Right. From the USN perspective, War Plan Black (Germany), War Plan Red (United Kingdom), War Plan Gold (France), all envisioned some European world power attempting to seize bases in the Carribean, and from there, threatening the US East Coast. These plans actually saw expression in various US fleet exercises from 1900 to 1930.
Some US fleet exercises also involved defending the Panama Canal Zone from an attack by a foriegn power, usually “Orange” (the code name for Japan), although the seizure of the canal was assumed as intended to stop US reinforcements from going to the Pacific, and not a stepping stone to the continental USA.
These plans were probably more detailed than Germany or Japan actually came up with, although this last statement is, admittadly, more of an opinion than citable fact.
I think he was implying that if Canada was doing so well as to take a city on the southern border of the US, they might have gone for the whole shebang, or at least most of it.
Either that, or referring to NO’s previous status as a ‘party town’, though come on, would that really appeal to Canadians?
Of course, had we actually invaded during your country’s period of foolish flirtation with prohibition, we might have been greeted as liberators–beer- and rum- laden liberators.
There’s different kinds of plans. On one level there’s strategic planning; Hitler issued a written order in 1936 for the German government to be militarily and economically ready for a war with the Soviet Union within five years - a broad guideline but he did in fact invade the Soviet Union in 1941. However the specific operational plans for Operation Barbarossa weren’t written until the Autumn of 1940. Writing operational plans too far in advance is pointless because you can’t anticipate what circumstances will arise - for example, nobody in 1936 would have guessed that France was going to fall in just six weeks of fighting.
So Hitler had strategic plans for invading the United States and he did take some steps towards that goal. But Germany never got to the point where it could begin making operational plans for a North American invasion.
This is just completely implausible. The Brits were never at all enthusiastic about fighting the War of 1812. To suggest that winning one battle would have induced them to try to re-fight the Revolutionary War is just, well, silly.
In his second book Hitler outlines what his thinking is as far as America in the late 20’s. Now in this book he has in theory defeated France & Russia and the UK has become a sort of Robin to Germany’s Batman.
He foresees a U…S. supreme and the other pole to Germany in bi-polar world (so to speak). He describes a country populated by Aryans and other genetically pure folk but “controlled by Jews.” Although he gives the U.S. high marks and some sweet, sweet meglomaniacal racist love for practicing segregation, immigration and eugenics Hitler predicted that there had to be a throw down between the United States and the German-English European powerhouse probably around 1980. The war would be for control of the world.
“in the future, the only state that will be able to stand up to North America will be the state that has understood how–through the character of its internal life as well as through the substance of its external policy–to raise the racial value of its people and bring it into the most practical national form for this purpose” this is a “a* purely formal union of European people*s” quotes are from the book.
Is this a plan for an “Invasion”? Not necessarily. But he planned to start a U.S. vs. German War as clearly as he planned to earlier start a German vs. English-French-Russian-Other Eastern Slavic War.
Prohibition wasn’t foolish at all, from a Canadian POV - it was quite profitable. There was a massive liquor-smuggling volume from Canada (and that has something to with the origins of the Kennedy fortune). “Rumrunning” was the term you might have heard. Seagram’s, notably, grew to its dominant status in the whiskey industry by dint of its being so close to the border.
US railroads that ran close to the border, like the Great Northern, built some fancy resort lodges just over the line to cater to the US businessmen’s trade - a little fishing, a little hunting, a nice dinner, a few fifths, then a nice bedroom. Some of those places are still in business, too.
Albany? Meh. Burgoyne tried that once already. We could just haul the cannons from Boston right back to Fort Ticonderoga and stop that shit all over again.
Which was a total failure, because, contrary to plans, Grand Fenwick won the war against the United States. (Trust a team of archers led by Peter Sellers to get things wrong).
Japan did successfully drop at least 300 bombs on 16 states of the USA and on Canada and Mexico, in the form of incendiary bomb balloons that floated across the Pacific. They launched about 9,000 of them. THey started forest fires, mostly, but did little damage.