America losing WWI in a long war is a stretch. But if we say just the right multitude of PoDs all happen, TR getting elected in 1912 and leading America to join the Entente in 1914 or 1915, Austria-Hungary modernizing their army in 1909 instead of 1912, Italy joining the CP around 1916 or 1917 after building themselves up a bit, Romania staying neutral, Russia dropping out a few months sooner, it can probably be done.
So in this scenario, America goes fairly all out, but is unable to prevent France from falling to a combined German/more competent Austria-Hungary/Italian assault in 1918, America loses a couple million men (killed/wounded/captured combined), undergoes more serious shortages on the home front, has a tougher Spanish Flu, a degree a censorship (don’t know if Roosevelt would go for it to the degre Wilson did), and still loses.
How would this effect politics in the US? Would it be likely to become more isolationist? Revanchist? Would socialism become more widespread?
So in this scenario, America goes fairly all out, but is unable to prevent France from falling to a combined German/more competent Austria-Hungary/Italian assault in 1918, America loses a couple million men (killed/wounded/captured combined), undergoes more serious shortages on the home front, has a tougher Spanish Flu, a degree a censorship (don’t know if Roosevelt would go for it to the degre Wilson did), and still loses.
How would this effect politics in the US? Would it be likely to become more isolationist? Revanchist? Would socialism become more widespread?