If the USA decides to annex all of the CSA and Canada after the First Great War, what do you think would be its implications? Will the US fall apart most likely, and how would this play into the 2nd Great War?
TL 191 WI: USA annexes CSA and Canada after the First Great War
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Then we don't get seven additional books? 
In all seriousness, the U.S. population was pretty exhausted by the summer of 1917. Yes the U.S. had captured Kentucky, Sequoyah, and parts of Texas, Arkansas, and Virginia, but most of the Confederacy remained unconquered. Additionally, the U.S. played on the exhaustion of the Confederacy to get a peace deal (a very harsh peace deal for the Confederacy). If the CSA knew that the U.S. intended to fully conquer and annex it, then it would have fought that much harder. The only reason that the U.S. had the will to do it in 1944 was twofold: the CSA had viciously attacked the U.S. with the intent of doing it fatal harm; the CSA was actively committing genocide (though this was a secondary justification). Canada could be held down easier, theoretically, due to its smaller population. I just don't see the U.S. being able to hold both down; though if any leader could it was Theodore Roosevelt.
In all seriousness, the U.S. population was pretty exhausted by the summer of 1917. Yes the U.S. had captured Kentucky, Sequoyah, and parts of Texas, Arkansas, and Virginia, but most of the Confederacy remained unconquered. Additionally, the U.S. played on the exhaustion of the Confederacy to get a peace deal (a very harsh peace deal for the Confederacy). If the CSA knew that the U.S. intended to fully conquer and annex it, then it would have fought that much harder. The only reason that the U.S. had the will to do it in 1944 was twofold: the CSA had viciously attacked the U.S. with the intent of doing it fatal harm; the CSA was actively committing genocide (though this was a secondary justification). Canada could be held down easier, theoretically, due to its smaller population. I just don't see the U.S. being able to hold both down; though if any leader could it was Theodore Roosevelt.