Toronado3800
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Would both nations eventually have been conquered? Was "united we stand, divided we fall" just hyperbole?
If somehow both nations lasted divided until World War II then Hitler would of probably conquered both countries. Though many in the the South would of saw eye to eye with Hitler probably.
I feel war weariness or a couple poor political events could have resulted in protracted Southern independence.
What would the south have ended up like....which nations in 1865 were most like the south....?
A poor collection of overgrown city states? Italy? Germany? But with no industrial history and governed by a bunch of racist, lazy, slave loving soon to be inbred folks who feared centralized power? Ripe for a nut to take over and blame the jews or some one for their problems after the industrial revolution?
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On a side note the battles for Moscow and Pearl Harbor occurred in the same month.
Stalingrad started before and Torch but didn't turn for the Russians until after it. If you think Torch had much direct effect.
Kursk wasn't going well for the Germans from the onset. Would transferring 90% of the garrison defending the French coast had made a difference? Probably in the disaster the Germans had thereafter.
The middle of the next year was Normandy.
Unless England collapsed, Russia grew weary of the war by 1949, or Hitler ever developed the bomb I question if full American involvement in Europe was necessary.
In the Pacific I guess 2/3 of the industrial might of America could have beaten back the Japanese if it didn't need further split by the war in Europe.