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The USA is one of the few countries with the size to make something like the Russian Civil War possible.

As a backstory lets assume, that Germany kept its alliance with Russia.
WWI starts around 1914, over a minor colonial issue, and the USA allies with France, after Germany pisses them of in some way (Britain stays neutral).

France is defeated on the mainland, but its goverment flees to the colonies. There it becomes totally dependent on their American allies.
Wilson sells the war to the American public as an crusade against monarchic tyrannts.

The war drags on with high causalities, as big battles are fought in Africa and the Russian Far East (that the USA invaded).

In the end the USA is on the brink of economic collapse and losing on all fronts (patriotic Americans are free to assume that the UK an Japan also attacked the USA, so that it could come to this).
But the military leadership, de-facto in charge since Wilsons stroke, refuses to admit this and wants to fight on.

As a result workers and soldiers revolt in the big towns of the East Coast and an socialist goverment takes power.

When it fails to conblude a quick peace with the enemy (because of German-Russian outrageous demands), another hunger-revolt occures and radical lefthist, whos size increased dramatically during the last years, take power.

How would it go on from there and what would be the major factions?
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