WI President Franklin Roosevelt does not die in 1945

WI President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the president of the United States between 1933-1945, did not die in April 1945 and instead improved in health, serving out the rest of his term? What would happen to history? What would happen in the early stages of this Alternate History Cold War?
 
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To essentially summarize the previous thread, all indications are that once the rest of World War II wrapped up, he was planning to resign and retire.
 
WI President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the president of the United States between 1933-1945, did not die in April 1945 and instead improved in health, serving out the rest of his term? What would happen to history? What would happen in the early stages of this Alternate History Cold War?

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From ‘Warlords, the heart of conflict 1939 – 1945’ by Simon Berthon and Joanna Potts.

Page 131

But as the war ground on, Churchill began to see a new threat to Europe – the man who had become the third ally in the fight against Hitler, Joseph Stalin. In late 1942 he told Anthony Eden: ‘It would be a measureless disaster if Russian barbarianism overlaid the ancient state of Europe.’

Roosevelt thought otherwise. As far as he was concerned, the cause of war in the first place was the in fighting between Europe’s ancient, imperialist nations and he began to see in Stalin someone who would help him in his great cause of freeing the world of that Imperialism. Also in 1942, in a conversation with the Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, he remarked: ‘The European people will simply have to endure Russian domination in the hope that – in ten or 20 years – the European influence will bring the Russians to become less barbarous.’


This is taken from ‘The Roosevelt Letters: Being the Personnel Correspondence of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Vol.3: 1928 – 1945.


....suggests to me it would not have been good for Europe, this suggests to me that Roosevelt would have been happy to hand us to the Soviets.
 
No Vietnam War

FDR refuses french request for US transport Ships, & goes with the OSS recommendation to recognize the Independence of Vietnam.
 
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