The effects of Marshall Aid are vastly overrated. Likely most of these countries would continue to stagnate under corrupt tinpot dictatorships and mountains of foreign debt. Brain drain would be a huge issue too. Obviously some countries would come out more harmed than others.
I can't see America caring enough about Africa to send actual American troops into a Vietnam-style conflict there. More likely they'd just do what they did IOTL, prop up corrupt, sociopathic puppets and proxy armies.
The occupation of Far-Eastern Russia was an huge economic investment, taking a massive % of Japan's postwar GDP. It simply wasn't economically feasible, for a nation with a lower GDP than Canada, to hold such a territory indefinitely. Also, for those proposing some sort of settler colonialism...
Yes. I mean every American party did exactly this, even Socialists. But I think it would be a less salient issue for whites if labor issues were solved earlier.
About the same time as Japanese immigration to the mainland --- from the 1890s to the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924...
Larger, but not incredibly larger. Consider that Chinese immigrants were overwhelmingly male and the number of families over here was very low. In addition, many went back to China once they'd made enough money. Chinese were an outsized portion of the workforce, but very small % of the US...
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