[Reaganwuzthebest]

If Hitler had even come close to conquering Britain, we would have had troops in Ireland and Iceland before Hitler could blink, ready to invade. He never would have won, no way, we wouldn't have let him.

[risk]

Wishful thinking.

[Kadric]

I believe that if Hitler managed to take England it would have been Stalin's move. If he signed a peace treaty then Germany may very well have held western Europe. Our best move would have been to launch from the mideast. If USSR did not sign a treaty then we would have had to support USSR with materials and move forces in either along side of them or possibly waited for a weakened Germany in order to invade France from the south. This would depend on kicking the Germans out of north Africa and moving supplies overland across Africa from the Atlantic cost. Once again it would have depended on Stalin tying up German forces on the eastern front instead of reinforcing the Africa Corps.

[norton]

Ireland was quite hopeful of Germany at least beating England into a position in which they could not overcome a mauser armed IRA.
(Ulster was different than Ireland then, now, and long into the past.)
At the time WW2 was building up, the 'two largest minorities' in the USA were British and German and then came Italians.
We had a pro-allies neighbor to the north and a generally pro-axis neighbor to the south.
(The one lonely mexican AF contribution to WW2 went to the Pacific - late.)
The US populace did not have just 'many who were anti-war' but virtually half who were pro German. (Kennedy family for one example and there is still debate over Lindberg)

If Hitler had been clearly winning in 1940 we'd very likely have remained much more neutral than your parents told you and likely would have turned to a poorly constructed Fortress America.

The Japanese did Churchill and FDR a great service (regardless of any conspiracy tales out there).

[AveMaria]

>>>we would have had troops in Ireland and Iceland before Hitler could blink, ready to invade.<<<

The government of Ireland at the time was highly nationalistic, and hated Britain for historical injustices inflicted on the Irish.

That explains why Ireland was neutral in WW-2.

[norton]

"If Hitler had even come close to conquering Britain, we would have had troops in Ireland and Iceland before Hitler could blink, ready to invade. He never would have won, no way, we wouldn't have let him.<

Wrong!
right up to Pearl Harbor there was a significant debate in the US about which side in europe was 'right' and what we should or should not do about it.
There was ZERO consensus right up until germany's ally bombed our obsolete navy, in a semi-colonial anchorage, and pissed off most of the American public.

Oh, and it took half of a year before we were even able to assume command of the AVG, there were no troops standing ready to invade anything, we'd have taken months to provide support to the Brits in any event..."before Hitler could blink..." does not even equate.

[TheDarkKnight]

If Hitler had managed to take Britain then the U.S. government would have done nothing. Sorry to say but the fact was that most of the government was pro Nazi Germnay and not willing to enter the war. It was Roosevelt who was one of the few that would have backed Britain. I also have no doubt that with Britain beaten Hilter would have focused more on the bomb and would have won the race to building it and with the V9 rocket would have been unstopable.