Its a question of size. The US is so much bigger and is so much less attached to global trade that it can't really decline as far as the British empire. The US will for at least the next hundred years be a first tier power. The UK struggles now to maintain itself as a second tier power.
The Treaty of Versailles was more the cause of WW 2, than a League of Nations that was useless in any case. How would US involvement be seen to change anything?
How strong would the Germans have been that far from the railheads ? This is 41 not 42 or 43, how far had the retracking come. They may have just pushed half a million men into a easily closed pocket causing a devastating defeat.
No they would lose more than they would gain, most of the northern republican base was at least mildly in favor of the civil rights acts. The men who proposed and used the southern strategy did not care about anything but votes, they figured the few they would lose from promoting " Conservative...
If Early had attacked Washington all he would have done was kill his troops. Almost any one could have held it from any attack he could have mounted. Early's army just did not have the guns to silence or breach union positions.
Napoleon did the same, he simply did not have the supply train and "trains" the Germans did. The Germans
also did not get near Moscow and settled for a negotiated peace. Even with a shattered revolutionary Russia that did not seem to have any ability to wage war. It was a accomplishment but it...