What Would Have Happened if Germany Had Invaded the U.S. During World War II?

Slate ^ | August 2, 2015 | By Quora Contributor

[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.

[null and void]

Being on a Kaiser roll can be fun...

[MuttTheHoople]

During World War II, we had the better Germans- Eisenhower, Nimitz, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers, sailors and airmen of German descent. They were better Germans, because they were strong enough and courageous enough to cross the Atlantic and start a new life.

The Germans who stayed in Europe were weak, timid, and easily led.

[Paladin2]

Can English Muffins beat a Kaiser Roll?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Mexico.

They tried it in the Great War.

If they had not taken out a couple of Mexico's oil tankers then they probably would have been able to talk them into it.

[Paladin2]

SA is a valuable locale in RISK.

[dfwgator]

Can English Muffins beat a Kaiser Roll?

I don't know, but I do know that....

Scissors.

Beats Paper.

[SaveFerris]

And then there's these -- not regular, but of another kind.



I'm unable to find any documentation of their creation date but I'm sure somebody can cobble something up in Photoshop.

[Squantos]

Bingo !

[Paladin2]

LOL, well done!

[big'ol_freeper]

you mean we’d all be wearing hats?

[Vendome]

We already know what would have happened.

After The Germans bombed Pearl Harbor, we darned sure weren’t giving up, so we destroyed Japan....

[redfreedom]

Let’s assume Britain did collapse and become a German occupied country in WWII. (Had Hitler and Goering not been such idiots, it might have happened)

Was not Canada a possession of the British Empire at that time? Would not land possessions like any other possession, such as their naval fleet, been subject to a ceasefire settlement?

If Britain’s defeat caused them to give up their entire empire, then Canada could have been a huge Nazi base as well as a source of oil and other goodies.

Now if that were possible, I doubt if the Canadians would have just folded.

But if the Canadians were somehow coerced into folding, then the US could have followed Churchill’s example of blasting the French fleet by invading Canada before the Nazi’s could come over and set up shop.

[Vendome]

Beat me to it...

[dfwgator]

SA is a valuable locale in RISK.

And The Ukraine is weak!

[SaveFerris]

I was trying to find the “lava kid” from “Volcano” and then I ran across this:

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7530/157/1600/rock-paper-scissors-WWII.jpg

[21twelve]

“...so they’d be able to talk to their servants at the end of the war.”

Well - she still got to use that English!

[dfwgator]

Was not Canada a possession of the British Empire at that time? Would not land possessions like any other possession, such as their naval fleet, been subject to a ceasefire settlement?

The US would take over Canada in that case.

[Fiji Hill]

In 1940, Kaiser Wilhelm II, living in exile in Holland, told an interviewer that despite a string of victories giving it control of continental Europe, he nonetheless predicted that Germany would lose the war for lack of a navy.

[dfwgator]

Interesting story about St Pierre et Miquelon, which is a French territory off the coast of Newfoundland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon#World_War_II

[Snickering Hound]

They did, but our X-Wings had tow cables.