DBWI: What if president-elect Roosevelt hadn't been assassinated.

As we all know, nutjob Giuseppe Zangara killed FDR on February 15th 1933 and we got stuck with President John N. Garner for lack of better options until John W. Bricker became prez after winning the 1940 presidential election.

FDR was said to be much more in favour of a strong foreign policy than either Garner or Bricker. Would he have done anything serious to support Britain and, I dare say, Stalin's Soviet Union against Nazi agression? Would Roosevelt have listened more to the pro-China lobby?

If so, how would the world look today? Nazi defeat, Japan defeated sooner by China and no three way cold war? The many millions that suffered under the terrible atrocities of Imperial Japan and the Third Reich would have lived and neither Asia nor Europe would have suffered under stagnant, corrupt and inefficient economic systems...

Thoughts? Suggestions?
 
Wasn't Roosevelt's assassination a hit orchestrated by Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak? Or is that just a conspiracy theory? There are people who say his "shaking hands with Roosevelt" at that appearance was a Judas kiss.
 
There is a theory that an FDR administration would have ended the economic slowdown of the early 1930s a couple of years sooner than it did in OTL, say 1934 instead of 1935. But there is a contrarion view among some historians that suggested that the economic experimentation being planned by Roosevelt's "brain trust" might have made things worse, lengthening the slowdown well into the 1940s. That would have meant that the boom of the late 1930s would not have occured, creating a much weaker America that would have been powerless to stop the Japanese or contain the Nazis. The US might even have been under Nazi domination by the middle to end of the 1940s, especially if an FDR administration were to butterfly away Hitler's death in 1942.
 
A further view is that had FDR become president, World War Two would have broken out in the late 1930's instead of in 1942. Those extra years of peace gave time for an extra 150,000 German, Austrian and Czech Jews to emigrate from German held Europe, as the Third Reich allowed fairly easy emigration up till the outbreak of war on March 14, 1942.
 
There is a theory that an FDR administration would have ended the economic slowdown of the early 1930s a couple of years sooner than it did in OTL, say 1934 instead of 1935. But there is a contrarion view among some historians that suggested that the economic experimentation being planned by Roosevelt's "brain trust" might have made things worse, lengthening the slowdown well into the 1940s. That would have meant that the boom of the late 1930s would not have occured, creating a much weaker America that would have been powerless to stop the Japanese or contain the Nazis. The US might even have been under Nazi domination by the middle to end of the 1940s, especially if an FDR administration were to butterfly away Hitler's death in 1942.

A further view is that had FDR become president, World War Two would have broken out in the late 1930's instead of in 1942. Those extra years of peace gave time for an extra 150,000 German, Austrian and Czech Jews to emigrate from German held Europe, as the Third Reich allowed fairly easy emigration up till the outbreak of war on March 14, 1942.

OOC: Neither of you read the OP very well. It implies Axis victory.
 
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