Up until 1934, the recorded history of this alternate earth exactly mirrors our own. After that date, the course of history in the alternate timeline diverges from what "really" happened.
On February 15, 1933, at a political rally in Miami, Florida, Giuseppe Zangara fired six shots from a .32 at the dais where Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak and President-elect Franklin Roosevelt stood. In Homeline history, Zangara’s bullets hit five people, including Mayor Cermak, who died in the hospital. Zangara claimed he had been trying to kill “the capitalist” Roosevelt, and was executed two weeks later. In Reich-5, Roosevelt was one of the five people hit, and died instantly. Vice-President-elect John Nance Garner of Texas was inaugurated as the 32nd President of the United States. Previously Speaker of the House, Garner attempted to implement Roosevelt’s barely-developed “New Deal,” but could neither unify the country nor effectively counter the Great Depression. As a result, American politics followed much the same pattern as European politics – a sense of drift and paralysis that left the country vulnerable to the increasingly vocal demagogues of the Left and the Right. John Nance Garner, the is seen as little more than a caretaker. He chooses not to run for election in 1936.