The Baby Boomers - born between 1946 and 1964 - had a great influence on society, and still do today. But what if there was no increase in births in any country after the Second World War?
For argument's sake, let's just say that Einstein is in Germany when the Nazis rise to power, and thus dies in the Holocaust - delaying the Manhattan Project. Later on, when the atomic bomb is not ready, the United States carries out a massive invasion of the Japanese Home Islands - killing at least one million Americans in combat. By the time the war ends in 1947, millions of lives - many would-be parents of Baby Boomers - are dead, and the Soviets have expanded into all of Korea and the island of Hokkaido. In response, the isolationist Robert Taft secures the Republican nomination in 1948, and wins the election that year. He pulls all American troops back and does not fund the Marshall Plan.
So what happens under such a scenario? What would the world look like?
For argument's sake, let's just say that Einstein is in Germany when the Nazis rise to power, and thus dies in the Holocaust - delaying the Manhattan Project. Later on, when the atomic bomb is not ready, the United States carries out a massive invasion of the Japanese Home Islands - killing at least one million Americans in combat. By the time the war ends in 1947, millions of lives - many would-be parents of Baby Boomers - are dead, and the Soviets have expanded into all of Korea and the island of Hokkaido. In response, the isolationist Robert Taft secures the Republican nomination in 1948, and wins the election that year. He pulls all American troops back and does not fund the Marshall Plan.
So what happens under such a scenario? What would the world look like?