The German Empire and Civil War in the United States

Germany only became a country in 18 71. It's really easy for non history nervs to forget that the country that went off to war in 19 14 had only been around for about four decades. To this day, there are still people that you can find in germany who feel more bavarian than they do german. The precariousness of the identity of a nation that was settled by waves of immigrants from its founding has led the united states to go almost our entire history without having a single gap of time where we weren't chasing down one boggy man or another. But some nations don't have to manufacture or exaggerate their threats. Sometimes the threat is as real as