What would have happened if FDR had gone with him instead of Truman?

>>2170329
Maybe more bombs would of been dropped then just 2.

>>2170725
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>>2170329
We would have turned around and went directly to war with the Soviets while they were weak to avoid a potential war later on. Fearful of the Soviets later having the destructive power of the bomb, wise to the authoritarian expansionist nature of the Soviets and pressured by a both parties for being potentially too sympathetic to Communism, Wallace would have tried to secure complete American hegemony. It would almost be like Kennedy being encouraged to be particularly strong against the Soviets like in the Bay of Pigs to avoid being seen as weak.

With Stalin sending forces against Japan, Wallace would have engaged us in a race to subdue the Japanese with the bomb, but stoking fears of a communist invasion of the island to demand that they reorganize their armed forces under American vassalage to invade the Soviets on the eastern front. Meanwhile, in Europe, allied forces would take a very brief time to organize and prepare for a blitzkrieg through eastern Europe, lend-lease program to the Soviets and damaging their supply. Naval and Air superiority would be used to damage weakly secured supply lines in eastern Europe and land troops from the Baltic and Black sea, quickly encircling Soviet forces and liberating eastern European nations along the way, none too pleased with the idea of being ruled by Soviet overlords. By the time war is declared and the Allies nearly push the Soviets beyond the baltics, Japan and the Allies on the Pacific theatre will be prepared to open a new front in the war, beginning a long march through Russian territory.

During the war, Wallace would use the distraction and the hardline on communism as a pretext to pass more social reforms. Wallace would also begin drafting plans to dismantle the perceived menace of the old colonial empires which he blames as partially responsible for both World Wars.

>>2171034
*ending the lend-lease program and damaging their supply

>>2171034

You realize that Henry Wallace was very sympathetic towards the USSR, right? His 1948 presidential campaign was openly pro-Soviet.

>>2171119
Wallace was only sympathetic in the sense that he didn't want a war after WW2 and didn't want the United States to take a reactionary stance towards the socialist economic policies of the Communists in favor of hard-line capitalism. He would have prefered the Soviets continue to be seen as morally ambiguous with a sympathetic public opinion to their economic policies but an unsympathetic public opinion towards their authoritarianism. Once the Cold War went into full swing and it was obvious that the economy of the Soviet Union was failing, he became staunchly anti-communist. Remember, what Wallace was dealing with, The Soviet Union was famous for "modernization within a single generation.", nearly unprecedented in human history.

Wallace was an ambitious ideologue and if saw an opening for a quick defeat of the Soviets and American hegemony to enforce his Progessivist/Anti-Colonial vision on Europe and much of the world, then he likely wouldn't have hesitated.

>>2171173
It's almost similar to how Barack Obama made a career out of being anti-imperialist, blaming much of our troubles in the middle east on Colonialism/American Imperialism rather than Radical Islam, but of course when he got into office and had to deal with the realities of the world, a different group of people around him, the potential for solving the middle eastern issue during his term, he became even more aggressive than Bush in many respects and tried to take advantage of the Arab Spring to install democracies across North Africa and parts of the MidEast. It may have been flawed and not have gone all that well, but he changed his toon and I can see alot of reasons why Wallace would change his toon about the Soviets earlier upon becoming president than later if he didn't. A defeat of the Soviets would by his hand could be very tempting to him.