So what if our timeline did not have Churchill, Mao, Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, or Hitler, effectively changing the 20th Century forever? The changes will start early as TR doesn't go along galloping across the American political stage, then we have no Churchill in British politics, and soon the Russian political landscape is changed, and then we have the WW2 trio...
[This was the first project I worked on AH.Com, and I learned a great deal by exploring it. The Premise is simple: No Churchill, Mao, Stalin, FDR, TR or Hitler. While Communist Wizard created the original idea, he wound up opposing the direction the TL took (and gave no reason or explanation for it), so I launch this TL despite his disapproval.]
No Time for Great Men
February 15th, 1898. The battleship USS Maine explodes in Havana harbor, killing 268 Americans. A inquiry into the cause of the explosion will reveal that it was caused by a mine or submerged explosive. This, on top of a steady feed of "Spanish Atrocities" in Cuba, heightens tensions between the United States and Spain.
US President William McKinley is not in favor of a war with Spain, but increasingly, the people of the United States are...
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March 17th, 1898. Senator Redfield Proctor's (R-Vermont) call for war against Spain stirs many moderates into supporting war against Spain. President McKinley, still opposed to the conflict, finds himself nearly alone in opposing hostilities.
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April 19th, 1898. An ultimatum is sent to Spain: withdraw from Cuba for face war. Spain responds by cutting off diplomatic contact and declaring war within a week's time...