History Literature / LosingThePeace

** [[spoiler: President Morgenthau is largely perceived 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. It is telling that antisemitism is alive and well into the 1970s and that Holocaust denial is not political suicide. TurnedUpToEleven after the Statue of Liberty Attack in 1977, in which internment camps similar to the ones Japanese-Americans were placed into OTL were started, to mainly curtail the 'bad Jews'.]]

* 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. And then the Second Great Depression comes around.]]

** Gone full Nazi mode by the end of the Buckleymania: Nazi anti-Semitic slogans are used on the radio by officials and most of the quotes uttered during the Bellinzona trials are taken dtraight from [[https://famous-trials.com/nuremberg/1898-defendants quotes used by Nazi defendents in Nuremberg]].
* {{Arcadia}}: [[spoiler: West Germany is a deconstruction. 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.

** [[spoiler: After the ''Sarasateana'', Brazil, Spain and the United Arab Republic end divided into their constituant states]].

** 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 is paramount 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, the rise of the far-right. Also, the civil rights movement has failed utterly and Jim Crow is alive and well.]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:As OTL, Lumumba and two Congolese ministers end bound to a tree, shot, decapitated and their members thrown into acid before being burned by the Germans of the ''Force Publique'']].

* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: [[spoiler:Spontaneous celebrations occured when the United States were dissolved]].

** [[spoiler: President Morgenthau is largely perceived 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. It is telling that anti-semitism is alive and well into the 1970s, and that Holocaust denial is not political suicide. TurnedUpToEleven after the Statue of Liberty Attack in 1977, in which internment camps similar to the ones Japanese-Americans were placed into OTL were started, to mainly curtail the 'bad Jews'.]]

** Gone full Nazi mode by the end of the Buckleymania: Nazi anti-Semitic slogans are used on radio by officials and most of the quotes uttered during the Bellinzona trials are taken dtraight from [[https://famous-trials.com/nuremberg/1898-defendants quotes used by Nazi defendents in Nuremberg]].

* ArtisticLicenseEconomics: [[spoiler: President Taft fully implements a fiscally conservative roll back of the welfare state. While during the more or less prosperous fifties there is little controversy, once the economy enters into recession in the sixties, the loss of retirement money from the privatized Social Security hits elders' particularly hard.]]

** 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 Jim Crow is alive and well.]]

** 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. They are then divided into a Communist North and a Nationalist South, which is, after yet another nuclear war, reannexed to the North, leaving the KMT in Formosa]].
** Europe is thrown under the bus after the war by a isolationist United States. [[spoiler:A watered-down version of the Marshall Plan is implemented, only for it to be cut off by President Taft. This slows down the European recovery, forcing European nations to pool their resources together to not only rebuilt but also defend themselves from the Soviet Union]].

** [[spoiler:German volunteers were send to slaughter rebels and civilians in French Algeria and the Belgian Congo]].

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:As OTL, Lumumba and two Congolese ministers end bound to a tree, shot, depeced and their members thrown into acid before being burned by the Germans of the ''Force Publique'']].

** [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/CharlesDeGaulle ends killed by the "Hunger Army" in occuped Germany]].

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

* JustFollowingOrders: [[spoiler:The defense used by General William Calley in Bellinzona, even though both of his sons died during the ''Sarasateana'']].

* LegionOfLostSouls: Belgium, Spain, Holland and France ressort to using German volunteers in order to hold on their colonies. [[SociopathicSoldier They are not nice guys]].

* PresidentEvil: President [[spoiler:Buckley]]. Under him, [[spoiler:ethnic and religious minorities are subject to severe discrimination, political opponents are harassed and jailed for both real and fabricated crimes, and regressive policies on womens' and LGBT rights are allowed to take effect]].

** Taiwan was supposed to fell to Mao; now, the KMT pushed them to the sea and retook part of the mainland.

* SociopathicSoldier: the German divisions of the French Foreign Legion and the Belgian ''Force Publique'' are this, considerating their soldiers grew under Nazism and the Anarchy while their NCO were former Waffen-SS veterans.

* VictorGainsLosersPowers: a ''geographical'' version, [[spoiler: as a utterly crushed Israel is torn apart and split between Palestine, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Saudi Arabia]].

** 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 and is eventually wiped out in the 1982 midterm elections]].
** 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, until they fuse as the Republican-States' Rights Party, or simply "The Party"]].

** Kim Il-Sung was couped, send in a [[POWCamp camp]] and murdered by a guard.

* ForWantOfANail: The whole thing begins after HarrySTruman manages to get approved the White House reparation budget and a chandelier fell on his head.

* [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized The Revolution]] [[SubvertedTrope Will Be Civilized]]: [[spoiler: with the failure of Alexander Haig's coup and the release of the Buckley tapes incriminating most members of Congress in decades-long conspiracies, the reformers seem to be the ones poised to change America for the better through a Constitutional Convention]].

* RedScare: it never ''ends''.

* JustFollowingOrders: [[spoiler:the defense used by General William Calley in Bellinzona, even though both of his sons died during the ''Sarasateana'']].

* DemocracyIsBad: initially subverted but ultimately played straight. [[spoiler: As new political parties rise and partisanship increases, government incompetence grows as well. Ultimately it's what brings down George Mitchell's administration and allows the race-baiting, anti-semitic Dan Buckley to win the 1976 presidential election. However it seems that the multi-party democracy is ending and the two-party system is reasserting itself]].

* TheCoup: [[spoiler:one was attempted by Alexander Haig to overthrow Buckley as a constitutional convention was gearing in Washington]].

* JustFollowedOrders: [[spoiler:the defense used by General William Calley in Bellinzona, even though both of his sons died during the ''Sarasateana'']].

* AndThereWereMuchRejoicing: [[spoiler:Spontaneous celebrations occured when the United States were dissolved]].

** George Lincoln Rockwell is a Congressman.

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: In our timeline, Creator/EfremZimbalistJr. was a conservative-leaning actor with a long and distinguished career, starring in several live-action TV shows between the late 1950s and mid-70s, and later lending his voice to numerous superhero animated series. In this alternate timeline, [[spoiler:he is elected President in 1976 under his stage name of "Dan D. Buckley" and assumes pretty well Hitlerian powers over America: interning entire ethnic and racial groups under the pretext of "terrorism", maintaining control over Congress by locking up opposition politicians on trumped-up or outright fabricated charges, limiting the franchise through incredibly restrictive voter ID laws, absorbing most of the private sector into the for-profit government control, simultaneously invading half a dozen countries at enormous loss of life, criminalizing such things as homosexuality, and violating just about every constitutional right in existence on a nationwide scale]].

* AnarchyIsChaos: What happens in West Germany once desindustrialisation causes total societal collapse.

** [[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. TurnedUpToEleven after the Statue of Liberty Attack in 1977, in which internment camps similar to the ones Japanese-Americans were placed into OTL were started, to mainly curtail the 'bad Jews'.]]

** George Lincoln Rockwell is a ''Congressman''.

* TruthInTelevision: Many, many times throughout this work, the reader encounters a quotation that seems too vile to have been said anywhere outside the hellish world of this alternate timeline—only to be informed via footnote that that quote is a word-for-word facsimile of something an actual politician or public figure said in our word, with only a few changes made.

* WorkingOnTheChainGang: Buckleymania Congress nationalisated private prisons and mandated all jails run a surplus.

'''Losing the Peace''' is an ongoing AlternateHistory timeline written by Kovalenko, on the website AlternateHistoryDotCom. The premise is that Henry Morgenthau, mostly known for the infamous and theoretical 'Morgenthau Plan', becomes president, due to President Truman dying in an accidental roofing collapse in 1945. He proceeds to begin his plan of 'punishing' Germany, starting off a long line of trauma and violence...

'''Losing the Peace''' is an ongoing AlternateHistory timeline written by Kovalenko, on the website AlternateHistoryDotCom. The premise is that Henrry Morgenthau, mostly known for the infamous and theoretical 'Morgenthau Plan', becomes president, due to President Truman dying in an accidental roofing collapse in 1945. He proceeds to begin his plan of 'punishing' Germany, starting off a long line of trauma and violence...

*** The United States are [[spoiler:into a Second Depression so devastating to the point Americans are migrating ''to'' the Soviet block]] while [[spoiler:Jews, Blacks and Germans are blamed for the crisis]].

* SecretPolice: Nixon's Janitors, or the Sanitation Division, investigate on crooked politicians, especially those dissenting with Buckley.

* SuperBreedingProgram: The Nordic Confederation has eugenics, as OTL, and other countries followed, among them Buckley America.

** [[spoiler: After the ''Sarasateana'', Brazil, Spain and the United Arab Republic end divided in their constituant states]].

* {{Eagleland}}: America under [[spoiler:President Buckley]] is a hardcore Type 2.

** [[spoiler:Attempted by Haig: he wanted to make Buckley stand down so that someone more ruthless take over America]].

* [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized TheRevolution]][[SubvertedTrope WillBeCivilized]]: [[spoiler: with the failure of Alexander Haig's coup and the release of the Buckley tapes incriminating most members of Congress in decades-long conspiracies, the reformers seem to be the ones poised to change America for the better through a Constitutional Convention]].

** Rockwell is a ''Congressman''.

* CadreOfForeignBodyguards: Buckley and most ''Concordat'' leaders use the services of a company recruiting Chadian and German mercenaries as bodyguards.

* SuperBreedingProgram: The Nordic Confederation has one, as OTL, and other countries followed, among them Buckley America.

** Elizabeth II is murdered by Evan Murphy.

** [[spoiler:What did Massu to Algerian rebels]].

* [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized TheRevolution]][[SubvertedTrope WillBeCivilized]]:

* PresidentEvil: President [[spoiler:Buckley]]. Under him, ethnic and religious minorities are subject to severe discrimination, political opponents are harassed and jailed for both real and fabricated crimes, and regressive policies on womens' and LGBT rights are allowed to take effect.

* [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized TheRevolution]][[SubvertedTrope ''Will''BeCivilized]]:

** The United States are into a second Depression to the point [[spoiler:Americans are migrating ''to'' the Soviet block]] while [[spoiler:Jews, Blacks and Germans are blamed for the crisis]].

** [[spoilder: After the ''Sarasateana'', Brazil, Spain and the United Arab Republic end divided in their constituant states]].

** [[After the ''$'', Brazil, Spain and the United Arab Republic end divided in their constituant states]].

* LethalGas: Used during the ''Sarasateana''.