[FONT="]Guns, Bombs, Germs and Steel
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[FONT="]All Are Equal: 1914-1916[/FONT]
[FONT="]The peace treaty that ended the war, the Treaty of Hamburg, was firm and un-fair. Germany was to be crippled militarily, her once mighty army stripped down to a mere million men. Her navy the Kriegsmarine was permitted a mere 25,000 sailors and 9 battleships. Her political system was also bastardised, removing the elected Reichstag and replacing it with an officious "Cabinet of the learned" of "Cabinet of the Monocles" as it was referred to by the disgruntled masses of Germany for most of this cabinet were upper class aristocrats. The Rhineland would also be occupied by the French military, who would extract any and all material wealth they needed in order to restore Northern France to prosperity after three years as a war zone. The treaty was condemned by the Russians and the Austrians but owing to the fact that both these states had collapsed into civil war made their bargaining power slim to none. Austria lasted a few more days before collapsing entirely. The Ottoman empire survived as a rump state buoyed up by infusions o western oil money and the astounding general ship of its Grand Vizier Mustafa Kemal. Bulgaria declared its neutrality and was occupied briefly by its neighbour Rumania. Europe's most deadly war had come to a devastating end, not with a bang with a brief whimper.[/FONT]