Imperial Japan expanded the Japanese colonial empire with occupations of Eastern Asia and of Oceania, and invaded the West Coast of the United States while Nazi Germany invaded the East Coast of the United States the surrender of the Allies ended the Second World War in 1947.īy the 1960s, Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany are the superpowers of the world, yet are fighting a geopolitical cold war between themselves, over their respective territorial occupations of the former US in North America. The Axis Powers jointly conquered Africa. Therefore, US inaction facilitated Nazi Germany’s conquest and annexation of continental Europe and the Soviet Union into the Greater Germanic Reich, which then facilitated the Holocaust exterminations of the Jews, the Romani people, the Slavs, homosexuals, and all other peoples whom the Nazis considered subhuman. Roosevelt, in 1933, allowed the continuation of the Great Depression and the continuation of the policies of United States non-interventionism at the start of the Second World War in 1939. The story of The Man in the High Castle is an alternative US history wherein Giuseppe Zangara’s assassination of President Franklin D.