No German unification under Prussian leadership can happen before the Crimean war and the Russo-Austrian split. Friedrich Wilhelm would have to walk back his German ambitions really fast under Russian pressure as he was historically at Olmütz.
Just now I remembered a fact I stumbled upon a while ago that is on it's own just a random bit of historical trivia but kind of illustrates the problems with long running timelines:
There is almost no black coal in the Austrian empire in it's borders of 1815. There's more than enough Lignite...
Doesn't this just mean that basically everyone who isn't already ethnically German choses German as second language the way everyone learns English IOTL?
If I understand it correctly, the second war will end, like the first one, in a limited German victory and we never see the kind of totalizing warfare of OTL ww2, is that correct?
And presumably Austria is another story entirely. Even IOTL Germans have to take mandatory language classes if they want a permanent job in Austrian televison. Having any program presented in too 'German' German is seen as unacceptable.
What's Austrian politics like? In OTL the German speaking part, before WW1, and especially after it, was spolitically divided between three camps that had a mutual origin in populist opposition to the Liberal dominance of the post-ausgleich years, the Social Democrats, the...
AFAIK a large amount Czechoslovak industry was concentrated in the Sudetenland, the expulsion of the Germans probably caused significant long term damage to human resources and institutionalized knowledge while directly transferring part of that loss to the GDR (although most Germans went to the...
Will there be something like the UN/league of nations? The way I would see it, there would be some international organizations in areas where cooperation is financially advantageous and there are little drawbacks. But the UN in it's current form with it's universalist (if practically...
What exactly happens to Russia after the second war? It's probably still too big and populous to just outclass it and turn it into an ally like Germany was OTL. But there would obviously be a lot of pressure in Germany to neuter it in some very unpleasant ways after two wars that cannot even be...
There was a large amount of colonization by Germans into Pannonia prior to the Magyar invasion (Ostsiedlung), the region would almost certainly have ended up German without it. I see no real reason why this couldn't have happened a few decades earlier.