Anglo-American Rivalry: WW1 Belligerents

hey, all. some of you may remember that i was bouncing around an idea for a TL (more realistic than Atlas) in which the US and UK never get on good terms again, so the US ends up becoming allied to Britain's traditional enemies (such as France).

anyway, one aspect of the timeline that will be emphasized, a la TL-191, is the early half of the 20th century, so im wondering what everyone thinks will be the dispositions of different powers ITTL. my initial ideas are that the US joins early on as an Entente power directly allied to France and indirectly allied to the other Entent powers (including Russia and Serbia) while Britain is either neutral or decides to join the Central Powers, perhaps due to a closer relationship with Germany due to butterflies or alternatively just seeing France/US/Russia as a bigger threat than Germany. Portugal would probably be allied to Britain, as it has been for longer than anyone can remember, but what does everyone else think, and what would be the most likely outcome of TTL's WW1?
 
hey, all. some of you may remember that i was bouncing around an idea for a TL (more realistic than Atlas) in which the US and UK never get on good terms again, so the US ends up becoming allied to Britain's traditional enemies (such as France).

anyway, one aspect of the timeline that will be emphasized, a la TL-191, is the early half of the 20th century, so im wondering what everyone thinks will be the dispositions of different powers ITTL. my initial ideas are that the US joins early on as an Entente power directly allied to France and indirectly allied to the other Entent powers (including Russia and Serbia) while Britain is either neutral or decides to join the Central Powers, perhaps due to a closer relationship with Germany due to butterflies or alternatively just seeing France/US/Russia as a bigger threat than Germany. Portugal would probably be allied to Britain, as it has been for longer than anyone can remember, but what does everyone else think, and what would be the most likely outcome of TTL's WW1?

This is in the wrong section FYI. Anyway, my main gripe here is that it makes no sense, without larger changes, for the British to be antagonistic to the French. The big worry on Britain's mind during the early 20th century is the new kid on the block, Germany, which has a very realistic chance of dominating all of Europe. France and Russia by contrast have been there forever. Britain and France have calmly co-existed for almost a hundred years. And Britain and France are both democracies, while Germany is an authoritarian monarchy. If Britain doesn't stay neutral, everything supports its siding with France, not Germany.

And I don't know if you're familiar with it, but the US is solidly neutral at this point. The last thing the US wants to do is join a European alliance, especially one that's going to drag it into some unprofitable war over European issues that it couldn't care less about. War with Great Britain in particular would be disastrous to the economy. Without a stronger POD, the US is going to stay solidly neutral unless they get really, really aggravated by some European country.

I've just started studying WWI, so more experienced posters can correct me if I'm off on some points.
 
well constructive criticism is the best kind of criticism. this is still just an idea that i'm bouncing around and it would definitely require an earlier POD (at the earliest, sometime after March 4 1783) which, due to butterflies, would lead up to all that ;)
 
well constructive criticism is the best kind of criticism. this is still just an idea that i'm bouncing around and it would definitely require an earlier POD (at the earliest, sometime after March 4 1783) which, due to butterflies, would lead up to all that ;)

I would suggest at the least, radically conflicting forms of government on either side of the Channel.
 
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