AHC: The US enters WWI by 1915

POD from the 1890s, here is the challenge:
1. Major alliances don't change, WWI begins in 1914.
2. The US enters WWI on the side of the Triple Entente(or equivalent) by 1915.
Bonus points if Ottoman Empire is neutral.
 
Have the US secure a very valuable deal with Russia to provide weapons and artillery in the late Noughties and early teens and possibly even a tighter relationship between Russia and the USA

Perhaps additional pressure from the US (who want to send said supplies to Russia via the Bosphorus) or who also have a tighter business relationship with them keeps the Ottomans from joining the Entente

Maybe the US Army deploys not to France but Russia???
 
I was thinking the US could have closer ties with France, due to earlier German plans in the Americas(i.e. Zimmerman in 1900 + OTL); how possible would that be?
 
Have Victoriano Huerta actually succeed on his planned returned to Mexico backed by Germany. This leads to a German scare in the US and, combined with an earlier Zimmerman Telegram and the Lusitania you got yourself an Entente United States in WWI. Even better, it's not the cliché "America goes into war economy since 1914 so they're as strong as they were in 1917-1918 in 1915" and actually struggles at first.
 
I dont think it takes that much. If the Germans go total trade war against the British from the start which involves unrestricted U-Boat warfare , merchant raider attacks and laying mine fields in international waters. This pisses of the US, but unlike OTL the Germans refuse to stop or pay damages. This and the bad press the Germans are getting for Belgium tip the balance and the USA declares war.

The Condemnation from the US for the trade war is combined with a harder diplomatic line against all the Central powers. This deters the Ottomans who rightly feel that it is only a matter of time before the US gets involved and the war therefore becomes unwinnable.
 
Perhaps if Teddy is in the White House, since he'd probably be looking for a CB from day 1 of the war.

Only if the Germans start destroying American ships, as opposed to Allied ones that just happened to have Americans aboard. No Congress was ever likely to declare war over the latter issue alone, no matter how much the POTUS might fulminate about it. The votes (either Democratic or Republican) simply weren't there in 1915.

To make this possible, you need a change of course in Berlin, not in Washington.
 
You just need to have unrestricted submarine warfare and a Zimmerman Telegram two years earlier. The war ends at the end of 1916. Czarist Russia survives.
 
Counterintuitive though it may seem at first, TR in the White House would probably have the opposite effect: I suggest he'd put out an offer to mediate / arbitrate, similar to the Russo-Japanese War. The Kaiser would likely grab at that with both hands, and I suspect Cecil Spring-Rice would push heavily on His Majesty's government to do likewise. I suspect also the Russians would be more than willing to listen given how they came out of Portsmouth eight years earlier. Now you have three major players lined up behind a diplomatic end to the crisis, so it may amount to nothing with respect to mobilization, never mind combat.

TR had one Nobel Peace Prize on the wall of his study; I don't think he'd pass up a chance to go for a second--and I think he'd get it, too.
 
Counterintuitive though it may seem at first, TR in the White House would probably have the opposite effect: I suggest he'd put out an offer to mediate / arbitrate, similar to the Russo-Japanese War. The Kaiser would likely grab at that with both hands, and I suspect Cecil Spring-Rice would push heavily on His Majesty's government to do likewise. I suspect also the Russians would be more than willing to listen given how they came out of Portsmouth eight years earlier. Now you have three major players lined up behind a diplomatic end to the crisis, so it may amount to nothing with respect to mobilization, never mind combat.

TR had one Nobel Peace Prize on the wall of his study; I don't think he'd pass up a chance to go for a second--and I think he'd get it, too.

This sounds like a whole good thread in itself. Oh the butterflies.
 
Believe me, I've thought a lot about this as part of a grander (!) timeline. The POD would be one that's been kicked around a bit before: namely, Taft accepting appointment to the Supreme Court in the first few years of the 20th century (something along the lines of TR telling him he "...has a higher, more historical calling to serve the nation as a whole on its highest court..."). That nebulous timeline has a few folks as president you might not have thought of--and a few you'd recognize instantly. And war, when it comes (and it will) would have a decidedly different lineup than we know it.
 
Believe me, I've thought a lot about this as part of a grander (!) timeline. The POD would be one that's been kicked around a bit before: namely, Taft accepting appointment to the Supreme Court in the first few years of the 20th century (something along the lines of TR telling him he "...has a higher, more historical calling to serve the nation as a whole on its highest court..."). That nebulous timeline has a few folks as president you might not have thought of--and a few you'd recognize instantly. And war, when it comes (and it will) would have a decidedly different lineup than we know it.

Not that I would encourage you to do anything you really don't want to do...
 
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