U.S. declares war on Japan would britian honor their alliance

Would Britain honor their alliance with Japan

  • Yes

    Votes: 19 20.4%
  • No

    Votes: 74 79.6%

  • Total voters
    93
My guess and my vote is no. The British may not need the Americans per say, certainly not to the same extent that they would in World War II, but in less than 150 years, the United States has gone from a colonial backwater to an emerging industrial superpower, and more importantly one that's on friendly terms with Britain. The British are increasingly concerned about a possible war with Germany, especially after 1905. They might be willing to act as a intermediary between the Americans and the Japanese, but the possibility of an alliance with the United States is going to become increasingly important to them and they're not about to risk that, certainly not over Japan.

Also if they did not take the US side WW1 would be very different.
 
<snip>However if the UK joined in on the Japanese side it wouldn't surprise me if the Canadians decide they don't feel like fighting the country to their south that outnumbers them 10 to 1 to protect the Japanese and tell the UK to get stuffed.

Pretty much. Its a matter of national survival for them, and US-Canadian relations were pretty much as warm then as they are today. post-1900 was a full half-century since the last tenseness between the two countries, and post-ACW the USA had given up all thought of imperialism directed against her northern neighbor.
 
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