The five terms of Theodore Roosevelt

1901: William McKinley shot, Roosevelt takes control.
1904: Popular Roosevelt Re-elected.
1908: Roosevelt runs for third term
1912: Republicans refuse to back Roosevelt for fourth term. Roosevelt beats Wilson and Taft as Progressive.
1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary assassinated, The Great War begins, Roosevelt support British.
1915: TR starts to build up the Army and Navy. After the Luitania is sunk TR sends the Navy in to the North Sea and Eastern Atlanic. Germany stops unrestricted submarine warfare.
1916: TR lays down his three points for peace.
Point 1: Borders go back to pre1914 lines.
Point 2: Noone is blame for the start of the war.
Point 3: They form something close to the UN and not the League of Nations
Russia, UK, France, Italy, and Austria-Hungary agrees but not Germany. Because of the American Navy being in the North Sea Germany loses a large number of her navy in the Battle of Jutland. Germany starts unresticted submarine warfare again. With in weeks 5 american ships are sunk, america goes to war with the central powers.
1917:Because of the large numbers of american troops germany start to fall back on the western front. The german reichstag overthrow the military wing and agrees to TR three points of peace. Lenin never gets to russia and the russian revolution is a more even fight. The western allies send troops to aid Russian Empire.
1918:A fair peace treaty is work out at Versailles. With allied support Nicholas II stays in power. In Germany Wilhelm the second step down and germany becomes a republic under Paul von Hindenburg. Germany starts down the road to becoming a strong democracy.
1919: TR attack Mexico because of the Pancho Vila Raid into SW America.
1920: Mexico surrenders to america and TR takes over Baja and other northern mexican states.
1921: TR does not run for six terms. He supports Hiram Johnson for Presdent. Wilson loses for a thrid time.

In this timeline there would have been no Second World War in Europe or Soviet Union. Japan would had still attack America and the other western allies but because there was no war in Euopre japan would have been lose only are two or three years of war.
 
theres only so many poor angry people you want in your empire!

There aren't that many people in northern Mexico at this point (big border towns don't grow till later in the century), and those that are there receive only limited governance from Mexico City (ever hear of Pancho Villa?). Sonora, Chihuahua, and Baja could easily be integrated as territories at this point. Remember, Arizona didn't become a state until 1912!
 
1901: William McKinley shot, Roosevelt takes control.
1904: Popular Roosevelt Re-elected.
1908: Roosevelt runs for third term
1912: Republicans refuse to back Roosevelt for fourth term. Roosevelt beats Wilson and Taft as Progressive.
1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary assassinated, The Great War begins, Roosevelt backs British.
1916: Roosevelt wins wartime re-election.
1917: Allied Victory.
1918: Roosevelt becomes major voice at peace conference, arguing for stability and ballance of power.
1919: Roosevelt dies in office. Vice President Robert M. La Follette Sr. takes control.
1920: La Follette re-elected. Franklin D. Rossevelt joins the Progressive party.

I would think he would serve the end of his 5th term; remember that he died because of malaria, which he contracted on a safari; he would not have gone on it were he president, as he would have been too preoccupied with WW1, etc. Btw FDR would NOT join the progressive party; he was very competitive w/ TR and would likely would want to distinguish himself from his cousin
 
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1901: William McKinley shot, Roosevelt takes control.
1904: Popular Roosevelt Re-elected.
1908: Roosevelt runs for third term
1912: Republicans refuse to back Roosevelt for fourth term. Roosevelt beats Wilson and Taft as Progressive.
1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary assassinated, The Great War begins, Roosevelt support British.
1915: TR starts to build up the Army and Navy. After the Luitania is sunk TR sends the Navy in to the North Sea and Eastern Atlanic. Germany stops unrestricted submarine warfare.
1916: TR lays down his three points for peace.
Point 1: Borders go back to pre1914 lines.
Point 2: Noone is blame for the start of the war.
Point 3: They form something close to the UN and not the League of Nations
Russia, UK, France, Italy, and Austria-Hungary agrees but not Germany. Because of the American Navy being in the North Sea Germany loses a large number of her navy in the Battle of Jutland. Germany starts unresticted submarine warfare again. With in weeks 5 american ships are sunk, america goes to war with the central powers.
1917:Because of the large numbers of american troops germany start to fall back on the western front. The german reichstag overthrow the military wing and agrees to TR three points of peace. Lenin never gets to russia and the russian revolution is a more even fight. The western allies send troops to aid Russian Empire.
1918:A fair peace treaty is work out at Versailles. With allied support Nicholas II stays in power. In Germany Wilhelm the second step down and germany becomes a republic under Paul von Hindenburg. Germany starts down the road to becoming a strong democracy.
1919: TR attack Mexico because of the Pancho Vila Raid into SW America.
1920: Mexico surrenders to america and TR takes over Baja and other northern mexican states.
1921: TR does not run for six terms. He supports Hiram Johnson for Presdent. Wilson loses for a thrid time.

In this timeline there would have been no Second World War in Europe or Soviet Union. Japan would had still attack America and the other western allies but because there was no war in Euopre japan would have been lose only are two or three years of war.

Who won in 1920 if Wilson loses? Johnson?
 
There aren't that many people in northern Mexico at this point (big border towns don't grow till later in the century), and those that are there receive only limited governance from Mexico City (ever hear of Pancho Villa?). Sonora, Chihuahua, and Baja could easily be integrated as territories at this point. Remember, Arizona didn't become a state until 1912!

Indeed, behind the red line are only 1.8 million people.
US population in 1910 was 92.2 million

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if TDR was deft enough to appreciate the benefit of a dominant British navy, he might have been perceptive enough to avoid or fight against imposing an overly punitive reparations agreement against Germany. also, if WWI ended a tad earlier, there might be less resentment/less drive to impose draconion reparations terms.


potentially amusing butterflies:

Are Democrats shunted to being the party of the south? (Does the first African-American president come potentially slightly earlier and with a different party?)

Do mega-term "great presidents" become something folks look to? would there be as strong an effort to enact term limits as there was after FDR?

That could be fun to see on voters' thoughts. "He's all right, for the short term, but can he tough it out and be great for 20 years?"
 
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