Poll: How much longer can WWII go before American public starts calling for peace?

How much longer can WWII go before American public starts calling for peace?

  • 1-2 Years (1946-47)

    Votes: 17 18.3%
  • 3-5 Years (1948-1950)

    Votes: 39 41.9%
  • More than 5 years (past 1950)

    Votes: 10 10.8%
  • None of the above (America fights for as long as it takes to win the war)

    Votes: 27 29.0%

  • Total voters
    93
Like the title says, how many more extra years can World War II go for before American citizens start wanting to negotiate peace? Typically when a democratic nation is involved in a war, the military needs to show results with a few years before goodwill starts to wear out. Even with visual images of American battlefield success (the landings at Normandy, flag raising on Iwo Jima), when would the public get tired of the war and start demanding the politicians begin making peace overtures either to Germany or Japan?
 
Until Japanese is spoken only in hell.

But more likely the "end" of World War II for the US would be the installation of a puppet government in (what's left of) Japan which has weak support in many parts of the country. The IJA would turn into an insurgency which the United States would be required to spend a lot of manpower putting down. At some point, people won't like all those dead servicemen being killed by Japanese insurgents every month. They'd demand that the United States quit propping up Japan with tens of thousands of soldiers and let the US-friendly Japanese government solve their own issues.

For Europe the war won't last much past 1946.
 
If Japan somehow holds off for 15 years by all our commanders collectively taking a giant brain fart every hour and managing to lose to a numerical inferior, outdated, and plane-less enemy, then I'd say the Americans would eventually look at the budget line that says "war" and just let Japan off with whatever they are holding. Please note that while not quite ASB, it's pretty darn close to it as it was previously discussed in a thread that I brought up, even if the Battle of Midway goes all in their favor, once the Americans bring up the Wasp from the Atlantic, and the Essex is constructed (and possibly pull the Ranger too), it's not going to be that different that OTL, so that's buying 3 months maybe, not years. Americans wanted payback, and for good reason too with the sneak attack and war crimes and stuff.
 
Like the title says, how many more extra years can World War II go for before American citizens start wanting to negotiate peace? Typically when a democratic nation is involved in a war, the military needs to show results with a few years before goodwill starts to wear out. Even with visual images of American battlefield success (the landings at Normandy, flag raising on Iwo Jima), when would the public get tired of the war and start demanding the politicians begin making peace overtures either to Germany or Japan?

What's the evidence for this?

I mean, WW1 and WW2 had democracies winning despite hundreds of thousands of casualties...

I guess what you mean is that in colonial conflicts people get tired of casualties after years of warfare, but that's not WW2.
 
War with Japan longer than war with Germany. Japan stabbed us in the back and then spit on us, Germany was a me too and just a bully. War with Germany was over when Hitler declared war on us and the Soviets held the line in 41/42.
 
Until Japanese is spoken only in hell.

But more likely the "end" of World War II for the US would be the installation of a puppet government in (what's left of) Japan which has weak support in many parts of the country. The IJA would turn into an insurgency which the United States would be required to spend a lot of manpower putting down. At some point, people won't like all those dead servicemen being killed by Japanese insurgents every month. They'd demand that the United States quit propping up Japan with tens of thousands of soldiers and let the US-friendly Japanese government solve their own issues.

For Europe the war won't last much past 1946.
So Japan becomes Vietnam? Interesting...
 
So Japan becomes Vietnam? Interesting...

Not quite. The situation is different since Japan has no outside aid. Just some regions under the control of the "Empire of Japan" and patrolled by the Imperial Japanese Army (some actual soldiers and a bunch of peasants who are either brainwashed or press-ganged into holding whatever weapon they can). At best, they last maybe a decade before the movement devolves into nothing but terrorists not even worthy of being called guerillas. But until then, I wouldn't be surprised if the United States "needs" to stay in Japan.
 
Well until the US withholds food shipments and the home islands starve an insurgency does not work when the occupier has control over your food supply

I think the question is how long can Japan fight after Operation Coronet takes the Kanto Plain. Whatever's left of the Empire of Japan can raid villages for food and resources and grab anyone who can hold a rifle, musket, or spear into their group, but how long can they do that before the majority of Japanese switch allegiances to whatever government the US has set up and they lose control of more and more territory? How long will that take?

It's clear that if we have to have an Operation Coronet to begin with, and the war isn't over by 1947, the fanatics in Japan's military will keep on fighting as long as they can, no matter if tens of millions starve/die of disease. It's just how long can they keep fighting their insurgency? Would the Soviets lend support during the early phases of the Cold War to keep the US tied up?
 
I think the question is how long can Japan fight after Operation Coronet takes the Kanto Plain. Whatever's left of the Empire of Japan can raid villages for food and resources and grab anyone who can hold a rifle, musket, or spear into their group, but how long can they do that before the majority of Japanese switch allegiances to whatever government the US has set up and they lose control of more and more territory? How long will that take?

It's clear that if we have to have an Operation Coronet to begin with, and the war isn't over by 1947, the fanatics in Japan's military will keep on fighting as long as they can, no matter if tens of millions starve/die of disease. It's just how long can they keep fighting their insurgency? Would the Soviets lend support during the early phases of the Cold War to keep the US tied up?

Why would the US even go for a downfall? Just keep dropping A bombs and starve them until someone in the Empire comes to their senses and surrenders if need be dispatch forces to seize Korea and the rest of the various Island chains but let the Home Islands wither on the vine
 
I'm not sure Japan lasting would be the best bet of a longer war here, in a world where Russia didn't hold the line in 1941-1942 and collasped then Germany would have a good chance of surviving attacks by the Western Allies.

How long the wars would go on is hard to estimate.
 
Nearly 16 years after 9/11 and the US is still in Afghanistan.

The US would probably stay involved in a war against Japan indefinitely, albeit with scaled down commitments if Japan or a breakaway group of diehard imperialists miraculously held out for that long.
 
I do not see how the war could have gone on for another year. The US was producing one or two atomic bombs a month and would have kept using them. The Red Army was destroying the Japanese Army in Manchuria. The blockage was almost absolute. I would expect the Japanese to eventually surrender and probably before an invasion of the home islands.
 
Why are you concentrating on Japan? There's still Germany, which can actually defeat the Soviet Union and hold out for decades (I agree that the possibility is quite low, but it's not outright impossible).
 
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