What would the political landscape be like if there was...

[bullmoose88]

no Great Depression?

Assume all other world events (save US political developments) occur as they did historically.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

We're more free market.

[minionofmidas]

no Great Depression?

Assume all other world events (save US political developments) occur as they did historically.

You'll have to help me out here. No Great Depression but a World War II? How so?

[Stranger in a strange land]

no Great Depression?

Assume all other world events (save US political developments) occur as they did historically.

the thing is that the whole world was affected by the Great Depression, not just the US. Thus if you remove the Great Depression, Hitler probably never rises to power, the British Empire is in a much better political and financial state, and the French 3rd Republic isn't as decrepit, all of which will massively affect world events all the way up to the present day.

[gorkay]

If there had been no Great Depression in the U.S., the long Democratic domination of American politics from the early thirties to the early fifties probably wouldn't have happened. Just as the long Republican domination of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries probably wouldn't have happened without the Civil War.

[bullmoose88]

no Great Depression?

Assume all other world events (save US political developments) occur as they did historically.

You'll have to help me out here. No Great Depression but a World War II? How so?

You'll have to forgive me, I realize the Great Depression was an international event without which there would be no World War II (assuming no other particular depression occurred).

What I'm simply trying to get at is changing just that one variable...rather than doing a whole other alternate history because of the other changes that may or may not have occurred without the big one.

Perhaps I should have written the question as...

No Great Depression in the United States...you may assume, despite the origins of the GD occurring in the US, that some other depression occurs, to which the United States is somehow immune, allowing for all other world events to occur UNLESS they are directly affected by the alternate US political landscape...