Would ww2 have happened if Germany won ww1?

Europe would have been dominated by Germany. While a German-dominated Europe might not have been an optimal result, consider what events almost certainly would have been avoided: First, there would not have been a Second World War because France did not have the power to even attempt to overturn a German victory.

What would the world be like if ww1 and ww2 never happened?

Without World War I, there probably wouldn’t have been World War II. No Cold War. Without tens of millions of deaths, European nations would have likely put more resources into building their economies. Germany would have become an economic, scientific and cultural powerhouse.

What would the world be like if there was no war?

Of course, those years also saw the global population rise from an estimated 4.8 billion to 5.6 billion. Without war, individuals would still die from accidents, homicides, suicides at a normal rate, but it’s easy to see how the end of war would at least marginally effect population levels around the world.

How did WW2 affect the population?

The best estimates indicate that between 62 and 78 million of them would die due to WWII—more than 3\% of the world’s population. While earlier wars also resulted in deaths of civilians,5 civilians were particularly heavily affected by WWII with about half of the WWII European casualties being civilians.

How would the world be different if Germany won ww1?

Europe would have been different if Germany had won in 1918. It would have been grim, repressive and unpredictable in many ways. But there is a plausible case for saying many fewer people would have died in 20th-century Europe.

Could Germany have won WW2 without the US?

Even with everything noted above, Germany and its European partners could have still won the war were it not for Germany’s declaration of war on the United States on December 11, 1941. It was really the only time Nazi Germany had actually declared war on an enemy, and it needed not to have happened.

What would the world look like without World War II?

Without the Second World War, numerous world-changing technologies from chemotherapy and rocketry to the nuclear bomb would have developed at different times and places. Movements affected by social changes wrought by the conflict, such as the Civil Rights movement or Indian independence, would have taken different turns.

Did the Wehrmacht secretly develop tanks and planes?

Technocrats in the Germany Army secretly fostered the development of tanks, ships and warplanes restricted under the treaty of Versailles in the 1920s (ironically, with Soviet assistance)—years before Hitler’s rise to power. However, the Wehrmacht’s senior leadership believed Hitler’s wars were impetuous and some even plotted coups against Hitler.

What if Germany had been on an actual war economy from 1939?

Had Germany been on an actual wartime economy from 1939 things could have been vastly different. Adolf Hitler joined a list of would-be invaders of the British Isles but clearly didn’t remember that no one successfully invaded since 1066 when William the Conqueror defeated Harold II, the last crowned Anglo-Saxon king of England.