The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between  129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict. In the final year of World War II, the Allies prepared for a costly invasion of the Japanese mainland. This undertaking was preceded by a conventional and firebombing campaign that devastated 67 Japanese cities. The war in Europe concluded when Germany surrendered on 8 May 1945, and the Allies turned their full attention to the Pacific War. 

Operation Downfall was the proposed Allied plan for the invasion of the Japanese home islands near the end of World War II. Casualty predictions varied widely, but were extremely high. Depending  on the degree to which Japanese civilians would have resisted the  invasion, estimates ran up into the millions for Allied casualties. 

If Operation Downfall was implemented, it would have been the largest amphibious operation that ever occurred in history. Millions of lives on both sides would have perished. And Japan would end up split between the Soviets and the Americans, with the cold war looking vastly different.

What would happen if Operation Downfall actually occurred? What would be the state of Korea? Japan? And how about East Asia as a whole?

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In this week's episode, Nick and Rohan continue their discussion about 2010s. In part two, they discuss about the future impacts world events that happened in this decade will have. In addition, politics from Europe, Asia, and North America are discussed and the impact that they will have in the upcoming years. Although it is different from the standard content released on this podcast, let us know what you think!

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And there's definitely quite a few big ones per se. And the first one we have to mention is the death of Osama bin Laden. And it's almost insurmountable of how big this death was. And you could arguably say this was the biggest news of the death since potentially Adolf Hitler in with Osama bin Laden's death, this would also begin. And I think this is also beginning in the revitalization of the Islamic radical movement. And you could see this with ISIS Boko Haram. And I'm not saying that it's attributed to the fact that Osama was killed, but I'm just saying that after his death, it was such a huge thing that occurred that it just cannot be failed to mention. And overall, I think that's what the death of Osama bin Laden. This gave a huge bonus to Obama in terms of foreign policy. What would you say about Rohan? How do you think that the death of Osama bin Laden, lauded by Navy Seal Team Six, would be viewed by historians in the future? Historians are definitely going to look at with somewhat of a good length because the United States finally was able to take out the mastermind behind the 911 attacks. And it's something that's really hurt the US, because that's really the first time the continental US has been attacked by foreign power since really 1812. In the War of 1812, I know the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, but Hawaii is technically not part of the continental US. And 911, it really struck deep into the American heart because this is the first time, again, as I mentioned, in the continental United States since the War of 1812. So with the killing of Osama bin Laden, historians are definitely going to look this at a time of joy and pride for the American spirit and American patriotism as they finally got the guy cause this terrible, terrible attack. 911. 

The Taft–Hartley Act, is a United States federal law that restricts the activities and power of labor unions. It was enacted by the 80th United States Congress over the veto of President Harry S. Truman, becoming law on June 23, 1947. Taft-Hartley was introduced in the aftermath of a major strike wave in 1945 and 1946. Though it was enacted by the Republican-controlled 80th Congress, the law received significant support from congressional Democrats. The Taft–Hartley Act amended the 1935 National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), prohibiting unions from engaging in several unfair labor practices. Among the practices prohibited by the Taft–Hartley act are jurisdictional strikes, wildcat strikes, solidarity or political strikes, secondary boycotts, secondary and mass picketing, closed shops, and monetary donations by unions to federal political campaigns. It also enabled states to pass right-to-work laws which would ban union shops.

Although Truman vetoed the Taft-Hartley Act, congress overrode his veto with the required majority needed. The Taft-Hartley Act would continue to generate controversy for some time.

However, what would happen if the Taft-Hartley Act never existed? Would the Wagner Act remain unaffected? Or could we see the potential repeal of the Wagner Act as a whole? The Wagner Act guarantees the right for workers to unionize in private industry. 

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Imperialism is a policy or ideology of extending rule over peoples and other countries,[2] for extending political and economic access, power and control, often through employing hard power, especially military force, but also soft power. While related to the concepts of colonialism and empire, imperialism is a distinct concept that can apply to other forms of expansion and many forms of government. 

Looking at the empires, profitability was mixed. At first, planners expected that colonies would provide an excellent captive market for manufactured items. Apart from the Indian subcontinent, this was seldom true. By the 1890s, imperialists saw the economic benefit primarily in the production of inexpensive raw materials to feed the domestic manufacturing sector. Overall, Great Britain did very well in terms of profits from India, especially Mughal Bengal, but not from most of the rest of its empire. To understand the scale of the wealth transfer from India from 1765 to 1938 an estimated $45 Trillion was taken. [17] This is 15-times the $3 Trillion (2019) annual GNI of the UK. The Netherlands did very well in the East Indies. Germany and Italy got very little trade or raw materials from their empires. France did slightly better. The Belgian Congo was notoriously profitable when it was a capitalistic rubber plantation owned and operated by King Leopold II as a private enterprise. However, scandal after scandal regarding very badly mistreated labour led the international community to force the government of Belgium to take it over in 1908, and it became much less profitable. 

Imperialism was a policy that changed the very nature of relations and politics between the different regions of the Earth. It interconnected many economies with each other, but it also resulted in the occupation and suppression of other nations, exploitation of labor and resources, and deadly mistakes. However, especially the British, spent a lot of money propping up the economies of her colonies and making sure that their was good infrastructure to move around the materials. 

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In this week's episode, Nick and Rohan discuss about the 2010s. And specifically, how will it be remembered in the eyes of future historians. How will historians 50 years, 100 years from now look back at the 2010s and think, similar to how we look at the 1920s today. Join Nick and Rohan as they look back at a decade of significant change, significant importance to history. 

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And the first topic I wanted to really discuss about was technology and just technological advancements. First off, we have to talk about the major influence that the tech companies have had on us, especially in the last ten years. I'm pretty sure you can find almost no one in the world who does not know what Apple, Google, Facebook are, even actually Amazon as well. To add on to that, as they've had such a profound impact on society within the past ten years. And nowadays, some are even beginning to even question whether they are monopolies or not. Now, I'm not going to get too much into that. In terms of whether they are monopolies or not, that's not really important. 

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Leon Trotsky[c] (/ˈtrɒtski/),[2] was a Ukrainian-Russian Marxist revolutionary. He was a Marxist but created a form of Marxism refereed to as Trotskyism. Once in government, Trotsky initially held the post of  Commissar for Foreign Affairs and became directly involved in the 1917–1918  Brest-Litovsk negotiations with Germany as Russia pulled out of the First World War. From March 1918 to January 1925, Trotsky headed the Red Army as  People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs and played a vital role in the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922.[3] He became one of the seven members of the first Bolshevik Politburo[4] in 1919. After the death of Lenin (January 1924) and the rise of Joseph Stalin, Trotsky gradually lost his government positions; the Politburo eventually expelled him from the Soviet Union in February 1929.

Trotsky openly pushed for communism to violently expand to other nations and believed that every nation on earth should be communist. Stalin was more focused on the Soviet Union only compared to Trotsky. In addition, Trotsky was more aggressive. If Trotsky took power after Lenin, instead of Stalin, the world would be in a really different place. The allies would be forced between fighting the Germans, or fighting the red threat. Have a listen and find out more about this world and this alternate timeline.

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Kennedy scored major victories when he won both the California and South  Dakota primaries on June 4. He addressed his supporters shortly after  midnight on June 5, 1968, in a ballroom at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Leaving the ballroom, he went through the hotel kitchen after being told it was a shortcut to a press room. He did this despite being advised by his bodyguard—former FBI agent  Bill Barry—to avoid the kitchen. In a crowded kitchen passageway,  Kennedy turned to his left and shook hands with hotel busboy Juan Romero just as Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian, opened fire with a .22-caliber revolver. Kennedy was hit three times, and five other people were wounded.

Kennedy would be pronounced dead 26 hours later at Good Samaritan Hospital and his death was subject to many conspiracy theories like his brother, JFK. Richard NIxon would go on to win the election of 1968. 

However, what if RFK was not assassinated and went on to win the presidency? How would the country be different? What changes and bills would RFK push for? And how would situations such as Vietnam look under Kennedy instead of Nixon? And the equal rights and pay act?

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This episode is going to be a little different. Instead of a standard alternate history scenario, today Nick and Rohan talk about their top 5 senators of all time and why they were on the top 5. In addition, they also go into who they would have liked to see become an American president throughout the history of the United States. We hope you enjoyed this different type of episode and please let us know what you think about it by leaving a review, or a comment on our socials!

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Born in Illinois, William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) became a Nebraska congressman in 1890. He starred at the 1896 Democratic convention with his Cross of Gold speech that favored free silver, but was defeated in his bid to become U.S. president by William McKinley. Bryan lost his subsequent bids for the presidency in 1900 and 1908, using the years between to run a newspaper and tour as a public speaker. After helping Woodrow Wilson secure the Democratic presidential nomination for 1912, he served as Wilson’s secretary of state until 1914. In his later years, Bryan campaigned for peace, prohibition and suffrage, and increasingly criticized the teaching of evolution.

The Free Silver movement was one of the most important decision made in US history. It would impact the economy for decades and influence future economic decisions that would be made in the future. In our original timeline, the Free Silver movement never passed.

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