US mainland invasion in WWII - was there ever a chance?

No. Under no plausible conditions, including beating us to the punch in the development of atomic weapons.

Those oceans on each side of us are a big deterrent.

What if Japan or Germany got Nuclear weapons first?

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Wrong. Europe has the eu and white genocide now

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Exactly... thank god killary didn’t get a chance to finish what obummer started

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Well, how do you figure that? In order for the United States to have been absorbed into another culture and language, there would have needed to be an invasion and takeover. Was there ever a legitimate chance Germany or Japan would have successfully invaded the United States and established their totalitarian rule here? Of the two, I find the idea of Japan doing it more plausible. But let’s entertain the hypothetical notion the United States didn’t intervene in Europe. Is it really true to a successful German invasion would have occurred and led to German being primary language in North America?

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No, and neither state sought that. Hitler made a speech in the Reichstag effectively cracking a joke about how absurd the American propaganda was about Germany wanting to invade the Western Hemisphere. He suggested that even if Germany somehow wanted to do it it was completely outside the reality of their capabilities.

Neither Japan or Germany wanted war with the United States. The fact is that the FDR administration viewed U.S. intervention in both theaters to be in American national interests. The Japanese hoped, naively, that Pearl Harbor would set the Americans back far enough for them to achieve all their goals in the Pacific and that the United States would ultimately concede the issue of Japanese expansion. Prior to WWI and WWII, wars often ended in settlement after decisive battles and the Japanese failed to comprehend that the United States was not just going to go away after being sneak attacked, even if all their objectives in the Pacific had been achieved. Wars were now being fought to complete victory or defeat in the new age of warfare.

I don't think there was ever a real shot during WWII minus Germany getting multiple atomic weapons. Now could it have happened years later if Japan and Germany controlled the rest of the world and completely isolated the USA and wore us down through attrition, then yes.

No, plain and simple.

Germany and the Axis powers did not have near the naval and marine fleet to pull off a cross-oceanic invasion.

Hell, they couldn’t even pull off invading Britain!

The Germans would have had to build an airbase in Greenland. They learned the hard way that invading Russia in the winter was a bad idea. I imagine building an airbase in Greenland would have similar results, for half the year at least.

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Of the two, I find the idea of Japan doing it more plausible.

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at the time of WWII, had they had the ability to force project, I think the Japs would have made it to Chicago before encountering any real resistance, militarily. There are something like two or three choke points to cut off the entirety of the Western US so to think thats possible isnt all that far off.

That being said, the force projection is the biggest bit of the equation. Im not sure how they land enough troops. Even if they did it by surprise, we would still find out and then its Wolverines time. No telling what the local mountain boys would have done.

The other thing is they would have had to occupy us. Occupying involves going to sleep at some point. Our special forces these days do their best work when the other guys are sleeping. its the first thing the retired ones would look to plan if shite ever goes sideways here with our own government. And when i say sleeping, i mean like when certain people think the government having tanks and nukes would keep us mollified. Yeah, those tanks and planes need gas and upkeep. Good luck keeping motivated locals out of your airfields and supply depots all the time.