US fights the ottomans in WW1

Apparently the US never declared war on the Ottoman Empire during WW1.

What if it did and sent perhaps a few brigades or even a division to fight alongside the British and revolting Arabs in the Middle East?

How can this be made to happen? What sort of cassus belli would be needed?

Assuming this still ends in an allied victory what would the cultural consequences be in terms of US perceptions of the Middle East and its inhabitants?

Also could the US make any difference say in North Iraq or southern Anatolia?
 

CaliGuy

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How can this be made to happen?

A simple change of mind by President Wilson.

Assuming this still ends in an allied victory what would the cultural consequences be in terms of US perceptions of the Middle East and its inhabitants?

TBH, I'm not sure that much would change. In fact, I suspect that the Middle East would still be romanticized in U.S. films and popular culture.

Also could the US make any difference say in North Iraq or southern Anatolia?

It could perhaps result in an independent Kurdistan after the end of World War I if the U.S. pushed hard enough.
 
It could perhaps result in an independent Kurdistan after the end of World War I if the U.S. pushed hard enough.

Wouldn't that just be swept way by the Turkish resurgence under Kemal, along with Armenia?

I can't see much changing unless the US actually keeps troops there postwar, which is almost certainly ASB.
 

CaliGuy

Banned
Wouldn't that just be swept way by the Turkish resurgence under Kemal, along with Armenia?
Depends on whether or not--as well as to what extent--Britain and/or France are willing to prop up this independent Kurdistan. After all, please keep in mind that both Syria and Iraq still have large Kurdish-majority areas even today.
 
Depends on whether or not--as well as to what extent--Britain and/or France are willing to prop up this independent Kurdistan. After all, please keep in mind that both Syria and Iraq still have large Kurdish-majority areas even today.

Though of course that won't necessarily predispose them in Kurdistan's favour, especially if they start having trouble with Kurdish nationalists in Syria and Iraq.
 

CaliGuy

Banned
Though of course that won't necessarily predispose them in Kurdistan's favour, especially if they start having trouble with Kurdish nationalists in Syria and Iraq.
I was thinking that Syria and Iraq would be smaller in this TL, though--with their Kurdish-majority areas being a part of Kurdistan.
 
How much political influence did Kurdish-Americans have?
........Armenian-Americans?
........ Lebanese-Americans?

In any scenario, the American-Arab Oil Company would profit with British Petroleum playing a minor role.
 
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