Part 2 of my 1941 POD idea:
December 8, 1941: Imperial Japan receives a message from the German Embassy in Tokyo: "You have refused to help us in our war against the Soviet Union. You shall fight the United States alone."
With the American-Japanese war in full gear, minimal American presence in the Atlantic (aside from lend-lease), how quickly would Japan fall? How much more bloody, and dragged out, does the war in Europe go? I still see UK winning in north Africa, but incapable of invading Italy or liberating France on their own. Eventually, a stalemate, with the USSR winning at Stalingrad but unable to retake Kiev or Minsk.
December 8, 1941: Imperial Japan receives a message from the German Embassy in Tokyo: "You have refused to help us in our war against the Soviet Union. You shall fight the United States alone."
With the American-Japanese war in full gear, minimal American presence in the Atlantic (aside from lend-lease), how quickly would Japan fall? How much more bloody, and dragged out, does the war in Europe go? I still see UK winning in north Africa, but incapable of invading Italy or liberating France on their own. Eventually, a stalemate, with the USSR winning at Stalingrad but unable to retake Kiev or Minsk.