OOC: Okay, I'm not dropping my British AAR, I'm just putting it on hold for two-three days while I debate whether or not to use 1.06 or 1.05c for it... In the meantime, I am going to basically replay this game in which I restored Austria to it's size as the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. It'll be a short AAR, don't expect too much...
IC:
In the summer of 1914 the Archduke of Austria-Hungary, Francis Ferdinand and his wife Sofie were brutally shot dead in Sarajevo Bosnia. It would be a simple death, a political statement by the Balkan Slavs that would spark a world war and kill 20 million. By 1918 the war wore on and the mighty Habsburg Empire was in stalemate. The fronts in Italy and Greece had remained stationary since 1915 and the Empire was strained thin. The only progress in the war was by the Entente of against the mostly anarchic Russia which had been in perpetual Chaos since February 1917. Austria-Hungary would collapse, Austria and Hungary would separate, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Yugoslavia would be born from the end of the war and along with Romania and Italy the lands beyond Austria and Hungary were diced up between these nations by the victorious Entente. Austria and Hungary would stumble through the postwar years trying to find stability and purpose.
Upon exiled Emperor Karl I von Habsburg's death in 1922 the new head of the Habsburg house, Maximilian Eugene - brother of Karl I and head of the Habsburg House until Karl's 10 year old son Otto was of age - snuck into Austria under a veil of secrecy. The Monarchy had attempted to ascend to the throne of Hungary but the attempt failed upon Karl's death. There was a planned coup by the scheming Maximilian and the Old Guard - a conservative group in favor of Habsburg re-ascention of the throne - in 1924. The coup failed, and a break was made in the fragile infant Austrian Parliament between Liberals and Conservatives. Italy was asked to intervene by the breaking up Austrian Government, but Italy was in it's own crisis involving Mussolini. Austria's Government collapsed and General von Eimannsberge took over and declared Martial Law. The Entente Powers called off a force they were sending to the struggling Austria to calm the situation, however, that action was too soon. Turns out, General von Eimannsberge was a supporter of the Coup. Reorganizing the Government, General von Eimannsberge declared Maximilian Eugene Regent, and the now 12 year old Otto was proclaimed Emperor.
Habsburg rule returned to Austria relatively bloodless however, and only 6 months after the Military Junta took control the Parliament was reestablished on Otto's command. General von Eimannsberge and Maximilian attempted to stop Otto from ruining the Absolutist Power they had worked to hand to him, but failed when Otto aligned himself with the Liberal parties, and thus united Austria. Both Liberals and Conservatives henceforth supported Emperor Otto.
Austria then went down a path of rebuilding and restoration. The country quickly outpaced the rest of war-torn Central Europe, and Austria repaid it's Reparation Debts and became the leading Central European Market by 1928. General von Eimannsberge and General Zehner rebuilt the army to the maximum 90,000 troops dictated by the limitations of the Versailles Treaty. The 1929 Market Crash in the United States hurt Europe, and Austria was no exception. However Austria endured and by 1934 the economy was returned to stability.
In 1930 Otto turned 18 and finally was crowned Imperial Majesty of the Habsburg Kingdom of Austria. Maximilian was deposed as Regent, but became a leading politician in the Parliament. Doctor Dolfuss was elected Chancellor in 1930 and his leadership would recover the Austrian Economy and be praised by the European Nations as sensible and stable. Mussolini visited Vienna in 1933 and signed a protection pact with Austria and Hungary in hopes of creating a "Central Triangle" in Central and Southern Europe. However, events in Germany would compromise such ideals...
While Austria enjoyed success, Germany sat in despair. It was blamed for the Great War and humiliated by the Versailles Treaty. The Occupation of the Ruhr by France in 1924 caused the weak German Currency to entirely collapse signaling the end of any resemblance of a German Economy. In 1933 this ended. Hindenburg had been recovering Germany slowly, or trying to. But Adolf Hitler the head of the Nationalist Socialist party in Germany won himself the Chancellery by shrewd methods. Quickly Hitler reformed Germany, and pressure was soon being placed upon Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland. Italy at first blocked all sort of large pressure from the North for Italy mistrusted this new Germany. A pact was purposed between Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Italy. Mussolini and the other leaders of the "Central Triangle" met in Milan in May 1934 to formerly hammer out the pact. An Austrian-German assassin calling himself the martyr of National Socialism jumped out during the parade, killed King Alexander of Yugoslavia, and wounded Mussolini and Emperor Otto. This was followed by an attempted coup by the Austrian National Socialist party in Vienna which killed Chancellor Dolfuss. Hitler was going to intervene and proclaim Austria his but he backed off when the coup was utterly defeated by the Austrian Military. The Central Block never came to be. The Yugoslavians blamed the Austrians and the Block fell apart before it ever existed.
Immediately the Conservatives were elected to power in Austria in hopes that they could keep this from happening again. However, the Conservatives had their own agenda. Remember that the Conservatives wanted to restore the Habsburg Empire, the ENTIRE Habsburg Empire. The Versailles Treaty was broken and 45,000 new troops conscripted, pressure was placed upon Czechoslovakia and the Austrians started to undermine the Hungarian Government to bring the Hungarians into a new union with Austria. Emperor Otto was unable to agree to any of this as he was still in Milan slipping in and out of Coma's for several months. Hitler looked at Austria's sudden change of policy as shocking, Italy and the Allies saw it as reckless but a way to bring strength to Central Europe to counter ever growing Germany and of course the Bolsheviks.
January 1st 1935 saw the official creation of the plan for the "Habsburg Union" or "H-Union" it mapped out all the "True Habsburg" territory. This included pieces of Italy, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Romania. However, unlike the former Empire, H-Union would be several united states working separately but as one country. However it took until November 1935 when Emperor Otto returned to his throne after a very long recovery process for the official plans for the H-Union to start to go into effect.
Map of current Austria, the true Habsburg Territory, and the separate states that would be within the H-Union:
1 - Austria, Capital at Vienna
2 - Czech-Morovia, Capital at Prague (Praha)
3 - Slovak-Galicia, Capital at Bratislava
4 - Hungary, Capital at Budapest
5 - Slovenia, Capital at Ljubljana
6 - Croatia, Capital at Zagreb
7 - Bosnia, Capital at Sarajevo
8 - Transylvania, Capital at Arad
Notes:
A) Why are there no claims on the northern half of the Sudentland? - A self ruling state is preferred there to work as a buffer state to reduce our borders with Germany and it is believed if we owned it the Germans of the area would be upset about it and possibly manipulate a conflict between us and Germany.
B) Why a claim on Italian Lands? Italy supports us! - Those lands were Austrian from 1600 onwards until the end of the war, Italy has no right to them.
C) Why create Slav states within our planned union? - We are restoring the Habsburg lands, ALL the Habsburg lands.
D) Romania and Serbia should - after they return our rightful land to us - be pursued as friends and influenced or possibly forced to our political ideals. These nations will be essential to our national defense and they must be in 'our camp'. Also, after our current claims are met there will be no further expansion into the Balkans.
E) It should be questioned whether or not Poland will hold together if they yield to our demands. The Bolsheviks and Nazi's may slice up the country if the Poles give in to us and that would undermine not only ours but most of Europe's security.
OOC: Notice how I killed Dolfuss and King Alex of Yugoslavia as they were killed anyway, yet under different circumstances?
Also, I meant to put Claims on the povince of Venice as well, I'll edit that, didn't really notice it until just now...
IC:
In the summer of 1914 the Archduke of Austria-Hungary, Francis Ferdinand and his wife Sofie were brutally shot dead in Sarajevo Bosnia. It would be a simple death, a political statement by the Balkan Slavs that would spark a world war and kill 20 million. By 1918 the war wore on and the mighty Habsburg Empire was in stalemate. The fronts in Italy and Greece had remained stationary since 1915 and the Empire was strained thin. The only progress in the war was by the Entente of against the mostly anarchic Russia which had been in perpetual Chaos since February 1917. Austria-Hungary would collapse, Austria and Hungary would separate, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Yugoslavia would be born from the end of the war and along with Romania and Italy the lands beyond Austria and Hungary were diced up between these nations by the victorious Entente. Austria and Hungary would stumble through the postwar years trying to find stability and purpose.
Upon exiled Emperor Karl I von Habsburg's death in 1922 the new head of the Habsburg house, Maximilian Eugene - brother of Karl I and head of the Habsburg House until Karl's 10 year old son Otto was of age - snuck into Austria under a veil of secrecy. The Monarchy had attempted to ascend to the throne of Hungary but the attempt failed upon Karl's death. There was a planned coup by the scheming Maximilian and the Old Guard - a conservative group in favor of Habsburg re-ascention of the throne - in 1924. The coup failed, and a break was made in the fragile infant Austrian Parliament between Liberals and Conservatives. Italy was asked to intervene by the breaking up Austrian Government, but Italy was in it's own crisis involving Mussolini. Austria's Government collapsed and General von Eimannsberge took over and declared Martial Law. The Entente Powers called off a force they were sending to the struggling Austria to calm the situation, however, that action was too soon. Turns out, General von Eimannsberge was a supporter of the Coup. Reorganizing the Government, General von Eimannsberge declared Maximilian Eugene Regent, and the now 12 year old Otto was proclaimed Emperor.
Habsburg rule returned to Austria relatively bloodless however, and only 6 months after the Military Junta took control the Parliament was reestablished on Otto's command. General von Eimannsberge and Maximilian attempted to stop Otto from ruining the Absolutist Power they had worked to hand to him, but failed when Otto aligned himself with the Liberal parties, and thus united Austria. Both Liberals and Conservatives henceforth supported Emperor Otto.
Austria then went down a path of rebuilding and restoration. The country quickly outpaced the rest of war-torn Central Europe, and Austria repaid it's Reparation Debts and became the leading Central European Market by 1928. General von Eimannsberge and General Zehner rebuilt the army to the maximum 90,000 troops dictated by the limitations of the Versailles Treaty. The 1929 Market Crash in the United States hurt Europe, and Austria was no exception. However Austria endured and by 1934 the economy was returned to stability.
In 1930 Otto turned 18 and finally was crowned Imperial Majesty of the Habsburg Kingdom of Austria. Maximilian was deposed as Regent, but became a leading politician in the Parliament. Doctor Dolfuss was elected Chancellor in 1930 and his leadership would recover the Austrian Economy and be praised by the European Nations as sensible and stable. Mussolini visited Vienna in 1933 and signed a protection pact with Austria and Hungary in hopes of creating a "Central Triangle" in Central and Southern Europe. However, events in Germany would compromise such ideals...
While Austria enjoyed success, Germany sat in despair. It was blamed for the Great War and humiliated by the Versailles Treaty. The Occupation of the Ruhr by France in 1924 caused the weak German Currency to entirely collapse signaling the end of any resemblance of a German Economy. In 1933 this ended. Hindenburg had been recovering Germany slowly, or trying to. But Adolf Hitler the head of the Nationalist Socialist party in Germany won himself the Chancellery by shrewd methods. Quickly Hitler reformed Germany, and pressure was soon being placed upon Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland. Italy at first blocked all sort of large pressure from the North for Italy mistrusted this new Germany. A pact was purposed between Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Italy. Mussolini and the other leaders of the "Central Triangle" met in Milan in May 1934 to formerly hammer out the pact. An Austrian-German assassin calling himself the martyr of National Socialism jumped out during the parade, killed King Alexander of Yugoslavia, and wounded Mussolini and Emperor Otto. This was followed by an attempted coup by the Austrian National Socialist party in Vienna which killed Chancellor Dolfuss. Hitler was going to intervene and proclaim Austria his but he backed off when the coup was utterly defeated by the Austrian Military. The Central Block never came to be. The Yugoslavians blamed the Austrians and the Block fell apart before it ever existed.
Immediately the Conservatives were elected to power in Austria in hopes that they could keep this from happening again. However, the Conservatives had their own agenda. Remember that the Conservatives wanted to restore the Habsburg Empire, the ENTIRE Habsburg Empire. The Versailles Treaty was broken and 45,000 new troops conscripted, pressure was placed upon Czechoslovakia and the Austrians started to undermine the Hungarian Government to bring the Hungarians into a new union with Austria. Emperor Otto was unable to agree to any of this as he was still in Milan slipping in and out of Coma's for several months. Hitler looked at Austria's sudden change of policy as shocking, Italy and the Allies saw it as reckless but a way to bring strength to Central Europe to counter ever growing Germany and of course the Bolsheviks.
January 1st 1935 saw the official creation of the plan for the "Habsburg Union" or "H-Union" it mapped out all the "True Habsburg" territory. This included pieces of Italy, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Romania. However, unlike the former Empire, H-Union would be several united states working separately but as one country. However it took until November 1935 when Emperor Otto returned to his throne after a very long recovery process for the official plans for the H-Union to start to go into effect.
Map of current Austria, the true Habsburg Territory, and the separate states that would be within the H-Union:
1 - Austria, Capital at Vienna
2 - Czech-Morovia, Capital at Prague (Praha)
3 - Slovak-Galicia, Capital at Bratislava
4 - Hungary, Capital at Budapest
5 - Slovenia, Capital at Ljubljana
6 - Croatia, Capital at Zagreb
7 - Bosnia, Capital at Sarajevo
8 - Transylvania, Capital at Arad
Notes:
A) Why are there no claims on the northern half of the Sudentland? - A self ruling state is preferred there to work as a buffer state to reduce our borders with Germany and it is believed if we owned it the Germans of the area would be upset about it and possibly manipulate a conflict between us and Germany.
B) Why a claim on Italian Lands? Italy supports us! - Those lands were Austrian from 1600 onwards until the end of the war, Italy has no right to them.
C) Why create Slav states within our planned union? - We are restoring the Habsburg lands, ALL the Habsburg lands.
D) Romania and Serbia should - after they return our rightful land to us - be pursued as friends and influenced or possibly forced to our political ideals. These nations will be essential to our national defense and they must be in 'our camp'. Also, after our current claims are met there will be no further expansion into the Balkans.
E) It should be questioned whether or not Poland will hold together if they yield to our demands. The Bolsheviks and Nazi's may slice up the country if the Poles give in to us and that would undermine not only ours but most of Europe's security.
OOC: Notice how I killed Dolfuss and King Alex of Yugoslavia as they were killed anyway, yet under different circumstances?
Also, I meant to put Claims on the povince of Venice as well, I'll edit that, didn't really notice it until just now...
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