What are these OTL Cold War figures doing ITTL? To list some:
--Konrad Adenauer
--Chiang Kai-Shek--The 2nd Sino-Japanese war occurs just as IOTL, but never appears in your posts during the 4th Pacific War.
--Clement Attlee--IMO most likely to be PM after GWII and oversee rebuilding of Britain as well as implementing social programs.
--Leonid Brezhnev
--Charles De Gaulle--Most likely never becomes a politician, so what's his life like post-war?
--Fidel Castro--Does make an appearance as a teenage partisan in the books. Does he ever become a prominent politician representing Cuba?
--Allen/John Foster Dulles
--Francisco Franco--He's not the dictator at the time of Spain's return to democracy. What becomes of him after the Spanish Civil War? Assuming he lives. Is José Antonio Primo de Rivera the one who became dictator and was later succeeded by Ximeno Domínguez?
--Ho Chi Minh--He's never mentioned during the 4th Pacific War so what's his fate in Japanese Indochina?
--J. Edgar Hoover
--Lyndon B. Johnson--Is he President of Texas?
--John F. Kennedy and the rest of the Kennedy Family--Though he's not president ITTL, is he and any of his family members prominent politicians or hold Cabinet positions at most?
--Mao Zedong--1st Chinese Civil War may still occur and a 2nd United Front may still be made by the time war with Japan happens. Communism might still have some following in China ITTL. Another thing for Filling the Gaps as well.
--François Mitterrand
--Imre Nagy
--Juan Perón--Assuming the 1930 coup and the Infamous Decade still occurs in Argentina, is he the strongman President he is IOTL and allows Freedomites and other Actionsits to seek refuge?
--Ronald Reagan
--Suharto
--Sukarno
--Josip Broz Tito--Would've ended up fighting for the Bolsheviks as IOTL after spending time as a POW but with the Whites and CP winning, that's bound to be different. More a question for Filling the Gaps but his life would wind up being different before and after GW2.
Don't have to answer it all at once but section by section.
In spite of the ambitions of Joseph Kennedy Sr., none of his descendants had significant success in local Massachusetts politics, although several members of the Kennedy family did make into the state legislature during the late Twentieth Century. Politics in Massachusetts, well into the 1980s, was dominated by the powerful Socialist Party machine based in Boston; the Kennedys, a family of Democratic Party loyalists, did not prosper politically in this climate, or later in the 1980s, when a revitalized Republican Party successfully challenged the Boston Machine.
In 2021, the Kennedy family is still mostly centered in Massachusetts, and can be found working in several prominent local companies; several members of the family also found a place in academia, with one member of the family currently on the faculty of Harvard. However, no members of the current generation of Kennedys have an interest in a political career.
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Ronald Reagan had a long career as a sports broadcaster throughout the Midwest.
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John Edgar Hoover’s family did not stay in Washington, DC, given the proximity of the CSA. An analogue to Hoover was born, at a slightly different date, in Philadelphia. Hoover’s ATL counterpart was drafted during the FGW, served in the US Amy Quartermaster Corps, and then, after the war, went to work as a clerk for a shipping company. Hoover’s analogue never served in a law enforcement capacity.
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Allan Dulles and John Foster Dulles both served as officers in the US military during the FGW, with Allan Dulles serving in Sonora, Utah, and Sequoyah, and John Foster Dulles serving on the Roanoke Front. Following the FGW, both Dulles brothers began service with the Federal government; Allan Dulles served in the Justice Department, ultimately becoming the first head of the Bureau of Investigation. John Foster Dulles served in the Treasury Department, in its Bureau of Interstate Commerce. Both Dulles bothers survived the SGW, still in their respective positions, before retiring, within a year of each other, during the Truman Administration in the mid-1950s.
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Fidel Castro never went into local Cuban politics, though, like most residents in the new US state, he was a staunch supporter of the Socialist Party. Castro lived for most of the rest of his life in Havana, where he built up a not insubstantial fortune in managing casinos and luxury hotels.
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Lyndon Johnson’s participation in Texas politics was cut short by the Featherston dictatorship. Although not ultimately arrested by the regime, he found himself on a blacklist preventing him from gaining any meaningful employment with either the state government or major local companies. He was still in Texas when the state declared independence. After the war, he ran a successful import-export business.
Johnson was genuinely horrified when he learned of the Destruction, and of the atrocities committed on Texas soil. Alongside his day job, Johnson spent what time he could investigating just what had happened in his state during the Featherston years. Johnson did not enjoy a lot of support from the Texas authorities in this endeavor, given that his documentation directly contradicted the self-serving narrative that emerged in the state that claimed Texas was primarily a victim of Featherston. Johnson, aside from documenting Freedom Party atrocities in Texas, also documented evidence of extensive local collaboration with the Featherston regime.
Johnson also served as a local contact for Cassius Madison’s Remembrance Center, although this would not be publicized until well after Johnson’s death. Before he died, Johnson entrusted all of his private research on the Destruction and local collaboration in Texas with the Freedom Party to the Remembrance Center. Johnson’s research later became the basis for
Lone Star State, a three volume history of the Destruction and Freedom Party rule in Texas published (jointly) by the Remembrance Center and Yale University in 1979. This caused a diplomatic incident between the US and Texas, as the Republic of Texas attempted to stop the publication of this history. Evidence provided by Johnson’s research would also later result in several local Freedom Party war criminals from Texas being handed over to US authorities.
In 2021, Johnson has a memorial plaque of his own on the Remembrance Center’s Walk of Friendship, located in the extensive Memorial Garden surrounding the center itself.
