My gut feeling was that the mistake that the German's made in changing thier bombing tactics over England to Civilian terror bombing campaigns, combined with the invasion of the Soviet Union and Hitler's unhealthy obsession with Stalingrad had doomed the German's. However, it would have been a different D-Day invasion with the Allies splitting into smaller beach heads. Hitler would have dug in on the Western front and sent the majority of his armor to the east as the American's army at the time was armor intensive. We would have seen a long drawn out version of WW1 trench war fare in the East and the West and probably an additional 5 years worth of war.
In the Pacific, without the American's there just weren't alot of allied assets to slow the Japanese down, and if the American's hadn't entered the war, the Allies would have been too worn down to confront the Japanese in any kind of land conflict. Combine that with the hideously long supply lines that they would have needed and its likely that the Japanese would have won major concessions in any kind of peace process, and would have kept some of thier Chinese conquests. They would have likely been stopped by the Australian's but that would have left the Aussies fairly isolated from the rest of the war.
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