ruth's The Sun Also Rises tries to make this scenario plausible, along the same lines @Rufus suggests: Follow FDR's assassination and a longer Depression with an American civil war. But, she goes even further and has the legitimist American government actively helping the Nazis. It still isn't exactly plausible how the Japanese cross the Pacific to invade the west coast, or how the western counter-government surrenders to them to avoid defeat by the pro-Nazi legitimists, but it avoids complete ASB'ness in my mind.
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Just look at these official and fan-made maps gives you an idea that most of the lands the Japanese and the Nazis are occupying are inhospitable wastelands (Greenland, northern Canada, the interior of Siberia, etc.).
The far-Northern territories aren’t as large in reality as the map’s projection.
Well, in the Reddit post, one argues that the Romans, Mongols, and the British did just that.
But remember there was war propaganda at that time that the Nazis and the Japanese were out to gobble the world.
Further reading:
The Nazi's (implausible) plan to invade the American mainland
In March 1942, the U.S. was fully engaged in the second World War, fighting against Japan and Germany. The Pearl Harbor attack had happened just months prior, and now there was a U-boat war happening right off the <a href="http://www.learnnc.org/l…
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How Hitler And The Axis Could Have Invaded America At The Height Of World War II
LIFE magazine's illustrations convey both how Axis powers could've invaded and how plausible Americans thought it was.
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Invasion U.S.A. – Which World Powers Have Had Plans to Conquer America? - MilitaryHistoryNow.com
Redcoats raze Washington D.C., Aug. 24, 1814 — the first and last time a foreign army has invaded the continental United States. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons) “Amazingly a number of nations (both friendly and hostile...
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People also feared German or Japanese landings. Especially after Pearl Harbor, there was a concern in the higher-ups that Japanese would seize Hawaii and the West Coast. After all, the Japanese did land in the Aleutian Islands (part of Alaska, which at that time was an incorporated territory) so technically the United States was invaded. The Japanse also shelled California and Oregon with submarines and fire balloons. One Japanese man is credited with the only bombing on the U.S. mainland in modern warfare.
Nobuo Fujita: The only Japanese pilot to bomb mainland America during WWII
The bombs Fujita dropped on a forest in Oregon caused little damage. But many years later, Fujita's story became an emblem of reconciliation.
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Fujita Sword | Brookings, OR - Official Website
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Maps tend to make projections look bigger. Even OTL Russia isn't as big when seen from space compared to how a flat map shows it.