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Could we have won WWII without FDR as president?

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I would state that in an alternate reality without FDR as President, any US President could made the decision to go to war in Europe, if it was required. However, with no Roosevelt, there may not have been a WWII or there would have been a smaller conflict or (series of conflicts) rather than an international and full-scale war. read more

Without the New Deal's effect of improving the economy combined with the start of Lend Lease and peacetime expansion of the US military (neither of which may have happened without FDR), the result would have put the US in a worse position upon entering the war than it was in reality. read more

If we posit (as the questioner asks) that FDR never became President, we leave room open for the fact that there may have only been a brief First World War and the carnage which it unleashed might have been lessened on all fronts, A limited First World War might have lead Germany away from a Wiemar Republic and into a true democracy which would have prevented the rise of Adolf Hitler, the architect of the European Theater of WWII. read more

In the United States, generations were taught that Japan would never have surrendered so quickly without use of the atomic bomb and that victory would have required a bloody invasion of the Japanese mainland, costing hundreds of thousands of lives. read more

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