Another one of Hitler's mistakes was not ordering winter uniforms for his troops for the battle in Russia. That's the one thing not to do never start a land war in Asia (but slightly less well known is....) well, you get the point. See, Russia has the greatest general available to her, General Winter. Sure, the Germans may have been able to adapt a little bit, but with Hitler trying to control the war himself instead of being a politician, they wouldn't have been able to do squat. Cuz the Russians would have just sat in Siberia and wait for the Germans to become popsicles. Remember, the United States was already starting to gear up for war a whole year before Pearl Harbor, so we had resources gearing up. JTK, you're completely right, Britain would not have fallen, because they have the intangibles of defending their homeland and being completely unified in the war effort. "Never have so many owed so much to so few." I pretty much agree with the stalemate theory, altho, the United States with it's manufacturing techniques and technologies would have bombed all hell out of Germany (and possibly used the H-Bomb) to end Hitler's reign. If Japan hadn't bombed Pearl Harbor? Well, I don't really think that they wouldn't have, a better question would have been, what if the aircraft carriers were in Pearl Harbor at the time of the attack? What would happen then? I personally think that the US would have been quicker to use the H-Bomb than it did, prolly would have done some more negotiating with Russia to invade Mainland Japan.
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