The 6th of March of 1901, Wilhelm II decided to visit the city of Bremen. What the Kaiser did not expect though was to be shot dead by an anarchist, changing the fate of Germany forever. His then 24 year old son, Wilhelm III, inherited the throne.
Der Kaiser ist Tot! or DKT is all about the consequences of this event and the butterfly effect that ensues.
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Kaiser Wilhelm III was not as militaristic as his father, attempting to mend the alliances that Bismarck had built during his Great Grandfather's reign. Attempting to salvage his relations with the other nations of Europe. With the help of then chancellor Theobald Von Bethmann Hollweg they ended the naval arms race between Britain and Germany.
When Arch Duke Franz was assassinated, Germany was reluctant to go to war, warning the Austrians they would not be getting any support. The Austro-Hungarian Empire proceeded with the war regardless, and promptly was crushed under the might of the Russian army. This was the exact boost of morale that the Tsar needed to stay in power. Hungary and Romania were split from the empire into Russian puppets. Eventually in 1917 Austria voted to join the German Empire, marking the end of the Austrian Empire.
The actions of the Kaiser angered many of the populace, with many marking him as a coward for letting one of Germany's allies fall to the Russian menace. Many members of the royal family as well as many German politicians publicly against his liberal policies compared to Wilhelm II.
While outside of the country Wilhelm III was viewed as a positive figure among many of the more liberal nations. And with the election of the staunchly anti-german Raymond Poincare, France began to lose grip on its alliances now that Germany was less of a threat than the slowly modernizing Russian Empire. France was able to find an ally in the Russian Empire due to their Anti-German policy.
In the US, Teddy Roosevelt wins the 1916 election and without WW1 they continue to enact the Monroe Doctrine and reinforce their dominance over the continent.
In 1922 the March on Rome occured as a result of Italy continuing to falter over the years without anybody to blame but the government. The new fascist Government under Benito Mussolini inspired several other fascist movements to grow in several other nations.
In the Russian puppets of Hungary and Romania, the territorial dispute over transylvania raged on as a result of Russia's choice to split in the region in half for both of the nations. Leading to several protests and racial violence. Russia responded to these protests with extreme violence and apathy, supressing both parties. Russia's rivals used these actions to paint russia as a poor and tyrannical nation, and its leader a brutal monster. Eventually on October 15, 1923, an underground group of Romanian nationalists known as National Romanian Fascio, with the aid of the German military attempted a coup on the Romanian puppet government. The newly established government was met with military action from Russia. Germany and their allies demanded Russia to recognize Romania as a newly established state, which they refused.
Main Page: The Great War
The actions had resulted in the onset of The Great War. The United Kingdom alongside Germany declared war on Russia, France then joined the war on Russia's side.
On the western front French defenses are broken through as the Germans invade Belgium and the naval invasion from nearly all sides stretches France's military thin.
On the Eastern Front, the Romanian rebels quickly fall to the Russians, while they win a few minor conflicts in the north. Bulgaria joins the war on the German side allowing German support to reach the turks easier. And Germany eventually takes Hungary with the support of Britain. The fall of France was not good for Russian morale, as the Central Powers began to quickly advance on the Russian front the city of Riga was captured in 1925. As the Russian people's opinion on the war began to turn from exitement to horror as Russia began to quickly fall to the Central Powers.
In 1926, the Russian Empire was forced to surrender in the Treaty of Kaliningrad. The Tsar was forced to abdicate and was replaced by his brother Michael, while the territories of Ukraine, Poland, Finland, and were made into independant states in the new international organization of Mitteleuropa. France was stripped of almost all its colonial possessions and was left utterly destitute after being humiliated in the war. While also turning the Central Powers into a newly established world order composed of Britain and Germany in the west, and Japan in the east.
When regaining the territories of Austria-Hungary, The Central Powers created the Austrian Federation as a spirtual successor. Being a federal union of indapendent states ruled over by a constitutional monarch.
The interwar period was marked by a global economic crash, as Russia and France went into unprecidented amounts of debt and inflation began to skyrocket. Mussolini's fascism began to spread in popularity, as more Fascist movements were established across the world.
Interwar[]
The interwar period saw the rise of the Sorelian movement. The party appealed to the impoverished and humiliated population in france and slowly gained popularity, out competing with the other fascist movements at the time. Eventually Georges Sorel is elected into power after a revolution and military insurrection against the French Government.
Despite Russia’s attempts to adopting democracy the country is under extreme stress and rapidly falling apart. Russia's first election in 1933 leads to the rise of Menshevik Leon Trotsky as the new President of Russia. He faces extreme oppsition from the Far-Right parties of russia that had begun to flourish in Russia.
This leads to the Russian Civil war between the Mensheviks and several other leftist factions against the White Russian army that united against them. Eventually Joseph Stalin takes control in Georgia, aiding the Mensheviks in the war. Eventually in 1936 they see them rising as the dominant power in Russia. Despite being ideologically distant from France they still persued an alliance with eachother.
The Spanish Civil War begins around the same time with the French supporting, leading in a republican victory. The Republican victory esablishes 3 new states Catalonia, The Basque Republic, and the People's Republic of Spain. All of which are members of the Spanish Confederation.
Meanwhile in Russia, they begin to support several smaller socialist and communist movements inside Germany's puppets. Fearing another war, Wilhelm III enforces a policy of appeasement.
The relations between the Austrian Federation and Germany began to drift. As they feared the Communists of the east would invade and Germany would let them die once more, criticing their policy of apeasement. This gave the austrofascist regime the perfect reason to leave Mitteleuropa and persue its ties with the rest of fascist europe.
The Chinese Civil war had been raging on for years, and it finally came to a conclusion in 1936 as a Monarchist Victory against the republic. Establishing Puyi as the new Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.
World War Two[]
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The tensions between the Fascist powers of Europe, alongside the mensheviks of the east. Many Germans and Brits were rightly paranoid, feeling that appeasement was only adding fuel to the fire.
A coup in poland by Józef Piłsudski in 1938 made the communist threat way too close to home. And yet out of fear of provoking Russia, nothing was done to put him out of power.
Eventually the duke of Galicia-Lodomeria (the only other member of the federation recognized as Austrian dynastic territory aside from Austria) was shot dead by Polish nationalists who were increasingly demanding to be ruinited with Poland. This lead to the Austrian Federation declaring war on Poland, believing they had instigated the assassination.
This angered the Russians who declared war on Austria in defense of their bloc in 1941. Italy and the other fascist states came in support of the Austrian Federation. While France declared war on Italy in support of Russia.
Europe was at war with Russia and France again and The German Empire alongside Britain did not want to get involved. Many German nationalists were tired of the crown's perceived cowardice and believed they were going to let Austria fall to the Russians again, as well as giving France or Austria the perfect oppritunity to overtake Germany. Whatever the outcome of the war was, in many of the the people's eyes it was damned if you do and damned if you dont, and the government seemingly didnt care.
Despite the Central Power's offical position on the war, Japan decided to declare war on Russia anyway. This was the perfect exuse by France to declare war on Germany, beleiving that Japan's invasion was a direct threat from the Central Powers against the communist bloc.