How could the US suffer a LOT more WW1 casualties

Are there any scenarios which would make the Great War wose for the US.

I am guesing it involves longer involvement.

Could the war have gone into 1919?

Or could large numbetrs of US troops have been in France had the War been declared by the US much earlier?

Any thing else
 

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Basically, have the USA enter right at the start somehow. That would entail alot of dead soldiers.
 
Are there any scenarios which would make the Great War wose for the US.

I am guesing it involves longer involvement.


Yes. If you enter early enough that the AEF does a signifcant amount of fighting while it is still trench warfare, then US casualties go through the roof.

Could the war have gone into 1919?

A few weeks into it perhaps, but not enough to make a dramatic difference as far as US casualties are coincerned.

Or could large numbetrs of US troops have been in France had the War been declared by the US much earlier?

Yes. See above.
 
Basically, have the USA enter right at the start somehow. That would entail alot of dead soldiers.

This, basically. Have a PoD in which the U.S. signs a defense pact w/ the U.K., and you'll easily end up with a much higher American death toll in this alternate WWI than even OTL's WWII. Hell, this'd likely lead to even more deaths than the ACW.

This amount of carnage would certainly serve to embolden those who opposed the war, especially the Socialist Party. Afterwards, expect a stronger American socialist movement to make a comeback once the Great Depression sets in.
 
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