Earlier United Europe?
- Thread starter Faeelin
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Do you mean by 'not violent', 'not by conquest' or 'not involving any violence at all'. In the latter case I don't think it'd work. In the former:
The revolutions of 1830 and 1848 have lasting success in France, Spain, Portugal, Piedmont, Sicily, the Papal State, the Netherlands, the Rhineland, Wurttemberg, Bavaria, Denmark and Hanover. Hungary, Austria, Saxony and Prussia survive the upheaval with autocracies intact, Russia and Sweden are never touched. Prussia, having lost Julich-Kleve-Berg to the red revolutionaries, invokes the 'Holy Alliance'. France militarily supports the rebels, rivalries between St Petersburg and Viewnna hinder the effort of the autocracy and the war ends in a defeat to the invaders, including the losses of Venetia, Lombardy, and the Prussian Ruhr.
By 1865, the tensions in Europe have risen to the breaking point. Britain keeps the balance between a French democratic hegemony and a Russia-dominated autocracy (with Austro-Hungary chafing at the bit). The war breaks out over a triviality and costs the lives of hundreds of thousands over years, but it serves to forge a bond of solidarity between the nations of republican Europe that, after a peace of mutual exhaustion and the breakup of a disappointed Holy Alliance in mutual recriminations, continues to integrate its military capabilities in expectation of the next Russian steamroller. A 'European Franc' of 5 grammes of 24-karat gold becomes the currency standard (to which the Lira, Crown and Mark are tied). Continual integration of heavy industries and standardisation of armaments lead to cross-border industrial mergers. Social democratic politics begion to have an effect.
By 1910, Russia and Europe again go at it. By this time, Prussia has become a wary, impoverished neutral and Austro-Hungary is too preoccupied with the Balkan (guess who's been helping the Ottomans). Prussia is overrun almost without a comment and becomes the battlefield of Russian and European troops for the next years. Britain and America grow rich on the conflict. After several years, Russia collapses and Europe wins.
With this triumph under its belt, a newly republican Prussia and several of Russia's former subject nations find the European Alliance attractive, and though the 'Franc Zone' is a shadow of its former economic glory, ravaged by inflation and war debt, its integrative power and ideology remain strong. By 1935, all Scandinavian countries, Hungary, and Greater Serbia have joined. Europe's industrial growth begins onice again to rival the fabulous wealth of the Anglo-Saxon nations.
The revolutions of 1830 and 1848 have lasting success in France, Spain, Portugal, Piedmont, Sicily, the Papal State, the Netherlands, the Rhineland, Wurttemberg, Bavaria, Denmark and Hanover. Hungary, Austria, Saxony and Prussia survive the upheaval with autocracies intact, Russia and Sweden are never touched. Prussia, having lost Julich-Kleve-Berg to the red revolutionaries, invokes the 'Holy Alliance'. France militarily supports the rebels, rivalries between St Petersburg and Viewnna hinder the effort of the autocracy and the war ends in a defeat to the invaders, including the losses of Venetia, Lombardy, and the Prussian Ruhr.
By 1865, the tensions in Europe have risen to the breaking point. Britain keeps the balance between a French democratic hegemony and a Russia-dominated autocracy (with Austro-Hungary chafing at the bit). The war breaks out over a triviality and costs the lives of hundreds of thousands over years, but it serves to forge a bond of solidarity between the nations of republican Europe that, after a peace of mutual exhaustion and the breakup of a disappointed Holy Alliance in mutual recriminations, continues to integrate its military capabilities in expectation of the next Russian steamroller. A 'European Franc' of 5 grammes of 24-karat gold becomes the currency standard (to which the Lira, Crown and Mark are tied). Continual integration of heavy industries and standardisation of armaments lead to cross-border industrial mergers. Social democratic politics begion to have an effect.
By 1910, Russia and Europe again go at it. By this time, Prussia has become a wary, impoverished neutral and Austro-Hungary is too preoccupied with the Balkan (guess who's been helping the Ottomans). Prussia is overrun almost without a comment and becomes the battlefield of Russian and European troops for the next years. Britain and America grow rich on the conflict. After several years, Russia collapses and Europe wins.
With this triumph under its belt, a newly republican Prussia and several of Russia's former subject nations find the European Alliance attractive, and though the 'Franc Zone' is a shadow of its former economic glory, ravaged by inflation and war debt, its integrative power and ideology remain strong. By 1935, all Scandinavian countries, Hungary, and Greater Serbia have joined. Europe's industrial growth begins onice again to rival the fabulous wealth of the Anglo-Saxon nations.
A "Peace without Victors" after 10 years of the Great War in 1924 with fairly revolutionary threats to all states and some kind of contact across the divide?
