Has anybody been to Hungary?

Could Austria-Hungary have survived if not for the First World War?

• Austria-Hungary was not even a state. While many European kingdoms and ethnic groups coalesced into one nation-state like Germany and Italy, Austria-Hungary was only held together by the Hapsburg crown. It was not a formal country but a medley of small kingdoms and ethnicities. Even within this medley many parts would rather separate from the crown and felt little allegiance to it. Russia was encouraging Slavs to break away, the Dual Monarchy was divided over how to govern Austria-Hungary, and uprisings occurred frequently. Once the war ended and Austria-Hungary was on the apparent losing side, the Allied Powers' and Woodrow Wilson's calls for self-determination won out and the different ethnic groups and societies that made up Austria-Hungary became nation-states of their own. Would Austria-Hungary have survived under a Dual Monarchy if not for the war or the peace treaty?

• Answer:

  No. The Archduke would still have been assassinated and plunge the entire dual-nation into civil war, and if no other nation was allied with them, they would basically be ignored until the fighting resolved with a victor. Then Wilson would not have introduced his League of Nations idea that would evolve into the United Nations because WWI never happened.