1948

From an old post a few years back. POD: Truman follows the Clay-Murphy plan to send armed convoys to re-supply Berlin. They are promptly destroyed by the Soviets, and mass public outrage against a 'Soviet sneak attack' on 'humanitarian missions to feed starving civilians' ensues, unintentionally...

Having guided the nation through the Great Depression and led it to the cusp of victory during World War Two, Franklin D. Roosevelt had--time and again--proven himself as an insurmountable candidate, having won all four times that he ran for office and building a legacy as one of America's most...

Canaanism OTL was a political movement among Jews in the 1930s and 1940s that grew out of Revisionist Zionism. Essentially, it believed that Jews should abandon the Jewish religion (and encourage Palestinian Arabs to abandon Islam) and join together in a secular Hebrew / Canaanite identity...

Prologue: . A Decade of War and Peace The 40s, the decade of World War II, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the rise of an unexpected contender. But before we learn about all of this we must first learn the beginnings of this all, the United States Presidential Election of 1940. The parties...

Any student of history should be familiar with this photo of President Harry Truman, successor of the great FDR, smirking while holding a newspaper declaring that he'd lost to his Republican opponent, Thomas Dewey, in the 1948 election. Of course this turned out to be far from true, and Truman...

So pretty much what the title says. Would Palestine be granted independence? Would it all end in Jordan's hands? Would Syria, Egypt and the rest divide it among themselves?

Let's say that, for whatever reason, Robert Taft got the Republican nomination over Dewey in 1948. What are his chances of beating Truman? Truman was fairly unpopular, so I think Taft should be able to manage it, but, since Dewey couldn't, what are your opinions?

By Jerusalem I mean the Old City. OTL Jordan conquered it and expelled all the Jews, destroyed Jewish graves on Mt Olives, and razed many synagogues. Could Israel take it in 1948? How? And how would the conflict change as a result?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Blockade So, how would this blockade plausibly start WWIII and how would the conflict play out in the late 40's? I know for a fact that Stalin wasn't willing to start a conflict at the time but I figure it would take a lot of straws to break his mental back.

In 1948 a soviet-backed coup by the KSC (Czech Communists) succeeded in forcefully taking over the leftist coalition government in Prague. The move shocked the world, forced the US' hand in enforcing the Marshall Plan and the formation of NATO, leading to the rise of the Iron Curtain that would...

One of the most famous pictures possibly in us political history is Truman holding "Dewey defeats Truman" but in reality Truman won. What if that newspaper headline was true? How would that change our world? This is a collab timeline so you are all welcome to post your updates! Have fun with the...

Like the title says. Make Wallace's Progressives and Thurmond's Dixiecrats a permanent party existing today.