German Empireball

The German Empireball, or just called the Second Reichball, is actually the countryball that was Reichtangle's base and was  Germanyball from 1871 to 1918. Its glory days started from the Unification of Germany in 1871 to the abdication of November 1918, when it became a weaker Federal Republic (Weimar Republicball). It was known for its strong culture, good diplomacy and for being the main antagonist of the First World war. It also used Gas-Weapons, which actually were forbidden.
==History==
===Unification (1815-1871)===
 German Stateballs had been divided for centuries, but it was only after the Enlightenment and French Revolutions displayed nationalist ideas for the first time, did a sense of German nationalism begin to inspire the various German stateballs. 
Their conquest by Napoleonic Franceball in the Napoleonic Wars had reorganized them into 39 stateballs by the time of the Congress of Vienna in 1815, under German Confederationball to replace the dissolved old HREball's rule. 
This new German Confederationball was led by Austrian Empireball and Prussiaball, the two strongest states in the Confederation.
However, as time went by Austrian Empireball's influence waned, and Prussiaball's grew steadily. The 1848 liberal revolutions had the effect of boosting Germanic nationalism and a sense of unity, but Prussiaball was too conservative, so he declined the offer of the crown of a liberal unified Germany. 
In 1864 Prussiaball and Austrian Empireball attacked Denmarkball for Schlewsigball and Holsteinball, who were about to be annexed into Denmarkball's dominions despite their German ethnicity. 
This cooperation was later dissolved in 1866 when Prussiaball with help from Kingdom of Italyball turned on Austrian Empireball and his satellites, forcing it to cede its hegemony over the German stateballs like Hanoverball, who was annexed into the North German Confederationball in 1867.
 Franceball was becoming alarmed at the new tilt of power, so it made an attempt to intervene in the Austro-Prussian Brothers' War which came too late. Then in 1868 it demanded that Spainball not accept a German dynasty to rule it. Tensions erupted after North German Confederationball published an inflammatory telegram (the Ems dispatch) in 1870, provoking Franceball to declare war. 
 Franceball was overconfident, and got overrun by the German stateballs' armies and defeated at Sedan and Metz. It was in its Palace of Versailles, in 1871 that the South German stateballs were drawn into the union, and German Empireball was proclaimed there.
===Bismarckian era, and Kulturkampf (1871-1890)===
 German Empireball knew it had to keep a delicate balance of power in Europe in order to maintain peace towards its new state, so it signed the League of the Three Emperors (Dreikaiserbund) in 1879. Russiaball and Austria-Hungaryball now sided with German Empireball, who drew in Italyball into a 'Triple Alliance' in 1882. 
Around this time it began a policy of encouraging Protestantism over Catholicism, making it unpopular with the southern German Stateballs like Bavariaball, who remained autonomous in monarchial governance. Jewcubes in the Reich were also targeted. The policy stifled the growth of democracy in the German Empireball that would lay the foundations for the authoritarian regimes of the next century.
 German Empireball also hosted the 1884 Berlin Conference, to divide African clay up amongst the Great Powers, and at a subsequent 1885 Congo Conference voted to give Belgiumball the Congo region. However, in 1888, it had a change of personality and became a brash, saber-rattling brute barburus instead of the suave statesman it was before.
===Wilhelmine era; The Arms race and Tensions (1890-1914)===
 Franceball broke out of the quarantine and began to draw closer to UKball, culminating in the Entente Cordiale in 1904. This was mainly due to German Empireball's new naval buildups, trying to challenge British Empireball's dominance of the high seas with its fleets. 
Its colonial policies caused friction too, with it being able to claim only small pieces of clay. It took Tsingtao from Qing Chinaball forcibly, then it purchased some islands from Spainball in the Pacific, then it was part of the 1900 Expedition in response to the Boxer Rebellion, leading to international outrage from German Empireball's orders to 'take no prisoners', leading to his nickname, 'The Hun'.
When the July Crisis broke out in mid-1914 after Serbiaball shot Austria-Hungaryball's archduke, German Empireball's support of the ailing Empire saw it come into conflict with Serbiaball's ally Russian Empireball, and its ally Franceball, beginning World War I.
=== The Great War (World War I) (1914-1918) ===
Initially, German Empireball used its Schlieffen Plan; to attack Franceball through Belgiumball and Luxembourgball, bypassing its fortifications and ending up in Parisball, then turning his armies east to fight Russian Empireball, who would take longer to mobilize fully. However Belgiumball turned out to be more resistant, and UKball intervened on the Entente side. German Empireball managed to get through Belgiumball's clay, occupying most of it. As Franceball withdrew its troops from Alsaceball to fight the German Empireball coming through Belgiumball, UKball stepped in at the 1st Battle of Mons to defend the corner of Flandersball still held by the Allies. (Ypres Lives!). 
 Franceball managed to defeat German Empireball at the Miracle of the Marne, stopping its advance at the gates of Parisball. They then raced to the sea, digging entrenched positions along the way, and by November, trenches stretched from Switzerlandball clay to the North Sea.
By 1916, the stalemate had lasted over a year on the Western Front. The opposing belligerents were evenly matched, with occasional charges made. Their fleets jarred at Jutland. As the massive offensives of Verdun and the Somme, at Passchendale and Cambrai saw tens of thousands of casualties on both sides on French soil, the Allies looked to convince USAball to join the war. 
 German Empireball resuming unrestricted submarine warfare and its 1917 Zimmerman Telegram to Mexicoball resulted in USAball declaring war on it. 
At the same time, the exhausted  Russian Republicball had a revolution. German Empireball infected it with communism, resulting in a civil war, and Russian SFSRball's signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in 1918, giving German Empireball tons of new clay and puppet stateballs in the East.
By spring 1918, German Empireball was also exhausted, and the Allied blockade affected the flow of supplies unilaterally. It was now a race to deploy its forces in the East westward before USAball could arrive in full force. It made several great pushes that spring, but they ultimately broke down due to supply overstretch before Amiens. 
When USAball arrived, the Allies pushed back relentlessly, breaking through German Empireball's defensive line. Its allies collapsed throughout the next few months, German Empireball was forced to sue for peace, ending the Great War. 
A month before its surrender, an uprising happened known as German Revolution of 1918-1919. The Kaiser abdicated, fleeing to the Netherlandsball's clay, and its future self, the Weimar Republicball was forced to pay the price for its past self's defeat in the war, leading to another Great War some 20 years later.
== Relations ==
=== Ze Central Powers ===
* Austria-Hungaryball - Slow and clumsy ally. We were enemies in past but we of allied to defeat Franceball and Russian Empireball and Serbiaball.
* Ottomanball - My great ally. It was weak at WW1 and unfortunately killed at the end of the war.
* Kingdom of Bulgariaball - Fought against the Greeks, Romanians, and Serbs.
=== Friends ===
* Kingdom of Prussiaball - Ich glorious Creator! Mein fader merged into me with his weirdo friends but still existed as my leader.
* Holy Roman Empireball - I miss you! I attempted to resurrect it. I beg, plead, and CRY OUT to God for you to come back! Please! I really miss you! *cries very softly*
* Boliviaball - Helped with its money.
* Argentinaball - One of my first freunds, ich helped it with its army and then it helped me at WW1 giving me supplies. Thank you.
* Irish Republicball - It rebelled against UKball during der Krieg und ich tried to help ut with guns. Nice country who can into alcohol just like me.
* Netherlandsball - Danke for giving mein Kaiser refuge here after ze war.
===Neutral===
* Kingdom of Polandball - It helped me against Russiaball after I created it, but yuo take my territory when I signed the treaty of Versailles. Also Ich Believe Mein Creator und State and mein Kaiser probably hates yuo.
* Russian SFSRball - Yuo may be communist, but yuo took your worse version out of the war and made peace wiz me, not zat it helped much. Ich still gonna take some of your clay.
===Enemies===
* Nazi Germanyball - FUCK YUO. I WAS WRONG TO TRUST YUO AT THE BEGINNING. YUO IS OF BLAMINGS ME FOR LOSING THE GREAT WAR. YUO IS OF WANTINGS TO RESTORE GERMANYS GLORY YET YUO NOT OF WANTINGS TO RESTORE THE KAISER? YUO IS OF THUGS. 
**: not my fault yuo is of disappointment who made Germany go to sheiße by letting die Juden backstab yuo. Mein Deutschland will never fall to such weaknesses and we will fulfill in die ost what yuo is only of dreaming of doing. Mein colors come from your flag
**: YUO LITTLE SCHEIẞE. YUO MADE ME LOSE DIE REST OF MICH EASTERN CLAY.
** : Und Ze reason you lost your eastern clay, is that you were forced to surrender to ze allies und caused a massive uprising after your abdication.
* UKball - YOU STUPID ISLAND! YOU ONLY WON BECAUSE OF COLONIES! YOU RUIN SCHLIEFFEN PLAN FICK YOU!
* Franceball - WHY DID SCHLIEFFEN PLAN FAILED! IT WAS TOO GOOD!
* Russian Empireball - I kicked your ass so hard! Too bad the Habsburgs were terrible on the Brusilov offensive. Also, your army in the Osowiec Fortress shocked me.
* USAball - STUPID BURGER! ICH COULD HAVE WON THE WAR IF YOU DID NOT INTO JOININGS! Vell at zhe beginning we were Friends and you also hate zat Racist Arschloch.
* Belgiumball - Raped you and your libraries so hard HAHA! Wouldn't have happened IF YOU WOULD JUST LET ME PASS MEIN 750,000 SOLDIERS THROUGH YOUR CLAY TO DEFEAT FRANKREICH! How dare you have your child take Rwanda and Burundi from me!
* Kingdom of Romaniaball - TRANSILVANIA IS OF THE MAGYARS! LEAVE THEM ALONE! But we can into beings part of Hohenzollern House.
* Kingdom of Serbiaball - You started this war and killed the archduke.
* Kingdom of Italyball and Mexicoball - WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE ALLIES BUT THEN BOTH OF YOU BETRAYED ME! THIS IS WHY I LOST WW1! FICK YOU SO MUCH! BRING IT ON! BOTH SHALL PAY FOR BETRAYING ME! 'Wow... both of you hate each other because your flags are mixed up?
* Kingdom of Greeceball - YOU HAD ONE JOB!! AND THAT WAS TO STAY NEUTRAL. WHY YOU MARRY KAISER'S SISTER BUT YOU JOIN TRIPLE ENTENTE?? (It is suffering economically modern day. PAY DEBTS, hahaha)
* Portugalball - You of irrelevant, but still FICK DICH FOR STEALING MEIN BOATS!!! (It is also suffering economically modern day. PAY DEBTS, hahaha)
* Brazilball - I DON'T CARE FOR YOUR SHIPS!
* Denmarkball - How did you get north Schleswig when you didn't even fight the war?
* Empire of Japanball - You are of stupid otaku and stealings Qingdaoball from me wich ich rightfully stealings from China! YOU EVEN DID WORSE WHEN NAZI-ALLIED WITH YOU!! I SAW YOUR RISE AND DOWNFALL... IT WAS WORSE THAN MINE!
* Chinaball - TRAITOR!! FUCK YUO! I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS BUT YUO HELP JAPAN AND DECLARED WAR ON ME!!
* Namibiaball - It hates me for "committing genocide" But you were not obeying me!! STOP ASKING ME CHILD FOR REPARATIONS!
* Australiaball - YOU ICH OF STEALINGS Papua New Guineaball FROM ME!!!
* Union of South Africaball - YOU ICH ALSO STEALING Namibiaball FROM ME!!
* New Zealandball - LIKE SOUTH AFRIKA AND AUSSIE YUO STOLE Samoaball FROM ME!!!
* Yemenball - Flag Stealer YOU ADOPTED THAT FLAG IN 1990!!!
* Upper Voltaball - ANOTHER FLAG STEALER!!! Not surprising this is Frankreich's child.
==German Client States==
* Belarusian People's Republicball
* Don Republicball
* DR Georgiaball
* Duchy of Courland and Semigalliaball (1918)
* Kingdom of Finlandball
* Kingdom of Lithuaniaball (1918)
* Kingdom of Polandball (1916-1918)
* Ukrainian Stateball
* United Baltic Duchyball
==Colonies== 
* German East Africaball
* German Kiautshouball
* German New Guineaball
* German Samoaball
* German South-West Africaball
* Hankouball
* Kamerunball
* Tientsinball
* Togolandball
* Witulandball
==Subdivitions==
===Kingdoms===
* Kingdom of Prussiaball
* Kingdom of Bavariaball
* Kingdom of Saxonyball
* Kingdom of Württembergball
===Grand Duchies===
* Grand Duchy of Badenball
* Grand Duchy of Hesseball
* Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerinball
* Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitzball
* Grand Duchy of Oldenburgball
* Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenachball
===Duchies===
* Duchy of Anhaltball
* Duchy of Brunswickball
* Duchy of Saxe-Altenburgball
* Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gothaball
* Duchy of Saxe-Meiningenball
===Principalities===
* Principality of Lippeball
* Principality of Reuss-Geraball
* Principality of Reuss-Greizball
* Principality of Schaumburg-Lippeball
* Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadtball
* Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausenball
* Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmontball
=== Free and Hanseatic Cities===
* Free Hanseatic City of Bremenball
* Free Hanseatic City of Hamburgball
* Free Hanseatic City of Lübeckball
=== Imperial Territories===
* Alsace-Lorraineball
==Information for artists==
=== Flag colors ===
===How to draw===
Drawing the German Empire is simple:
#Divide the circle shape into three horizontal stripes
#Color them black, white and red
#Draw eyes and you are finished.
#OPTIONAL: Draw a pickelhaube at the top if you want
#In others words, draw Yemen's flag but upside down!
==Gallery==
==See also==
ru:Германская империя
zh:德意志帝国球
pt:Império Alemãoball
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