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I have been a lurker for awhile this is my first thread. Without going ASB or having any wars outside OTL also having the wars go as in OTL what areas could the USA gain and hold as states or territories thru diplomatic means only. Use any POD meeting no ASB/no change in war.
The ones I can come up with are
Domician Republic (Asked to be annexed vote failed in senate)
Yuctan (Asked to be annexed)
More of Mexico
Cuba (tried to buy)
Greenland (tried to buy)
Newfoundland (after WWII)
the US occupation zone of Germany WWII
Islands taken from Japan WWII
Sicely prize from Italy also wanted to be a state
Some of BC from the Oregon treaty
Armenia (offered by Leauge of nations as a mandate)
This final area may be ASB but I can see it as possible if we took the mandate of Armenia. Georgia and Azerbajan. They were independent for a couple of years after WWI and if were wedged between the USA and the USSR they might decide that it will be impossible to stay independent and decide that the USA would be preferrable to the USSR and ask to be annexed.