Non North American Amercian States

Meh, we know Hawaii isn't in N-America already... regardless what other places could have become US States outside of N-America. Maybe parts of Germany, in a hyper-Morgenthau plan or something?
 
Hmm...perhapse America gets some German colonies after WWI?

unlikely that they would ever be made states, but...

also, It would make sense foo Panama to be made a state, waht with that little Canal they have, but Panama is technically a part of Nort America so...

Really, the Phillipines might be the best bet, or a few other pacific Islands.
 
The US might broker out a deal. Maybe for instance this's why the US joins the World War I in the first place-New Guinea for troops deal.

Unlikely. There's really nothing of value in northern New Guinea. German picked up the scraps that France, the Netherlands, the US and Britain hadn't already devoured.
 
I'm not sure how much truth there is to this, but I remember reading somewhere that there were some who wanted South Vietnam to become a state. Pretty unlikely, but it could be interesting.
 
I'm not sure how much truth there is to this, but I remember reading somewhere that there were some who wanted South Vietnam to become a state. Pretty unlikely, but it could be interesting.
And set relations with the USSR AND China below zero?
 
Back in the post-WW2 years, when the borders of the Iron Curtain were being sorted out, Italy was undergoing a nation-wide election to determine the new government. One side was seen as pro-Allied, the other pro-Soviet, and for a time it looked as if the pro-Soviet side would actually win the election. Fearful of the effects of a Soviet navy in the Mediterranean, the US made a contingency plan to annex Sicily and fast track it into a state, as a front-base against the Soviet navy in the Med.

However, nothing came from it as a small-scale civil war started in Italy, with anti-communist militias/terrorism breaking the 'red' political organization and letting the pro-Western parties win.
Can I see some links to this Sicilian statehood plan?
 
I'm not sure how much truth there is to this, but I remember reading somewhere that there were some who wanted South Vietnam to become a state. Pretty unlikely, but it could be interesting.

I think the chances of that would be next to zero since 1) South Vietnam becoming a state would mean the US would still be forced to deal with the Vietcong and 2) it'll be too poor
 
since 1) South Vietnam becoming a state would mean the US would still be forced to deal with the Vietcong
The Vietcong wasn't a factor anymore at the end of the Vietnam War. I'm not saying that that conflict could've been won easily by the USA (It was a very succesful war of attrition by Vietnamese), but I'd like for everyone to have their facts straight.
 
The US was really mostly interested in the Samana Peninsula in the Dominican Republic for a coaling station. It also made an excellent harbor.

Found out from reading a NY Times article of 1871 that Spain, France and the UK. told the Dominican Republic that they would
never be permitted for the people of the United States to have a foothold in the Dominican Republic.
Read this from the NY times.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9A06EEDA133EEE34BC4F52DFB766838A669FDE

Also, the Dominican people had fought three wars of Independence. First one Independence against Spain. Second war of Independence against there neighbor. Third war again against Spain that had returned. The Dominicans were united has a nation so they most likely would not have united with the US. That idea was there Presidents who was later couped.

New Zealand would have made a good US State. They were self governing in 1856.

Tasmania could also have been a US State. UK. did send people there to keep the French from claiming it.

Only problem with New Zealand and Tasmania is that they are too far south.

Someone said the Caribbean is part of North America. When you bring Geology into the problem then the Caribbean is not really part of NA with with the exception of Cuba.

Cuba was separated from the Greater Antilles by back-arc spreading during the Late Cretaceous and Paleocene and became part of the North American plate.
The relatively small Caribbean Plate is being squeezed between the massive North and South American plates, and the Cocos Plate is pushing from the west. This combination is causing the Caribbean Plate to slowly creep eastward.
Caribbean Plate in the middle of that map:
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I think there's a chance of Liberia becoming a state. It was never technically a territory of the USA, but if you get a more pro-US movement in Liberia, then when some trouble hits, they may ask to be annexed.
 
Personally,I would think that the USA stood a chance of getting New Zealand away from the British..or Borneo,they had it first before the British too.

The US was really mostly interested in the Samana Peninsula in the Dominican Republic for a coaling station. It also made an excellent harbor.

I actually read something about that once,that the President of the Dominican Republic actually offered for the USA to annex the country,because it was war torn and in debt..but the notion was denied..by one vote when it was put to the Congress.:eek:
 
It's too recent to count for this thread (I always find myself breaking the rules lately), but I actually find myself thinking Taiwan would be interesting.

Certainly, Taiwanese statehood would cause no international entanglements or hostile repercussions whatsoever, and our embrace of that friendly island in the sea, with its computer chip industry and humongous skyscraper, would only increase understanding and friendship among nations.;)

Plus every time in my adult life I have seen a news story involving Taiwan's legislature the scene has looked like some uncanny hybrid of C-Span and pro-wrestling. In short, I think they might be almost as entertaining a state as Florida. (Visions of a Taiwanese Senator physically throwing Robert Byrd just flashed before my eyes.)

Please. Do make it happen. (Come to think of it there could be a pre-1900 point of departure for this, if the US were to be very aggressive and take it for a colony before Japan does. Chiang's retreat then becomes his arrival in US territory rather than his rule of a counter-government. But because of China's issues with colonialism, the same hostility from China obtains as if the US invaded and conquered last Tuesday.
 
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