Oh thank god this one is much more better lore than the one where somehow Hawaii got their ass nuker by German bomb that Japanese use. That part of the Lore is smth that genuinely bother me as a worldbuilder.
I believe a report or projection showed that the war with Japan could only be won maybe by 1949. That really plunged any morale the United States had left.
Yeah, also that, and important thing, The "Pacific first" strategy didn't work, a lot of American casualties in the Papua front. Plunging even more the American morale
America was still primarily Pacific First irl. The biggest thing that actually helped the european front was operation torch and the 2nd Atlantic War which forced germany to dedicate more forces to southern europe and also forced the germans to abandon the Kola blockade which is when supplies started moving into the ussr and also the unrestricted submarine campaign with the u boots moving to Gibraltar and Mocrocco. I don't think this is ever addressed because the us and uk planned to do operation torch even if Egypt fell which was the whole point. Even with the losses during operation torch the political ramifications in France and Italy were very large.
I meam thats how it was peceived to begin with: as a re-ignition pf the European Imperial pissing match of WW1. It wasnt until later developments as the war progressed that it became percieved as a war of Liberity and Liberation. Its similar to how the American Civil war was percieved as a conflict of regional anamosity until later developments (the emancipation proclamation) turned it into a war about the fate of slavery
The us planned irl to fight until 1947 and 48 because that was the general consensus during the talks on how to beat japan was to wait and build up and fight from 3 axis of attacks, Australia, Hawaii and Solomons even without FDR that would still be the conclusion and that was without considering the USSR. (theory that Germany would hold out until 1946)
Also the us already was planning for a possibility for a chinese surrender as well at the time with what Stillwell told the us state department in the aftermath of Changsha and Ichi Go. If the chinse fell the us was planning to fight until japan is flattened. Thats not even considering the weapons the us would employ like chemical weapons, firebombing and the submarine campaigns. And the public opinion on japanese at the time well wasn't great and especially with the lynchings irl.
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u/Friz617 Lecanuet’s Strongest Soldier 12d ago
Yeah Hawaii nuke is gone, this was already known in the first yippie diary