If Japan was able to carve out its East Asian empire following World War 2 where would that have left Australia?
It would seemingly have been cut-off from its allies.
It would seemingly have been cut-off from its allies.
Can you elaborate? So there is no Pearl Harbor and therefore Roosevelt just goes rogue and attacks the Japanese first for some unspecified reason without Congress declaring war? I don't see a way for there to be a credible "anti-war" movement given the US and Canadian racist attitudes towards Asians and Japanese in particular. Eventually Japan has to attack the Philippines and Guam, the US only has to wait until the Japanese "accidentally on purpose" (or legitimately accidentally) attacks an American ship within American territory.Japan is able to defeat the US after. the Americans attack and end up being pressured by the anti-war movement to leave Japan alone.
May this push Australia and New Zealand even closer together?