AHC/PC: USA-Europe War?

The challenge is for the United States of America to be involved in a European war AFTER World War II. Bonus points if ideology is a non-factor.
 

MSZ

Banned
Would a war fought with a European power not on European soil count? (For example in Guiana?)
 
Is what the OP is really asking is have the USA fight a war with a non-Warsaw Pact European nation (i.e. France, Sweden, Spain, but not Poland) after WWII?

Pretty much ASB.

I can MAYBE see see something going down against Franco's Spain in 1946 if some Nazi bigwig makes it there and for some insane reason Franco decides to defy the Allies and not turn that person over.

Or - and this is a real strech - the IRA, attempting to kill off some royal on a US visit in the 1970s sets off a bomb. The bomb goes off at the worng time, a bunch of innocent civilians are killed, and the FBI demands full access to go after the IRA in Ireland. The Irish badly misread how pissed off the USA is, and refuse, and the US declares the bomb to be an act of war...

Other than that, nothing springs to mind.

Mike Turcotte
 
Stalin lives to 1956, shortly before the Suez Crisis. A nasty power struggle ends with Beria on top, just as the British, French and Israeli's a contemplate military invasion of Egypt. In order to force back the Red Army, who moves to overthrow the shaky NVKD head, Beria forces Soviet military into Egypt in order to prevent a Western invasion. The U.S. remains by its anti-colonial stance OTL but just as the British and French prepare to attack Egypt, the house of cards falls apart in the Soviet Union with an attempted coup blossoming into a low-key civil war. The overjoyed colonial powers invade Egypt quickly with such news, effectively distancing themselves from the U.S.

Fast-forward to the late 60s. NATO is no more (effectively reduced to Germany and a few ex-Warsaw Pact countries) and France is under a loose military junta as it struggles to hold onto Algeria (a claim recognized by few outside of Europe). The U.S. funnels arms into North and West Africa through Yugoslavia in an effort to undermine colonial interests there. While Britain hasn't entirely broken with the U.S., there is major contention about the future of the Special Relationship. France is a different story, more than willing to reassert itself as a great power. When the French detain a ship inbound to Yugoslavia holding American arms, General Salan sends an ultimatum: cease all arms funneling and pay indemnities for French losses in the Algerian crisis. President Nixon's refusal to cease its activity in the Mediterranean and respond to the call for indemnities results France declaring war after opening fire on a trade ship.
 
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