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The map of Europe after the Silesian Wars. After the Austrian Republic unified all the Germanies in the 1860s, many thought it would be a great superpower in the center of Europe, however the prediction that the Austrians would be able to finally tame this tumultuous part of Europe was sorely mistaken. After the unification of Austria with its various other German states, the Hungarian congress decided to attempt to push the cause of independence. However before any discussions of a peaceful separation could go through was the first of many coups and the long string of dictatorships that would haunt the small republic. The first dictator would institute a few reforms like splitting up the republic into autonomous republics, these being Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Dalmatia, the Croatian Military Frontier, Western Ukraine, and Bukovina. Slovenia would also eventually be added to this list as well as the independence of Poznan. Each head of state was personally picked by the dictator of Germany at the time which would cause issues down the line when the second dictator came to power a few years later from a coup. the 2nd dictator would come to fight with the heads of state and name himself as the protector of all German minorities in these states. Though he threatened to replace and re-annex much of these republics, he only succeeded at re-annexing the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia and a partition of Poznan with the Russian Empire before also meeting his fate in the gallows of Vienna only 3 years after his inauguration

The 3rd dictator came to power not from a coup, but a popular uprising in the capital. He was a small time bureaucrat who was able to capitalize on the resentment of various German nationalists on two decades ago loss of territory to the Republic of France. The territory France had taken were the at the time independent principalities of Baden and Pfalz. However the war would come to a complication as Germany’s number one ally at the time was the United States who was also allies with France. So when Germany began the invasion of France to retake territories and also claim the land of Elsass-Lothringen from France, the United States would declare neutrality with under-the-table financial support towards Germany. Many believe the implicit support of the United States was due to the ongoing colonial race in Western Africa between it and France, but historians are unsure why it truly happened

The war lasted a short month as Germany surprised and easily outmanned the French as the border was mostly undefended. Thus our 3rd dictator was declared a hero for the conquests, but it only took 3 years for this honeymoon period to sour. As Germany would be plunged into a failed coup turned civil war. As the Republic of Prussia was declared in the country’s East and the Rhine. Though the Rhine region of the war would collapse in only 7 months, the entire war would last 7 years and have two Germanies vying for power in Europe with the Prussian dictatorship beating out the eyes of the German dictatorship. International brigades from the United States and Italian Republic would attempt to help their respective sides by trying to take out rebel hideouts in Germany and Prussia, the rebels proved far more powerful than anticipated and both left the country in shame

Though the direct war between Germany and Prussia would stop, the effective cold war and build up of troops as well as the near constant guerilla armies would continue. Silesia would prove the most volatile and unstable part of this conflict as it made much of Germany entirely ungovernable

At the start of 1887, various rebel groups from Silesia would contact the government of the United States and the French Republic. Telling of tales of the massacres done by the Prussian government and the squalid refugee camps of the German government. The two made an agreement to support the Silesian rebels in their fight against the Prussian government and attempt to mend the situation in Germany once and for all. The two were able to get Italy to agree to the situation by promising a concession of the Italian portion of South Tirol to Italy as well as generous concessions at the end of the war. As Italy was the premiere land military power of Europe after Prussia. However Prussia was able to agree to help to convince the Russian Empire and Spanish Empire to support its cause with the promise of French colonial concessions and the return of the previously lost Alyaska Oblast from the Americans. And so began the war

The German Republic was technically neutral in this war, however was the battleground for much of the war due to its turmoil as well as being the only area being able to host the American navy. Though even then, armies traveling through Germany had an extremely hard time even getting to the front without getting assailed by the various rebel armies and also Russian patrols. The American army was first to the scene and was able to capture Prussian Stettin, the capital of Prussia, but was unable to make any in-roads into Silesia proper. The Pyrenees Front was however going much better as the French made quick headways into Catalonia and Basque Country. Though both fronts would become hypercharged when the Italian double-headed offensive was able to break through two stalemates simultaneously. Both being able to fight off the Prussians and Russians on the Eastern Front and being able to fight off the Spanish on the Western Front

The hardest hit fighting was on the Spanish front as the Spanish line would collapse rather quickly as the entire country fell to the French-Italian threat. Spain would attempt some Hail Mary plays such as invading the United States by island hopping through Alaska only for the expeditions to die to the cold. The American Pacific Fleet would also capture the Marianas, Caroline, and Philippine Islands

The Eastern Front was more slow-going as the amount of troops would require much more careful planning. Though the armies were able to eventually push past Pomerania and Silesia into Russian Poland

With the conquest of Poland, the imperial powers would surrender at the Congress of Strasbourg. The United States mandated the creation of Poland and the creation of an independent Ukraine that goes all the way to the Dnipro River. Romania would also gain the territory of Bukovina and Bessarabia from Germany and Russia respectively. America would also mandate the turning over of all of Western Sahara to the Kingdom of Morocco from Spain as well as the colonies of the Spanish Pacific being handed over to the Americans. America would also mandate that Portugal be given Galicia to follow more ethnic lines of Iberia. America would also come to mandate that Georgia be given all the territory of Russian Tiflis. America would go against French demands for Alsace and negotiate with France to create the Republic of Alsace as a buffer-state between Germany and France that was under French influence.

France would mandate the creation of an independent Basque Country from Spain as well as annexing Spanish Catalonia. France would also demand the colonies of Spanish Western Africa. France would also demand concessions from Germany to give over the territory of Vorarlperg and Liechtenstein be handed over to Switzerland and the German territory of Cleve being given over to the Netherlands. France would also replace the government of Germany with a provisional French authority as well as re-unifying Germany and Prussia. Germany would keep the territory of Bohemia, Hungary, and Slovenia as autonomous regions of Germany.

Italy would demand concession of Dalmatia, Istria, Italian populated South Tirol, as well as the separation of Czechia and Slovakia. With Slovakia being governed by the Italian authority til further notice.

Though despite the fact that the Russian Empire was fighting on the opposite side, Russia would also gain some concessions. Russia’s diplomats to Serbia were able to convince the treaty organizers to create the nation of Yugoslavia with the king of Serbia as the head of state, so the Kingdom of Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia were merged into Yugoslavia. The king of Serbia then declared his fealty to the Russian Tsar which made Yugoslavia a satellite of the Russian Empire. So Russia both lost and gained territory

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