1932

I've been reading up on the 1932 DNC to research for a timeline I'm hoping to write at some point, and I was surprised by how close FDR's coalition came to fracturing during the voting. For instance, shortly before the third ballot, the Mississippi and Arkansas delegations seemed to be at risk...

FDR's efforts as governor of New York to address the Depression were crucial in establishing him as the clear front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1932. But his first election to that office in 1928 was extremely narrow, he defeated the Republican nominee by just 25,000...

(This is my first attempt at one of these AHC posts, so I apologize if there is a standard format here that I am not aware of!) I've been reading more in-depth recently about the Hoover Presidency for a TL I'm writing at the moment and I'm more and more astonished at how much of a mess it was...

What the title says.

The PoD is the german 1932 election that made the NSDAP the largest party. Hitler controls 33.09% of the seats, the second in place is Otto Wels with 20.43% followed by the KPD of Thalmann with 16.86%. What can be made to prevent the nazis from passing the enabling act and taking total...

Your mission is to have FDR die earlier in the office of president of the United States. Weather is polio is worse or whatever. Also it doesn't have to be from 1933-1945. It can be alternate scenarios.

-I- Monday, May 30th 1932 Reich Chancellery Berlin Chancellor (Reichskanzler) Brüning stepped into his office. He didn't really know why, maybe to say goodbye. One more Cabinet meeting and then the Cabinet would resign, President (Reichspräsident) Paul von Hindenburg expected that much...