I've been reading Fatherland and was asked by my brother whether I thought that a victorious Nazi Germany would have initiated a Cold War. That is not the purpose of this thread, which is to question whether the signing of the Tripartite Pact between Japan, Germany and Italy in 1940 could be stopped. I was thinking of having a world where the Germans retain their support of the KMT regime in China and made sanctions against the Japanese instead of seeking an alliance. In such a world I would imagine that there would be no reason for Nazi Germany to declare war on the USA. Let me know your thoughts on this.