The connections between the Royal Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy ran back to the Meiji Restoration, and Tokyo remained hungry for territory in the Pacific. "They would regain the cliff head by means of some steps near Dover station and then pass alongside the railway station and take possession of three docks on which were gun emplacements. The plan involved a huge aerial bombardment of the Dover area prior to the shock troops' landing, he explained.Cpl Janowski then went into great detail about the route they would have taken to try to and secure the town: "Having effected a landing they would proceed along the cliffs to a point outside Dover where there were steps leading down to the beach and from this point they were to continue along the beach. Indeed, many wars do not “end” in the traditional sense; World War II, for example, stretched on for years in parts of Eastern Europe and the Asia-Pacific.Even as the guns fell silent along the Western Front in 1918, the United States and the United Kingdom began jockeying for position. These included many of the islands that Japan invaded in 1941 and 1942, although the invasions would have moved forward without the benefit of years of careful preparation.Given the strength of the IJN (four battle cruisers, five super-dreadnoughts, two dreadnoughts) and the necessary commitment to an “Atlantic first” strategy, the United States probably could not have held the Philippines, Guam, Wake, Midway or most of the other Pacific islands. Details of the plan to invade Britain emerge from a post-war debrief of a German soldier and are in an MI5 file made public at the National Archives. Canadian declarations of neutrality would have had minimal impact on this process. "They would then signal to Luftwaffe that the docks were in their possession." The major battle would have revolved around British and Canadian efforts to hold Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and especially the port of Halifax, which would have served both as the primary portal for British troops and as the main local base for the Royal Navy. 8 Hitler’s Plan To Invade Switzerland After the resounding victory over France in 1940, Hitler quickly ordered his generals to prepare a plan for the invasion of Switzerland . Moreover, the RN had a huge advantage in cruisers and destroyers, as well as a smaller advantage in naval aviation.But how would the RN have deployed its ships? Hawaii might have proven a bit too far and too big, and it is deeply unlikely that the Japanese would have risked a land deployment to western Canada (although U.S. planners feared such an eventuality), but the war would have overturned the balance of power in the Western Pacific.The British Army and the Royal Navy could, possibly, have erected a credible defense of Nova Scotia, preventing the United States from completely rolling up Canada. Eventually, the conquest and occupation of Canada would have resulted The new map, then, might have included a United States that extended to the Arctic, an independent Quebec, a rump Canada consisting mostly of the Maritimes and Japanese control of the entirety of the Western Pacific. Nevertheless, the Royal Navy had the benefit of years of experience in both war and peace that the USN lacked. But what if that hadn’t happened? They only needed to cross 47 miles of England to begin encircling the capital. What if the United States and United Kingdom had instead gone to war in the spring of 1921?The U.S.-Canadian border would have constituted the central front of the War of 1921. Plans for initial attacks included the seizure of Vancouver, Winnipeg, the Niagara Falls area and most of Ontario.Given the overwhelming disparity between available U.S. and Canadian military forces, most of these offensives would probably have succeeded in short order. German troops were equipped with spy photos of Dover for the invasion An accord of this nature might also have forestalled French support from their erstwhile British allies. The German plan to invade America before World War I Nearly two decades before the onset of World War I, Kaiser Wilhelm II set his imperialistic sights on the Americas. While it might have struggled to do this over the long term, the RN still had a sufficient margin of superiority over the USN to make a game of it.For its part, the Royal Navy had at its disposal nine dreadnoughts, twenty-three super-dreadnoughts and nine battle cruisers. ""It gives an indication of what might have happened if the Battle of Britain had gone the other way," he said.After the shock troops had captured the docks at Dover, the plan was for the main contingent of German troops to be brought over in barges and disembark at the docks.
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The shaky interwar period almost led the U.S. to push north.The end of a war only rarely settles the central questions that started the conflict. These are external links and will open in a new window Plan of battle of Operation Sealion, the cancelled German plan to invade England in 1940 (Wereon, public domain) Germany's 600,000 troops take the beaches and push through the under-supplied defenders south of London. Washington and London bitterly disagreed on the nature of the settlements in Europe and Asia, as well as the shape of the postwar naval balance. While the RN might have considered a sortie against Boston, Long Island or other northern coastal regions, most of its operations would have concentrated on supporting British and Canadian ground forces in the Maritimes.Both the United States and the United Kingdom expected Japan to join any conflict on the British side.