History Literature / LosingThePeace

-->--'''UsefulNotes/FranklinDelanoRoosevelt'''

** China suffers [[spoiler: nuclear strikes during an joint American-Taiwanese invasion of the mainland. The United States deploys nuclear weapons in the battlefield, causing radiation and killing thousands of people, including Mao]].

* GreatOffscreenWar: Subverted. We do get to see [[spoiler:the military invasion of Chinese mainland by a Americo-Taiwanese alliance]].
* HopeSpot: When Opposition ([[spoiler:the union of practically all parties besides States' Rights and Republicans]]) tries to beat incumbent President Buckley. [[spoiler:Then Buckley gets elected for the third time.]]

* TheScapegoat: A local States' Rights Party leader blames the [[spoiler:Second Depression]] on "Niggers, Heinies and Jewish-Bolsheviks."

** Republican Party: initially successful, the Republicans' [[spoiler: turn for the worse as the economy deteriorates, the consequences of their anti-welfare policies become apparent, along with war fatigue and an increasinly powerful communist bloc. They are ultimately forced to partner with the States' Rights Party, which is the stronger of the two for a time]].

** Grange Party: a party of farmers from the midwest opposed to the welfare "reforms" of the [[spoiler:Taft administration]].

** Ironically the Soviet Union has come out stronger, still being dominating in Eastern Europe and having successfully implemented market-oriented reforms that saved her economy.

** Ironically the Soviet Union has come out stronger, controlling still its colonies in Eastern Europe and having successfully implemented market-oriented reforms that saved her economy.

** [[spoiler:On May 13th, 1956, the [[GaulsWithGrenades French Army]] started OTL "Opération Resurrection" and took over France, fearing they could be stabbed in the back by a left-wing Assembly in their colonies]].

** Democratic Party: the party of the New Deal and FDR is [[spoiler:horrified as decades of progress is reverted in matter of years, while suffering internal dissent by her conservative wing which opposes desegregation and civil rights. The party slowly becomes a rump party throughout the following decades]].

* BoomerangBigot: President [[spoiler:Buckley[[note]][[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efrem_Zimbalist_Jr. AKA]] Efrem Zimbalist Jr.[[/note]], despite being of Jewish descent himself, openly exploits the increased anti-Semitism of TTL's America for political gain.]]

* BoomerangBigot: President [[spoiler:Buckley[[note]]AKA [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efrem_Zimbalist_Jr. Efren Zimbalist Jr.]][[/note]], despite being of Jewish descent himself, openly exploits the increased anti-Semitism of TTL's America for political gain.]]

* BoomerangBigot: President [[spoiler]]:Buckley[[note]]AKA [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efrem_Zimbalist_Jr. Efren Zimbalist Jr.]][[/note]], despite being of Jewish descent himself, openly exploits the increased anti-Semitism of TTL's America for political gain.]]

* RedScare: it never ''ends''.

** [[spoiler: President Morgenthau is largely percieved to be this. His successful implementation of the Morgenthau Plan destroys Germany and kills approximately two million people and causes a BrainDrain from which West Germany will never recover from. It is telling that anti-semitism is alive and well into the 1970s, and that Holocaust denial is not political suicide.]]

* {{Arcadia}}: [[spoiler: West Germany is a desconstruction. The effects of the Morgenthau Plan are so severe that modern-day Germany remains a largely agrarian society with little examples of modernity present.]] See the quote page.

** Israel is hit the hardest [[spoiler: as it's ultimately invaded by the United States, destroyed and split into smaller nations]].

* GreatOffscreenWar: subverted. We do get to see [[spoiler:the military invasion of Chinese mainland by a Americo-Taiwanese alliance]].

** [[spoiler:Racial segregation in the United States never ends, meaning that even by the early 1980s, the United States remains an apartheid state.]]

** The United States' elects a fiscal conservative in 1948 who [[spoiler: proceeds to successfully dismantle the New Deal. Unfortunately once the Second Depression hits America in the sixties, welfare programs that could have helped the American people are now largely underfunded or privatized- which paramounts to abolishing those programs such as when all the retirement money in Social Security is lost.]] Also the United States is beset by terrorism, economic collapse [[spoiler:, political gridlock and instability, rise of the far-right. Also the civil rights movement has failed utterly and the United States remains an apartheid state.]]

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: [[spoiler: President Morgenthau is largely percieved to be this. His successful implementation of the Morgenthau Plan destroys Germany and kills approximately two million people and causes a BrainDrain from which West Germany will never recover from. It is telling that anti-semitism is alive and well into the 1970s, and that Holocaust denial is not political suicide.]]
** [[spoiler: racial segregation in the United States never ends, meaning that even by the early 1980s, the United States remains an apartheid state.]]

* BalkanizeMe: [[spoiler: the fate of Israel.]]

** the United States' elects a fiscal conservative in 1948 who [[spoiler: proceeds to successfully dismantle the New Deal. Unfortunately once the Second Depression hits America in the sixties, welfare programs that could have helped the American people are now largely underfunded or privatized- which paramounts to abolishing those programs such as when all the retirement money in Social Security is lost.]] Also the United States is beset by terrorism, economic collapse [[spoiler:, political gridlock and instability, rise of the far-right. Also the civil rights movement has failed utterly and the United States remains an apartheid state.]]

* DemocracyIsBad: subverted mostly. [[spoiler:While the two-party system implodes and new political parties rise in an increasinly fragmented political system, the United States remains mostly politically stable, with compromising and multi-partisanship thriving]].

* TheAce: President [[spoiler: [=Robert Taft=] is a right-wing LogicalExtreme {{Deconstruction}} of this trope. He successfully rolls back the New Deal, privatizes Social Security and undoes workers' rights.]]

** the United States' elects a fiscal conservative in 1948 who [[spoiler: proceeds to successfully dismantle the New Deal. Unfortunately once the Second Depression hits America in the sixties, welfare programs that could have helped the American people are now largely underfunded or privatized- which paramounts to abolishing those programs such as when all the retirement money in Social Security is lost.]]

* CrapsackWorld: Oh so very true, though there are bright spots.

* {{Arcadia}}: [[spoiler: West Germany is a desconstruction. The effects of the Morgentahu Plan are so severe that modern-day Germany remains a largely agrarian society with little examples of modernity present.]] See the quote page.

* TheAce: President [[spoiler: [=Robert Taft=] is a right-wing LogicalExtreme Deconstruction of this trope. He successfully rolls back the New Deal, privatizes Social Security and undoes workers' rights.]]

* TheAce: President [[spoiler: [=Robert Taft=] is a right-wing LogicalExtreme version of this trope. He successfully rolls back the New Deal, privatizes Social Security and undoes workers' rights.]]

** States' Rights Party: a DeepSouth party created by dissenting conservative Democrats [[they slowly grow in power until they become a majority party in Congress and become the White House's kingmakers]].

** China suffers [[spoiler: nuclear strikes during an joint American-Taiwanese invasion of the mainland. The United States deploys nuclear weapons in the battlefield, causing radiation and killing thousands of people, including Mao.]]

* Arcadia : [[spoiler: West Germany is a desconstruction. The effects of the Morgentahu Plan are so severe that modern-day Germany remains a largely agrarian society with little examples of modernity present.]] See the quote page.

!!The Ruins of an American Tropes' system:

* Arcadia: [[spoiler: West Germany is a desconstruction. The effects of the Morgentahu Plan are so severe that modern-day Germany remains a largely agrarian society with little examples of modernity present.]] See the quote page.

* Arcadia: [[spoiler: West Germany is a desconstruction. The effects of the Morgentahu Plan are so severe that modern-day Germany remains a largely agrarian society with little examples of modernity present.]] This chilling quote tells it all:
** [[spoiler:For better or for worse, Henry Morgenthau had gotten his wish. He had destroyed the old Germany. The industrious citizens of the Germanies would foreverafter seek out the gleaming cities in the West rather than build up the land of their birth. When one stands atop the tallest building in Frankfurt am Main, it is said that all of the farmlands across the region are visible. A quaint fact to tell the tourists until one ponders the implications. The tourists' tale is of course an exaggeration, the modern Germanies boast more than just rolling plains. Rural dairies, slaughterhouses, furniture factories, and refineries dot the countryside. The "Garden of Europe" can still cheerfully supply artisan goods to the world, the post-war years a distant memory. But to see the suffering of Germany, one must not look for scars but instead appreciate what is not visible. Skyscrapers are not visible in Germany, radiotowers are not visible in Germany, ''modern civilization'' is not visible in Germany...]]

* Arcadia: [[West Germany is a desconstruction. The effects of the Morgentahu Plan are so severe that modern-day Germany remains a largely agrarian society with little examples of modernity present.]] This chilling quote tells it all:

* CrapsackWorld: Oh so very true.

The timeline can be found [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/tliapod-losing-the-peace-or-how-henry-morgenthau-destroyed-germany.393158/ here]].