AH Challenge: Austor- Hungarian collapse before 1914

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This is perhaps borderline ASB, and might need some kind of great disaster, but how would we get the Austro- Hungarian Empire to collapse after 1900 but before 1914??
 
The Morrocan crisis erupts into a war between Germany and France, dragging in Britain, Austria-Hungary and Russia with Italy siding with who they think will win. The CPs lose.
 
The Morrocan crisis erupts into a war between Germany and France, dragging in Britain, Austria-Hungary and Russia with Italy siding with who they think will win. The CPs lose.

The Austrians were not going to back the Germans up over Morocco. Vienna pretty much explicitly told Berlin that.
 
How `bout this?

POD: Franz Joseph dies earlier than OTL let's say 1906ish (not too unlikely he was getting pretty old) and Arch duke FF becomes the new Emperor of Austria Hungary. Almost immediately upon his ascension tensions are raised between Hungary and the rest of the Empire as FF intends to "federalize" the A-H empire at the expense of Hungary. As tensions mount, FF decides to launch a pre-emptive military operation to nip a potential Hungarian uprising in the bud. The attack however goes horribly and Hungary rises up en masse. This is quickly followed by the rest of the Balkan states (mainly Serbia/Romania) jumping on the bandwagon and declaring war on Austria Hungary. This also leads to Russia and Italy entering the fray. As this is before 1914, Germany decides to jump on the bandwagon and support FF perfering to fight a war sooner rather than later.

As it is 1906, the Schlieffen Plan is enacted with full vigour and Britain enters the war due to it's alliance w/Belgium etc. Eventually Russia begins to make it's presence felt, responding with overwhelming force aiding the Hungarians and together with their allies, defeating the Austrians and the Germans (in conjunction with an Anglo-French force in the Balkans). Thus TTL's treaty of Versailles sees Hungary given a lions share of the Austro-Hungarian Empire...
 
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/\ In that situation, it would be Hungary-Croatia (incl. Slovakia and Transylvania), Bosnia, Serbia, Bohemia-Moravia and Austria (includes Slovenia). Much more peaceful in all likelyhood.
 
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