How would have history changed if Japan did not attack Pearl Harbor? -

Just curious, how would WW2 would have evolved if Japan did not bomb Pearl Harbor? Let s say they concentrated their campaign in the east asia area and stayed clear of Australia. Just a hypothetical question.

Many here seem to forget that Japan also invaded the Philippines which was a US Protectorate... THAT would have still drawn the US into the war. We might not have gone in as angered as we did due to the Attack on Pearl Harbor, but we would have gone in. I CAN NOT see Japan ignoring Australia: Japan was at war with the United Kingdom as a result of their invasion of Singapore. SO, Australia has to be neutralized or contained for the same reason as the invasions / attacks on The Philippines, Wake, Midway, and other islands. Those Islands could be used as bases for attacks on Japan and HAD to be Japanese controlled to prevent that. SO, the US would have entered the War in the Pacific with an INTACT fleet... COULD have stopped the invasion of the Philippines, might have been able to put an EARLIER blockade on the Home Islands. An INTERESTING hypothetical though...

Probably wouldn t have changed all that much. As has been stated, Roosevelt was doing his damnedest to get America into the war. A Japanese attack on Dutch Indonesia, which is what you are talking about since that was where the oil was, would likely have resulted in Roosevelt asking for a declaration of war anyhow. Remember, we were already at the brink of war with Japan over their invasion of French Indochina. The details would have been different, but the end result would have been pretty much the same, the USA built dozens of ships and planes for every one that Japan built. Would have had little effect in the war in Europe, Hitler s armies would still have perished in Russia. Even without the USA the Russians would still have rolled all the way to Berlin, might have taken them a bit longer but the results would still have been the same. I mean, by Dec 41 Hitler had already made the 3 stupidest mistakes in military history (Dunkirk, cancelling the development of new tanks and planes, and the ill prepared invasion of Russia.) Short Answer: The war would have been longer and messier, the details different, but the eventual eventual outcome would still have been pretty much the same.

England and Russia would have lost the war. Japan would have Conquered China. Then the U.S. would have been overrun by Democrat { socialists } and Germany would have crossed the Mexican bounder and conquered America from the South.

The Germans would have won in Europe, and the Japanese would still occupy the Malay Peninsula and the oil fields of Indonesia (the real cause of the Pacific war), but it wouldn t be called Indonesia, would it?

Most likely America wouldn t have gotten involved in the war until much later on (since the war would have lasted longer as well). Because without America s help, Germany would have most likely won.

roosevelt was looking for an excuse to enter the war and he probably would have found another one.

America wouldn t have joined WW2