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What Would Have Happened if Germany Had Invaded the U.S. During World War II?
Slate ^ | August 2, 2015 | By Quora Contributor

Posted on 08/02/2015 7:44:26 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Invading the North American mainland can be safely left in the realm of bad Hollywood films. And that's even today, with larger ships, jet cargo aircraft, and more people. While it makes for a great strategy, in the end, it's just a nonstarter. Why?

The Germans had no forward base in the New World. If they had seized Iceland, any of the French protectorates in the Caribbean, or northern South America, then an invasion, while still a stretch, could have been conceivable. Without forward bases to deploy to and from, an invasion isn't going to happen.

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TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: france; germany; russia; unitedkingdom; ww2
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1 posted on 08/02/2015 7:44:26 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Good thing they stopped at Pearl Harbor.

(Couldn’t resist :)


2 posted on 08/02/2015 7:46:26 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: MinorityRepublican

They would have been slaughtered.


3 posted on 08/02/2015 7:47:08 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Considering the fact that they didn’t even have the sealift capacity to project their armies across 30 miles of channel, the question is a pure [and purely unintersting] hypothetical.


4 posted on 08/02/2015 7:47:30 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Some FReepers see things as they might be, ask why not? chinaboy sees things as they are:tell my why)
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To: Jane Long

Invasion? WWLL. WWIII-The muslimes are being Invited Into OUR Nation..and Our Whitehouse!


5 posted on 08/02/2015 7:48:13 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MinorityRepublican

We would not be celebrating transgender fools today as heros?

I actually think if WWII veterans could see in 1941 what American would turn into - they would refuse to fight.


6 posted on 08/02/2015 7:48:20 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The converse was easy enough. Even while fighting an entirely separate war in the Pacific, the USA invaded and conquered Germany, anyway.

The USA made more Liberty ships...than the Germans could make torpedoes.

Huge mismatch.


7 posted on 08/02/2015 7:48:38 PM PDT by Southack (The one thing preppers need from the 1st World? http://tinyurl.com/ktfwljc .)
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8 posted on 08/02/2015 7:48:43 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: MinorityRepublican

Wouldn’t have worked. The only way we would have lost a ground war on home territory was if Germany beat us to the bomb.
If Germany never invaded Russia they may have had the resources to at least stage invasions on Greenland or parts of Canada.


9 posted on 08/02/2015 7:48:58 PM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: Jane Long

Being on a roll can be fun...


10 posted on 08/02/2015 7:49:08 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The DNC would have apologized for that “Jerry” and “kraut” stuff and asked what we could possibly do to ensure the Nazi’s feeling aren’t hurt.

A statue to Chamberlain would have been erected.

-—if it happened today.


11 posted on 08/02/2015 7:49:56 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (When things are rightly ordered, man is steward of God's gifts and civil law enables him to do so.)
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To: FredZarguna

There was an excellent movie made in the 60s called “It Happened Here” about a fictional German occupation of Britain.


12 posted on 08/02/2015 7:49:57 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: MinorityRepublican
The money quote from the article:

In addition, everybody had guns. One commonality among the nations conquered by Germany is that private firearms ownership was heavily restricted or simply banned.

13 posted on 08/02/2015 7:51:11 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: MinorityRepublican

Shoot, they couldn’t even make the hop across the English Channel, even when they controlled most of the territory and resources of Europe, and the Brits were back on their heels.

The Atlantic is a bit more of an obstacle.

And the United States was and is exponentially more powerful than Great Britain.


14 posted on 08/02/2015 7:52:42 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: dfwgator

Ha!


15 posted on 08/02/2015 7:53:05 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: MinorityRepublican

An old friend grew up in Nazi Germany. She told me that English was required in school so they’d be able to talk to their servants at the end of the war.


16 posted on 08/02/2015 7:53:24 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I suppose if they could have gotten some friendly government in South America (*cough* *cough* Argentina).......they could have begun building up on the Continent from there.


17 posted on 08/02/2015 7:54:16 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: ealgeone

How the heck did the Slate editors let that one slip through?


18 posted on 08/02/2015 7:54:46 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: MinorityRepublican

There’d be a radioactive hole just east of Poland.


19 posted on 08/02/2015 7:57:46 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

” an invasion isn’t going to happen.”

Already has.


20 posted on 08/02/2015 7:59:40 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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