WI Roosevelt dies on April 12th 1942?

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Who was the vice president at this time?Would he have agreed to Lend Lease for Brtian and Russia?To the Germany first strategy?Would the US have done so good in WW2+production even with someone else than Roosevelt?
 
Henry Wallace which apparently leads to superpowers led by serial killers and a Fourth Reich by the eighties.

He was rather pro-Soviet so I'm guessing if anything they get more Lend Lease than in our world, Britain may face more pressure to decolonise in exchange for theirs however. He was decades ahead on civil rights issues as well as probably the closest to a socialist president America's had in terms of economic and social policy, whether he decides to act on this or if it gets through is questionable however.
 
Increase Lend-Lease to the Soviets, alienating of Britain and more socialist domestic policy?

We're gonna see a President Taft of Dewey in 1944.
 
Increase Lend-Lease to the Soviets, alienating of Britain and more socialist domestic policy?

We're gonna see a President Taft of Dewey in 1944.

Dewey. Taft never stood a chance in Hell. A uber-right winger Republican deliberately alienating the left of of his own party, never mind the Democrats, will do that.
 
I think with the don't swap horses in the middle of the stream appeal Wallace is reelected. He would eventually see the danger of the Soviets but far too late. His pro Soviet policies would be very unpopular in late 1945 and 1946. I think Wallace's poor political skills would also be a problem.
 
Increase Lend-Lease to the Soviets, alienating of Britain and more socialist domestic policy?

We're gonna see a President Taft of Dewey in 1944.

As long as he doesn't screw up the war effort and doesn't push too much of his social policy I think Americans will keep him, it won't be a landslide however.
 
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