Space program: Later, as I think we can all agree.
I agree,especially manned space flight.
Second generation (transistor) electronics: Sooner, as German technology is freely exchanged from the thirties on.
Agree,i see transistor radios from late 40s-early 60s.
Third generation (microchip) electronics: Debatable. Does it happen sooner, as an encore to the transistor, or later, in the absence of a space race?
Probably not.
In OTL WW-II, Cold war and space race pushed the electronics in a way that is improbable with only civil research and development by private industries.
Resistance to military service: Does not happen. Without world wars, there is no permanent draft and the military remains an elective service.
Well,.France,Germany,Italy and others countries had draft also before WW-I,so is possible that remain in those nations,draft is
maintained (even with few months of service).
Relaxation of dress codes: Debatable, especially if the clean-shaven crew cut soldier look does not become the male uniform. We could see a gradual progression if American society opens up in response to European trends.
Clean shaved faces were the result of modern safe razors,and the American male had a clean shaved face from early XX century.
So,this not change (maybe i see that pencil mustache are not completely of fashion in 60s).
Fashion is probably classic,and without wars. i expect a little more of formalities (full evening dress are still commonly used for formal evening,and double breasted and three pieces suits are in fashion..bit no more of this.
For sure nothing prince albert frock,or spats or buisness tailcoats in 30s,40s or 60s).
Full-fidelity popular music: A little bit sooner, owing to growth in electronics. While Europe perfects the classical masterpieces, American contemporary forms (jazz, blues, folk, country) will mix into a new genre that catches on, as I explained in earlier posts.
Agree.
Openness over sexuality: I know Professor Lebow thinks otherwise, but I would call this issue “on schedule” over the introduction of and the debate surrounding birth control.
I think that probably in this timeline the 20s are not too much "roaring",but sexual mores evolve quickly from 30s,and is probable that pill came in late 40s.
However i not see any "baby boom" in 40s or 50s.
Interstate highways: Eventually, America will copy the German Autobahns. It may not be a planned nationwide effort at first, but larger and wider traffic ways will be build for suburban growth.
(A Germany without WWI will have a healthy economy in the twenties, so there will be growth in cars and highways, and yes, Autobahns without Hitler and plans for war.)
I not see large highways,but more developed railways,also in USA.
Without WW-II i can see also much more flying boats (but not airship,at least not in 60s)
Civil rights and voting rights: This issue will be a powder keg. The movement was a direct result of suburban growth, passenger trains displaced by automobiles, and television. I would say a good ten years sooner, and the conflicts could be worse. The Fraternal Order of the Ku Klux Klan probably would not go bankrupt in 1944 without the Nazi stigma over Aryan supremacy. In this respect, the fifties might become the new sixties.
Civil rights are delayed of some decades,and the process is more slow,but inevitable.
I se progress step by step.
Nothing comparable with OTL,anyway.
Computers: They were gigantic mainframe devices in the sixties. They were not particularly linked to military activity. They were the domains of governments, large corporations and universities at the time. We might see slightly faster growth out of improvements in electronics in general.
I think instead that without cold war and space races (if there are not one) computer development is slightly slower.
The generation gap and the counter-culture: It was the result of a basic conflict of values in the American education system; namely the inability for teachers to adequately reconcile a justification of the Nuremburg trials with American values against ex post facto laws. So, a 21-year old German officer can be held responsible for war crimes because he was supposed to recognize the prison camps violated the Geneva Convention and resign his commission. Refuse to follow orders from Hitler and walk away? Really? This issue, a corollary to the anti-Vietnam movement, never happens.
Bohemians are presents,but at most at OTL beatnik phenomenon size.
I not can see nothing mass counterculture,and as i said in this timeline are not a "baby boom".
Maybe these 60s are a lively and amusing decade,but at least in the OTL 20s way (without proibition that also without FDR and great depression i think is abolished at least from early 40s,if not before, because not work).
