lounge60 said:
No American embargo on oil in exchange to some Japanese concessions.
Which is more what FDR had in mind...
lounge60 said:
Also Japan not joint to axis.
Very possible, with better Allied diplomacy. It makes the oil embargo somewhat less likely IMO.
lounge60 said:
Nothing Pearl Harbour attack or war in Pacific.
No embargo, this is very probable.
lounge60 said:
USA intervenes in WW-II (for some casus belli with nazi Germany) in 1942.
Allied win the war in 1945,less or more in OTL.
Very likely. Maybe sooner.
lounge60 said:
Now,from 1946, we have in east an Empire of Japan that occupies Korea and part of China.
What happens with cold war,Mao tse tung,decolonization?
First & obvious question: is Japan still at war with China? If so, there's a pretty good chance the U.S. ends up at war with Japan anyhow, in aid of ROC.
If it's over, it's almost certain Chiang has cut a deal with Japan & Mao & CCP are history.
Chances are pretty good the Bomb isn't finished in time to use it on Germany. (It could be, but there's less urgency than OTL, so, on balance, probably no change.) This makes it disturbingly likely there's a major nuclear exchange in the '50s, over Berlin.


(Presuming the WAllies don't do enough better to get there first & the Sovs don't end the war inside their prewar borders--which isn't impossible.)
It means we don't get to see MacArthur's Travelling Road Show for 44 mo & he ends his life in relative obscurity in Manila.


(Nor do we get to see him get fired.

That, however, is a net gain.

)
It also means there's no Korean War & no Vietnam War as we know them. (It doesn't rule out ROC getting frisky with Japan, or IndoChina...) So, we never learn McNamara is a nitwit.
So, "M*A*S*H" doesn't get made, which butterflies away the TV career of Gary Burghoff (even if the TV series was, & it isn't going to be, either), William Christopher, & Jamie Farr. It means Alan Alda isn't seen as a first-rate egomaniac. It also means Mike Farrell & Loretta Swit aren't nearly so well-known. (Does Swit get "Cagney & Lacey", instead?) How many guest stars got their start there?
"The Manchurian Candidate" never gets made.


(Or remade, which is good.) "Platoon" doesn't get made, so Oliver Stone probably spends his career in TV. "Apocalypse Now", neither. A whole genre of movies (the crazed returning vet) disappears. (Including "Taxi Driver"?) "Rambo" never happens. (Nor the plague of awful sequels.


) Nor "84 Charlie Mopic"

(which I kind of liked). "Combat!" doesn't get cancelled so soon. "Tour of Duty" never happens.

(I liked that.) Nor "China Beach". Magnum probably is closer to Rockford (not that the show was really far anyhow) & not a vet. Neither is Rick Simon.

Or Howard Hunter.

It also means Bolan never happens.


(Does Don Pendleton go on to Joe Copp, instead?

Or is he never heard from?



)
Without the "Vietnam malaise", is the U.S. more inclined to become involved in wars overseas?