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I need some help with information regarding a few things. Specifically, how would Al Smith handle the Great Depression? If anybody could get me some refrences to read up on, some help, or anything that would be great.

My second need is how Robert La Follete Jr. would handle a Depression inherited from Al Smith in 1932. I'm hoping for him to handle it well, being he was with FDR's economic policies for a good amount of time.

This is all for my TL Three Seconds Late which I'm hoping I can make live and thrive with some accurate information. Again, any refrences, links, info, or answers would be great. Thank you in advance.
 
To sum it up:

-America begins rockettry testing in 1920.

-Mexico goes really, really downhill and is pretty much annexed my USA.

-USSR gets under control of Rykov and becomes non-Stalinist and more sucessful.

-Poland is controlled by USSR.

-USSR takes back Hokiado from Japan, leading Japan to being really angry at them.

-Yes, I'm aware this is insane.

Regarding Smith being elected, he beats Charles Curtis in 1928 following a two-term Frank Lowden Presidency. Prohibition has been repealed in some states, retained in tohers, like fireworks.

There is also a Mexican terrorist group that I have big plans for.

Oh, also, does anybody have information on James Reed about his economic policies for the Depression?
 

mowque

Banned
Must you have a Great Depression? Even assuming your WW1 is the same, it doesn't have to happen. Other then that he would support many new Deal like programs, it really comes down to what kind of power does he have. Does he control Congress and such like FDR did in OTL (due to desperation). Will the courts play along? What was his majority of victory?
 
Well, I probably should have asked that too. Does the Great Depression need to happen, because that would make for a much more interesting TL.
 
Well, I probably should have asked that too. Does the Great Depression need to happen, because that would make for a much more interesting TL.

It doesn't need to happen depending on what you want to happen. If your intention is something resembling OTL, then you may as well. But bear in mind that the Depression came about due to economic overconfidence--if you have something like that here, you could always have a lesser version of it.
 

mowque

Banned
Well, I probably should have asked that too. Does the Great Depression need to happen, because that would make for a much more interesting TL.

Is anything in history 'destined'. The Great Depression is a complex thing with a lot of factors....tariffs, overproduction, banking issues poor leadership, over-speculation...And I don't pretend to even be very knowledgeable about the field.
 

Wolfpaw

Banned
Smith was actually very wary of Roosevelt's policies and was a leading member of the "Conservative Coalition" wing of the Democratic Party. I'd suggest reading up on them and researching some of their proposed policies to alleviate the Depression.

IIRC, it would have been New Deal-ish, but most of the perogatives and funding would come from individual states to alleviate their own issues, as opposed to the federal focus we had IOTL. But my economic history of the era is a tad shakey, so, yeah, I'd do some further research.
 
Follwing your suggestions of reasearch on the Conservative Coalition and Smith, finding out that his policies would be the exact opposite of the New Deal. Very pro-buisness, capitalist, and such.

Now America ITTL is economically overconfident. They are very high on their horse, so to say. I'm hoping to tone down the Depression from a Great Depression to a depression. I also want to do this as to alter Japan. See, my plan is for the Japanese Empire and military control not to occur, or at least delay it for a while.

So, my question is, would big-buisness tactics work sucsessfully to counteract an overconfident American Wall Street? Could such measures affect the rest of the world?
 
Do we have any Depression Era buisness economy speacialists on the board? If so, I would like to know so I could be told of the possible outcomes of a pro-big buisness US government handling of the Depression.
 
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