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Originally Posted by Ray
If the USA did not join in, Europe would bne up a shitcreek inclduing the USSR.
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Sir,
Great Britain could have held out. She had the rest of the Empire to sustain her. Manpower wise, India alone outnumbered Germany. The Royal Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy was more than a match for the Kreigsmarine.
The USSR would have eventually evicted the Germans but it would have been far bloodier and far longer. The Germans could not match man for man and Soviet industries were beyond the Luftwaffle's range. As stated before, there were still 44 divisions in Siberia that had yet to see combat. These divisions were personally molded by Field Marshall Zuhkov and well versed in the Soviet Deep Battle Doctrine.
There is absolutely no doubt that American and Canadian trucks was the force enabler for the Red Army, supplying 90% of all Soviet Red Army needs. The Soviets produced 80% of its own combat needs. Combined, this enabled the Red Army to be a mobile army and take the fight to the Wehrmacht. Therefore, without the trucks, the Red Army would have still remained a formidable fighting force that the Wehrmacht had lost any chance of victory after Stalingrad.
Without the North American allies, I think you will still see a Nazi Germany, maybe keeping some territory but Europe would remain three power blocks. Great Britain, Germany, and the USSR.