The USA would be a much poorer nation today. America made some killer profits off of the back of the two world wars.
You are severly downplaying the resilience of the U.S. economy.
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This can mean a lot of things. The Hague 1907 is the key to your POD.
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So--what could work as a POD would be to have a President that insists on the rules of neutrality being respected by both sides. That is what to play with, IMHO.
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Not really a plausible scenario, I fear. There's almost no way to stop US arms manufacturers from selling to the Entente. They can't sell to the Central Powers because of the blockade, and that means that the US can either cut itself off from trading with practically the rest of the planet and suffer a particularly horrible global economic recession, accompanied by a war that includes far more selective Entente use of HE (since most of it came from the USA), or make money off the Entente. There is the third option of selling to middlemen like Japan and Spain, but I don't think that's quite what you've got in mind.
It'd do American shipping no good, either. OTL she went from producing 0.23 million metric tons in '13 to 2.6 MMT in '18. Without the U-boat campaign and increased US naval building to ship goods to Europe, expect Britain to stay ahead. Which impacts American fortunes post-war (whenever it'd end in a world where the Entente can't launch really heavy offensives).
So I've got to pour cold water on your suggestion. Sorry, but there's no realistic way to prevent the sort of trade you'd like to.
After reviewing a topic similar to this, I am curious as to how Germany would handle having as many colonies (more than in OTL). Specifically, how would they deal with the wars of independence---would they be like the French in OTL (Algeria and/or SE Asia), the Brits in OTL's Malaysia, the Belgians in OTL's 1960...or something else altogether.
IIRC, some of the more recent problems (in OTL that is) in central Africa, mainly the genocide in Rwanda, were tied to German ideologies from a century ago. That is why I wonder WI Imperial Germany won and gained some new colonies....
Let me pose a variation: did the U.S. Neutrality Acts prohibit sales by corporate subsidiaries? I'm thinking of, for instance, GM Canada selling trucks to Spain in the SCW, or China after '31. This says transshipment to a neutral is illegal uner the '37 Act, but says nothing about production outside U.S. territory by a U.S. firm.This can mean a lot of things. The Hague 1907 is the key to your POD. A NATION can't sell war materials, etc, but private individuals can sell almost whatever they want to.
I did not know that. I guess not illegal... Thanks!IBM subsidiaries continued to supply punchcards to DeHoMag after the declaration of war