(Research for story) How would Woodrow Wilson and the US have reacted to a new war in Europe?

There is no way, short of Trotsky landing part of the Red Army in Alaska that the USA is going to get in to a war there. Or anywhere else in Europe. The attitude in the USA was, in the wake of Versailles, that the European powers who won were using the victory to grab whatever spoils they could. Wilson could not sell the League of Nations to the US public simply because most of them had no desire to get involved in disputes in Europe or among colonial powers. Another reason for no US support for intervention was that the anti-Bolshevik elements in the USA simply had no decent force to replace the Bolsheviks, all of the Whites were shambolic at best and you'd find it difficult to fill an auditorium with Americans hot to fight and die to restore the Romanovs.
 
If war was somehow declared between the United Kingdom and Soviet Russia, would these strikes be prosecutable under the Defence of the Realm Act?


In theory maybe. But in practice such a move would have been hugely controversial esp if it threatened to trigger a general strike. Lloyd George would almost certainly have opposed it, and King George V might well have supported him, which would have split the Unionists. In fact I find it hard to picture war being declared at all.

Big question is what the Bolsheviks do post-victory. If they try to press on further, eg into Germany, Allied attitudes would probably soon harden. If OTOH, they call a halt at the frontier (whether the ToV one of the 1914 one) the crisis probably blows over.
 
Why did Lord Curzon push for a war with the Soviets? I've found information relating to his proposals for the Polish border with the Soviet Union, but nothing regarding his advocacy for a war.

He probably didn''t want to see Poland conquered. After all, if this happens much of the Treaty of Versailles may have to be written off. The eastern frontier may well go by the board, and if Germany is now the first line of defence against Bolshevism (as she presumably is given a Soviet Poland) she probably has to be allowed to re-arm well beyond the level allowed by the ToV.


If war was somehow declared between the United Kingdom and Soviet Russia, would these strikes be prosecutable under the Defence of the Realm Act?

The problem would be public opinion. DORA was enforceable during the war because the mass of the population agreed with its aims. there was general support for the war and hence for measures introduced in pursuit of it.

This would not be true of a war against Soviet Russia. It had a lot of sympathisers on the left, and even those who disliked it mostly didn't consider it an immediate threat as they had (rightly or wrongly) seen Germany to be. And, perhaps even more important, no really wanted another war, so soon after WW1, in any cause. As AJP Taylor observed, "Hands off Russia" counted for something, but "No more war" was a much greater force, because it was widely shared right across the political spectrum. Under these conditions, prosecutions under DORA would be hugely controversial and could cause a political hurricane.

In 1922 Lloyd George would learn this to his cost, when the prospect of a quite small war with Turkey (a recent enemy power with a dreadful record of atrocities) was enough to bring him down. .
 
So maybe Wilson's stroke kills him, and President Marshall establishes an alliance with the Japanese to support the white forces? If America does get militarily involved before the 1920 election, how does that effect the election?
 
So maybe Wilson's stroke kills him, and President Marshall establishes an alliance with the Japanese to support the white forces? If America does get militarily involved before the 1920 election, how does that effect the election?


Makes the Harding landslide even bigger, if that be possible. In addition to the states he won OTL, he gains Kentucky and just conceivably even North Carolina.

Another war (with anybody) would have been thoroughly unpopular.
 
Even with the chance to strangle the pestilence in its cradle.

Going off on crusade in another continent only months after the last one would hardly be "normalcy". A lot of people were scared of Bolshevism, but not enough to do that. They wanted back to business as usual.
 
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