Teddy Roosevelt doesn’t stage a walkout at the Republican Convention in Chicago and eventually wins the nomination of the Republican Party.
John Schrank’s assassination attempt on October 14, 1912 goes ahead as before and news of Roosevelt delivering his speech for ninety minutes with blood seeping from his chest causes a sensation.
Teddy wins the Presidential Election in November.
World War One kicks off as usual in August of 1914 and Germany declares unrestricted U-boat attacks in February 1915, again as usual.
Roosevelt issues warnings and begins improving the United States woeful military position.
The Lusitania’s sinking is all the justification Roosevelt needs. In his speech to a Joint Session of Congress he declares that “The Seventh of May 1915 is a date which will live in infamy”.
The United States enters World War One on May 9th, 1915.
US forces start arriving in Europe in August that year and begin to bolster the Western Front. However, they do not launch any offensives, seeing frontal assaults on that front as totally fruitless.
Instead landings are made on the Adriatic Coast against Austria – Hungry and an Anglo American army pushes up from Suez into Palestine and takes Damascus. The entire Arabian Peninsula falls to the Allies in 1916.
The Central Powers position begins to seriously suffer in 1916.
Secret negotiations begin in Sweden for a Ceasefire based on Status Quo Ante Bellum…
In 1917 Den Hague hosts the Convention for the Future Peace of Europe and the World.