What if FDR had lived through his final term?

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(CNN)President Franklin Roosevelt led the country through the Great Depression and most of World War II. He also became the country’s longest-serving president before dying three months into his fourth term.

The years following his death saw the presidency of Harry Truman, the use of atomic weapons in Japan and the rise of the Cold War and anti-Communism in the United States.

“Franklin Roosevelt died at a really critical moment in American history. His vice president, Harry Truman, had only been in that office for three months, so it’s worth asking what might have happened if Franklin Roosevelt had actually lived through his fourth term,” Yale University history professor Beverly Gage told CNN.

“If Franklin Roosevelt had been in office, if he had been able to mobilize different political constituencies at home, we might not have seen both McCarthyism, but we also might not have seen John Kennedy, who was (first elected to Congress) in 1946. We might not have seen Richard Nixon,” Gage said. Both future presidents won seats in the House in the key midterm.

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