United Kingdoms of Germany

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Flag of the United Kingdoms of Germany

The **United Kingdoms of Germany**, commonly known as **Germany**, is a major country located in Central Europe. Germany shares its borders with the Danish Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein to the north, France, Kingdom of Dietsland, Wallonia, and the Swiss Confederacy to the west, Kingdom of Italy to the south, the sister republics of Hungary and Croatia to the southeast, Congress Poland and the Independent State of Prussia to the east.

## Overview

The **United Kingdoms of Germany** are in the center of Europe. With victory in the Great War, Germany finally became the second strongest colonial power and had the chance to create great impacts on history such as Britain and Russia. However after the war, failures, mistakes, and missed opportunities cost the United Kingdoms of Germany great deals of influence and power. Germany is the center point of Europe, enriching itself in experiencing another political lockdown and suffering another economic crises.

## History

The **Empire of Germany** is the preeminent continental power in Europe in 1933.

Emerging from their defeat in the First Franco-German War, the Holy Roman Empire found itself in a state of flux. Wracked by the liberal revolutions following the French Reformation, many within the Empire's Habsburg hegemon feared complete dissolution. Others, however, like Emperor Francis II, saw the defeat as an opportunity. The peoples of Germany had been defeated once, and they would never be defeated again.

This began the period known as the **Wars of Consolidation**. Either through agreement or arms, Austria and her allies began the arduous process of centralizing and reforming the Empire. This period of conflict would come to a head with the Austro-Prussian War. Offering territorial concessions in Poland to Russia in exchange for their assistance, Austria invaded and strangled the nascent Prussian superpower in the crib. With the back of the Hohenzollerns broken, Austria turned her attentions west to Alsace-Lorraine. The Second Franco-German War saw the Germans avenge their defeat in 1797 and in a lavish ceremony in Versailles, Franz Joseph I was crowned as the first Kaiser of the German Empire.

This state of affairs proved too much for Austria's own constituencies in Hungary and Illyria, who demanded self-determination from the new German state. The 1870 Ausgleich Treaty saw Hungary gain independence in all but name, while Austria's southern Slavic provinces were reorganized into the Dinaric Federation as a Dominion of Germany. This state of affairs proved unsustainable with the outbreak of the Great War. As Germany fought brutal trench warfare across Flanders and Wallonia, their Hungarian allies collapsed into revolution while the Dinaric Federation broke free in the fervor of Slavic ultranationalism that gripped the Balkans.

Though a victor in the war, Germany decisively lost the peace. The **Long Depression**, the postwar collapse of the European economies, fermented political unrest of all kinds. Germany's former Russian ally has gone sour and blames the German hegemon for their postwar decline. Even worse, the resurgent and revanchist French state is seemingly on a collision course for war once more. Only iron and blood will see Germany through these dark days.