Posted on 01/26/2017 1:06:09 PM PST by Rebelbase
On 8 may 1945, Germany surrenders.WWII in Europe is over. Europe is divided in half. Soviet in the east, Allied in the West.
But Who would have won if war broke out between the Allied and Soviets if they decided to declare all out war against each other in May 1945?
Allied even prepared a battle plain: Operation Unthinkable was a code name of a plan of a conflict between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union.
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We’d have nuked Commie Joe.
We had nukes.
Depends on how effective our use of the atomic bomb would have been.
We could only produce a one or two at a time, so we would have to have picked the targets very carefully.
But one thing is certain. We would have obtained air superiority very quickly, and the Eight Air Force would have been able to strike Soviet war industry in a thorough and effective way. Even the factories which Stalin had moved to east of the Urals.
In this alternative view, do we still nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The we nuke Leningrad and Moscow and the Soviets surrender.
Depends on how quickly we could have made more A-bombs.
We would have. We had the only atomic bombs.
Traitors had not yet slipped the Soviets the information on making them.
Imagine having to fight a war where 1000 4 engine bombers show up daily and unload on you.
Alt-history ping.
We could have fought them from two fronts, western Europe and a conquered Japan
According to Patton the Red Army ate, burned and pillaged there way to Berlin. If they had to retrace their steps they would starve to death.
In this video A-bombs are considered. The problem with thinking they were the “bomb” is that we didn’t have that many in the last 1/2 of 1945.
Direct link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8B3ceKwV8Q
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The US would have won the Russians had very little production capacity....
But the US still had Japan to fight
The Red Army raped everyone they could, even freed Jews/POWs.
The Russians were certainly tough soldiers who had been through hell (our troops too but not as long a period of time) but our air superiority, massive numbers of equipment, I believe, would have eventually won the day, even without nukes - if we were just talking about pushing the Soviets out of Eastern Europe.
To completely destroy the Soviets would have taken longer, but still, the Allies would have eventually prevailed.
The United States was supplying Soviet Russia with war material. If all that were cut off, I don’t think Russia could have made up the difference on their own.
Yep, we had three as of July, 1945, used one as a test and two on Japan, and enough fissile material to make seven more by end-October. After those it would have taken months to process enough material to build more bombs. One would have to expect, considering how deeply the Soviets had penetrated the Manhattan Project, that they knew this and once Japan surrendered they weren’t about to risk losing Moscow and six other cities.
I will say this.
Thank God for Hitler sending 4.3 million Germans to their death on the Eastern Front.
And thank God The Russians spent 10.6 million lives fighting the Germans.
Otherwise how many millions of US lives would have been spent?
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