Germany vs. USA 1914(Duel)

I assumed that you are just talking about German Army. In order for Germans to invade America, they must secure most of the European superpowers, namely France, Russia and Britain. It is possible that German army would be able to gain Britain's naval power and massive manpower of France and Russia. If that was the case, then Germans could win.

 

But we are just talking about German army. The reason why Americans played little part in WWI is because they had to arm the soldiers and send them across the Atlantic. Since their homeland is being invaded, there will be a lot of patriotic Americans willling to fight street by street, just like in Stalingrad. American soldiers no longer have to be shipped across Atlantic. Canadians would offer serious aid to make sure that Canada herself do not become the battlefield. German Army alone will have difficult time to fight against horde of Americans/Canadians. I suspect that in the beginning, they will massacre Americans but Germans will have to retreat... just like how Germans fought against Americans.

 

But it is a difficult question. I find it hard to believe how Americans would avoid war if Germans conquer much of Europe. They would aid the Allies before this becomes the reality. 

 

Even if the British stayed out of it, the war would have been a war of navies, not a a war of armies. I doubt very much if either side in those circumstances could have shipped an army across the Atlantic.

 

Rather as, in 1940, the war between Britain and Germany became a war of air forces.

 

It might be worth remembering that one of the things that eventually did bring the US into the war was the Zimmerman telegram and the threat it revealed of a German-Mexican-Japanese alliance against the US - a much more interesting scenario.

 

You think?

 

 

 

As of 1914 that is pretty well true. The German fleet at Coromandel even managed to inflict the first multi-ship defeat on the Royal Navy for some 150 years.

 

However, the difference in population between the two countries was already quite large - some 100 million to 65 million - but possibly more importantly the US is vast[1].

 

I would see the situation being rather like that in the war of 1812, where the British were pretty free to attack and land troops wherever they wanted, but unable to occupy significant amounts of territory for long.[2] German naval power would put them in that position in this scenario.

 

In the end, as in 1812-16, the two sides would probably sooner or later faced up to the question "What on earth are we fighting over?", realised it was ridiculous, and stopped.

 

The most important consequence otherwise would of course have been the continuance of British domination for a great deal longer than actually happened, since Germany and the US would have exhausted themselves fighting while France and Britain (pretty certainly) made piles of money out of selling arms - as the US did in real history.

 

[1] And was just as vast then .

[2] Of course in 1812 the British were engaged in fighting Napoleon, but the American war went on after Waterloo.

 

In fact the warships of 1914-18 were still viable when WW2 started and would never really be beaten for surface-to-surface warfare with guns and torpedoes. While submarines became a threat to all surface vessels, only the coming of aircraft and later missiles really put an end to the dominance of the battleship.