AH challenge: Five terms and five parties. In the united states.

With any POD after 1900, have there be a period of american history in the 20th century where a president held five terms, and there where five political parties in congress.
 
My stab at it.

Theodore Roosevelt refuses to step down and runs agianst Taft. Rossevelt wins the republican nomination and the election. 1912 was a major turning point in american politics. The Republican party split into the Progressive party and the conservative Republican rump, with the Progressives first but in a minority, the republicans second, and the Democrats third. The Socalists gain seats for the first time, and with women voting for the first time, the woman's party carries a surpizing number of seats in the house. Congress is marked by a period of coalition, with the progressives first getting supply and confidence from the Socalists and Women's Parties, and the Democrats and Republicans forming opposition. The 1914 sinking of the Titianic by German U-boats, as well as the Mexican invassion of Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, marked the American entry into the war. Rossevelt wins once again in 1916 as part of the "War Coalition." The Progressives, Socalists, and Democrates are the three largest parties and form government, with the women's party expanded due to the larger war time population of women, the conservative republicans come in dead last. Rossevelt apoints Democrat Woodrue Wilson Secretary of State, and a very different peace settlement follows, with The United States a full member of the League of Nations. In 1920, Rossevelt does not run again, and Robert M. La Follette, Sr. wins the Progessive nomination, and the white house. By this point the five party system was entrenched, and although other parties would come and go with time, the Democrats, the Republicans, and the Progressives, would remain the three main parties.
 
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