WI: President Henry Wallace

Let's take as our POD that Wallace is not replaced by Truman. Nothing changes...until FDR dies. Now, Henry is POTUS. What now? We most likely don't drop the bomb on Japan, The Cold War is probably delayed by a few years, Korea may suffer some Butterflies. In terms of domestic policy, there's probably not much of an impact, at least, if Wallace has to deal with the same Republican Congress Truman did OTL though Unions may be invigorated by Henry's win. That said, Wallace most likely won't win over Dewy come 1948. That causes a whole host of other Butterflies. How does Dewey's term go? Who do the Democrats nominate in 1952? Stevenson? Humphrey, maybe? Also, Dewey winning means the Republicans never draft Eisenhower. No Eisenhower Presidency means that Nixon probably never gets the VP potion which means that he remains a Senator and has far less power or name recognition on a national level. Who takes his place? Reagan? Probably not. Romney? Maybe. Your thoughts?
 
I can't see why Wallace wouldn't drop the bomb on Japan, he might stall long enough to prove the theory that the Soviet intervention would have caused Japan to surrender on its own but he wouldn't have had many reservations about it.

I can see the Cold War being delayed or averted altogether though, it's unlikely he would have pursued something resembling the Truman doctrine whilst the Marshall Plan would have likely been far more focused on aid without the restrictions on economic planning . It's quite possible that it would have spread to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
 
I can see the Cold War being delayed or averted altogether though, it's unlikely he would have pursued something resembling the Truman doctrine whilst the Marshall Plan would have likely been far more focused on aid without the restrictions on economic planning . It's quite possible that it would have spread to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

Hm. If the Marshall Plan spreads to the USSR, does that give the Americans more, or less, power over the Soviets? Or is it a break-even?

I'm thinking that if it gives the US leverage over the Soviets, it might end up having the opposite impact that Wallace's conservative critics feared would result from his policies.
 
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