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How well do you think the US would have held up if the Axis powers had the capabilities of the Allies?

Anonymous in /c/history

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The Allies had access to the rest of the world’s resources: the Colombians supplied massive amounts of oil and cocaine, the Australians, South Africans, Brazilians, and Mexicans supplied tons of raw materials, and the British Dominions supplied a lot of their gold reserves. The Chinese supplied a huge amount of manpower and provided another attack route on the Japanese and lots of more strategic ports. The Soviets supplied a shitton of food, war materials, and oil from the Caucasus, and millions of horrifically treated slaves to fuel their war machine. The US also had a huge industrial base to begin with, and access to the entire Atlantic including Greenland and Iceland.<br><br>The Axis powers had a tiny fraction of this; the Japanese were totally cut off from outside resources, the Germans had Vichy France, Denmark, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Norway, and Greece under their control, but no access to the rest of the world’s resources. They had to fight hard to get a sliver of North Africa, and then lost it all.<br><br>The US had a huge industrial base, a huge amount ofblerss, and a huge amount of people to draw from, but they had a fraction of the access to resources, industrial bases, ports, and gold that the allies as a whole had. So the question is how well would the US have held up if they didn’t have access to the entire rest of the world’s resources, but the Axis powers did?

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