American-Japanese alliance ww2

Americans take a hard shift to the right after ww1 and the depression and blame the black people in a similar way that Hitler blamed the Jews. This leads to them to sympathize with the nazis. Then they decide to sell the Phillipenes to Japan. Then after tensions with Britain they become a signatory of the Tripartite pact.

Thoughts?
 
Americans take a hard shift to the right after ww1 and the depression and blame the black people in a similar way that Hitler blamed the Jews. This leads to them to sympathize with the nazis. Then they decide to sell the Phillipenes to Japan. Then after tensions with Britain they become a signatory of the Tripartite pact.

Thoughts?
The subsequent victories of Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover in the United States Presidential Elections of 1920, 1924, and 1928 were shifts to the right, but more towards Libertarianism than Totalitarianism. After William Howard Taft was inaugurated on March 4th, 1909, he took a right turn, steering the Republican Party towards conservatism, as opposed to his predecessor Theodore Roosevelt's progressivism. The Republicans could not afford to alienate African-American voters, whom they had won over by touting themselves as, 'The Party of Lincoln'. Also in OTL, Japan and the US were weary of each other's ambitions in Asia, and the US preferred to stick with the course Congress had set for the Philippines to become an independent country. If the US sold the Philippines to any nation, then there would be no reason for Japan to attack Pearl Harbor, and therefore no reason for the US to get involved in the Pacific War. Most of the US public and Congress were more sympathetic towards France, Great Britain, and China over Germany, Italy, and Japan. There were German and Italian sympathizers in the US, but they pushed for neutrality and isolationism rather than scapegoating of any racial/ethnic groups. So that's why I find the scenario you presented very unlikely.

The easier way to do this is to have the Anglo-Japanese Alliance renewed, but on the condition that Japan leave the Chinese mainland alone. A major factor in Japan entering the Great Depression in the 1920s was the end of its trade deals with Great Britain, which allowed for the rise of the Fascist military dictatorship. Japan's invasions of Manchuria and China led to a deterioration of relations with the US and Great Britain. With no Sino-Japanese War and the Fascist military dictatorship killed in its crib, Japan joins Great Britain in fighting against Germany and Italy during World War II. They say that the US would have eventually joined the Allies even if there was no Pearl Harbor or Pacific War. So if this happens, both Japan and the US are part of the Allies.

Bonus points if the Chinese Communist Party wins the Chinese Civil War, but the Nationalists/Kuomintang hold on to Hainan. (Although, they say that if Japan never invaded Manchuria and China, the KMT would have defeated the CCP.) If the CCP wins the Chinese Civil War as OTL, both the US and Great Britain would remain allied to Japan during the Cold War as a bulwark against both the PRC and the USSR in East Asia. The US probably gets its OTL military bases in Japan and Korea via Lend-Lease. I imagine that in this scenario, the PRC and USSR would support Kim Il-Sung in leading a Communist revolution against Japanese-occupied Korea. The USSR disputes with Japan over Sakhalin/Karafuto and the Kuriles/Chishima Archipelago, while simultaneously the PRC disputes with Japan over Taiwan and Penghu. With Japan close by in Taiwan and the US close by in the Philippines, both Japan and the US are present to lend their support to ATL's ROC in Hainan against the PRC. As Great Britain's ally, Japan supports Great Britain staying in Hong Kong rather than retrocession to the PRC.
 
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