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The year 1968 will always be remembered for its upheavels. But it also saw Nixon elected in the USA and the Breshnev doctrine crush new thinking in Eastern Europe.
Alternative departures from real history in 1968 could go either way.
The toymaker Marx went so far as to make a President Hubert Humphrey figure in our reality.
In Britain the nightmare of troops on the streets of Ulster was still a year away but Prime Minister Wilson feared an army coup might unseat him.
Prosperous West Germany was torn between a youth movement who jeered at politicians and businessmen with links to the Third Reich and their parents who enjoyed standards of living undreamt of twenty years before.
France would see the old soldier De Gaulle confronted by mayhem in Paris.
The USA was sunk in the quagmire of Vietnam and divided bitterly at home.
No other year since 1945 was open to so many possibilities.
Alternative departures from real history in 1968 could go either way.
The toymaker Marx went so far as to make a President Hubert Humphrey figure in our reality.
In Britain the nightmare of troops on the streets of Ulster was still a year away but Prime Minister Wilson feared an army coup might unseat him.
Prosperous West Germany was torn between a youth movement who jeered at politicians and businessmen with links to the Third Reich and their parents who enjoyed standards of living undreamt of twenty years before.
France would see the old soldier De Gaulle confronted by mayhem in Paris.
The USA was sunk in the quagmire of Vietnam and divided bitterly at home.
No other year since 1945 was open to so many possibilities.
