DW Challenge: Get America invovled in the war of Europe

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How do we get the US involved in the European wars of the 20th century, and what would be the effects? Would the German and Russian civil wars still happen? would America be viewed as a military hegemon as oppose to an economical one today?

What about military technology, does America still dump all those money into nuclear projects after the first great war anyway? Would Germany and France still develope the super-dreadnoughts while Britain go the way of carriers and airpower?
 
Well, if France was involved in any of the European wars, maybe US would come to it's help, in rememberence of the fact that they own their own independence to french help.

Now, given that France is, along with Switzerland, the only european country to avoid entenglement in any european warof the XXth century ( since the overthrowing of Napoleon le Faquin after the crimea war, in fact ) and has always had a Herisson defence policy concerning europe ( ie extremely strong defences but no attack policy ), getting it to be involved seems nearly ASB.

You'd have to get one of her neighbours to invade, but all of the XXth centry european staff GHG had taken a look and hunanimously said 'no, thank you'. Maybe if you get a mad dictator to take absolute power in Spain and order an attack across the pyrenees? But this will likely be crushed before any foreign help is needed. ANother possibility would be to avoid the German civil war altogether and have it united under a powermad dictator. But the germans are too attached to the rule of laws ( that is what their civil war was about, if you remember ) to follow a dictator.
 
This is almost ASB. There's no way USA got involved in the European Wars. I can't see any reason for the USA to join the Great War: it was just a war beetwen european powers, and they had nothing to win. Their only valid strategy was the one they followed: commerce with both sides and get a huge profit from the war.

About the Second Great War, maybe if Japan had allied with the British and start an expansionist policy in the Pacific? Would the USA allied with Russia and join the war?. But I cannot see the United States sending soldiers to Europe. Maybe if the Lord Protector was more extremist than he was. I don't know.

But if they, for whathever reason, did it, and manage to win, they would became for sure a militar power. Not a hegemon, of course, but maybe almost as powerful as Britain or France.
 
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you know, there is one vaguely possible way, but it's bordering on ASB in it's complexity. Remember that struggle for the Sandwich Islands back in the 1890's? Before Britain finally ended up with the place, a group of American expatriates there tried to make the place a US territory (I remember reading about how the US threatened to invade after some of these men were executed by the native king, only to hastily back down after the UK took over the kingdom). Suppose this plot had succeeded... then, when the Second Great War came around, Japan might have a reason to go to war with the US (they really wanted the place bad, apparently). If they invaded the islands at the same time they invaded British and French colonial possessions in OTL, then the US would have common cause with the two European powers. How does this get the US into Europe though? Well, here's the tricky part. Japan did have a loose alliance with Germany and Austria/Hungary, although it never amounted to much. Let's make this alliance a real one... maybe we could get these two other powers to then declare war on the USA (granted, that's the hardest part to imagine). Sure, it's convoluted, but it would get the US involved in a war in Europe. Frankly, I can't think of another way to do it...
 
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