PC:Earlier Victory in World War 1 British confrontation with America

Say World war 1 ends in an entente victory in either 1915 or 1916

Would Britain turn its focus to deal with the rising United States
 
No, because there had already been a gradual thaw when it came to relations between the two at this time. Also, how would this victory occur? Everything relating to this relies on how the victory happens.
 
Very, very unlikely. This came up on another board some years ago. A decision had been made by the British govt. that there was no real reason to have a conflict with the US, years before. The US enforced the Monroe Doctrine ensuring markets in South and Central America remained stable and open to the British and keeping other European powers from establishing bases to interfere (recognizing some nations already had small colonies in this hemisphere) with the UK's trade. This was especially important for war time, imagine a German naval coaling station and base being in Haiti for example, and the trouble ships there could have caused. During the ACW the UK essentially allowed the USN to have their blockade, even though they could have said "No, you don't meet the criteria for a true blockade" and the US reciprocated during WWI by not insisting on the right to trade with the CP. If your looking for a possible, single source POD I'd have to say the US ACW would be the time to do it. Britain doesn't recognize the US blockade (the Lincoln Administration erred by calling it something else) and trades more with the Confederacy, lengthening the war, or even some incidents of naval combat, that take the two countries to the brink of war. Chilly relations for the following decades, leading to a US insistence on trading with the CP. That's about the only way I can foresee such a conflict occurring, and you'd need to determine how the US would act in the decades after the US ACW, and how the UK would respond. How expansionist would the US be? What is Germany's role, what about the Spanish, who does the UK side with during the Samoa crisis's, the Venezuelan Crisis, the SpanAm War, do those conflicts even occur? A lot to think through. If you decide to go for it and create a TL, take your time doing so, investigate and research. Some years ago I used a series, IIRC, from Cambridge Univ. that covered modern world history and was thorough enough that you could get the major events and enough leads to follow up and make a plausible TL. Sadly I can't recall what the exact name of the series was, but any Univ. library should have it or one very similar.
HTH
 
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