WI: Dewey won in 1944

FDR can't die before Dewey's inauguration. Also, I'm looking for the results of Dewey winning, not the cause. Would there be differences between the Dewey Doctrine and the Truman Doctrine?
 
FDR can't die before Dewey's inauguration. Also, I'm looking for the results of Dewey winning, not the cause. Would there be differences between the Dewey Doctrine and the Truman Doctrine?

This is hard to do since FDR was a wartime President during a booming economy. Even with someone like Wallace or Byrnes on the ticket FDR would still be favored to win. But supposing that Dewey had somehow beaten FDR, I really don't think he'd govern much differently from Truman. However, with a Republican in the White House the 1946 midterms favor the Democrats instead of the GOP. It's possible that Dewey could win in 1948 based off the economic recovery and his foreign policy accomplishments, but like Truman he'd be very vulnerable and it's just as possible that he could lose.
 
Post-war no Marshall plan ,with major difficulties for Europe rebuilding its economy. It would be a sharp rise of left-wing political parties in Western Europe.France would most definitely go communist.
 
Post-war no Marshall plan ,with major difficulties for Europe rebuilding its economy. It would be a sharp rise of left-wing political parties in Western Europe.France would most definitely go communist.

Why? The Marshall Plan had broad bipartisan support, including from Dewey himself, and there was a clear need to extend aid to Western Europe after WWII. Proposals for aid predated Marshall's time as Secretary of State and an internationalist Republican President would have almost certainly come to same conclusion as Truman. Even if Marshall isn't SecState, you'd see something like a "Dulles Plan" that has roughly the same impact on Europe.
 
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