manav95
Banned
In my opinion, the US would have had to avoid the long period of oligarchic domination by rich industrial tycoons. The Gilded Age they perpetuated led to a massive rise in inequality and hardship for industrial workers, who had crap job security and wages. President McKinley narrowly dodged a bullet in 1901, which allowed for their control to continue. Reformers like Theodore Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan, and Woodrow Wilson remained shut out of power and the US became a one party state dominated by conservative Republicans. The Democrats became a fringe party confined to the South, with the West becoming dominated by the Progressives and the Midwest becoming a battleground. The 1912 election ended in a Progressive popular vote victory but the Republican candidate Nelson Aldrich won with the support of Southern Democrats leery of civil rights support in the Progressive Party. The US joined Japan, Britain and the Commonwealth in 1913 for the Great War, facing the Russians, Austrians, Germans, and later the Ottomans. The war went in favor of the Entente until 1916, when labor strikes in America and Britain, the entry of Italy and France into the Central Powers, and Franco-German tanks led to the tide turning against the Entente worldwide. The US quit the war in April 1917 after rigged elections against Eugene Debs, the Progressive candidate, led to a spontaneous uprising. The American uprising spread to Britain and Canada, causing the empire to fragment and collapse in the 1940s. To prevent this, the Great War would have to see the Entente win or the Americans to reform earlier without resorting to revolutionary socialism.