Idi Amin would have been tending camels rather than running puppet-governments for super powers.  Korea would have been left to the Koreans.\n\nIn exchange for a US alliance, or peace with the US, Germany would have terminated its treaties with Japan.  The Japanese markets and materials would have been replaced and exceeded by the products and profits from the west, with  whom the Germans were much more kindred.  Hiroshima and Nagasaki would still have the distinction of being the only places on earth to have been nuked, but Uncle will have his day.  Chiang may have stayed on the mainland, but, if not, Mao would have been even less significant than he was.  Nam would have been unnecessary.\n\nThe Middle East would have been subjugated and Sadam and the Shah would be meaningless footnotes in history.  We would still have pillaged Middle Eastern oil, but Opec wouldn't have been able to stop us.\n\nThere is a reason that one of the US's strongest allies today is Germany.  Hitler was an anomaly.  The US and Germany are as tight today as they were when Von Steuben trained the Troops at Valley Forge, and Britain and Germany share more history and monarchical families than any other two nations in European history.\n\nHitler would have been talked away from his racial policies, but not too quickly.  The rest of the world was never really too upset with the camps and the death of 6 million Jews and 9 million others who died in them anyways.  Certainly not the US, who had exercised similar policies with Native Americans and who was pondering what could be done to quash the  Afro-Americans, Eastern and Southern Europeans  and Asians who were making foolish noises about equality and justice and  whose backs were no longer needed in the mills,  in the fields, in the factories and on the railroads.\n\nIn short, not much would be different today.  The names and places of history might be different, but your life would be pretty much what it is.\n\nSo why do you ask?
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Hitler would have succeeded in his first Final Solution. No Jews, therefore no Israel. This would have made the Muslims very happy. Until Adolph started using America's vast resources to bomb them off the face of the planet. He wasn't just anti-Jewish you know. He was a full-blown anti-Semite and that means Arabs and anyone else who followed Allah.\n\nAfter he rid the world of these two "vermin" races, he'd have knocked off the Slavs, although by that time, having used them as slave labor for several years there wouldn't be all that many left.\n\nThen the Chinese would'a got theirs. They'd have still become Commies and the only thing Hitler hated more than Semites was Commies.\n\nAfrica would have had their turn at a bloodbath next, because in 1936 he showed just how much he hated blacks.\n\nThen South America would be genocided because it has polyglot races and he was all for racial purity.\n\nThen he'd turn his attention to North America for the same reason and depopulate Mexico, Canada and the US.\n\nFinally he'd bump off any remaining Catholics and all non-Aryan Protestants in Europe.\n\nOne thing's for sure. If Hitler had won, there'd be no overpopulation problem. He'da whittled the numbers down to less than 50 million worldwide.\n\nThen he would have given parts of the world the size of old Spanish land grants to his buddies in the Reichstag and helped them to repopulate said areas with their slaves.\n\nTHEN, he'da found an excuse to declare war on the new owners and wiped them out.\n\nIf he lived into his 90's, he'd probably have succeeded in wiping humanity off Earth, not to mention wiping out most other lifeforms as well (all those nukes doncha know).\n\nWhat a great future..........if you happen to be anaerobic bacteria, that is.
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Hitler would win because Hitler is tough and mean and Bush is a great big panty-waste.
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He would have been a fantastic president!!\n\n1. He would have continued the PAY AS YOU GO system that Clinton used to balance, and keep balanced, the budget. (Bush got rid of that as soon as he came into office = deficits)\n\n2. He would have accepted the Taliban's offer to hand over B. Laden after 911; therefore, I doubt we would have ever had to even go into Afghanistan. (Note: not the offer made to Clinton. There was another offer after 911)\n\n3. If Saddam continued to give inspectors a hard time, Gore would have only invaded Iraq with support of the United Nations. BTW, the UN never said no but only to give inspectors 6 more months. \n\n4. He would have stayed with the Kyoto agreement thereby we would not have an environment that is going to hell. It would at least be recovering instead of getting worse.\n\nSo, if Gore had been elected, we would not be in a unilateral war, we would have a cleaner environment, our budget would be balanced = continued great economy from the 90s, B. Laden would have been punished for 911 already, 1000s of ppl would still be alive that have died from this war on both sides, and the rest of the world would not hate us.
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First off, for most of us WW2 took five years of actual fighting and then the cold war with its regional conflicts that followed went on for another Forty!\n\nAlso in that conflict the allies would lose the total number of casualties incurred in Iraq in a single day.\n\nThe war in Iraq was won.....It is the peace which is being lost.
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Essentially, WW2 was a result of this and other factors, including unrealistic expectations and unresolved conflicts from WW1. Millions were killed in Europe, Russia, Asia Minor, Asia, China, the Pacific Island nations, the US troops fighting in those theaters of war, and involved virtually the entire world. The United States emerged as the leading powerhouse and the Soviet Union a major nemesis until its collapse in 1989-1990.
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WWII, basically the same thing. Germany was blamed the  most for everything.
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German Hitler=megalomaniac, tried to create a dynasty by conquering Europe.  Japanese=pissed at the US over trade practices, attacks the US @ Pearl Harbor.  The US fights (with Allies) in Europe, Africa, and the Pacific.  Wins.
710902
No there wouldn't be world peace.... but a lot less fighitng.
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Hitler was almost aborted. Enough said.
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If Germany had won the war the government of the criminal actions would have permeated throughout the world and have begun to plot against each other and eventually that government would have broken apart fighting itself.  Then somewhere a movement would have begun to grow supportive of individual rights and it would have consume the older government.  \n\nAlthough centralized government will come to the fore periodically, over time, that which is supportive of the individual will rise and win.
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If D-Day had failed than it is likely that Hitler and the Nazi Party would have suceeding in at least conquering Europe.  However, with Hitler's attitude and ideals I don't think he would have stopped with just Europe considering the fact that the Appeasement attempt of giving Czechoslavakia, more specifically the Sudaton land, failed.  The failure occurred because Hitler returned for the rest of the country.
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I think the world would give us more respect. I still think it would be very difficult to win the World Cup. Remember, we would be playing against the rest of the world.
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No.  No sporting event was going to turn back Hitler.  No World Cup Tourney was going to stop Japan from trying to take over the World.  Sometime you gotta put aside diplomacy and kick some ass.