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1848 Revolutions led to (almost) the total collapse of the Habsburg Empire, with Hungary achieving full independence, Russia and Romania annexing Galicia and Bukovina, and Austria granting a semi-independence to Croatia under a Habsburg Crown. This leads to Austria investing heavily on overseas colonial expansion and into German politics.
Mar 20, 2011 · -The war drags on until 1920, as German Expeditionary Forces slowly push the Entente out of the Middle East. In the end the UK is forced to give in or face total economic collapse.-Germany annexes Belgium and North East France and creates a large African Colonial Empire-The Next Arms Race starts directly after the war.
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An alternate German Empire, ca. 1872 : r/imaginarymaps. [OC] Yes, yet another Greater Germany. An alternate German Empire, ca. 1872. Objection: Hungary. Austria only ever agreed to a compromise because they were in a position of weakness, when they have all the extra Germans they are much less inclined to not treat Hungary like a colony.
Jan 8, 2021 · WI: German Venezuela/'Klein-Venedig' endures. In 1528, the leader of Augsburg loaned the Habsburg Emperor Charles V a large sum of money. The emperor, however, did not have the money to pay back so, instead of giving a cash settlement, he gifted Augsburg the colony of Venezuela (which was renamed Klein-Venedig).
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German Empire, historical empire founded on January 18, 1871, in the wake of three short, successful wars by the North German state of Prussia. Within a seven-year span, Denmark, the Habsburg monarchy, and France had been vanquished. The empire had its origin not in an upwelling of nationalist feeling from the masses but through traditional cabinet...
The Treaty of Prague concluded the Seven Weeks’ War with Austria and other German states on August 23, 1866, and cleared the way for a settlement both in Prussia and in the wider affairs of Germany. The Schleswig-Holstein question, which had threatened the balance of power in northern Europe for more than a decade, took on a new dimension with the cession of Schleswig and Holstein to Prussia. The Prussian parliament had been dissolved at the beginning of the war, and new elections were held on the day of the Battle of Königgrätz (July 3, 1866). The liberals in the parliament had a reduced majority, and they were now split in their attitude to Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck; his success had shaken their liberal principles. The moderates broke away from the Progressives (Deutsche Fortschrittspartei) to form the National Liberal Party, a party in which liberalism was subordinated to nationalism. Bismarck, on his side, made a conciliatory gesture by asking for an act of indemnity for the unconstitutional collection of taxes since the beginning of the parliamentary struggle with Prussian King William I in 1862. This act was passed on September 3, 1866, by a vote of 230 to 75.
It was a decisive step in German history. The Prussian liberals, hitherto genuine opponents of Bismarck, dropped their insistence on parliamentary sovereignty in exchange for the prospect of German unity and for an assurance that united Germany would be administered in a “liberal” spirit. Instead of a struggle for power, there was henceforth compromise. The capitalist middle classes ceased to demand control of the state, and the crown and the Junker governing class conducted the state in a way which suited middle-class needs and outlook. Since the middle classes ceased to be liberals, the Prussian Junkers became “Germans.” Neither side kept its bargain fully, and there were renewed alarms of constitutional struggle throughout the period of the empire. However, the decision of September 3, 1866, was not undone, and Germany did not become a constitutional monarchy.
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Including mainland Germany, the empire had a total land area of 3,503,352 square kilometers and population of 80,125,993 people. Germany lost control of most of its colonial empire at the beginning of the First World War in 1914, but some German forces held out in German East Africa until the end of the war. After the German defeat in World War ...
