Alright, the core premise of Red Alert is that the war against Germany never happened and that the Soviet Union fought the Western allies instead. But it seems that the war against Japan did happen. Both campaigns have missions in Hawaii. In these, you can see the Arizona memorial in the harbor. This ship was destroyed during the attack on Pearl Harbor. A Soviet mission also includes the Iwa Jima Memorial.
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Umm... Soviet Union declared war on Japan like a week before Nagasaki/Hiroshima. In fact, the Soviet declaration was what finally convinced Truman to use nukes.
Pacific War would've happened with or without Nazi Germany (or Soviet Union). The main issue was Japanese expansion in Southeast Asia/Chinese Mainland.
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There are actually several books (including one by Newt Gingrich) that show how the Pacific War was entirely separate from the European War. It was actually the Germans that declared war on the United States after the Japanese attack (honoring an alliance for once, but no one knows why?!). The Japanese would still have attacked Pearl Harbor, but the war would have been shorter had it been the only one the U.S. had to concentrate on. Probably Mid-1944, at the latest, Japan would have gone down. I don't remember the Iwo Jima monument in the Soviet campaign, however, and I think Iwo would have been earlier and far less bloody with complete American attention on the Pacific Theatre.
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