Theodore Roosevelt, Progressive, elected US President in 1912
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Some cabinet appointments by President Vandenberg after his election in November 1940: Jeanette Rankin resigns as Secretary of State because she wants to become more involved in women's peace groups. She is replaced by Gerald Prentice Nye, Senator from North Dakota. The Departments of War and Navy are combined into the Department of Defense. Henry Stimson, the Secretary of War resigns because he is opposed to the administration's China policy. He supports an interventionist policy as advocated by the Democrats. He leaves the Progressive Republicans and becomes an Independent. Patrick Jay Hurley (who in OTL was Assistant Secretary of War in the Hoover administration) is appointed Secretary of Defense.
Frederick J. Lippy is replaced as United States Ambassador to the League of Nations by Eleanor Roosevelt. In this timeline she divorced FDR in 1918 because of his affair with Lucy Page Mercer. She is a Progressive Republican.
Other appointments: Wendell Wilkie - Secretary of Commerce
Thomas Dewey - Attorney General
Henry Wallace - Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.
In the new congress, although the Progressives Republicans do not have an overall majority in either chamber, they are able to organise the House and Senate because of the support of the Socialists. The Democrats accept the Progressive Republican proposal that the chairmanships of committees are divided equally between the two parties. The Progressive Republicans take the chairs of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Robert Taft), and the House Committee on Ways and Means.
From February 1941, there is increasing unrest in Hungary against the Fascist government of Ferenc Szalasi, whose nominal superior is the Regent, Admiral Horthy. Riots in Budapest, Bratislava and other cities are ruthlessly supressed by the army, as are riots and armed uprisings by Slovak Nationalists.
In mid April 1941, the armed forces of Serbia and Romania take advantage of the situation to launch co-ordinated attacks on Hungary. In this ATL Hungary includes in OTL: territory which was ceded to Romania at the Treaty of Trianon in 1920, most of Bosnia/Herzegovina, including Sarajevo, a corridor of land in east and south Croatia to give it access to the Adriatic Sea, and Slovakia.
Frederick J. Lippy is replaced as United States Ambassador to the League of Nations by Eleanor Roosevelt. In this timeline she divorced FDR in 1918 because of his affair with Lucy Page Mercer. She is a Progressive Republican.
Other appointments: Wendell Wilkie - Secretary of Commerce
Thomas Dewey - Attorney General
Henry Wallace - Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.
In the new congress, although the Progressives Republicans do not have an overall majority in either chamber, they are able to organise the House and Senate because of the support of the Socialists. The Democrats accept the Progressive Republican proposal that the chairmanships of committees are divided equally between the two parties. The Progressive Republicans take the chairs of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Robert Taft), and the House Committee on Ways and Means.
From February 1941, there is increasing unrest in Hungary against the Fascist government of Ferenc Szalasi, whose nominal superior is the Regent, Admiral Horthy. Riots in Budapest, Bratislava and other cities are ruthlessly supressed by the army, as are riots and armed uprisings by Slovak Nationalists.
In mid April 1941, the armed forces of Serbia and Romania take advantage of the situation to launch co-ordinated attacks on Hungary. In this ATL Hungary includes in OTL: territory which was ceded to Romania at the Treaty of Trianon in 1920, most of Bosnia/Herzegovina, including Sarajevo, a corridor of land in east and south Croatia to give it access to the Adriatic Sea, and Slovakia.
Italy is an ally of Hungary and declares war on Romania and Serbia, but does little beyond bombing raids on Hungarian cities, and military and industrial targets. It is engaged in a low-level war with the British in British Somaliland. Mussolini really wants Hungary and Serbia to be weakened, so that his territorial ambitions in the Balkans are advanced.
Romanian and Serbian troops advance quickly on low lands but slowly on mountainous terrain. They bomb Hungarian cities, and besiege Sarajevo. The Hungarian army is riddled with dissent and opposition to the Fascist regime. Ten days after the invasion a group of anti-fascist army officers seize power in Budapest. They intend to restore civilian democracy and appoint Miklos Kallam, a moderate conservative as Prime Minister in a mainly civilian government. Hungary is declared a free and federal republic. Admiral Horthy assumes the title of President until elections can be held. Ferenc Szalasi is found hiding in a farmhouse about forty miles from Budapest and is summarily executed.
The new Hungarian government ends its alliance with Italy and appeals to the League of Nations for help in resisting aggression. The League orders a ceasefire, which is not complied with.
Eleanor Roosevelt's proposal on behalf of the United States government that a multi-national force under League of Nations command is established to resist Romanian/Serbian aggression, is met with near unanimous approval by member states. However because of opposition in the administration and by Progressive Republicans in Congress, the American contingent is limited to 2,000 men, none of whom see any miltary action. Most of the League's force is composed of contingents from Austria-Bohemia, France, Germany and Hungary.
The multi-national army advances on Serbian and Romanian territory from Hungary and Austria-Bohemia. The siege of Sarajevo is lifted. At the beginning of June, Serbia and Romania agree to a ceasefire as does Italy.
Eleanor Roosevelt sets out the policy of the United States government that the territorial integrity of all nations is preserved, and that no territorial gains are made by military aggression. This is accepted by the overwhelming majority of members of the League of Nations.
Romanian and Serbian troops advance quickly on low lands but slowly on mountainous terrain. They bomb Hungarian cities, and besiege Sarajevo. The Hungarian army is riddled with dissent and opposition to the Fascist regime. Ten days after the invasion a group of anti-fascist army officers seize power in Budapest. They intend to restore civilian democracy and appoint Miklos Kallam, a moderate conservative as Prime Minister in a mainly civilian government. Hungary is declared a free and federal republic. Admiral Horthy assumes the title of President until elections can be held. Ferenc Szalasi is found hiding in a farmhouse about forty miles from Budapest and is summarily executed.
The new Hungarian government ends its alliance with Italy and appeals to the League of Nations for help in resisting aggression. The League orders a ceasefire, which is not complied with.
Eleanor Roosevelt's proposal on behalf of the United States government that a multi-national force under League of Nations command is established to resist Romanian/Serbian aggression, is met with near unanimous approval by member states. However because of opposition in the administration and by Progressive Republicans in Congress, the American contingent is limited to 2,000 men, none of whom see any miltary action. Most of the League's force is composed of contingents from Austria-Bohemia, France, Germany and Hungary.
The multi-national army advances on Serbian and Romanian territory from Hungary and Austria-Bohemia. The siege of Sarajevo is lifted. At the beginning of June, Serbia and Romania agree to a ceasefire as does Italy.
Eleanor Roosevelt sets out the policy of the United States government that the territorial integrity of all nations is preserved, and that no territorial gains are made by military aggression. This is accepted by the overwhelming majority of members of the League of Nations.
General Mung Beans
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Another good post though I'm curious why Britain and France simply crush Italy since it says the Italians are fighting the Brits in a low-level war in Somaliland.
I assume that simply don't crush Italy is meant here. At an idealistic level, the British and French governments each aim to have a war policy which is purely defensive, or is in support of the League of Nations. In this timeline Italy has not attacked Britain or France. The more realistic reason is that these two countries don't want to make the commitment in men or resources needed to crush Italy. Also Britain is giving military aid to resistance fighters in Ethiopia fighting against the Italian occupation of their country and to return Haile Selassie to the throne. In France, fascist and fascist inclined political parties and movements have significant support, estimated at about 20 to 25 percent of the adult population.
Going back to 1937, in that year President Hoover convened a White House Conference on Child Health and Protection. This was the largest conference on child welfare held in the United States up to that time, with 1,250 experts being actively involved. It resulted in the Children's Charter, the presentation of an extensive report on special education, made important recommendations for children with special educational needs. It was the first time that special education received national recognition.
The Conference recommended extending special education to greater numbers of children, and making better efforts at diagnosis, treatment and training. (In OTL President Hoover convened such a conference in 1930, with the same results and recommendations.)
The Education for Handicapped Children Act 1941 mandates that all children with a physical disability or sensory impairment must receive an education of the same standard as that given to non-disabled or non-impaired children. It introduces the concept of parity of esteem. It is left to individual schools and school boards to decide if that education is in segregated schools or classrooms or is inclusive with 'normal' children. However, the Act recommends that schools are inclusive. Funds are made available to school boards for the additional costs involved in educating disabled or sensory impaired children. Such as making them accessible to physically disabled children, or to provide teaching aids for deaf and blind pupils, or to recruit specialised teaching staff. Also to improve the physical conditions of the schools.
President Vandenberg praises the Act as a significant advance for deaf Americans in a speech at Gallaudet College.
The Education for Mentally Retarded Children Act 1941 mandates that such children must receive an education suitable to their ability. It is left to local school boards to decide if this education is segregated or inclusive, but if segregated it must be in schools or classrooms which are of the same standard as mainstream schools and classrooms. Funds are also made available to school boards for any additional costs incurred in teaching these children, and to improve the physical conditions of the schools.
The Disability Income Act 1941 provides a regular income for adults with a disability who are not in paid employment or self-employed.
In the war in the Far East Soviet forces continue to advance against the Japanese in Manchuria and Korea. By the end of 1941 they have reached the south coast of Manchuria, and a line about 50 miles south of Seoul in Korea. They have taken the southern, Japenese half of Sakhalin and are adavancing, island by island, through the Kurile Islands. Soviet planes inflict increasingly heavy bombing damage on Japanse cities and the Soviet navy has control of the Sea of Japan. In China, Nationalist and Communist armies are advancing against the Japanese from the east and south.
In late February 1942, senior intelligence agents at the United States embassy in Tokyo make secret contact with Emperor Hirohito and Prince Takamatsu. (Of course this was not known at the time. It came to light many years later in the memoirs of the people involved and with the publication of classified Embassy papers). They told them that if the Emperor fulfils the following conditions: He ends military rule, removes General Tojo as Prime Minister, appoints a civilian Prime Minister and cabinet, promises to hold free elections when the war is over, offers the Nationalist Chinese a ceasefire, and withdraws from China; the United States government will ask the League of Nations to send a multinational armed force, which would contain up to 50,000 American troops to resist Soviet aggression. They reassure the Emperor and the Prince that the United States will get the agreement of General Chiang-Kai-Shek and the Nationalist Chinese to a ceasefire, to which they say the Communists will also agree. They also promise to give the Japanese aid for reconstruction.
The Japanese agree to these conditions except that withdrawal from China will not take place until League of Nations forces have replaced them, to which the American agents agree.
At the beginning of March, Emperor Hirohito dismisses General Tojo and places him under house arrest, appoints a civilian Prime Minister and cabinet, and announces that free and democratic elections will be held when the war is over. He announces that he and General Chiang-Kai-Shek have agreed to a ceasefire by their armed forces. Though nothing is said about the Chinese Communists.
A few days later Eleanor Roosevelt, the United States ambassador to the League of Nations, proposes to the League that, in view of these events, Japan is readmitted, that the Soviet Union is declared an aggressor and that a multinational force, which would include Japan, is assembled and dispatched to resist Soviet aggression. She says that the US administration is prepared to commit up to 10,000 troops to that force.
The League agrees to readmit Japan. There is intense debate about the multinational armed force. Britain, France and Holland agree to contribute only if Japan ends its support for independence/nationalist movements in their colonial possessions in Asia. Austria-Bohemia, Germany and Hungary agree. By the end of March a majority of nations in the League agree to contribute in men and/or arms to this force. It is also agreed that there will be no bombing of civilian inhabitated areas of Soviet cities.
In the US, Ambassador Roosevelt's commitment to an American contribution of 10,000 troops to the League of Nations armed force produces a huge row. President Vandenberg says he authorised that decision, but that figure is a hypothetical maximum. Henry Wallace resigns in protest from the administration and leads an anti-war campaign. Many Progressive Republicans are opposed. The Democrats declare that there should not be any limit set to the number of American troops sent to resist communist aggression. Henry Stimson, who by this time has joined the Democratic party, is a particularly fervent hawk.
It takes about five to six months for a multi-national force of 100,000 troops (that is excluding Japanese troops) to be assembled and sent to the Far East. By this time the Soviets have conquered all of Korea, except for a Japanese enclave in the south-east around the city of Pusan. In China they have taken Peking and all of northern China as far south as Shanghai. They also subject Japanese cities to intense bombing, including fire-bombing, and have made a bridgehead on the island of Hokkaido, in which they are advancing slowly against heavy Japanese resistance. They have naval superiority in the seas around Japan, and air superiority. However the Chinese, both Nationalist and Communist are adhering to the ceasefire, though the Communists are secretly receiving arms and other supplies from the Soviet Union.
In mid to late November a total force of about 200,000 troops, including 8,500 Americans, land at the Japanese-held enclave of Pusan in south-east Korea. However they are outnumbered by the Soviets, who have air and naval superiority. After intense fighting with heavy casualties on both sides, the Allies surrender with tens of thousands killed or injured and tens of thousands more taken prisoner. Of the American contingent, over 7,000 are killed, injured or taken prisoner.
The Soviets tell Emperor Hirohito to order his forces to surrender and admit members of the Japanese Communist party to his government. Otherwise they will totally destroy all Japanese cities by aerial and sea bombardment. Hirohito reluctantly agrees to these terms and orders the surrender of all Japanese armed forces on December 16, 1942.
Soviet forces occupy Japan. In August they impose the Treaty of Tokyo on the Japanese. The terms of which are: Hirohito is allowed to remain as Emperor, but with Soviet "advisers" and a Japanese Communist Prime Minister and majority Communist government. Soviet troops will be stationed permanently in Japan. The Japanese must withdraw from Manchuria, the southern part of Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands which are all annexed by the Soviet Union. They must give independence to Korea, in which a communist government under Kim il-Sung is installed. They must withdraw all their forces from China, and give the island of Taiwan (Formosa) to the Nationalist Chinese government. The Soviets have agreed with Chiang-Kai-Shek that they will withdraw all their troops from China. However they are still arming and supplying the Communists.
In the war in the Far East Soviet forces continue to advance against the Japanese in Manchuria and Korea. By the end of 1941 they have reached the south coast of Manchuria, and a line about 50 miles south of Seoul in Korea. They have taken the southern, Japenese half of Sakhalin and are adavancing, island by island, through the Kurile Islands. Soviet planes inflict increasingly heavy bombing damage on Japanse cities and the Soviet navy has control of the Sea of Japan. In China, Nationalist and Communist armies are advancing against the Japanese from the east and south.
In late February 1942, senior intelligence agents at the United States embassy in Tokyo make secret contact with Emperor Hirohito and Prince Takamatsu. (Of course this was not known at the time. It came to light many years later in the memoirs of the people involved and with the publication of classified Embassy papers). They told them that if the Emperor fulfils the following conditions: He ends military rule, removes General Tojo as Prime Minister, appoints a civilian Prime Minister and cabinet, promises to hold free elections when the war is over, offers the Nationalist Chinese a ceasefire, and withdraws from China; the United States government will ask the League of Nations to send a multinational armed force, which would contain up to 50,000 American troops to resist Soviet aggression. They reassure the Emperor and the Prince that the United States will get the agreement of General Chiang-Kai-Shek and the Nationalist Chinese to a ceasefire, to which they say the Communists will also agree. They also promise to give the Japanese aid for reconstruction.
The Japanese agree to these conditions except that withdrawal from China will not take place until League of Nations forces have replaced them, to which the American agents agree.
At the beginning of March, Emperor Hirohito dismisses General Tojo and places him under house arrest, appoints a civilian Prime Minister and cabinet, and announces that free and democratic elections will be held when the war is over. He announces that he and General Chiang-Kai-Shek have agreed to a ceasefire by their armed forces. Though nothing is said about the Chinese Communists.
A few days later Eleanor Roosevelt, the United States ambassador to the League of Nations, proposes to the League that, in view of these events, Japan is readmitted, that the Soviet Union is declared an aggressor and that a multinational force, which would include Japan, is assembled and dispatched to resist Soviet aggression. She says that the US administration is prepared to commit up to 10,000 troops to that force.
The League agrees to readmit Japan. There is intense debate about the multinational armed force. Britain, France and Holland agree to contribute only if Japan ends its support for independence/nationalist movements in their colonial possessions in Asia. Austria-Bohemia, Germany and Hungary agree. By the end of March a majority of nations in the League agree to contribute in men and/or arms to this force. It is also agreed that there will be no bombing of civilian inhabitated areas of Soviet cities.
In the US, Ambassador Roosevelt's commitment to an American contribution of 10,000 troops to the League of Nations armed force produces a huge row. President Vandenberg says he authorised that decision, but that figure is a hypothetical maximum. Henry Wallace resigns in protest from the administration and leads an anti-war campaign. Many Progressive Republicans are opposed. The Democrats declare that there should not be any limit set to the number of American troops sent to resist communist aggression. Henry Stimson, who by this time has joined the Democratic party, is a particularly fervent hawk.
It takes about five to six months for a multi-national force of 100,000 troops (that is excluding Japanese troops) to be assembled and sent to the Far East. By this time the Soviets have conquered all of Korea, except for a Japanese enclave in the south-east around the city of Pusan. In China they have taken Peking and all of northern China as far south as Shanghai. They also subject Japanese cities to intense bombing, including fire-bombing, and have made a bridgehead on the island of Hokkaido, in which they are advancing slowly against heavy Japanese resistance. They have naval superiority in the seas around Japan, and air superiority. However the Chinese, both Nationalist and Communist are adhering to the ceasefire, though the Communists are secretly receiving arms and other supplies from the Soviet Union.
In mid to late November a total force of about 200,000 troops, including 8,500 Americans, land at the Japanese-held enclave of Pusan in south-east Korea. However they are outnumbered by the Soviets, who have air and naval superiority. After intense fighting with heavy casualties on both sides, the Allies surrender with tens of thousands killed or injured and tens of thousands more taken prisoner. Of the American contingent, over 7,000 are killed, injured or taken prisoner.
The Soviets tell Emperor Hirohito to order his forces to surrender and admit members of the Japanese Communist party to his government. Otherwise they will totally destroy all Japanese cities by aerial and sea bombardment. Hirohito reluctantly agrees to these terms and orders the surrender of all Japanese armed forces on December 16, 1942.
Soviet forces occupy Japan. In August they impose the Treaty of Tokyo on the Japanese. The terms of which are: Hirohito is allowed to remain as Emperor, but with Soviet "advisers" and a Japanese Communist Prime Minister and majority Communist government. Soviet troops will be stationed permanently in Japan. The Japanese must withdraw from Manchuria, the southern part of Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands which are all annexed by the Soviet Union. They must give independence to Korea, in which a communist government under Kim il-Sung is installed. They must withdraw all their forces from China, and give the island of Taiwan (Formosa) to the Nationalist Chinese government. The Soviets have agreed with Chiang-Kai-Shek that they will withdraw all their troops from China. However they are still arming and supplying the Communists.
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General Mung Beans
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Another good installment though I'm curious about:
1. How come the LON simply ignores and leaves Japan after their first task force gets destroyed?
2. Is anyone working on the atomic bomb ye?
If this did happen, could we haven seen 3rd party candidates like Strom Thurmond (1946), George Wallace (1968), Ross Perot (1992) or Ralph Nader (2000) become president?
It was hard enough to assemble the League of Nations task force, when it was destroyed League governments had little desire to assemble a new one. Also the Japanese government did not request a new task force.
In our OTL the atomic bomb was developed during the Second World War. I do not yet know if it will be developed in this timeline.
In the United States the Democrats milk the Pusan disaster and events in the Far East for the maximum political advantage. They blame the Progressive Republican administration for losing Japan and Korea to communist Russia, because of the pacifists or near pacifists in that party. A Democratic president would have committed as many troops as necessary to the League task force. Many, probably most, Progressive Republicans were opposed to American involvement in the task force.
The Public Housing Act 1942 provides for a forty-year program of low-rent urban housing, slum clearance, rural housing and federal aid for private projects. Senator Robert Taft, a co-sponsor of the act, said that "private enterprise has never provided necessary housing for the lowest income groups." (See this article from 1947- http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=471263 - for information about the Wagner-Ellender-Taft public housing bill and comments by Robert Taft).
In the 1942 midterm elections the Democrats win a majority in both houses of Congress. The results are as follows:
House of Representatives: Democrat 245 (+36)
Republican 183 (-33)
Socialist 7 (-3)
Senate: Democrat 49 (+2)
Republican 47 (-2)
Socialist 1.
Robert Taft is elected Senate Minority Leader by his colleagues. Alben Barkley is the new Senate Majority Leader, and Sam Rayburn is the new Speaker of the House of Representatives.
There is widespread speculation throughout 1943 and into 1944 as to whether Henry Stimson will run for nomination as Democratic candidate for President. Although born in September 1877 and therefore would be 77 years old if elected President in 1944, he has been actively attacking the administration in speeches throughout the country.
At the beginning of the 1944 election season, the other Democrats seeking their party's nomination as President are Alben W. Barkley, Huey Long and James Howard McGrath, the Governor of Rhode Island. FDR and Cordell Hull both announce that they will not run for President.
In the primaries, Huey Long does better than expected and wins states outside the South. However there are Democrats who are determined to stop him winning the nomination. On March 12 1944, while campaigning in Montgomery, Alabama, in that states Democratic primary election, Long is shot dead. Atticus Robinson, a mentally retarded black man, who is found holding a gun, is immediately seized by police and marched to the local police station. The next day he appears in the local court, obviously having been beaten up by the police. In a farce of a trial, in which he is assigned an incompetent defence attorney, he is sentenced on the same day to death by an all-white jury. With simple dignity, he asserts his total innocence of the crime. He is executed the following day. Long is buried without an autopsy being performed on his body.
Harper Lee, a student at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, is in the courtroom that day. She strongly believes that Robinson is innocent and is determined to vindicate him. Her 1955 novel To Kill a Mockingbird is closely based on the case and triggers widespread demands for a thorough and impartial investigation into the matter. At a public enquiry headed by a justice of the Supreme Court, eye
witnesses testify that they heard two or three shots coming from more than one direction and saw a man put a gun into Robinson's hands. The enquiry unanimously pronounces Atticus Robinson innocent of the murder of Huey Long, who they declare was killed by person or persons unknown.
It is still not known who murdered Huey Long, though conspiracy theories crop up regularly.
Charles McNary, the Vice-President, dies on February 25, 1944 (as in OTL). A new VP is not appointed as under the terms of the relevant amendment to the Constitution passed in 1937, if a Vice-President dies in a presidential election year, a new one is not appointed.
In the Progressive Republican party Henry Wallace is President Vandenberg's only challenger for renomination as his party's candidate for President.
In China from Autumn 1942 the Communists consolidate their position in the north and west of the country, and take over the remainder of mainland China. In September 1944 they march into Peking and the Nationalist government of Chiang-Kai-Shek flees to Taiwan.
General Mung Beans
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Another good installment but how come the Japanese didn't request a new task force?
The Japanese government learns through its diplomatic contacts with major European powers that they have little interest in assembling a new task force. Also the Japanese Communist party has sympathisers in the government and civil service.
When the Democratic party convention assembles none of the candidates - Alben Barkley, James Howard McGrath or Henry Stimson - has an overall majority of delegates. There is intense debate about the advantages and disadvantages of the candidates, principally Stimson.
Stimson has many years cabinet experience and as an ex Progressive Republican (PR) is likely to attract conservative PRs and Independents. But he is 76 years old and while age is associated with wisdom, there is the danger of senility and the 'old man in a hurry' syndrome. Also if he doesn't die during his first term, it is very unlikely that he will run for reelection, so the choice of Vice President is of more than usual importance.
Barkley appeals to the Democratic party base, but less so outside the party. Also at 66 years old he is only 10 years younger than Stimson, so his candidature would not overcome the age argument.
McGrath is young (born November 28, 1903) and the governor of a northern state (Rhode Island). But maybe his opportunity will come in four years time.
After two inconclusive ballots the Stimson and McGrath camps make a deal in which the McGrath delegates vote for Stimson. In return the Stimson delegates will vote for McGrath on the first ballot for Vice Presidential candidate. Stimson also tells McGrath that if elected President he will serve for only one term. So Stimson is elected as Democratic candidate for President on the third ballot, and McGrath is chosen on the first ballot as Vice Presidential candidate.
In the Progressive Republican party, President Vandenberg comes to the convention with a commanding lead in delegates, and is elected as candidate for President on the first ballot. The contenders for Vice Presidential candidate are Harold Stassen, Robert Taft and Henry Wallace. Stassen is chosen on the second ballot.
In the election campaign the Democrats declare that they will restore honour to America, and attack the incompetence of the Vandenberg administration, whom they blame for losing China, Japan and Korea to Communism. They talk about "rolling back Communism" and embarking on a "crusade to extend freedom", without being specific about it. They accuse the Progressive Republicans of being "soft on Communism". In contrast to previous elections, they state that they will not bring back the first past the post system for congressional elections but keep the alternative vote.
In reply to questions about his age, Henry Stimson says that doctors have declared him to be in top rate physical and mental health. When asked if he will be a one term only President, he replies that is up to God and the American people.
The Progressive Republicans campaign on their record of increasing prosperity, extending social benefits and as the party of peace.
The result is as follows:
Henry Stimson/James Howard McGrath (Democrat) 410 electoral votes
Arthur Vandenberg/Harold Stassen (Progressive Republican) 121 electoral votes.
The results of the congressional elections are as follows:
House of Representatives: Democrat 262 (+17)
Progressive Republican 167 (-16)
Socialist 6 (-1)
Senate: Democrat 51 (+2)
Progressive Republican 44 (-2) (In the 1942 Senate elections they won 46 seats, not 47 as stated in my previous message).
Socialist 1
Among President-elect Stimson's cabinet appointments are Averall Harriman as Secretary of State and James Forrestal as Secretary of Defense.
General Mung Beans
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Finally America starts getting tough! BTW, get you have a post on Europe please? You haven't had one on Europe for a while.
I don't know how to create maps and post them here.
In April 1945 the heads of government of Austria-Bohemia, Germany, Hungary, Poland, and the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), and their finance and foreign ministers, meet in Prague. Their discussions result in the Treaty of Prague which establishes the following:
A Central European Economic Community (CEEC), in which there is complete free trade and free movement of goods, capital, services and people among its members. A Council of Ministers which is chosen by each member government. Each government is represented on the Council in proportion to its population, but a three quarters majority is required for all decisions, and each member country has the right of veto in respect of important decisions. The Council of Ministers is answerable to the Assembly. Initially, this body is elected by the members of Parliament of each member country, but it is envisaged that by 1950, it will be elected directly by the voters of each country. The official languages of the Community are (in alphabetical order): Czech, German, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak, though all languages spoken in the Community have recognised status. After much discussion, Bratislava is designated as the capital of the Community, because it is an historic city more or less in its centre.
In the Spring of 1945 US intelligence agents in Moscow become aware that the Soviet Union is in the early stages of developing a nuclear weapon, though as yet one has not been tested. The American ambassador informs President Stimson. After consulting with the Vice President, the Secretaries of Defense and State, and the military heads of the armed forces, he orders that top priority is given to the development by the United States of nuclear weapons. This project is to be kept secret. In this ATL it is basically similar to the Manhattan Project ( http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project ) in OTL and is given the same name by General Leslie Groves, the military head of the project (as in OTL).
However in this timeline, one of the scientists involved in the project tells a journalist working for The Nation (the leftwing weekly magazine in this timeline and in OTL) about it in January 1946, and it publishes the story.
However in this timeline, one of the scientists involved in the project tells a journalist working for The Nation (the leftwing weekly magazine in this timeline and in OTL) about it in January 1946, and it publishes the story.
Where's Einstein in all this?
If you don't have anything higher end like photoshop or GIMP, you could just color in territories with paint and I would be willing to create one in higher resolution for you based on that.
There's a blank map thread. Take one of those, color it in in an image program (like Paint or Photoshop), and the upload it via "Imageshack". Then click on the portrait icon in the post edit box, copy the image location into it, and then you're good.
If you don't have anything higher end like photoshop or GIMP, you could just color in territories with paint and I would be willing to create one in higher resolution for you based on that.
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This is interesting. It appears fairly realistic given your assumptions.
As a veteran, I can believe politicians would screwover the soldiers in the expeditionary force, but I really hope they would get the POWs back.
The time for deploying it would be nearer six months than six weeks.
I doubt the US could have deployed 50,000 men at all. Your US budgets don't appear to be enough to have a large armed forces.
As a veteran, I can believe politicians would screwover the soldiers in the expeditionary force, but I really hope they would get the POWs back.
The time for deploying it would be nearer six months than six weeks.
I doubt the US could have deployed 50,000 men at all. Your US budgets don't appear to be enough to have a large armed forces.
General Mung Beans
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How come the scientists involved in the Manhattan Project told a journalist? BTW, what's happening in the European colonies in Asia and Africa?
As he was in OTL.
They are returned by the Soviet Union over two or three years between 1943 and 1946.
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I have edited the relevant post. The League of Nations task force lands at Pusan in mid to late November 1942. After its devastating defeat, Emperor Hirohito surrenders to the Soviets on December 16, 1942.
The scientist who told the journalist from The Nation had a crisis of conscience about the development of nuclear weapons.
The British Labour government gives the British Indian Empire (India, Pakistan, Burma and Sri Lanka in our OTL) its independence in June 1943. In this ATL, there is no partition into India and Pakistan, but the strongly Muslim areas become states in a federal India. Nehru becomes Prime Minister and Jinnah (the Muslim leader) Deputy Prime Minister. Burma and Sri Lanka become independent states. All these countries join the British Commonwealth and recognise King George VI as their head of state.
As regards sub-Saharan Africa the situation regarding the European colonies is the same as in OTL. I need to do more research about the European colonies in the rest of Africa and in Asia.
When The Nation publishes the story about the Manhattan Project, President Stimson does not deny it. He says that the United States began developing atomic weapons because of information received that the Soviet Union was (and still is) doing so. The genie of nuclear technology cannot be put back into its bottle. America will continue to develop these weapons in order to provide an effective deterrent against all possible aggressors.
1946. The development of nuclear weapons by the United States is supported by the Democrats, but opposed by the Progressive Republicans and by the Socialists.
In the Philippines, the Hukbalahap communist/leftwing guerrillas (commonly known as the Huk) are increasingly active. In June they assassinate the Defense minister and several leading army generals. By September they have established the People's Republic of the Philippines on the island of Mindanao and other southern islands. Map here: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/maps/asia/philippines . They receive military aid in the form of arms and "volunteers" from China and the Soviet Union.
In July, President Manual Roxas asks the American government for arms and troops to combat the Huk. President Stimson says that America will send as much arms and commit as many troops as are necessary to stop the Philippines falling under Communism. The first batch of troops- 10,000 personnel - are sent to that country. Because of his lukewarm to hostile attitude to the League of Nations, Stimson refuses to ask for its authorisation for American task force to the Philippines. However he receives the support of the British Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden and his Conservative government after they win the general election in September.
The administration's policy towards the Philippines is supported by the Democrats, but opposed by the Progressive Republicans and by the Socialists. They claim that the United States is intervening in a civil war in the Philippines. Some in those parties accuse the administration of imperialist desires.
The results of the 1946 mid term Congressional elections are as follows:
House of Representatives: Democrat 253 (-9)
Progressive Republican 167 (+8)
Socialist 7 (+1)
Senate: Democrat 50 (-1)
Progressive Republican 45 (+1)
Socialist 1
Richard Nixon is elected as Democratic congressman for the 12th Congressional district of California. Another socialist replaces Sidney Hillman as Socialist senator from Minnesota.
Thomas Dewey is elected as Progressive Republican governor of New York.
In the 1944 elections, Joseph McCarthy had been elected as Democratic senator for Wisconsin.
In the Philippines, the Hukbalahap communist/leftwing guerrillas (commonly known as the Huk) are increasingly active. In June they assassinate the Defense minister and several leading army generals. By September they have established the People's Republic of the Philippines on the island of Mindanao and other southern islands. Map here: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/maps/asia/philippines . They receive military aid in the form of arms and "volunteers" from China and the Soviet Union.
In July, President Manual Roxas asks the American government for arms and troops to combat the Huk. President Stimson says that America will send as much arms and commit as many troops as are necessary to stop the Philippines falling under Communism. The first batch of troops- 10,000 personnel - are sent to that country. Because of his lukewarm to hostile attitude to the League of Nations, Stimson refuses to ask for its authorisation for American task force to the Philippines. However he receives the support of the British Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden and his Conservative government after they win the general election in September.
The administration's policy towards the Philippines is supported by the Democrats, but opposed by the Progressive Republicans and by the Socialists. They claim that the United States is intervening in a civil war in the Philippines. Some in those parties accuse the administration of imperialist desires.
The results of the 1946 mid term Congressional elections are as follows:
House of Representatives: Democrat 253 (-9)
Progressive Republican 167 (+8)
Socialist 7 (+1)
Senate: Democrat 50 (-1)
Progressive Republican 45 (+1)
Socialist 1
Richard Nixon is elected as Democratic congressman for the 12th Congressional district of California. Another socialist replaces Sidney Hillman as Socialist senator from Minnesota.
Thomas Dewey is elected as Progressive Republican governor of New York.
In the 1944 elections, Joseph McCarthy had been elected as Democratic senator for Wisconsin.
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