pacifichistorian
Banned
Sensible. Again, you've got to go back to WW2 to achieve it, IMO. FDR & Truman buggered it up by not making a deal with Viet nationalists & France in '44-5: 1 country, France leaves peacefully, & U.S. acts as guarantor for both sides. Result, IMO: no war. (OK, not exactly simple. Frex, who's the Viet leader? IMO, there had to be a few candidates in Japanese or French prisons who weren't communists or fascists...)How bout- no Vietnam, LBJ's Great Society does come into existence ?
OTOH, if you can get Nixon in, you could see more sensible policies on illegal drugs before the '60s are over. He was already leaning toward liberalization... Maybe a VP able to get things done on civil rights? (Who was GOP equivalent of LBJ?)
I'm dubious of that. A lot of those kids were to couples separated by war, or unable to afford to start families in the Depression. I don't think it would drop much (a few %, maybe).the baby boom generation would be noticeably smaller.
It did. And black vets came back from the war...so unless you can arrange they don't go (which I doubt) or no war (which you might, if you POD early enough)...Let's see, there's no reason why the civil rights movement couldn't have started off as a long slow burn during the 40s