American Empire

WeisSaul

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The United States annexes the entire Spanish Empire, leaving Spain with just Iberian Spain, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Ifni, Ceuta, and Melilla.

Panama, upon independence in 1903 is declared by president Theodore Roosevelt to be an American protectorate, and the United States gets a 99 year lease on the canal.

Cuba is offered a referendum on whether to become a US state, with schools teaching English and Spanish, or to become an independent country with military protection guaranteed by the United States, and the US has the right to a perpetual lease of Guantanamo Bay. It votes to be a state.

Morocco, which always was very close to the United States, signs a defense agreement with the now bordering United States in order to protect it from European influences and protect Moroccan sovereignty.

What butterflies would result from this?

The United States organizes its integrated lands into:

The Caroline Islands (modern FSM and Palau)
Marianna Islands
Marshall Islands
Luzon
Visayas
Mindanao
American Guinea
American Sahara
Cuba
Puerto Rico
Panama
 
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BlondieBC

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I think more pre-1900 forum. Something has to be radically different about the USA, and this will take many years. The USA will actually want states with lots of brown people, and the USA will need a very big navy, so pressure from Europe not to annex Cuba does not matter.

It could be an interesting time line, but very complicated on butterflies.
 
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