Would the British have defeated Hitler's Germany without American Help ?

tongue in cheek

USA, UK and soviet union

remove any one of those from the allied effort and the nazis wouldve won

Allen B

In a word

no

Overcometh

From what I understand the answer is no. US wanted to stay out of it and said it was Europe's problem. Finally US was persueded to join the fight by Churchhill, especially after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

phdbrown237

Possibly. Great Britain had a sizable empire during those days, and with its Royal Navy and alliances with it's former dominion members (Australia, Canada, India and most of East-central Africa), Britain would have given the Axis a run for their money.

People tend to forget that Canada entered the war in 1939 and was a major ally to Britain during the war. Any takeover of Britain would've threatened the US northern border. If that occurred, the US may have needed Britain to help fight the war on the North American continent.

Michael B

By the way the ROYAL NAVY controlled the seas, just how was hitler going to invade? An invasion at anytime was not possible. Hitler knew this, why do you think he didn't try. A nutter like Hitler would certainly have tried if there was even a small chance of success, don't you agree?

The war probably would have been won without American military aid. It would have taken far longer, maybe another 10 years, and the main victories would be due to sabotage from resistance fighters (France, holland etc.).

However, 1 thing is certain without American Economic aid GB population would have starved.

Duffer

I am staunchly British and a patriot. I have read extensively on the WW2 conflict and can say that without American money and their industrial might, to say nothing of the 1 million troops they put onto the Normandy beaches in the first 48 hours, Britain's government would in all probability have had to conduct the war in exile. We were bankrupt, we had left our weaponry on the beaches at Dunkirk, and we were running out of available men. Churchill's greatest feat was not losing the war in the 18 months or so before Pearl Harbour, and in persuading Roosevelt to "lend" us armaments under a radical lend-lease treaty. We needed the Yanks, as Churchill knew, but they needed us too as a jumping off point to Europe, and to decipher the German codes (Enigma) which they knew nothing about.

roger.williams20@btinternet.com

If Hitler had not invaded Russia I do believe we would have succumbed should the USA have stayed out of the war.

nosdda

Definitely not. After the evacuation from Dunkirk,Britain was on its knees. Our Army was decimated, poorly armed and virtually no defence against a German Invasion. The proposed german invasion was defeated by the RAF in the battle for Britain in September 1940 winning supremacy over the German Luftwaffe (air force). Then Hitler decided to invade Russia and in doing so he broke a non agression Pact with Stalin. This gave Britain the breathing space to re-arm and Introduce Conscription to strenghthen our fighting forces. It was thanks to the American President Roosevelt who persuaded the American Goverment to introduce the Lend/ Lease plan that we were able to re-arm. D. Day would never have been possible without the American troops on our side and American war material. I am old enough to remeber my Father being taken off Dunkirk Beach after waiting for three days in the sand dunes whilst being shelled and strafed. He had shrapnel wounds in his legs and back and couldn't get any medical treatment until he arrived at Warwick Hospital in England. On his discharge from Hospital, he had 7 days leave, then was shipped to North Africa with the 8th. Army.

islandtom57

Of course not. As the German war machine which had been strengthened for almost 10 years acquired European countries, along with the conquests came resources such as wealth, supplies, free labor, etc. The British would have been hard pressed to collect needed resources from other allies since they were blockaded by the German u-boat patrols. The nearest help available was France.........and we know how successful they are in war, we saved their butt too in the previous world war.

Steve

as the us didn't come into the war till late then yes, but it would of taken longer,
D-Day (64th Anni last thursday 6-6-44) would not of happened we should remember the loss of UK US Aussie and Canadian lives that day to liberate France

Punk is Money!! {Amie}

No, all participants in the war were valuable, without one of them, Nazis would have won easily.

sailor

quasar

yes even if the Germans had got to the UK they could not have kept their supply lines open over the channel long enough to conquer the north of England ,Scotland & wales

reb3mo

i belive not but what do i know

Daniel

yes Britain wud have but it wud have taken longer and instead of Normandy the invasion wud have been more from Italy as we were working our way up there and also we wud have launched in to south of France and maybe Norway

Luvvie

Why does everyone always forget Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India?

Britain's Empire would have won the war alone - it just took them time to awaken.

Drixnot

No.

But the war would have failed if ANY of the allies weren't committed.

No one country won the war.

screecwe

@marky

Occupying a country while adhering to the Geneva Conventions is a LOT different than fighting a war. If the US wanted to crack down and not care about the damage they did it would be a different story. But the US is trying to rebuild infrastructure and work with the people while taking it on the chin to allow the Iraqi people to get on their feet.

As far as the quesiton goes, no one argues the Brit's were and are great fighters and held out much longer than they should have. But ANY nation that was in the place of the British(lack of supplies, isolated from allies, smaller population) would have fallen without direct support. Germany had too many factories built in mainland occupied Europe. As far as not helping earlier, America was trying to take a stance of neutrality. Obviously it did not work, which reflects in our aggressive foreign policy today. But the US was sending massive amounts of supplies and pilots for the British war effort. That helped the UK hang on as long as it did before the American people/gov rallied support enough to declare war.

Peter B

The ALLIES won the war. Every allied country that was in WW2 helped. yes, the Russians may have done more, the Americans may have done more but every allied country helped.

Allied vs Axis

many countries envolved in one war. not just russia against germany or america against germany!

It took a long time for the US to join in though, didn't it.
We may have got there. who knows. But we were glad of the help anyway.

bigseb31213

Well, the Russians could've probably beaten the Germans alone, but if you just consider Britan and Germany, then no. Britan didnt have enough people or resources to mount a cross-channel invasion, and the germans could've done it if they built some landing ships. Good thing America was there to help, right?

BDZot

No.

Germany controlled Europe from France to the USSR, and would have held their own fighting the Russians had it not been for the American troops and equipment combining with the Brits to invade Europe.

bud

you really have it in for us Brits don`t you, since WW11 we have helped you lot out loads of times and all you do is shoot us down in friendly fire

Bamford1000

The Operation Sealion Scenario was played out with the British and German Commanders of the time at Sandhurst Military Academy in 1974.

The result was that the German Army would have become cut off due to the strength of the Royal Navy (the largest in the workd at the time), and British Land Forces would have pushed the invading Germans back to the coast, without naval support, all in all an invasion attempt would have been disastrous for Germany, just as the Battle of Britain aerial war was.

Jay L

no

If Hitler hadn't declared war on the US, the best that Britian could have done was to hang on

Aurora

What defeated the German army was neither the US GB or the USSR. It was the terrible Russian winter.
The German army was depleted already and the very severe cold finished them off.

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