What would of happen had Hitler NOT declared war on the United States after Pearl Harbor?

Truly I don't. While there was strong isolationist ideas pushed around Washington at the time there was a growing sentiment to become involved from the people.

Understand we're still only a generation or two from the mass migrations into America by 1941. A lot of people are hearing from family members back in their former homelands of what's happening.

Hitler is doing everything he can to keep America out, as a matter of fact we find later he was counting on winning solely on the concept of America NOT entering the war. So the question remains then, why did he declare war so quickly?

I think he counted on the America war machine to be more strongly focused on the Pacific theatre and the war machine couldn't get itself in to a high enough gear to be an issue for him. He didn't understand that the war machine was already gearing up by the time Japan struck Pearl Harbor. We were building planes and weapons for the British.

I think even if Germany hadn't declared we would have only a few months later, most likely after the winter thaws - perhaps March or April of 42.

This is a very good question that I also have wondered about.

In his address following December 7th, FDR only said that a state of war existed with Japan. Roosevelt did want to help Britain, but it would have been more difficult for the president to include war with Germany if Hitler had not settled the matter.

I agree with you that we (the U.S.) would have been drawn into the European war anyway, but when?

Hitler made some spectacular mistakes in 1941 - attacking Soviet Russia in June and then declaring war on the USA in December. Churchill was thrilled with both of these events.

He must have been secretly happy to hear of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Having Russia and the USA on his side meant that Britain would be saved.

No matter which enemy was designated as the first to be concentrated upon, Germany or Japan, the USA had to get on a war footing. That took most of 1942 as men had to be trained and war equipment manufactured. We were very fortunate to have two protective oceans guarding both sides of the country until we were ready to fight. I strongly suspect that by the end of 1942 we would have been at war with Germany on the basis of submarine attacks on our shipping.

Hitler made a huge mistake declaring war on the US, for there was absolutely no logical explanation for it. Hitler was already dealing with two undefeated enemies, Britain and the Soviet Union and the entry of the US only made the defeat inevitable for the Germans. The US would have stayed out of the European theater of the war, since most people in the US were isolationist and only supported war against the Japanese when they bombed Pearl Harbor.

The only logical explanation comes from Sebastian Haffner, in "The Meaning of Hitler." He argued that Hitler was only interested in the extermination of the Jews at this point (1941) because he realized that he would be unable to win the war.

Also, Hitler would not have taken over Russia if the US stayed out of the war. It was militarily impossible to conquer Russia, with its huge amount of manpower and vast amounts of land. The Russians pushed back the Germans even before the Allied invasion of France in 1944.

a very different outcome would have emerged. Without United States supplies, Hitler would have eventually conquered Russia and most importantly probably would not have developed the atomic bomb at all or at least not nearly as quickly. Japan would eventually have been defeated but at much greater cost. Germany would have become a great superpower equivalent to the United States. I believe eventully both the United States and Germany would had developed nuclear weapons with potentially catastrophic consequence given Hitler's instability. I believe the world would have been a much scarier place with a Nazi Germany as a superpower instead of the Russians.

I would think the opposite would be true. Japan was weak even though they bombed Pearl. It took everything they had. If we could have caught them, it would have devastated their navy leaving them without a way to move troops and supplies.

Instead of becoming involved in Europe right away we put everything into revenge on an enemy that was weak at the time, they could have waited.

Hitler had to be stopped the way he was moving. Had the Allies not entered the war, Hitler would have run over Russia with his troops. They, the Russians were out of supplies, food rationing was heavy, it was a bitter cold winter there. Between all the Allies we all stopped Hitler and made him fight on three or four fronts, something which he could not do with supplies going short. He even, near the end, had planes going in on England with no armament to scare the Enemy.

All government were at height of being tense, communications were in the crib yet, those they had were not trusted, if so, Pearl would never had happen. If we were not in the ""Isolationists" Attitude we were in, the Allies would have gone in sooner, maybe. Lot's of "ifs" and "Maybes"

Does the term "Non sequitur? recommend something to you? So Pius, Roosevelt, Hitler, Churchill, Degaulle, Stalin Mousilini and the KKK have been all on the comparable section? And the Jews ( who didnt also have a house land on the time) got here out on suited? Did you omit the indisputable fact that Hitler and Mousilini have been battling against the different ones? by utilising the way, the place did Hirohito fit into this marvelous equation of yours? Yeah that works. Allies battling and killing eachother on this sort of grand scale to conceal for their time table against the jews. I dont comprehend what you're smoking yet i choose some!!!

Britain and France declared war on Germany, not the other way around. Hitler wanted peace with Britain, as the German generals admitted (Basil Liddell Hart, The Other Side of the Hill 1948, Pan Books 1983) with regard to the so-called Halt Order at Dunkirk (24 May 1940), where Hitler had the opportunity to capture the entire British Army, but chose not to.

Essentially Hitler was not interested in a world war. http://www.savethemales.ca/000369.html

His design was to conquer the USSR in a loose "Nordic" alliance with England. Churchill's backers, the Zionist privately-owned Bank of England, set Hitler up as a means to menace Stalin, destroy Germany and have a world war. War enables them to concentrate power and wealth in their hands and slaughter national elites who might interfere with their plan for world government.

then those of us still alive would probably all speak German