With a POD in 1890, make the US join WWI by the end of 1914. Bonus if the UK remains neutral.
EDIT: FRENCH. They have to be on the FRENCH side.
EDIT: FRENCH. They have to be on the FRENCH side.
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The USA has a more belligerent/less anglophile president in 1914. Said president insists on the rights all neutrals have on the high seas, as Britain seizes American ships illegally.
Eventually, a ship refuses to stop, and is fired on, and many Americans are killed. Or, the USA escorts its merchant ships to neutral ports, and the British try to stop the merchants--gunfire ensues.
Under the laws governing neutral's rights in time of war, Neutrals can ship ANYTHING to a neutral power, and belligerent powers can't do anything about it. Likewise, ports of a power at war may be blockaded, but ships carrying non-contraband can not be seized on the high seas, no matter where bound--and if bound for a neutral, can't be seized even if they are laden with explosives, artillery, and more, if the cargo is bound for a neutral port.
Britain was legally IN THE WRONG with its actions in the Great War, in its handling of neutral ships. Unrestricted submarine warfare was a reply to Britain's high handed, illegal near piracy--but since USW was also illegal, and resulted in dead Americans, that got the USA involved.
Further but while there arguments on both sides about Wilson's philias he is clearly one of the less belligerent Presidents to have led the United States, it is worth noting the other options tended to be more expressly Anglophile and more belligerent. Thus given the odds he was probably Kaiser Bill's best hope.