What if? Counter-factual history is very crucial to our understanding of the nature of history. It shows us how even the smallest event in the past has shaped our world today. Much of our history has been formed from chance and luck. What counter-factual history does is explores the alternative routes that an event could have yielded had it turn out differently. It teaches us what type of outcome could have occurred and opens our …showed first 75 words of 1320 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1320 total…Cold War would have also have been different than Truman's policies because Wallace was fired by Truman in September of 1946. Also, the hydrogen bomb may not have been developed until a lot later because the effects of the Atomic bomb would never have been seen in a real situation against Japan since Wallace was against it. Henry Agard Wallace may have become a very important man in history, had the opportunity come up. What if?