Alternative

So here's an alternative history: what if FDR instead of the whole New Deal militarized the country to help stimulate the economy during the Depression? Sort of along the lines of Nazi Germany but without the nasty Nazi stuff. Producing a large military aparatus would certainly bring the country out of its funk. Afterall it worked for the Germans and later worked for the US in actual history. The alternate thought could be that the US annexes most of Central America and the Carribean and when the Second World War breaks out is a massive military force spread across most of North America (barring Canada) and chunks of South America.

It would be a curious change of events!