Off the top of my head and with minimal checking I think it looks pretty good for Nixon. Ike won in a landslide and that suggests either the electorate was happy with how things were going or Adlai Stevenson was a terrible candidate. Nixon would have been in office for almost a year so would see the benefits of incumbency unless he managed to ruin everything in that time. This is also before televised presidential debates so he can't make the mistakes he made against Kennedey in 1960 OTL.'Ike Resigns After His 1955 Heart Attack. How Does The 1956 Election Look With President Nixon As The GOP Nominee?'.
Dunno about 1,but 2 - possible,bit not very probable.Wiśniowieccy were polish magnats/gentry ,so they cherished their political freedom,something which Ottomans never delivered.Several ideas that recently popped into my head that I wanted to discuss, but can't seem to have the courage to progress it beyond the planning stage at the moment:
1) Huey Long survives the assassination attempt on his life, and how would that affect American politics in the 1930s. Not sure if Long has a shot at becoming President, although it might be hard to create a scenario where Huey Long and Charles Lindbergh become popular in the United States.
2) Dmytro Vyshnevetsky IOTL had nearly defected to the Ottomans before he was ordered to build a fort in Mala Khortytsia and fortify the region. His temptation to defect was mainly caused by the Catholicization of the predominantly Orthodox Ruthenian lands. Say if Vyshnevetsky had actually defected to the Ottomans and their Crimean Tatar vassals, he would have posed a much bigger threat to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth than Sahaidachny and Bohdan Khmelnytskyi combined. I'm trying to go for the whole Cossack reunification of Ruthenia and conquering the Grand Duchy of Muscovy, before forming Russia or Ruthenia in this case. Basically the East Slavic version of the Manchu conquest of China, with the Muscovites playing the role of the Ming.
For quite a few such families this transition involved a Protestant episode.Dmytro Vyshnevetsky was born in 1510, and before they became Catholicized, they were originally Orthodox Ruthenian nobles.
Several ideas that recently popped into my head that I wanted to discuss, but can't seem to have the courage to progress it beyond the planning stage at the moment:
1) Huey Long survives the assassination attempt on his life, and how would that affect American politics in the 1930s. Not sure if Long has a shot at becoming President, although it might be hard to create a scenario where Huey Long and Charles Lindbergh become popular in the United States.
2) Dmytro Vyshnevetsky IOTL had nearly defected to the Ottomans before he was ordered to build a fort in Mala Khortytsia and fortify the region. His temptation to defect was mainly caused by the Catholicization of the predominantly Orthodox Ruthenian lands. Say if Vyshnevetsky had actually defected to the Ottomans and their Crimean Tatar vassals, he would have posed a much bigger threat to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth than Sahaidachny and Bohdan Khmelnytskyi combined. I'm trying to go for the whole Cossack reunification of Ruthenia and conquering the Grand Duchy of Muscovy, before forming Russia or Ruthenia in this case. Basically the East Slavic version of the Manchu conquest of China, with the Muscovites playing the role of the Ming.
I only knew that gentry considered their political freedom as thing most important then religion.If they go to turks,they would not be happy.The Wisniowiecki that became Polish magnates only happened in the later half of the 16th century. Dmytro Vyshnevetsky was born in 1510, and before they became Catholicized, they were originally Orthodox Ruthenian nobles.
I needed to find someone who is more of an expert in Ukrainian history, because this is an area that I know almost nothing about.
Maoism was genocidal,but not insane - they genocided those who in their opinion do not belong to new,brave world.True.
I would think that the absence of American aid would make defeating Germany a bit harder for the Allies, especially regarding the Battle of the Atlantic. That would mean more U-Boat siblings of Allied shipping, which may make the North African theater a brutal bloodbath like the Eastern Front. Would it be safe to say that Huey Long’s pseudo-socialism might be more like OTL Maoism minus the insanity?
rather red USA,soviets and Japan.England would lost their empire to them,and soviets could invade what was left.Also in the Huey Long scenario, Japan didn’t attack Pearl Harbor yet, so that would be a shocking scenario indeed: a three way Cold War between the Allies, Soviets and Japanese.
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I would think that the absence of American aid would make defeating Germany a bit harder for the Allies, especially regarding the Battle of the Atlantic. That would mean more U-Boat siblings of Allied shipping, which may make the North African theater a brutal bloodbath like the Eastern Front. Would it be safe to say that Huey Long’s pseudo-socialism might be more like OTL Maoism minus the insanity?
Several ideas that recently popped into my head that I wanted to discuss, but can't seem to have the courage to progress it beyond the planning stage at the moment:
1) Huey Long survives the assassination attempt on his life, and how would that affect American politics in the 1930s. Not sure if Long has a shot at becoming President, although it might be hard to create a scenario where Huey Long and Charles Lindbergh become popular in the United States.
As for how to get him elected, have FDR assassinated in 1933. Garner would still do the First New Deal but he was opposed to the second, being in favor of a balanced budget; such would likely trigger the OTL 1937 Recession in 1935 or so, and the fact Garner did not support the Wagner Act would mean Long could poach Labor from the Democrats if he ran as independent or attract them to himself in a bid to unseat Garner through the Democrat Party itself. He could probably win in 1936 with that, unless a sufficient coalition of Democrats and Republicans happens, in which case he pulls an Andrew Jackson and gets in via the 1940 election.
That assumes that Roosevelt's prescription for the economy was correct. That is still disputed among those not invested in maintaining the Roosevelt coalition.