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Sorry if this isn't how posts are done but I wanted to share this idea I came up with.

After winning the first Schleswig War Denmark saw that the threat from Germany was extremely large and so kept the Danevirke up to date with the latest artillery Denmark had available and kept a garrison there year round. In 1864 the German states lead by Prussia invaded Denmark in June and so the German Army started a siege of the Danevirke with 61,000 men and 160 guns where 4000 Danes held out for reinforcements from the north arrived. Whilst the army was fighting the government was having talk with their close Scandinavian friends for help expecting only supplies. In July of 1864 after a month of sieging the Danevirke a united Scandinavian army of 70,000 men arrived from Norway Sweden and the reinforcements from the newly called up reservists of the Danish army. After a week of bloody fighting the Combined Scandinavian Army beat back the German Army forcing the German government to sign a peace treaty with the terms of giving the Danish government 5 Million Danish Krone. With the Humiliation of defeat Bismarck, whose idea it was to invade Denmark, resigns his post in the government and lives out the rest of his life in absurdity. Because Bismarck was the main force behind the wars of German unification (the first of which was the 2nd Schleswig War) the rest, the Franco-Prussian war and the Austro-Prussian war, don’t occur. Whilst Prussia was in turmoil from the money she had to pay to Denmark the other Scandinavian Countries spurred by their victory and surge in cultural pride decide it is time to form a commonwealth of countries so that all Scandinavians are united and can help each other in whatever way they need. After 5 years the Prussian government is in debt and inflation was raising rapidly the people most of whom were affected by the war in some way decides that enough is enough and a revolution in Berlin starts because solders shot at and killed 10 striking workers in Konigsberg. The Austrians having seen the opportunity to become the dominate German state, since Prussia was falling apart, make an offer to all the other German states that they will protect them if they join their Country eventually forming the United German Federation. After 3 years of brutal fighting the people win and the Prussian Republic is born and asks to join the rest of the Germans in the UGF which they except. In 1880 after years of growth and prosperity in the Scandinavian Union they Declare war on Russia in order to help the Scandinavian Finns who had been fighting a Guerrilla war against Russia since the Scandinavian union formed. The war lasts 5 years and finally ends when the Combined Scandinavian Army along with the Finns marches into Moscow and Finland is made the 4th
commonwealth in the Scandinavian union.

Scandinavian Union Flag http://rarayn.deviantart.com/art/Scandinavian-Commonwealth-Flag-245314776

United German Federation Flag https://flagspot.net/images/d/de_naval.gif

Any feed back would be greatly appreciated and any ideas for another scenario would be great as well!
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