DBWI: Wilson defeated Hughes

[Kingpoleon]

Would Wilson have ran for a third term in 1920? Would he have intervened in World War One or at least supply the Entente with loans and supplies?

I think at least one of his four successors, Hughes, Fairbanks, Cox, or Bryan, would have become President anyway.

((OOC: I'll keep a list of TTL's Preaidents in the OP for clarity's sake. Any unspecified number of years for a President and I'll decide:

1917-1923: Charles Hughes/Charles Fairbanks
1923-1929: VP Charles Fairbanks/Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte
1929-1937: Governor James Cox/Governor Charles W. Bryan
1937-?: VP Charles W. Bryan/??
))

[Kingpoleon]

I believe he would, I mean, after all, you can't have your ships sunk and your southern border threatened without going to war. No matter who got elected (except Benson), they would had gone into the war. Wilson would probably die in 1919 as he did OTL, and Marshall could had become president.

I suppose I can see the Germans being more hostile to a Wilson administration. Would they really have gone through with their plans for warfare on neutral vessels post-1916 when the Kaiser opposed it IOTL?

[Kingpoleon]

I don't understand the point. Wilson actually defeated Hughes and didn't run in 1920.

The Wilson isolationist myth needs to die. He'd probably suffer the stroke earlier while in office if he took us into war (which he would have just like Hughes) giving us President Marshall.

Hughes didn't take us into the war because, by the time Congress would even consider it, Germany was too close to Paris. He didn't care about France.

In retrospect, it may have been better if France had won so Rene Bousquet never came to power. Without that, we probably would never have had the Wars of the Coalition.

[Kingpoleon]

Karl Hanke, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Ernst Rohm, and Alfred Hugenberg would probably be the leaders of a major German nationalist party. Austria-Bohemia, including Slovenia, may have been controlled by the journalist/artist Adolf Hitler who had ties to Hess IIRC. Hermann Neubacher, Josef Leopold, and Hans Krebs.

I wonder what the Heydreich brothers would have done... I suspect Heinz, alongside Rommel and Schindler, would have lead the resistance. Reinhard was a very interesting person IOTL.