What if Alien Space Bats allow you to realistically alter the outcome of a single US presidential election and everything that happens afterwards, with our universe/TL remaining unchanged but a parallel TL being created in a parallel universe where everything unfolds starting from the relevant point of departure. You can either stay in our universe/TL in 2022 or move to the alternate parallel universe/TL in 2022, but either way, you get to see what has occurred in this parallel TL/universe after you created it by altering the outcome of a particular US presidential election. (I'm basing my scenario here on the multiverse theory, where TLs can branch into different outcomes if you change something.)
Anyway, which US presidential election outcome would you alter? Personally, I would probably choose 1916 since I would think that Charles Evans Hughes would be more capable of establishing a lasting post-World War I peace settlement than Woodrow Wilson was. At the very least, he'd be more likely to succeed in getting US Senate ratification of the League of Nations with reservations as well as of the Security Treaty with Britain and France, thus allowing the US to establish a post-WWI peacetime defensive alliance with Britain and France, a proto-NATO if you will. If the US will be more involved in European affairs in the 1920s and 1930s, then maybe there would be no World War II or at the very least World War II would have a better outcome, such as France not falling in 1940 and thus half of Europe avoiding Communist rule afterwards while the Holocaust either doesn't occur or is much less severe even if it does occur (since the Nazis won't control anywhere near as many Jews if France doesn't fall in 1940).
Anyway, what do you think?
Anyway, which US presidential election outcome would you alter? Personally, I would probably choose 1916 since I would think that Charles Evans Hughes would be more capable of establishing a lasting post-World War I peace settlement than Woodrow Wilson was. At the very least, he'd be more likely to succeed in getting US Senate ratification of the League of Nations with reservations as well as of the Security Treaty with Britain and France, thus allowing the US to establish a post-WWI peacetime defensive alliance with Britain and France, a proto-NATO if you will. If the US will be more involved in European affairs in the 1920s and 1930s, then maybe there would be no World War II or at the very least World War II would have a better outcome, such as France not falling in 1940 and thus half of Europe avoiding Communist rule afterwards while the Holocaust either doesn't occur or is much less severe even if it does occur (since the Nazis won't control anywhere near as many Jews if France doesn't fall in 1940).
Anyway, what do you think?