Shattered Empires is a submod for The Great War Mod covering the post WW1 and Interwar period of history in Europe.
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Weimar Republic
Government Type: Republic
President: Friedrich Ebert
Summary
After the end of the First World War Germany was exhausted and sued for peace in desperate circumstances. Awareness of imminent defeat sparked a revolution, the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II, formal surrender to the Allies, and the proclamation of the Weimar Republic on 9 November 1918.
In its initial years, grave problems beset the Republic, such as hyperinflation and political extremism, including political murders and two attempted seizures of power by contending paramilitaries; internationally, it suffered isolation, reduced diplomatic standing and contentious relationships with the great powers.
By 1924, a great deal of monetary and political stability was restored, and the republic enjoyed relative prosperity for the next five years; this period, sometimes known as the Golden Twenties, was characterized by significant cultural flourishing, social progress, and gradual improvement in foreign relations. Under the Locarno Treaties of 1925, Germany moved toward normalizing relations with its neighbors, recognising most territorial changes under the 1919 Treaty of Versailles and committing never to go to war.
The following year, it joined the League of Nations, which marked its reintegration into the international community. Nevertheless, especially on the political right, there remained strong and widespread resentment against the treaty and those who had signed and supported it.
The Great Depression of October 1929 severely impacted Germany's tenuous progress; high unemployment and subsequent social and political unrest led to the collapse of Chancellor Hermann Müller's grand coalition and the beginning of the presidential cabinets.
Post War Situation
After a series of international conferences to determine the reparations for which Germany was liable, an amount of 132 billion Reichsmarks was presented in May 1921, to be paid either in gold or commodities such as iron, steel and coal.
Immediate post-war industrial production fell to the levels of the 1880s, or 57 percent of its value in 1913. The 1919 per capita GDP was only 73 percent of the comparable 1913 figure. Controlled demobilization kept unemployment initially at around one million. By January 1922 the unemployment rate had sunk to just 0.9%, but inflation caused most workers' real wages to be significantly lower than they were in 1913.
Territorially, Germany had to renounce sovereignty over its colonies and in Europe lost 65,000 sq km (25,000 sq mi) or about 13% of its former territory – including 48% of its iron and 10% of its coal resources – along with 7 million people, or 12% of its population. The Saarland was put under the control of the League of Nations for 15 years, and the output of the area's coal mines went to France. Alsace–Lorraine, which Prussia had annexed following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, once again became French. The northern part of Schleswig-Holstein went to Denmark following a plebiscite. In the east, a significant amount of territory was lost to a restored Poland. The Memel Territory was ceded to the Allied powers, and Danzig went to the League of Nations as the Free City of Danzig. The Polish Corridor left East Prussia physically separated from the rest of Germany.
Under the terms of both the Armistice of 1918 and of the Treaty of Versailles, French, British, Belgian and American troops occupied the Rhineland, the area of Germany on the west bank of the Rhine river, together with bridgeheads on the east bank near Cologne, Mainz and Koblenz. In addition, the Rhineland and an area stretching 50 kilometers east of the Rhine was to be demilitarized. France had demanded the occupation both to protect itself from a renewed German attack and as collateral for German reparations. The occupation was to last 5 years in the British zone, 10 in the American and 15 years in the French and Belgian zones, until 1934, but the last foreign troops evacuated the Rhineland on 30 June 1930.
Campaign territorial changes
Alsace–Lorraine region goes to France, Danzig and Poland regions goes to Poland and the Rhineland region occupied by US Military.
Scripted Events
Economic events
Hyperinflation starting in 1921 and reaching a climax in 1923.
Golden Twenties starting in 1924 through 1929
Great Depression starting in 1929 leading to the European banking crisis of 1931.
Revolutions and social upheavals
Silesian Uprisings - Polish insurgents
16 August 1919 – 21 July 1921
Upper Silesia
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Kapp Putsch - nationalist autocratic
13–18 March 1920
Berlin
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Ruhr uprising - Communist
13 March – 12 April 1920
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March Action - Communist
17 March – 1 April 1921
Saxony
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Cuno strikes - Communist
August 1923
Berlin
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Hamburg Uprising - Communist
23–24 October 1923
Hamburg
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Beer Hall Putsch - fascist
8–9 November 1923
Bavaria
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When is this mod getting released?
Just wondering as it looks very interesting.
Hello, will there be an opportunity to play for white?
Is there a Makhnovshchina faction or just Ukraine?
Yes but they won't be a playable faction, they will just be a rebel faction.
Hi this mod looks great!!! I cant wait to try it out. When will this be released and will hungary turn communist as it did historically?
Will Ireland be a playable nation?
Yes
this looks very interesting. Good luck to you in this projekt :)
That mod looks pretty interesting... it will be merged into TGW or it will be separeted of it?
In the description, you say that it will not have major conflicts, besides de Russian Civil War. But it will involve only the whites and soviets, or the poles, latvians, lithuans, etcs will fight each other as well, like in the historical post-ww1 scenario?
Another suggestion is that you could transform the Berlin region into the Spartacus League state, so that we could have another 'war' in this period: the Weimar State/Freikorps x KPD/Spartacist uprising
It will be a separate submod for TGW.
Those wars are the only ones that will be active on turn 1. All the other wars that happened during that time will happen organically during the campaign.
There will be several revolts and uprisings that will happen to Germany during the campaign.