AHC: Non-Interventionist U.S. after WWII

Goldwater64

Banned
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to somehow keep the U.S. from intervening abroad during the Cold War. I'm not asking for isolationism, just no military intervention (Preferably no CIA tomfoolery either :D).

I'd like the P.O.D. to be around 1945, but seeing as how this is a pretty tall order, I'll allow an earlier divergence, as long as WWII is somewhat recognizable (No drastic changes, preferably none before Pearl Harbor). I'd like to see the U.S. non-interventionist by the 1950s, but I'll allow Korea (Perhaps the war goes a lot worse that OTL, and the bloodshed could convince the U.S. that the Soviet menace just isn't worth it).

Please, no claims of "ASB" without even trying, it is a CHALLENGE, after all ;)
 
Honestly to change this it does actually require an enormous PoD that probably in some way or another makes the Soviet Union impotent as a political force. Since it is generally the exception rather than the rule for large, expansionistic nations to lay idle in a position of supreme power and prominence rather than make a grab for more... I'm going to have to regretfully say that you probably have to make WWII even worse for the Soviet Union, to the point of probably a good deal of Hitler's plans for Eastern Europe and Russia after a Nazi victory being directly implemented leading to the horrific deaths of millions upon millions of Slavic peoples essentially making the underdeveloped, underpopulated lands of Central Asia and Siberia into the most well-off portions of the USSR. The USSR would retreat entirely into itself just trying to survive, at this point there would be some little point of light in awful darkness: to continue to survive as a state, the Soviet Union wouldn't have any other choice but to accept Marshall Plan aid from the United States, no other choice whatsoever, the alternative is literally to collapse.

Since Western Europe is devastated by the war's aftermath and the Soviet Union probably won't ever be a major political force again... or at least not within the lifetimes of everyone who lives in the era the United States is by default the most powerful nation in the world and likely will continue to be for some time. So there isn't much reason for the US to do any more than the bare minimum in international affairs, it will be a huge presence in this kind of scenario by virtue of its position, but aside from shoring up business interests the US has no reason at all to do the kind of things it was up to in the Cold War.

Decolonization goes faster, which is bad for some and nice for others, especially Indochina.
 
Agreed. You have to have the Soviet Union destroyed or nearly so.

Read somewhere someone suggest TL with a Stalin death leading to infighting among the top leadership. Actual fighting, so the Nazi's take and hold Moscow.

WWII continues until Berlin nuked.

The US in the only superpower and the only nation with nukes.

Hell, the SU might even be divided up here.
 

NothingNow

Banned
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to somehow keep the U.S. from intervening abroad during the Cold War. I'm not asking for isolationism, just no military intervention (Preferably no CIA tomfoolery either :D).

Smedley Butler becomes POTUS, ends United Fruit. Only way it'll happen.
 

Hoist40

Banned
How about if the US’s various allies are stronger. Britain, France, China, Australia, etc are in better shape and use the end of the war to continue and even expanding the colonial system. China grabs Korea, Britain and France grab the Italian colonies. Soviets and Britain grab parts of Iran. Australia grabs parts of the south Pacific. And what I mean as grab is not just a UN mandate but taking over the place.

The US public feels once again like WW1 that they got into a war and the end result had no real change, just who was on top. So they withdraw from the world.
 
How about if the US’s various allies are stronger. Britain, France, China, Australia, etc are in better shape and use the end of the war to continue and even expanding the colonial system. China grabs Korea, Britain and France grab the Italian colonies. Soviets and Britain grab parts of Iran. Australia grabs parts of the south Pacific. And what I mean as grab is not just a UN mandate but taking over the place.

The US public feels once again like WW1 that they got into a war and the end result had no real change, just who was on top. So they withdraw from the world.

I like it very differant, but you'd need a quick war that doesn't exhaust the Imperial Powers.

Mmm, there was a TL were the Poles had built a bunch of a certain early anti-tank weapon, that bought them time for bad weather to slow the tanks and planes. Takes far longer for the Nazis and Soviets to win. Doesn't support the myth of the Nazis as a unstoppable force.

That would be a good start.
 
I say have the Barbarossa be much more successful. The Soviets push the Germans out so slowly that the US and Uk liberate Eastern Europe and then have Jaing win the Chinese civil war.
 
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