Dutch East Indies given to Japan in 1940

[DMA]

What if, after the Nazi Germans overrun Holland in 1940, they offer to Japan, as a further enticement to sign the Axis Treaty (ie the Tripartite Pact), the Dutch East Indies territories. Doing so means Japan gets access to the oil producing part of Kalimantan on Borneo, not to mention numerous other natural resources throughout the Dutch controlled parts of the Indoneisan Archipelago. Consequentially the Japanese break the US oil embargo & Japan shelves its plans to attack Pearl Harbor, The Philippines, & the various British territories like Malaysia.

How do the Allies, particularly the British, react? Likewise the "neutral" Americans?

Does fighting in the Pacific Theatre still erupt regardless?

How is the rest of WWII play out if there isn't a Pacific War?

Anything else?

[Roberto]

I'm pretty sure the Germans actually did give the Indies and French Indochina to Japan, but the colonies themselves were a little less than willing.

[DMA]

I'm pretty sure the Germans actually did give the Indies and French Indochina to Japan, but the colonies themselves were a little less than willing.


I knew about Indochina, but not about the East Indies. But even so, what if the Japanese occupation of the East Indies actually went ahead from about October 1940 onwards...

[numberone]

I'm not really a history expert, but FDR was trying to get America involved with the war. My guess is that FDR may try to assist the ROC. HOwever, Japan would not be fighting America, so they would probably attack Russia to help Germany out. IN this case FDR would sell some battleships to Stalin for 99 year base leases (In Russia's last war against Japan, it was the Balic Fleet that fought the Rising Sun; so the Russians will need a new fleet, since that fleet is fighting Hitler).

Russia would not want to lose Vladivostok, so they will eventually get America in the war later. THis could all just be ASB, but it gets me thinking.

[MrP]

Well, from what I know of OTL the Japanese interned the Dutch and supported pre-existing independence movements. A few distant relatives of mine spent the war in Indonesia in prison camps.