great depression

PREFACE To say I've wanted to write this TL for a while would be an understatement; in fact I've essentially been slowly plugging away at it since the inconclusive end of my first and last TL; Paralysed in Darkness. Having spent more time focused on the shared world's community, getting back...

What if there was not a gold standard in the early 1900s US (it was a hybrid gold/silver system or the modern fiat currency?) I've heard that the gold standard made the Great Depression worse.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt looms large over American history. Having overseen America's recovery from the Great Depression and leading the country to victory in World War Two, FDR forever left his mark on not only America but the whole world. However, his presence in history begs the question...

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Challenge: Avoid the Great Depression (POD of 1918 onward). Is this even possible?

What the title says.

On July 14, 1931, one day after the closing of Danat Bank, Adolf Hitler, upon leaving his interview with the United Press International news agency, is shot and killed by a lone assassin. How does the loss of Hitler at this crucial moment in the Nazi Party's OTL rise affect the party's...

Others requested the discussion on a socialist America in the 1930s to happen here. What I got from the original posters was an even worse 1930s and worse Gilded age leading to uprising. So the discussion has been moved here. Is that feasible? And how would history be affected?

The restaurant act was an effort by the federal government to maintain restaurant jobs and promote cleanleness in Americas at the time filthy resturants. Under the law there was a federal grading system for how clean your restaurant is. If your restaurant got an A rating your resutrant...

I was watching an interview with Ben Bernankee on YouTube the other day, in which he credited the bank bailouts of 2008 with preventing the "great recession" from turning into the Great Depression round two. That (and today's 'Betweeen Two Wars special on the great depression') got me thinking...

The American Chairman Act One - Give me liberty or give me Hearst Prologue Well, where to begin? A week ago I guess. I have had this idea trotting around my head again and again over the past week, at least. Over the summer, and even still now, I watched political crisis unfolding in Italy...

Although he was the second longest serving President in American history, Calvin Coolidge is generally remembered as one of America's worst chief executives. In office from August 1923 to January 1933, Coolidge did nothing to confront the Great Depression after the 1929 Stock Market Crash. If...

What If the then recently elected US President H. Hoover would have been killed in Argentine? This could have happened because, according to the Argentine police, on December 11, 1928, (before the arrival of Hoover to the Argentine) in the framework of his month-long goodwill tour through...

So, as we all know, the Democratic party collapsed in the late 1920s, giving the Republicans a brief period of near-total domination. That domination was, of course, quickly interrupted by the Great Depression, and the subsequent election of the first Farmer-Labor president, Floyd Oslon. But...

In 1940, conservative darling Robert Taft was a strong contender for President - but he was ultimately passed over as the GOP nominee by dark horse Wendell Willkie. What if Taft had been nominated by the GOP in 1940?

Calvin Coolidge holds a legacy as one of the greatest American presidents of all time. Though his first term was relatively easy and very prosperous, Coolidge's main legacy comes from his outstanding leadership during his second term, when the Panic of 1929 struck. The economic recession was...

In 1928 New York Governor Al Smith made a disastrous run for President. The booming economy and prejudice against his Catholic faith allowed Herbert Hoover to win a landslide victory. And by vacating the Governorship Smith created a powerful rival in Franklin Roosevelt who would beat him for the...

Title ^. If Teddy Roosevelt won in 1912 and 1916, either under his Progressive Party or as part of the GOP, and World War I still occurred. Would the Great Depression be averted?

The 1936 election is famous for FDR's massive landslide against Alf Landon, who only won two states - Vermont and Maine. Is it possible that Landon could have done better against the popular Roosevelt? What is the best possible showing that he could have realistically made in the election?

Despite his widespread popularity, President Calvin Coolidge considered not running for a second full term in 1928. His son's death and the stress of the presidency had taken a toll on him, and secretly he wanted out. But driven by his resentment of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover, and under...