AHC:Revanchist USA post Appomatox?

Your challenge is with a POD after Appomatox for the USA to lose enough land in a war/treaty that regaining the land is part of the political platform of a party that takes at least 5% of the vote in a US Presidential election. (This can be 20th century as well, but I figured with the 1865 limit, I'd put it here).
 
After Appomatox...

1) USSR wins a war. Maybe by continuing to ally with Germany in WWII; maybe by fighting and winning a land war in Europe ~1947. They grab Alaska. (The gold rush was over, the oil rush hadn't begun, and it wasn't a state yet. I think we'd give it up, but I think there'd be at least one and probably both major parties lobbying to defeat the Soviets and incidentally regain Alaska.)

2) A President who isn't FDR appeases Japan by giving them the Philippines. The opposition cries out that he's a traitor and we should grab them back.
 
Your challenge is with a POD after Appomatox for the USA to lose enough land in a war/treaty that regaining the land is part of the political platform of a party that takes at least 5% of the vote in a US Presidential election. (This can be 20th century as well, but I figured with the 1865 limit, I'd put it here).

naraht

I thought at 1st that you were referring to a south winning independence but having read more carefully I take it you mean one where the US loses land in a later conflict.

Only thing I can think of is some clash with Britain which goes badly for the US. Some dispute over the borders with Canada or possibly a Venezuelan crisis that spirals into a major war. It's really got to be with Britain as it's the only power before the end of WWII with the reach to actually threaten defeating the US in N America, plus any power from Europe would almost certainly have to get past Britain 1st.

Might have something a bit later, possibly a 1920-30's clash with a continued Anglo-Japanese alliance, although you would need a shorter WWI for that I think.

After that, short of somehow the Soviets defeat the US in a nuclear exchange or a new successful succession, both of which are verging on ASB without drastic changes.

If the US suffered a serious defeat and lost land as a result, especially in it's 48 state continental heartland, I could see revanchists feeling being a powerful element in the US even if the defeat is hard enough to make most people think otherwise.

Steve
 
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