CaliGuy
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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Henry Cabot Lodge (a reservationist Republican during the Versailles Treaty negotiations, and a staunch opponent of Woodrow Wilson's) supported the idea of the U.S. having some sort of alliance with France (I would presume that the U.K. would also be included in such an alliance). My source for this information is page 160 in this book: https://books.google.com/books?id=_...n such as is included in Article 10,"&f=false
Basically, the PoD here is that U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's 1919 stroke is a bit more severe, thus killing Wilson rather than incapacitating him. Thus, Wilson's Vice President Thomas Marshall becomes the new U.S. President in 1919 and manages to compromise with Lodge's faction in the U.S. Senate to have the U.S. join the League of Nations with some reservations, as well as to implement a U.S. alliance with Britain and with France (which, as far as I know, was something which Wilson actually promised French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau at Versailles in early 1919).
Thus, in this scenario, the United States of America is a member of the League of Nations since 1919 or 1920, and the U.S. also has an alliance with Britain and France since that point in time.
How exactly do you think that history since 1919 (including World War II, if Hitler still eventually comes to power) in this scenario would have differed from real life?
Basically, the PoD here is that U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's 1919 stroke is a bit more severe, thus killing Wilson rather than incapacitating him. Thus, Wilson's Vice President Thomas Marshall becomes the new U.S. President in 1919 and manages to compromise with Lodge's faction in the U.S. Senate to have the U.S. join the League of Nations with some reservations, as well as to implement a U.S. alliance with Britain and with France (which, as far as I know, was something which Wilson actually promised French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau at Versailles in early 1919).
Thus, in this scenario, the United States of America is a member of the League of Nations since 1919 or 1920, and the U.S. also has an alliance with Britain and France since that point in time.
How exactly do you think that history since 1919 (including World War II, if Hitler still eventually comes to power) in this scenario would have differed from real life?