At the end of the Great War, in the treaty of Lyon of 1924, the German Empire was broken up into seven small states; The Kingdom of Hanove-Westphalia, the Kingdom of Bavaria, the Kingdom of Baden-Wurtemburg, the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the Kingdom of Saxony, and the Democratic Prussian Republic.
what would have happened if, say the war had ended in 1918, what would've happened to Germany?