Comaack wrote:If America was not involved in Europe or the Pacific, would Britain and France be speaking German, or a Communist Europe arise.
In my opinion, the war would have been extended probably until 1946 which by that point the British would have been out and the Soviets pushed into Berlin and into France.
Of course, there's no definitive unarguable answer to that, but the evidence suggests the Allies would have lost. Militarily, the US was the powerhouse of industrial production, technology, and manpower. However, there's so many "what if" scenarios, that speculation simply cannot predict what the outcome would have been absent the involvement of the US.
What role did the US involvement play, in regards to the decisions by the Russians? That's hard to say. Lots has been written on the matter, but in terms of being purely objective, the truth is it's hard to say.
After the blood-letting at Dunkirk, how would Britain have rebuilt their military, the kind necessary to take and hold land? After Dunkirk, there was only "resistance" and the UK left. Had the Axis been given time, it would have increased its military machine. But that time would have also given the Germans the opportunity to continue to bomb the UK, slowing production. Also, I have to note the involvement of the Japanese would have become a very significant role in even Europe, had the Japanese not been fighting the US in the Pacific.
On the other hand, the political Axis never really trusted each other-for obvious reasons. The shifting alliances before the full on war led to quite the distrustful situation among the Axis. This is true even of some of the Allies. For insterest's sake, note the repeated shifts in alliances by the Finnish, caught between the Russians and Germans, and walking back and forth between them.
Another aspect of this is: What if the Russians became the dominant victor after WWII... What would Europe and much of the rest of the free world look like? Eastern Europe has a very ominous ring in that scenario. I fault Truman, among others, for the disaster of Eastern Europe, and it's generations of oppressed and repressed. There's no really valid reason in my mind for there to have ever been an East Germany, or for the disasters of Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland, and of course, the now "Balkanized" Balkan states, just to name a few issues. But had there been no US at the table at all, how would Europe have turned out, had most of it ended up as client states of the USSR? That's a thought so horrible one does not wish to contemplate it.