In this world , Abraham Lincoln was killed by a Baltimore pro-slavery mob in 1861 CE , so the American Civil War never happened , and Theodore Roosevelt abolished slavery in 1907 due to European pressure on J.P. Morgan , who feared loss of his European financial assets . On February 15 , 1933 , Giuseppe Zangara assassinated Franklin Delano Roosevelt , and Winston Churchill died from a car accident in 1931 . As a result of Roosevelt 's premature death , it is noted that John Nance Garner proved to be a fiscal conservative , leading to a situation where much of the western United States had to threaten civil war to obtain economic relief from the ongoing Depression . As the novel progresses , Alekhine , actually a Krasnaya operative , abducts Joseph Stalin from Moscow , to be transferred to Krasnaya custody and kept in a dacha , in a future which has abandoned communism and uses the image of " Big Boy " as nostalgic consumer iconography
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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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