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This will probably require a pre-1900 POD, but since the primary events are in the 20th Century, I'm posting it here:

Challenge: Rework history so that on June 22, 1941, the armies of various Latin American countries crossed the Rio Grande on an imperialistic and genocidal campaign against the United States. They make strong initial gains with the assistance of oppressed Asians on the West Coast and blacks in the South, with the turning point in the war being the failed conquest of Chicago and something analogous to Kursk happening in the Great Plains.

The war ends in the spring of 1945 with U.S. troops occupying all the way down to Panama.

The United States then attempts to forcibly Americanize all the occupied areas, and by Americanize, I mean WASP-ify.

(This whole thing is an analogue of WWII and the early Cold War, with the Mexican War and possibly the Banana Wars if they're not butterflied away being U.S. analogues to Soviet shenanigans during Weimar, Molotov-Ribbentropp and oppressed Asians and blacks being analogues to the Ukrainians and Cossacks.)
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