Franklin Delano Roosevelt serves a full Fourth term.

Japhy

Banned
Maybe if he quit smoking. I think nothing changes in terms of government policy. The 1948 election does change of course. Marshall is an interesting choice. He is a war hero who could be convinced to run on the Democratic ticket. I think that in 1952, due to the Korean quagmire, he loses to the even more heroic Eisenhower.

Why is it Paul that everything always must revert to OTL?

Henriksson said:
If FDR is alive, he would presumably wait for the Soviet Union to invade Manchuria, since Stalin and FDR had agreed on a date during Yalta. This is significant because Operation August Storm had a far greater key in the surrender of Japan than the atom bombs did, as Japan's last hope for peace (in the minds of their leaders) disappeared. One might very well see a Japanese surrender before the atom bombs fall, so there is nothing inevitable about it.

Quite right really. I simply meant, and should have said, that he's not going to drop a bomb off the East Coast and say "Surrender or we'll do it again" like alot of people seem to think he would have. If he used it, it would have been on a target.

DuQuense said:
FDR was anti-imperialist.
So no US support for the French in Vietnam. In fact pressure from the US to recognize Ho Chi Minhs Declaration of Independence.

Even without recognition, the French War in Indochina can't happen without US funding, transport, and supplies so, yeah Vietnam will go differently. FDR wanted to make Indochina a sort of Trust Territory, so its questionable if he would have gone for outright recognition though.

Personally in regards to the French Empire I'd really wonder what FDRs response would be to the Setif Massacre in Algeria. Without US support the French situation in the Colony (Considered to be part of Metropolitan France) would deteriorate FAR quicker.
 
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