Maybe we don't have German troops invading Boston, New Jersey, Delmarva, North Carolina, and Florida as Japanese troops invaded Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle in 1954. We seriously underestimated both, especially Japan, and Fall Gold, aka Operation Octopus, was a rude shock. Only in 1961 were the last of the foreign forces officially defeated, the horrors of Denver as Germany and Japan threatened to link up fronts and the two 'Starvation Winters' made it painfully obvious the price we paid for our freedoms. Maybe that would be avoided, maybe it wouldn't, but certainly our capital might still be in Washington instead of Liberty City - without a reason to relocate the area might be the northernmost suburb of Kansas City of just where Nebraska and Missouri meet on the Missouri River.