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What would happen in 1916 if Charles Evans Hughes who lost a very narrow election to Woodrow Wilson 277-254 had won California where he lost by a measly 3,773 votes. With Hughes as president under a platform of neutrality how would the great war have progressed without the millions of fresh soldiers from America that tipped the balance of power? Let us assume that Russia still falls apart in 1917 and the Bolsheviks take power, when Germany shifts it's Eastern Army towards the Western Front in preparation for the Luddendorff Offensive, they had a manpower advantage of 1.5 to 1, with no America let's say it's more likely 1.75 to 1, do they break the stalemate in the West and win the war in 1918? or do they stay on the defensive until 1919-20 until it can take advantage of the baby boomers of early 1900s being drafted into the military?
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