AHC / WI : Friendly "Cold War" after WW2

Yuelang

Yuelang

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In short, WI the "Cold War", is more about more or less friendly rivalry between Capitalists and Communists to constructively trying about finding the best system for advancement of human race as a whole.

Yeah, this obviously require Stalin to kick the bucket before German defeat, otherwise, not really likely...

Uh, but yeah, friendly but still there's definite sense of rivalry... so no Outright Korean War and Cuban Missile Crisis, but could be simply the Korean Spat, and Cuban Diplomacy
 
kodak

kodak

Some PODs off the top of my head:
Ho Chi Minh gains US support after world war 2 and France gives up the colony, preventing thr Vietnam war.

Soviet spies in the Manhattan project get caught during the project, delaying the Soviets getting the bomb and lessening the fallout of the red scare.

The Americans manage their occupation of South Korea better and send military aid, or send a diplomatic message to the Soviets that they will intervene if Korea is invaded (IOTL the DPRK and USSR believed the Americans didn't care about Korea), preventing the Korean war.

American victory in Korea calms fears about communism in Asia and damages China's image leading to (in the west, at least) less fears about the cold war.

Between the Cuban missile crisis and the Yom Kippur war, the Soviets and Americans had decent relations. The Yom Kippur war quickly escalated into an international crisis, destroyed Nixon's detente policy (and almost ended in nuclear war!), and came at the height of the watergate scandal, so Nixon did little during the war, instead deferring to Kissinger. Removing watergate would allow Nixon to handle the crisis in Israel much more effectively, and possibly extend the detente period.

Keeping Reagan out of the white house could also do the trick in the eighties.
 
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