Updated Sunday 15 May, 2011 12:18 PM

What if the USA concentrated on Japan?

Preamble: I decided, what if the USA had stayed out of war in Europe and
concentrated on the fight against Japan?

1941- "It is a day of infamy!" said President Roosevelt as the news of the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour broke and the USA declared war on Japan. In
OTL Hitler declared war on the USA at the same time.

Instead, both publicly and secretly through the Swedish Ambassador to the
USA, Hitler announces that he deplores the attack on the USA. Secretly,
Hitler orders the U-Boats not to sink US shipping except in self defence.

An extra 100,000 men are available for the Eastern Front. The Germans link up
with the Finns and seize Leningrad, but they are as unprepared for the
winter cold of Russia as in OTL and the blitzkrieg breaks down in the winter
snows. In OTL the Germans got close enough to briefly see the Kremlin from
afar. As it is one small group reach the Kremlin walls only to be repulsed
and thrown out of Moscow by the NKVD Dizerzinksy Division. Although most of
the NKVD were either not proper fighters or guarding the slave camps or
both, there were a few exceptions.

The USA spends most of it's strength grappling with the Japanese who seize
Indonesia from the Dutch and then fight the USA instead of invading the
British Empire. It does however provide Lend Lease privately, most of it to
the UK, but enough to the USSR to keep it in the war.

The UK gathers Canadian, British and some regiments of British Empire troops
and launches D-Day on three beaches in Normandy codenamed Gold, Sword and
Jupiter. On Sword beach the invasion almost fails but the troops on the
other two beaches rescue the situation and the British push on. Without the
US troops and with somewhat less supplies then in OTL, the advance is much
slower.

As Hitler realises that he cannot win, he decides to let as much of Europe
fall into the hands of the Soviets as possible, his final vengeance against
the world. Whilst his armies still fight the Soviets, they retreat out of
Eastern Europe far more then in OTL. Hitler retreats to Bonn in Western
Germany and chooses to die there, to allow the Soviets to advance faster. That
way after his death Germany will still be under a dictatorship.

The Soviets take all of Eastern Europe, plus Greece, Denmark, Holland and all
of Germany. The UK forces liberate France, Italy, Belguim and Luxemburg and
defeat as in OTL the Germans and Italians in Africa. On July the 8th 1945
Hitler commits suicide and four days later Germany submits unconditionally.

The US atom bombs are delayed for a few months and are dropped on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki as in OTL after which Japan surrenders. As in OTL the
NKVD's spies have penetrated the Manhattan Project and in 1947 (in OTL it
was 1948) the Soviets test a nuclear bomb publicly. The German scientists mainly fall into the USSR’s hands.

The leading Nazis are tried and hanged by the USSR. The lesser Nazis get an
unofficial choice-become Communists or face the GULAG or the gallows. Most
become Communists.

Fearful of the further spread of Communism the USA pours money into the few
remaining Western countries and rushes troops to defend them. Because there
are fewer Western countries there is more money for them then in OTL so they
recover faster, whilst the USSR has to spend even more on it's armed forces
then in OTL.

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