Could America have won WW2 if Britain pulled out of the war in June 1940?

Hello all,
This is my first post; I'll keep it simple. If the USA was going to carry the war across the Atlantic, and presumably start in Africa, would Liberia be feasible as a base? Liberia is the only part of Africa that is not a European colony. I know the USA would have to do a lot of construction to use Liberia as an offensive base. It's just an idea I have so that the USA doesn't have to seize its first base across the Atlantic.

Another thought. The UK has made peace with Germany. Is Canada bound by the same treaty? What about the Dutch and Free French (if there are Free French), the Poles, etc? What happens to their forces, and their desires to liberate their countries?

Dilvish
 
Hello all,
This is my first post; I'll keep it simple. If the USA was going to carry the war across the Atlantic, and presumably start in Africa, would Liberia be feasible as a base? Liberia is the only part of Africa that is not a European colony. I know the USA would have to do a lot of construction to use Liberia as an offensive base. It's just an idea I have so that the USA doesn't have to seize its first base across the Atlantic.

Another thought. The UK has made peace with Germany. Is Canada bound by the same treaty? What about the Dutch and Free French (if there are Free French), the Poles, etc? What happens to their forces, and their desires to liberate their countries?

Dilvish

Liberia might be workable as a base, but building up the infrastructure to make into a proper staging point for an invasion might take a while. Still, since the government there is fairly US-friendly I imagine they would be willing to go along with any US schemes, although Petain's France might try to discourage that by sending troops to Mali and Mauritania.

Canada and the other Commonwealth countries would be nominally bound by any treaty signed between the UK and Germany, but I expect they would find covert ways of aiding any US war. The Free French and governments-in-exile will be in a much more difficult position; under terms of the treaty with Germany Britain would likely be forced to cut all official ties and formally acknowledge the new order imposed by Germany. I expect the organizations will still get some covert support from the UK and other sympathetic states, but with the US still officially neutral any governments-in-exile would be hard-pressed to find a place to set up shop. Also, until the US or USSR enters the war there would be little realistic hope of success, which will drive away all but the most hard-core membership.
 
Canada and the other Commonwealth countries would be nominally bound by any treaty signed between the UK and Germany,

Ummm... No. NO WAY.

Canada, at least, declared war on Germany something like 3 days after the UK did. The point being it was an independent declaration. Similarly, no treaty made by the UK would affect us at that point.
 
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