Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary is a Central European empire ruled by the Hapsburg family. Austria-Hungary was a founding member of the Central Powers along with the United States and Germany.

In 1914, the Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serbian nationalist. Austria-Hungary issued a series of ultimata against Serbia relating to the incident, and Serbia, supported by Russia, refused some of these. Austria-Hungary invoked the Central Powers defensive alliance, Russia (also claiming this was a defensive war though it had not been directly threatened by Vienna]] invoked the Entente, and the Great War began.

Austria-Hungary won the Great War but found itself losing prestige and being eclipsed by Germany in influence.

When the Second Great War began in 1941, Austria-Hungary once again allied itself with the Central Powers. However, it was a very multicultural empire, and many of its ethnic minorities rose up against the imperial authority, supported by Russia. Austria-Hungary's physicists are collaborating with Germany's in an effort to build an atomic bomb.