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The United States has a pretty good 20th century military record. The only big defeat was Vietnam, but even that did not result in the destruction of the US military, foreign occupation, or terms being forced on the United States.

If the United States were to suffer a defeat pre 1914 at the hands of say, an Anglo-Japanese alliance, and lost a bit of territory while also being forced pay reparations, how would the American people respond? Isolationism? Revanchism?

If the United States had something more humiliating than the Vietnam war happen during the Cold War, perhaps a series of major mistakes resulting in China capturing the US army in Korea and forcing the United States into various concessions?

Some kind of major defeat in the War on Terror?
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