AHC: U.S. only fights in the Pacific?

I realize that this is incredibly difficult, but is it possible to keep the U.S. out of the Second World War, specifically the European theater? I realize that the U.S. and Japan will probably go to war at some point over the Pacific holdings, but it seems that our involvement in Europe was mostly a result of FDR's Wilsonian utopianism.

I'm mostly interested in what effect this has on post-war geopolitics. What does Europe look like afterwards if the Red Army gets to Paris? Is there a Cold War or a Warsaw Pact?

I don't have a specific POD in mind, but I'd like the war to closely resemble OTL's, if not running parallel to it in the beginning.
 
I realize that this is incredibly difficult, but is it possible to keep the U.S. out of the Second World War, specifically the European theater? I realize that the U.S. and Japan will probably go to war at some point over the Pacific holdings, but it seems that our involvement in Europe was mostly a result of FDR's Wilsonian utopianism.

I'm mostly interested in what effect this has on post-war geopolitics. What does Europe look like afterwards if the Red Army gets to Paris? Is there a Cold War or a Warsaw Pact?

I don't have a specific POD in mind, but I'd like the war to closely resemble OTL's, if not running parallel to it in the beginning.


Simplest POD is for Hitler to respond differently to news of Pearl Harbor
OTL he was delighted. He told Kriegsmarine next day to turn U-boats loose on American shipping. Later that week he declared war.

American rage was directed til then at the Japanese. There was "serious uncertainty about whether Congress would agree to fight Germany." see
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/1207/Pearl-Harbor-Day-How-did-Adolf-Hitler-react-to-the-attack

Hitler was reckless and worse over and over and over. But had he thought, say, "Time enough to deal with the Americans after Barbarossa" or whatever, it might well have been many years before US and Germany came to blows. I am not sure the 2 countries would not eventually fight, but a long delay would change many things about the European war.
 
Simplest POD is for Hitler to respond differently to news of Pearl Harbor
OTL he was delighted. He told Kriegsmarine next day to turn U-boats loose on American shipping. Later that week he declared war.

American rage was directed til then at the Japanese. There was "serious uncertainty about whether Congress would agree to fight Germany." see
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/1207/Pearl-Harbor-Day-How-did-Adolf-Hitler-react-to-the-attack

Hitler was reckless and worse over and over and over. But had he thought, say, "Time enough to deal with the Americans after Barbarossa" or whatever, it might well have been many years before US and Germany came to blows. I am not sure the 2 countries would not eventually fight, but a long delay would change many things about the European war.

The problem with that theory is that the US navy was doing its best to provoke the Germans in the Atlantic and even with a war in the Pacific Lend-Lease would still have continued, albeit at a lower level. Hitler's decision to declare war wasn't arbitrary, there were good strategic reasons for it.
 
Two points.

First before Pearl Harbour the United States was already fighting against Germany in the Atlantic and it was only a matter of time before someone made it official.

Second. Even if the US stayed out of the European war untill Japan was delt with, it wouldn't have lasted long. For all the talk about D Day and the second front (or third if you count Italy) the war was won and lost in the East. Without D Day it might have lasted an extra year but by Winter 1945 the Germans and their Allies will have been blead white in Russia. The Russians won't be much better off.
 
Even without a de facto war in Atlantic, any "US going only in Pacific"-TL should be named

"Soviet Union, from Brest to Brest-Litovsk".
 
Nah, assuming no LL the USSR isn't getting much farther then Poland.

Eh, even withoput I think the USSR were capable of getting their shit together and once they started rolling, there was going to be nothing that the Germans could do. They would have probably defeated the Nazi's but the war is going to be much longer and much more brutal.
 
I realize that the U.S. and Japan will probably go to war at some point over the Pacific holdings, but it seems that our involvement in Europe was mostly a result of FDR's Wilsonian utopianism.
If it really hinges so much on the policies of one single man, may I suggest a macabre path towards your scenario?
 
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