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**Huey Long's policies are a combination of his actual Share the Wealth agenda and elements of Roosevelt's New Deal, largely taken to their logical conclusion. He also takes FDR's place becomes the longest-serving President in US history, with three consecutive terms from 1941 to 1953.
**The fall of Nazi Germany mirrors Operation Valkyrie. Except here, with Hitler himself having already died, the conspirators among the Wehrmacht assassinate Göring and Goebbels instead. And unlike the actual coup, this one succeeds, leading to the return of the Kaiser.
**The split between Mussolini and Hitler is referred to as the Italo-German Split, reminiscent of the split between Maoist China and the Soviet Union in OTL. Coincidentally, Fascist Italy winds up evolving down a similar path to the People’s Republic of China.
**Mirroring [[The Korean War]], China is split between North and South, albeit with Manchukuo still separate as a more integrated section of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
**The [https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-wikipedia-infoboxes-v-do-not-post-current-politics-here.430177/page-386#post-19702003 Long Memorial], erected in Washington DC after Huey's death, is a grander version of the statue and tombstone that exist in real life just outside the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge.
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**In addition to Ronald Reagan never pursuing politics as in OTL, he becomes renowned as a comedy actor.
**Huey Long's old ''Louisiana Progress'' newspaper survives and eventually becomes an online news site known as ''The American Progress''.
*[[Fascist Italy]]: Compared to the Nazis, the Italian Fascists managed to outlast Mussolini, overseeing a regime that lasts until the end of the 20th Century.
*[[For Want of a Nail]]: Huey Long escaping death by assassination in 1936 leads to a significantly changed world, with "Longism" shaping American politics for generations to come.
*[[Imperial Japan]]: The Empire of Japan and Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere are still very much alive in the present.
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** Prince Louis Ferdinand of the House of Hohenzollern is welcomed back by Rommel and the Wehrmacht leadership, leading to the restoration of [[Imperial Germany]].
** Subverted with the United Kingdom. A demoralized Britain transitions to republican rule following King George VI's abdication in 1952. His brother, Edward Windsor, however, manages to becoming a popular figure in the new Commonwealth, but never seeks to regain the Crown.
* [[Stay in the Kitchen]]: Subverted. One paradox amidst the changes brought by Longism
* [[Zeppelins from Another World]]: Subverted. The Hindenberg incident doesn't happen like OTL...but a combination of cheaper airlines and a series of high profile disasters in the 1940s leads to a later discrediting of airships.
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