A disclaimer first: what I am about to propose is completely unrealistic, and I am aware of that. So please don't just give me 500 comments saying "this is unrealistic". What I want is for you to give me the reasons why it's unrealistic, so I can make it more realistic. Stuff like numbers of troops, or dates at which tech is introduced, or explanations of the political/economical situations at the time, etc.
The main point of this initial post is to outline roughly where I want this to go, before then diving into it in a lot more depth once the initial premise is proven workable (or redesigning the premise if it is not workable). That's why this initial post is a page long, rather than 50 pages long.
Anyway, here's the TL that I've come up with so far.
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The POD is around 1905. The Japanese navy in OTL was looking for an excuse to expand. The Mahanian doctrine of Satō Tetsutarō argued that to ensure security, Japan should have a navy capable of defeating the power which represented the greatest hypothetical threat. In the 1907 Imperial National Defense Policy, Japan's military focus shifted away from Russia and towards the United States, who now became the primary hypothetical threat to Japan's future security.
In 1907 there was no clash of interests between Japan and the US, nor was there any indication ether government desired confrontation. As such, the Imperial Defense Policy of 1907 promoted Japan's big-navy ideology in complete disregard of the realities of Japanese foreign policy.
ITL, that shift of military focus never happened, and Japan's navy was kept relatively small. Greater involvement in WWI gave them better relations with the Allies, and the shift towards extreme imperialism in the 20s and 30s got butterflied away. Instead of invading Manchuria, Japan sought to get the resources she needed from heightened trade with the US and pursued diplomatic talks with the Chinese to prevent future conflicts.
In Europe, and the rest of the world in general, everything progressed more or less as OTL. There was, however, a notable decrease in racism against the Japanese by the 1920s. In any case, the rise of Nazi Germany progressed, and she invaded Poland along with the Soviet Union in 1939. By 1941, they had captured France and the Battle of Britain ended in Germany's favor. Halifax became prime minister in 1940, and in late-1941 pursued a peace deal with Germany that effectively removed Britain from the war.
With Britain out of the picture, Germany turned her attention east. Operation Barbarossa was launched in early-1941, by the start of 1942 the Germans had advanced beyond Moscow, and they had pushed the Soviets back to the Ural Mountains by the end of 1942. Despite this success, the operation was in total a net loss for Germany, as the amount of resources and manpower needed to hold the territory she gained in Russia was considerably higher than expected. The rest of the Soviet Union, all the way to the Far East, would not be captured until mid-1944.
Meanwhile, the US had been gearing up for war. Although ITL Pearl Harbor never happened, thanks to much better US-Japan relations, the US was still considering entering the war and built up her forces as a result, although not at the same rate as OTL. At the same time, Britain had also been expanding her military forces, and in mid-1944 these were put to the test when the Germans launched operation Sealion.
The Germans launched the operation for a number of reasons. The main one, however, was to remove Britain as a starting point for a possible Allied invasion of Germany. To facilitate the operation Germany had been working on a number of so-called Wunderwaffe. The most important of these were jet-powered aircraft, like the Go 229 or Me 262 (which had just replaced the He 280 in service), and radio-controlled glide bombs and rockets, which allowed the Luftwaffe to destroy the RAF and sink the majority of the Royal Navy before the invasion started. Even before the first troops landed, the Luftwaffe was attacking British defensive positions and limiting their ability to counterattack.
In the end, a combination of Germany's technological advantage and a large number of Nazi supporters in Britain hampering any efforts to launch counterattacks lead to the invasion being a success. Britain officially surrendered in late 1944, and the remainder of their navy fled to the US or Canada (including the battlecruiser Hood).
The next phase of the war would be influenced by what could be the most important piece of espionage work in history. In late 1943 German spies in America unveiled a secret program the US was working on, Project Manhattan. The German's war plans were changed by this in many ways. While the US was currently neutral, there was no guarantee that they would stay that way forever. At first, they were not worried too much, believing that an American bomber could not penetrate their air defenses to deliver such a weapon. However, research being done by Von Braun quickly made them realize that may not always be the case. At this point, Germany had two options;
They could start their own project (which they were going to do regardless) and hope that they developed a viable delivery system for it first, allowing them to launch a nuclear attack against America without being retaliated against. However, while their spies had been able to penetrate the security around the Manhattan Project, they had not been able to do so for the US's rocketry program. As such, this option was seen as a 50/50 shot at best.
The second option was to try and delay the US's nuclear program. Initial attempts to do this via espionage failed spectacularly, with almost their entire US spy network being dismantled. This lead Germany to conclude that the only way to proceed was to try and destroy the US's nuclear program by force, and start a conventional war with the US in the process.
At first, the war plan to achieve this focused on using their better technology to achieve air superiority over the US and then launch long-range bombing strikes on Manhattan Project facilities while destroying their navy at sea and preventing the US from tying to launch an invasion through Alaska long enough to develop their own nuclear weapons. However, by early 1944 Adolf Hitler's mental situation was starting to decline, and he instead pushed for a full-scale invasion of the United States, citing the fact that strategic bombing might not succeed if the US moved her efforts underground, and that for this operation they needed a guarantee of success.
As a result, in early-1944 Germany started gearing up for war, not only with Britain but with the US as well. By late 1944 conscription levels had reached 75% of the male population and were still increasing, and at the start of the invasion of the US, Germany had an estimated 40 million men in her armed forces, of which around 25 million actively took part in the invasion, while the rest were placed around Germany's occupied territories to prevent a revolt.
The German invasion of America was given the codename Operation Oberherr in mid-1944 and was based on a series of sub-operations that would be carried out beforehand. The first of these consisted of securing Russian Far East to the point that an invasion could be carried out through Alaska without Soviet Resistance threatening it. The second was building a rail system that allowed the invasion forces and materials to cross Russia quickly. The third was the construction of a series of airbases, also in the Far East, to allow the Luftwaffe to sink any US ships that threatened the invading forces as they crossed the Bering Strait, and the fourth was to build up a very large number of troops in the Far East, ready to launch the invasion when the time comes.
The first of these operations would not be fully completed until just a few months before the invasion started, but the rest of them proceeded smoothly and the preparations were complete by November. The US had no way of performing reconnaissance over Siberia, and with their spy networks in Germany compromised they didn't realize the invasion was being prepared for until it actually started.
On December 7th, 1944, Operation Oberherr was launched. The Luftwaffe operating out of the Russian Far East wrecked US installations in Alaska, and 24 million German troops started being ferried across the Bering Strait. By January 1st, 1945, Alaska had fallen and the Germans had pushed 600 kilometers into Canada, and by the end of January, they had reached the US border.
However, Operation Oberherr did not just consist of a series of invasions staged through Alaska. In addition to those, it also consisted of amphibious landings in New York and Delaware, launched from Nazi-occupied Greenland with the goal of capturing Washington DC. In order to facilitate this the Kriegsmarine was expanded greatly, and by the start of the operation, they had 8 Graf Zeppelin-Class aircraft carriers (not the same ones as OTL, but ones that were actually good), as well as a very large supporting fleet of destroyers.
This fleet is generally considered to be the first truly modern fleet in history, relying mainly on aircraft carriers for its striking power and destroyers to protect from submarines, although it should be noted that the fleet also had amongst its ranks 2 Bismarck-class battleships, albeit refitted with a substantial number of primitive but still deadly radar-guided rocket missiles. The aircraft carried by the carriers were jet-powered Me 262, and they were outfitted with radio-controlled glide bombs for anti-ship work and a combination of dumb-fire rockets and bombs for anti-ground and close air support work.
The fleet, including both the strike force of carriers, battleships, and destroyers and the invasion fleet of amphibious assault ships, set out from Greenland towards the US east coast on December 7th along with the rest of Operation Oberherr. This was noted right away by US Naval Command, and the entire US ATLFLT and the remnants of the RN in Canada were immediately mobilized to intercept it. ITL without the pacific war the Atlantic fleet was the US's primary naval force, with 8 aircraft carriers, 12 battleships, and a huge supporting force of cruisers and destroyers. The RN added 2 aircraft carriers, 2 battleships, and a battlecruiser to that.
Meanwhile, US PACFLT and the Imperial Japanese Navy were notified of the invasion force crossing the Bering Strait, and they also mobilized to intercept them. The ensuing naval battles are generally considered to be the greatest in history.
The US ATLFLT and RN reached their targets first. On December 8, after steaming at war emergency power for almost an entire day, the American and British ships met their German counterparts. The initial attacks occurred in the air, with the superior German planes causing remarkably disproportionate casualties amongst the Allies. 7 Allied aircraft carriers and 10 battleships were lost to German air attacks before the Allied forces managed to get into gun range of the enemy ships.
However, once that point was reached the advantage firmly turned towards the Allies. The US still had 3 battleships left, and the RN had 1 battleship and a battlecruiser. The 2 German battleships put up an admirable fight but ultimately were defeated. However, the German battleships did succeed in drawing the Allied forces away from the amphibious assault fleet, and around half of the invasion, forces were able to reach the US east coast intact, although they were forced to divert to New Jersey.
On the other side of the Americas, the US PACFLT and the IJN intercepted the German invasion convoys at the Bering Strait on December 12th. The total number of ships was; 8 US battleships, 4 IJN battleships, 6 US carriers, 4 IJN carriers, and around 100 smaller vessels. Thanks to airbases in the Far East, however, the Germans were able to launch ground-based jet aircraft against the Allied ships. 7 battleships and 8 carriers were sunk before reaching the convoys, and the remaining ships were sunk or driven off before they could sink more than around 200 troopships. Nevertheless, this significantly damaged the German invasion plans and increased the amount of time it took for them to regroup in Alaska.
Upon landing in New Jersey, the quarter-million German troops were able to march inland and start securing positions. A significant amount of the US Army was diverted to New Jersey to stop the German forces from reaching Washington DC, and although they were eventually successful, it cost around a million Allied casualties thanks mainly to the effectiveness of German close air support.
The German invasion forces breaking through from Canada fared better. They prioritized taking the west coast, and by the end of April, they had advanced into California. By this point, the Germans had lost around 5 million troops, and the Americans had lost 7 million. On May 9th the German forces made a final advance towards San Fransisco and captured the city on May 25th. At this point they stopped advancing south and started moving east, capturing Las Vegas in June and pushing into Wyoming and Colorado by the end of July. By now the German troops numbered around 12 million, and more than 8 million of them were occupied trying to suppress resistance fighters in occupied territory.
On August 4th German forces started advancing on Denver, before suddenly being stopped in their tracks by the first nuclear detonation in history. Despite the German's best efforts at bombing its facilities, the Manhattan Project had progressed and on August 2nd a nuclear mine was placed 20 kilometers west of Denver and detonated 2 days later. The failed attack on Denver would prove to be the furthest the German forces would advance during WWII, and following that they started being pushed back on all fronts.
By September massive Allied counterattacks had forced the Germans back to the west coast, and in late October San Fransisco was liberated. The Germans were completely repelled from North America by January of 1946, almost exactly 1 year after Operation Oberherr was launched, thanks in no small part to freedom fighting movements in occupied territory that the Germans, now lacking manpower, were unable to suppress.
On the 21st of January, 1946, the Allies crossed the Bearing Strait and landed troops in the Russian Far East. Over the next 9 months, they would proceed to push the Germans back beyond the borders of pre-war Russia. However, thanks to the superior speed and armament of the aircraft used by the Luftwaffe, the use of nuclear weapons deployed by strategic bombers could never be realized. Instead, the Allies started developing long-range rockets based on mobile IRBM launchers they had found while liberating the US and Russia. By November 1946 the first prototypes were ready, and they were deployed to the frontlines in Russia. Over the course of November and December, 17 nuclear weapons were used, mainly against German troop concentrations, and on the 15th of December, a final nuclear weapon mounted atop an IRBM and fired at Berlin. Adolf Hitler was killed in the detonation, and the German Reich officially surrendered to the Allies on December 25th, 10 days later.
In the aftermath of the war, the United States occupied Russia and Europe, helping rebuild the pre-war nations there. The United States of Russia was created, and the original government was restored in Britain. Japan, who had assisted with the invasion of Nazi-occupied Russia, was allowed to keep a significant portion of the territories there. In China, the Republic won out, with the Communist government being exiled to Taiwan. By the 1950s, all of the major nations in the world were either a democracy or a constitutional monarchy, with no major authoritarian nations (like the OTL USSR or CCP) surviving.
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So to sum it up, Japan never gets ultra-crazy and joins the Allies, Britain gets Halifax instead of Churchill and signs a peace deal in 1941, the US stays neutral (but still does lend-lease) and the Germans defeat the USSR. Then they turn back to the UK, and with a combination of having the Luftwaffe sink the RN and a crap-ton of nazi sympathizers all over the place in Britain they pull off a successful Sealion (that's the second most unrealistic thing here, btw).
Then they find out about the Manhattan project and conclude the best way to stop it in time is to invade the US through Alaska. They manage to make it to San Fransisco and Denver before the US gets itself together and repels them, pushing them back through Russia and eventually nuking Berlin.
That's the basic premise. I am well aware that it's probably not possible, but unfortunately, I lack the knowledge needed to figure out exactly what to change to make it more realistic. So, I'm hoping you guys can help with that. Any thoughts?
The main point of this initial post is to outline roughly where I want this to go, before then diving into it in a lot more depth once the initial premise is proven workable (or redesigning the premise if it is not workable). That's why this initial post is a page long, rather than 50 pages long.
Anyway, here's the TL that I've come up with so far.
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The POD is around 1905. The Japanese navy in OTL was looking for an excuse to expand. The Mahanian doctrine of Satō Tetsutarō argued that to ensure security, Japan should have a navy capable of defeating the power which represented the greatest hypothetical threat. In the 1907 Imperial National Defense Policy, Japan's military focus shifted away from Russia and towards the United States, who now became the primary hypothetical threat to Japan's future security.
In 1907 there was no clash of interests between Japan and the US, nor was there any indication ether government desired confrontation. As such, the Imperial Defense Policy of 1907 promoted Japan's big-navy ideology in complete disregard of the realities of Japanese foreign policy.
ITL, that shift of military focus never happened, and Japan's navy was kept relatively small. Greater involvement in WWI gave them better relations with the Allies, and the shift towards extreme imperialism in the 20s and 30s got butterflied away. Instead of invading Manchuria, Japan sought to get the resources she needed from heightened trade with the US and pursued diplomatic talks with the Chinese to prevent future conflicts.
In Europe, and the rest of the world in general, everything progressed more or less as OTL. There was, however, a notable decrease in racism against the Japanese by the 1920s. In any case, the rise of Nazi Germany progressed, and she invaded Poland along with the Soviet Union in 1939. By 1941, they had captured France and the Battle of Britain ended in Germany's favor. Halifax became prime minister in 1940, and in late-1941 pursued a peace deal with Germany that effectively removed Britain from the war.
With Britain out of the picture, Germany turned her attention east. Operation Barbarossa was launched in early-1941, by the start of 1942 the Germans had advanced beyond Moscow, and they had pushed the Soviets back to the Ural Mountains by the end of 1942. Despite this success, the operation was in total a net loss for Germany, as the amount of resources and manpower needed to hold the territory she gained in Russia was considerably higher than expected. The rest of the Soviet Union, all the way to the Far East, would not be captured until mid-1944.
Meanwhile, the US had been gearing up for war. Although ITL Pearl Harbor never happened, thanks to much better US-Japan relations, the US was still considering entering the war and built up her forces as a result, although not at the same rate as OTL. At the same time, Britain had also been expanding her military forces, and in mid-1944 these were put to the test when the Germans launched operation Sealion.
The Germans launched the operation for a number of reasons. The main one, however, was to remove Britain as a starting point for a possible Allied invasion of Germany. To facilitate the operation Germany had been working on a number of so-called Wunderwaffe. The most important of these were jet-powered aircraft, like the Go 229 or Me 262 (which had just replaced the He 280 in service), and radio-controlled glide bombs and rockets, which allowed the Luftwaffe to destroy the RAF and sink the majority of the Royal Navy before the invasion started. Even before the first troops landed, the Luftwaffe was attacking British defensive positions and limiting their ability to counterattack.
In the end, a combination of Germany's technological advantage and a large number of Nazi supporters in Britain hampering any efforts to launch counterattacks lead to the invasion being a success. Britain officially surrendered in late 1944, and the remainder of their navy fled to the US or Canada (including the battlecruiser Hood).
The next phase of the war would be influenced by what could be the most important piece of espionage work in history. In late 1943 German spies in America unveiled a secret program the US was working on, Project Manhattan. The German's war plans were changed by this in many ways. While the US was currently neutral, there was no guarantee that they would stay that way forever. At first, they were not worried too much, believing that an American bomber could not penetrate their air defenses to deliver such a weapon. However, research being done by Von Braun quickly made them realize that may not always be the case. At this point, Germany had two options;
They could start their own project (which they were going to do regardless) and hope that they developed a viable delivery system for it first, allowing them to launch a nuclear attack against America without being retaliated against. However, while their spies had been able to penetrate the security around the Manhattan Project, they had not been able to do so for the US's rocketry program. As such, this option was seen as a 50/50 shot at best.
The second option was to try and delay the US's nuclear program. Initial attempts to do this via espionage failed spectacularly, with almost their entire US spy network being dismantled. This lead Germany to conclude that the only way to proceed was to try and destroy the US's nuclear program by force, and start a conventional war with the US in the process.
At first, the war plan to achieve this focused on using their better technology to achieve air superiority over the US and then launch long-range bombing strikes on Manhattan Project facilities while destroying their navy at sea and preventing the US from tying to launch an invasion through Alaska long enough to develop their own nuclear weapons. However, by early 1944 Adolf Hitler's mental situation was starting to decline, and he instead pushed for a full-scale invasion of the United States, citing the fact that strategic bombing might not succeed if the US moved her efforts underground, and that for this operation they needed a guarantee of success.
As a result, in early-1944 Germany started gearing up for war, not only with Britain but with the US as well. By late 1944 conscription levels had reached 75% of the male population and were still increasing, and at the start of the invasion of the US, Germany had an estimated 40 million men in her armed forces, of which around 25 million actively took part in the invasion, while the rest were placed around Germany's occupied territories to prevent a revolt.
The German invasion of America was given the codename Operation Oberherr in mid-1944 and was based on a series of sub-operations that would be carried out beforehand. The first of these consisted of securing Russian Far East to the point that an invasion could be carried out through Alaska without Soviet Resistance threatening it. The second was building a rail system that allowed the invasion forces and materials to cross Russia quickly. The third was the construction of a series of airbases, also in the Far East, to allow the Luftwaffe to sink any US ships that threatened the invading forces as they crossed the Bering Strait, and the fourth was to build up a very large number of troops in the Far East, ready to launch the invasion when the time comes.
The first of these operations would not be fully completed until just a few months before the invasion started, but the rest of them proceeded smoothly and the preparations were complete by November. The US had no way of performing reconnaissance over Siberia, and with their spy networks in Germany compromised they didn't realize the invasion was being prepared for until it actually started.
On December 7th, 1944, Operation Oberherr was launched. The Luftwaffe operating out of the Russian Far East wrecked US installations in Alaska, and 24 million German troops started being ferried across the Bering Strait. By January 1st, 1945, Alaska had fallen and the Germans had pushed 600 kilometers into Canada, and by the end of January, they had reached the US border.
However, Operation Oberherr did not just consist of a series of invasions staged through Alaska. In addition to those, it also consisted of amphibious landings in New York and Delaware, launched from Nazi-occupied Greenland with the goal of capturing Washington DC. In order to facilitate this the Kriegsmarine was expanded greatly, and by the start of the operation, they had 8 Graf Zeppelin-Class aircraft carriers (not the same ones as OTL, but ones that were actually good), as well as a very large supporting fleet of destroyers.
This fleet is generally considered to be the first truly modern fleet in history, relying mainly on aircraft carriers for its striking power and destroyers to protect from submarines, although it should be noted that the fleet also had amongst its ranks 2 Bismarck-class battleships, albeit refitted with a substantial number of primitive but still deadly radar-guided rocket missiles. The aircraft carried by the carriers were jet-powered Me 262, and they were outfitted with radio-controlled glide bombs for anti-ship work and a combination of dumb-fire rockets and bombs for anti-ground and close air support work.
The fleet, including both the strike force of carriers, battleships, and destroyers and the invasion fleet of amphibious assault ships, set out from Greenland towards the US east coast on December 7th along with the rest of Operation Oberherr. This was noted right away by US Naval Command, and the entire US ATLFLT and the remnants of the RN in Canada were immediately mobilized to intercept it. ITL without the pacific war the Atlantic fleet was the US's primary naval force, with 8 aircraft carriers, 12 battleships, and a huge supporting force of cruisers and destroyers. The RN added 2 aircraft carriers, 2 battleships, and a battlecruiser to that.
Meanwhile, US PACFLT and the Imperial Japanese Navy were notified of the invasion force crossing the Bering Strait, and they also mobilized to intercept them. The ensuing naval battles are generally considered to be the greatest in history.
The US ATLFLT and RN reached their targets first. On December 8, after steaming at war emergency power for almost an entire day, the American and British ships met their German counterparts. The initial attacks occurred in the air, with the superior German planes causing remarkably disproportionate casualties amongst the Allies. 7 Allied aircraft carriers and 10 battleships were lost to German air attacks before the Allied forces managed to get into gun range of the enemy ships.
However, once that point was reached the advantage firmly turned towards the Allies. The US still had 3 battleships left, and the RN had 1 battleship and a battlecruiser. The 2 German battleships put up an admirable fight but ultimately were defeated. However, the German battleships did succeed in drawing the Allied forces away from the amphibious assault fleet, and around half of the invasion, forces were able to reach the US east coast intact, although they were forced to divert to New Jersey.
On the other side of the Americas, the US PACFLT and the IJN intercepted the German invasion convoys at the Bering Strait on December 12th. The total number of ships was; 8 US battleships, 4 IJN battleships, 6 US carriers, 4 IJN carriers, and around 100 smaller vessels. Thanks to airbases in the Far East, however, the Germans were able to launch ground-based jet aircraft against the Allied ships. 7 battleships and 8 carriers were sunk before reaching the convoys, and the remaining ships were sunk or driven off before they could sink more than around 200 troopships. Nevertheless, this significantly damaged the German invasion plans and increased the amount of time it took for them to regroup in Alaska.
Upon landing in New Jersey, the quarter-million German troops were able to march inland and start securing positions. A significant amount of the US Army was diverted to New Jersey to stop the German forces from reaching Washington DC, and although they were eventually successful, it cost around a million Allied casualties thanks mainly to the effectiveness of German close air support.
The German invasion forces breaking through from Canada fared better. They prioritized taking the west coast, and by the end of April, they had advanced into California. By this point, the Germans had lost around 5 million troops, and the Americans had lost 7 million. On May 9th the German forces made a final advance towards San Fransisco and captured the city on May 25th. At this point they stopped advancing south and started moving east, capturing Las Vegas in June and pushing into Wyoming and Colorado by the end of July. By now the German troops numbered around 12 million, and more than 8 million of them were occupied trying to suppress resistance fighters in occupied territory.
On August 4th German forces started advancing on Denver, before suddenly being stopped in their tracks by the first nuclear detonation in history. Despite the German's best efforts at bombing its facilities, the Manhattan Project had progressed and on August 2nd a nuclear mine was placed 20 kilometers west of Denver and detonated 2 days later. The failed attack on Denver would prove to be the furthest the German forces would advance during WWII, and following that they started being pushed back on all fronts.
By September massive Allied counterattacks had forced the Germans back to the west coast, and in late October San Fransisco was liberated. The Germans were completely repelled from North America by January of 1946, almost exactly 1 year after Operation Oberherr was launched, thanks in no small part to freedom fighting movements in occupied territory that the Germans, now lacking manpower, were unable to suppress.
On the 21st of January, 1946, the Allies crossed the Bearing Strait and landed troops in the Russian Far East. Over the next 9 months, they would proceed to push the Germans back beyond the borders of pre-war Russia. However, thanks to the superior speed and armament of the aircraft used by the Luftwaffe, the use of nuclear weapons deployed by strategic bombers could never be realized. Instead, the Allies started developing long-range rockets based on mobile IRBM launchers they had found while liberating the US and Russia. By November 1946 the first prototypes were ready, and they were deployed to the frontlines in Russia. Over the course of November and December, 17 nuclear weapons were used, mainly against German troop concentrations, and on the 15th of December, a final nuclear weapon mounted atop an IRBM and fired at Berlin. Adolf Hitler was killed in the detonation, and the German Reich officially surrendered to the Allies on December 25th, 10 days later.
In the aftermath of the war, the United States occupied Russia and Europe, helping rebuild the pre-war nations there. The United States of Russia was created, and the original government was restored in Britain. Japan, who had assisted with the invasion of Nazi-occupied Russia, was allowed to keep a significant portion of the territories there. In China, the Republic won out, with the Communist government being exiled to Taiwan. By the 1950s, all of the major nations in the world were either a democracy or a constitutional monarchy, with no major authoritarian nations (like the OTL USSR or CCP) surviving.
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So to sum it up, Japan never gets ultra-crazy and joins the Allies, Britain gets Halifax instead of Churchill and signs a peace deal in 1941, the US stays neutral (but still does lend-lease) and the Germans defeat the USSR. Then they turn back to the UK, and with a combination of having the Luftwaffe sink the RN and a crap-ton of nazi sympathizers all over the place in Britain they pull off a successful Sealion (that's the second most unrealistic thing here, btw).
Then they find out about the Manhattan project and conclude the best way to stop it in time is to invade the US through Alaska. They manage to make it to San Fransisco and Denver before the US gets itself together and repels them, pushing them back through Russia and eventually nuking Berlin.
That's the basic premise. I am well aware that it's probably not possible, but unfortunately, I lack the knowledge needed to figure out exactly what to change to make it more realistic. So, I'm hoping you guys can help with that. Any thoughts?
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). Seeing as you mentioned Barbarossa, I'm going to recommend the book Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East by David Stahel - it goes through the first couple of months of the war in the East, detailing just about every problem the German High Command faced, and in short why they were lucky to get as far as they did. (also Strange Victory by Ernest R May if you're interested in something similar about the 1938-40 period).