Do u think the allies still would hav won WWII without US intervention?

[Negasta]

Without US intervention, Britain might very well have been starved into submission by the U-boat wolf packs. Germany had more than enough resources to defeat England, if Hitler had just left Russia alone.

I have doubt that Germany could have won the war against the Soviets, Russia had the capacity to replace a lot more losses than the Germans in both men and materials. Hitler was just stupid, he should have never invaded the Soviet Union in the first place. On the other hand, in 1945, Germany was well on their way to developing an atomic bomb, so if the war had dragged on for another year or two (which it would have if the Americans had not entered the war, as Germany would have been able to throw all its might against the Russians and only lightly guard the Atlantic coast) the Germans might have used the bomb to force their enemies to capitulate.

Am I wrong?

I read an "alternate history" novel

Which novel is it? I would very much appreciate if you told me as I am very into alternate history fiction.

 

[Negasta]

...but it is probably a cert that without their merlin engine for our spitfire...

The Merlin Engine was built by Rolls-Royce and was as British as tea and crumpets.

It was in fact the British Merlin that made the P-51 Mustang the great fighter that it was, before it was powered by an useless Allison engine and was slow and low altitude with limited range.

The Merlin was the absolute best piston aero engine of the war.

 

[Nonimus]

I think the key word is 'Allies' - WE won the war - all of us! Against the evil facist dicatorship of Hitler - all had their part, all did their job!

Each and every soldier who fought and died did so to keep the world free of the Nazi's and Opression.

I once got highly pissed off watching some WW2 film where Laurence Olivier was walking through some whitehall corridor announcing that 'England' was doing her part - Fuck the Irish regiments, the Welsh and the Scottish - fuck the Indians who fought and Died for the Crown - only 'England' was doing her part!

Anyone who believes it was the efforts of a single nation or people who 'won' the war does discredit to every soldier of Europe and America who fell to keep us free and give us the right to live our lives as we choose!

 

[unclaimedblessing]

As stated in a similar thread, the Russian winter defeated Hitler, just as it did Napoleon.

 

[iman]

Maybe the better question would be: What would have happened to the US if Hitler over ran all of Europe and the Middle East and Japan controlled the Far East and the Pacific? The US entered and fought the war for our own self interest.

 

[Kulindahr]

Without US intervention, Britain might very well have been starved into submission by the U-boat wolf packs. Germany had more than enough resources to defeat England, if Hitler had just left Russia alone.

I have doubt that Germany could have won the war against the Soviets, Russia had the capacity to replace a lot more losses than the Germans in both men and materials. Hitler was just stupid, he should have never invaded the Soviet Union in the first place. On the other hand, in 1945, Germany was well on their way to developing an atomic bomb, so if the war had dragged on for another year or two (which it would have if the Americans had not entered the war, as Germany would have been able to throw all its might against the Russians and only lightly guard the Atlantic coast) the Germans might have used the bomb to force their enemies to capitulate.

Am I wrong?



Which novel is it? I would very much appreciate if you told me as I am very into alternate history fiction.

I think that's pretty accurate. Without the daring air raids on German industry that the Americans staged, Germany would have had the resources to continue work on the bomb.

It might have been one of Harry Turtledove's novels -- I'm not sure. It was during a massive reading binge during which I absorbed a lot and could hardly tell where any of what I know now came from. If not, Turtledove's are interesting anyway, especially if you like a touch of science fiction (like, the Nazis open a time tunnel and send machine guns to Lee just before Lynchburg.....).