re: What would’ve happened if Britain had surrendered in WWII?

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does germany get the A-bomb first? and i think the answer to that is yes.

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I don't think so, we started the Manhattan project in 1939 and had better scientists and much more resources available. This scenario does not change that.

Does Japan even attack the US in this scenario? I think it's very questionable. Why would Hitler agree to declare war on the US if England isn't resisting and receiving massive help from the US? And without a German declaration of war is Japan foolhardy enough to go it alone? Because if they do we crush them in a few years. In WWII we put more effort into fighting the Germans than the Japanese. If we focused just on Japan then there isn't even a contest, though we'd need some time to build the fleet. Keep in mind that the city of Pittsburgh produced more steel than Germany and Japan combined.

Without England in it Germany has no problem taking the middle-east oil fields which is bad news. Russia probably goes down. It's not a certainty, though. What happens if Russia simply refuses to surrender and fights on in a gorilla war indefinitely?

Without Britain out I don't think there is war between the US and Germany, how would it even be fought?

China becomes interesting. If Russia is crushed does China go communist as the Japanese are forced to leave? Or does Chiang Kai Shek unify China? Either way China likely becomes a major player; and if Hitler has driven that far east then they could be big trouble for him.