The challenge is, with POD after FDR's death, is to have Harry Truman be renominated and reelected in 1952.
Oh and what would that have done to the Republican Party?
Oh and what would that have done to the Republican Party?
The challenge is, with POD after FDR's death, is to have Harry Truman be renominated and reelected in 1952.
Oh and what would that have done to the Republican Party?
The GOP survives to win in 1956 when the situation in Korea either worsens or becomes costlier and without a resolution, and the U.S. economy worsens. President MacArthur from 1957-?? then faces an even bigger Eastern Bloc to conted with in Europe as Germany has fallen to the Reds.
Or maybe a deal is done roughly along OTL lines in Korea, the US gets a sane health system.
After the court orders desegregation the Southern VP campaigns for Civil Rights, is murdered by a racist and the reaction ensures that Civil Rights are achieved more quickly than in OTL.
Republicans nominate a "wing nut" who tries a "Southern Strategy", Aldai Stevenson wins taking one of the many Moderate Republicans who had defected as VP.
Well, after losing Korea, I could see Truman, if he hasn't caused a disaster in one Asian country, could try to make up for it by sending more forces to Vietnam earlier.Truman and later Stevenson are more skeptical of military advice over Vietnam (Truman having been a real soldier and Stevenson being inclined that way anyhow)
Ho would want a united Vietnam, and giving him such would cause problems for the U.S. in Europe even if Vietnam was finlandized.Ho ends up being an Asian Tito, but without the same effects of his death than happened with Yugoslavia