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| 04 Nov 2014 02:55 PM |
The United States and Soviet Union would have never become the worlds supowerpowers, and thus the Cold War would have never happened, and the Soviet Union would still exist
Germany and Japan would proably be the worlds superpowers, and the Cold War would have happened between them instead
Fascism would dominate the world instead of democracy
The Third Reich would still exist and Japan would still be an Imperial Empire
Europe would still have control over their colonies in Africa and Asia. |
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| 04 Nov 2014 02:59 PM |
| would have never become the worlds *superpowers |
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| 04 Nov 2014 04:06 PM |
| Doesn't sound too bad, actually. |
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| 04 Nov 2014 04:08 PM |
fascism is ok except all the jews will go to israel |
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| 04 Nov 2014 04:09 PM |
| Forgot about that part. All Jews would be ded... like, really ded. |
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| 04 Nov 2014 04:13 PM |
oh well
small price to pay for the british empire coming back |
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| 04 Nov 2014 04:27 PM |
| False. The british empire would've dissolved by then anyways and this wouldn't stop the birth of some of the world's most influential people. |
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| 04 Nov 2014 04:28 PM |
| nyet the main reason it broke up was from war weariness |
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| 04 Nov 2014 04:33 PM |
it would break anyway
ww2 only accelerated decline of British empire |
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| 04 Nov 2014 04:36 PM |
| Japan wouldn't be an imperial empire either. Japan was weaker than how you portray it to be. Soviet Russia and the US were still strong even before WWW2. Japan's empire was fated to be doomed. |
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| 04 Nov 2014 04:36 PM |
"Germany and Japan would proably be the worlds superpowers, and the Cold War would have happened between them instead
Fascism would dominate the world instead of democracy
The Third Reich would still exist and Japan would still be an Imperial Empire"
Woa, woa, woa. Hold on a second.
The whole setup for WWII was the condition Germany was left in following WWI.
Germany didn't just magically start experiencing economic stimulation, they went against military sanctions set on them after WWI, and grabbed land here and there with other leaders seeking to appease them to avoid another war.
There's no way Germany could have any hope of being a superpower without being successful in a war. They actively went against repercussions set against them in order to set up the Third Reich, they either ignite a war or remain helpless.
Same with Japan, if they had not been Imperialist and perhaps not have invaded China, they wouldn't necessarily be seen as a superpower, maybe a decent power but the actions that made them relevant were what, as I said about Germany, led to war.
TL,DR:
The paths that brought Germany & Japan to being contending powers are what lead to WWII in the first place. Without WWII they would be rather irrelevant, not superpowers at all.
The way OP puts it makes it seem as if Germany and Japan were already on their way to becoming superpowers and thought "Hey, I'll start a global conflict, just for kicks". |
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| 04 Nov 2014 04:41 PM |
''Without WWII they would be rather irrelevant, not superpowers at all''
Most of this thread speaks about how most countries in the world came superpowers at WWII. Do you guys know anything that happened before WWII? |
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| 04 Nov 2014 04:50 PM |
Honestly.
Methinks OP doesn't understand how helpless Germany was prior to preparing for and igniting WWII.
Perhaps Japan not so much, I mean they still had that victory over the Russian fleet from the early 1900's to argue for prestige. But to say Japan was becoming a superpower? Nah.
However there is to consider that WWII is generally accepted to be what brought the US out of its depression.
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| 04 Nov 2014 05:04 PM |
"The United States and Soviet Union would have never become the worlds supowerpowers"
The U.S was a super power before WWII. Sorry try again. |
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| 04 Nov 2014 05:09 PM |
| We wouldn't nearly be as technologically developed as we are today. |
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| 04 Nov 2014 05:16 PM |
| WW2 improved out technical advances? No. It reduced them. |
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| 04 Nov 2014 05:16 PM |
"WW2 improved out technical advances? No. It reduced them."
....please tell me you're joking |
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| 04 Nov 2014 05:18 PM |
| it improved military technology especially Russian German and USA |
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| 04 Nov 2014 05:21 PM |
| I'm sorry but my opinion is that the world would have more opportunities if WW2 had not happened. Please back up your opinion and you might be able to convince me. |
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| 04 Nov 2014 05:24 PM |
| ww2 was opportunity for world to change |
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| 04 Nov 2014 05:25 PM |
| a second war would mean that technology would advance? |
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| 04 Nov 2014 05:27 PM |
| military and factory efficiency develop fast during wars |
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| 04 Nov 2014 05:28 PM |
Well, aside from the general trend in history were conflicts provoked new ideas and technology:
The Germany military developed the Jet engine and first industrial grade rockets, you may recall a lot of German scientists who worked on these wended up at NASA in the years after the war, especially during the space race. There's a running joke that the Space Race between the US and USSR was to see who got the better Germans, lol.
The research and development of the Atomic Bomb. Granted the knowledge then was used for a weapon, nonetheless it kick started Atomic research and our understanding of Atomic Theory.
You may have heard of a little thing called RADAR. Widely implemented and improved in the war.
We saw the implementation and healing effects in mass of penicillin.
Those are just a few off the top of my head.
Oh, and as morbid as it is, a lot of medical knowledge we have was derived from what the Germans were doing, ahem, and I'm not gonna go into detail because Roblox. |
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