It might make the US more aggressive in foreign policy, at least within our own hemisphere, while more isolationist overseas at the same time.
Sounds almost like OTL
It might make the US more aggressive in foreign policy, at least within our own hemisphere, while more isolationist overseas at the same time.
I wonder how that would effect American-German relations after the war...
What would it take for Russia and Germany, two nations that were suspicious of one another, to ally together in a world war? It obviously couldn’t be with the Assassination of the Archduke. Maybe a colonial dispute? Alternate alliances?A tangent question, but: what kind of alliances in Europe (with an obviously much earlier POD to create them) would be required for the United States to enter the war reasonably early AND still be part of the losing side?
League of Three Emperors war? Britain/France/Italy/United States vs. Germany/Russia/Austria-Hungary is even enough for neither side to immediately back down, with a wild card in the Ottomans available for both sides to woo. Britain and the United States claim German colonies, France and Italy are punched in the face, and the Entente ends up with an unfavorable peace treaty as a whole.
What would it take for Russia and Germany, two nations that were suspicious of one another, to ally together in a world war? It obviously couldn’t be with the Assassination of the Archduke. Maybe a colonial dispute? Alternate alliances?
I can see the Ottomans being wooed into the Entente, opening up a front with Russia in the Caucasuses. How this would go I’m not sure but it’s likely that eventually the Ottomans would collapse.
And how exactly are they going to impose anything on the USA?Germany I think in the grand scheme of things would let the US off the hook in a peace agreement. After all, they wanted to trade, and the Mexico stuff probably was never all that serious. I think Germany probably demands control over some contested Pacific Islands and maybe some kind of Panama Canal access or share of control.
The US probably becomes more isolationist and Anglophobic after WW1 than in OTL.
But how to bring this about? Well, you have to have France collapse in the 1918 offensive.
Good Thoughts FofD.
I can see the US "deciding" they were fighting a two front war -- Europe and Mexico, and trouncing Mexico then declaring victory. The US takes some, if not all, of sparsely populated northern Mexico (again) as its winnings.
As for the war debt: the UK has (perhaps unknowingly) mortgaged its American possessions. I can see a settlement of ceding Bermuda, Bahamas and the BVI. Not sure France has anything worth taking.
Mexico was just a bit more concerned with the ongoing civil war to go to war with the United States.Well, on the Mexican front I believe a lot depends on just how much of a fuss Caranza makes over the Villa Expedition. Remember, IOTL the Mexican government (such as it was) may have threatened war on several occasions but never actually had the main army follow through.
Concession of Hong Kong could be put on the table, sign that 99 year lease overconsidering that basically all it's securable assets in the Western Hemisphere have been put up as collateral.
American Hong Kong? Sounds very interesting.Concession of Hong Kong could be put on the table, sign that 99 year lease over
Mexico was just a bit more concerned with the ongoing civil war to go to war with the United States.
Concession of Hong Kong could be put on the table, sign that 99 year lease over
I wonder if this would lead to an American-German Cold War after a few decades.And how Germany cede anything what it hasn't anymore? Hardly UK/NZ just give GS to USA voluntarely. And not sure if USA even cares about the islands.
Only way with any 1900 POD is that USA arrive to Europe too late. Probably peace terms would are very simple:
1. USA leaves Europe to Germany.
2. Germany stops all attacks against US ships.
3. Germany recognize Western Hemisphere being under influence of USA.
very plausible. Depends on who the third power in the world is though, after Germany and America...I wonder if this would to an American-German Cold War after a few decades.
I wonder if this would lead to an American-German Cold War after a few decades.