Assassinations Mania

In this timeline, I will take what I think are the most ten influential assassinations of all time, and make it so they all lived. This is how I think the world would be.

PODs

 * Julius Caesar survived an assassination attempt in the first century of BC. As a result, Rome never becomes an empire, but instead, democracy spreads in the Classical Age.
 * Abraham Lincoln survived an assassination attempt on April 14th, 1865. As a result, Reconstruction is dealt with amnesty towards the South, and Segregation never occurs in the American south.
 * Archduke Franz Ferdinand survived an assassination attempt on June 28th, 1914. As a result, World War I never happens, and European monarchs remain strong throughout the 20th century.
 * Mohandas Gandhi survived an assassination attempt on January 30th, 1948. As a result, Pakistan and India became close friends in the 1950s, and merged together again in the 1960s to become a major power.
 * John F. Kennedy survived an assassination attempt on November 22nd, 1963. As a result, the United States wins the Vietnam War.
 * Malcom X survived an assassination attempt on February 21st, 1965. As a result, Islam is more popular and respected in the United States.
 * Martin Luther King Jr. survived an assassination attempt on April 4th, 1965. As a result, the Civil Rights movement ended peacefully.
 * Robert F. Kennedy survives an assassination attempt on June 5th, 1968. As a result, Bobby Kennedy serves two terms as President until 1976.
 * John Lennon survives an assassination attempt on December 8th, 1980. As a result, he lives on to run for President in 1984, and succeeds.

The Classical Era and Middle Ages
Julius Caesar's survival prevented the transformation of Rome from a Republic to an Empire. The Republic was as prosperus as Rome, but not as expansive. The Roman Republic only grows to cover Italy, Tunisia and parts of northern Africa, and what is now Switzerland, Slovenia, and Bosnia. Democracy spreads to neighboring states of Greece, Egypt, Anatolia, Carthage, the Celts, and the Persia. Because Rome isn't huge, it never collapses, and remains a Republic up until 1923.

Other then that, the Classical Era and Middle Ages are just like OTL.

1492-1910
The Revolutionary Era and Early Modern Eras are just like in OTL for the most part, except that instead of being monarchies the European powers are democratic, and that the Republic of Rome exists in Italy and parts of northern Africa.

1910s
Major European powers of Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, and Turkey continued to be imperialistic at the beginning of the 1910s. This reached a climax by 1914, and war nearly broke out during the attempted murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir the throne of Austria-Hungary.

This decade was also a period of revolution in a number of countries. The Mexican Revolution spear-headed the trend in November 1910, which led to the ousting of dictator Porfirio Diaz, developing into a civil war that dragged on until mid-1920, not long after a new Mexican Constitution was signed and ratified. Russia also had a similar fate, since a war with Turkey led to a collapse in morale as well as to economic chaos. This atmosphere encouraged the establishment of Bolshevism, renamed Communism, and finally renamed Democratic Socialism in 1925. Like the Mexican Revolution, the Russian Revolution of 1917, known as the October Revolution, immediately turned to Russian Civil War that dragged until approximately late 1920.

Much of the music in these years was ballroom-themed. Many of the fashionable restaurants were equipped with dance floors. Prohibition in the United States began January 16, 1919, with the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution.

1920s
The 1920s was the decade that started on January 1, 1920 and ended on December 31, 1929. It is sometimes referred to as the Roaring Twenties or the Jazz Age, when speaking about the United States, Canada or the United Kingdom. In Europe the decade is sometimes referred to as the "Golden Twenties" because of the economic boom following World War I.

The decade was characterized by the rise of radical political movements, especially in regions that were once part of empires. Socialism began attracting large numbers of followers following the success of the October Revolution and the Bolsheviks determination to win the subsequent Russian Civil War. The Bolsheviks would eventually adopt a policy of "democratic socialism", in which the government would control the economy, but Russian citizens had representation in their government. The Soviet Union was established in 1922. The 1920s marked the first time in the United States that the population in the cities surpassed the population of rural areas. This was due to rapid urbanization starting in the 1920s.