Hi All,
There are a plethora of choices a person can make in a
lifetime and many different ‘what if’s’ of history. If you could visit these
different timelines, what would you do? That’s the universal question and it is
one that only a handful of species can actually answer.
This is just one of an infinite possible worlds where one
simple divergence changes… everything.
In this scenario we go to 1944. It is the height of the
Second World War and we need to look not at the battlefronts or the rantings of
a genocidal madman, but the politics of America, specifically the ruling Democratic
Party. As in our universe Roosevelt was President, but he was dying. Therefore
whoever was or whoever became his Vice- President was a pitchfork in the
historical road. For those who don’t know at the Democratic Convention of that
election year, the party’s conservative wing succeeded in nominating Harry S Truman
of Missouri for Vice President, in effect unseating incumbent- and ‘liberal’
(in American terms left wing) - Vice President Henry A Wallace. Truman would of
course go on to become POTUS in April 1945, eventually overseeing the Marshall
Plan, The Cold War ‘Truman Doctrine’, the Korean War and most controversially, the dropping of the Atomic bombs on Japan. But
what if Wallace had continued to be Vice President and succeeded Roosevelt and
not Truman?
Let's find out.
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