Dipping back into the 40s but only because I think it's really interesting—What if Henry A. Wallace had stayed FDR's vice president in 1945 instead of Truman? Dem party elites conspired in Truman's favor at the convention as Wallace was considered too far left and too friendly towards the USSR.
The Truman Doctrine and other foundations of the cold war and US Anti-communism evaporate. Would there even be a cold war? Probably, but a minimum of 4 more years of non-adversarial relations with the USSR might have set things on a better track.
Also, Japan almost certainly doesn't get nuked which is nice.
Dipping back into the 40s but only because I think it's really interesting—What if Henry A. Wallace had stayed FDR's vice president in 1945 instead of Truman? Dem party elites conspired in Truman's favor at the convention as Wallace was considered too far left and too friendly towards the USSR.
The Truman Doctrine and other foundations of the cold war and US Anti-communism evaporate. Would there even be a cold war? Probably, but a minimum of 4 more years of non-adversarial relations with the USSR might have set things on a better track.
Also, Japan almost certainly doesn't get nuked which is nice.