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Originally Posted by Pierre
There’s no telling what would have happened if you remove any part. There’s certainly no guarantee that we would have won without the US.
When the US did join, the war was effectively won, it was then just a matter of time.
Without the US, and that would mean no Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, leaving the Japs to reign in the Pacific theatre, the outcome would have almost certainly been not total victory in either theatre.
The world would look very different today
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Assuming we still had lend-lease then the Western front was, as you say, almost certainly won already. I guess the question is, would we still be able to pull off D-Day, and when? How fast could we have crossed Europe?
It would probably have taken a lot longer, had a lot more deaths, and more of Europe would have been under Soviet control. I might be wrong, but I believe one of the big motivations for America was to race to Berlin as the writing was on the wall as to what post-war Europe was going to look like.