great depression

Severino Di Giovanni, Argentine anarchist leader and Galleanist The late 1800s and early 1900s saw a number of assassinations and terrorist attacks perpetrated by anarchists performing what they called "propaganda of the deed." This highly controversial application of Bakuninist political...

Imagine you are the German economic minister in 1929. What would you have to done to fix the economy

Is it plausible for a major world power to not go back to the gold standard after WW1, or to leave it during the 1920s? This could make the Great Depression less disastrous and change the way that international trade and the web of debts between the western powers worked in the interwar period...

For those who don’t know, the US experienced a major recession during 1920-1921 (in fact the initial stages of this recession completely dwarfed the initial stages of the Great Depression), but president Warren G. Harding handled the recession very well, leading to a short recovery. However...

I have a proposal: Design a radical ideology that could potentially take over the USA in the case of a much worse Great Depression (and no FDR to fight it). It can be from Far-left to Far-Right to Third Position. Bonus if you explain how it would rule and how long it could last.

Most people agree that if World War I never occurred, the Great Depression would not occur. However, does the Great Depression still occur if the Central Powers win WWI? For some clarification, here’s the POD. Germany wins the Battle of Verdun, leading to Falkenhayn not being discredited and...

CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS? January 6th, 1933 President-Elect Calvin Coolidge passed away suddenly yesterday at 10:32 AM from coronary thrombosis, sparking a possible constitutional crisis. Following his landslide victory over incumbent President Harrison in November, Former President Coolidge has...

In 1938, the Senate formed a committee to examine health policy with the ultimate objective of creating universal health care. This policy was a major domestic goal of President Roosevelt who tried and failed on multiple occasions to enact UHC. But by the time the finished bill was proposed as...

Assuming that a socialist/communist/anarchist revolution breaks out in America somewhere in the early 1920’s to the Great Depression, what would the name of this new Socialist America be?

First post, so I thought I'd make it a good question. In the 1930s the U.S. suffered through the Great Depression, and struggled hard to pull out of the recession and Depression that framed the build up to WW2 on the west of the Atlantic. Many would say that the second world war was the main...

What if around 1930's, fascism rose to power in Russia? Here's what happens: in this alternate timeline, the Whites win the Russian Civil War. It has a constitutional monarchy with a possible parliamentary republic led by former White army generals either Wrangel or Denikin (not too sure, hope...

Though the Great Depression would brutalize the 1930s world, the addition of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act likely worsened the ensemble. Passed by the United States Congress on June 17, 1930, it slapped high import duties on foreign products in the midst of a severe economic crisis. Though it...

Norman Thomas was a six-time Presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America. Although he obviously never won, what could get him and the SPA into the Oval Office? I thought this could be interesting because whenever I hear of a socialist America it’s always after some violent...

Is there a way to stop the political upheaval that overwhelmed Spain in the 1930s? I mean no fascism and no Civil War The PoD can be whenever you want from 1900 to 1930.

What it says in the title.

This is my attempt to reboot my old timeline A Fractured World. I am not happy with some of the decisions I made when i started AFW but I still like the core concept of a multipolar CW. In this reboot I will change some PODs and my updates will be covering longer periods of time with a broader...

As said in the title, the challenge of this thread is to make a plausible scenario having the UK Conservatives win in 1929 over Labour and tank due to the Great Depression, allowing Labour to take over the government by 1931.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy With a PoD in 1919 at the earliest, make the Technocracy Movement more successful in the United States. The two main historical analyses of why it collapsed was because of a lack of coherent leadership, and the New Deal sapping their support, so those...

In a scenario where the US went Communist in a "Second American Revolution" during the 1930s due to a worse Great Depression compounded by ineffective administrations, what would said Communist America look like? What flavor of Communism do you see being the main ideology of such a Communist...

I have a timeline idea that would benefit tremendously from economically weakened United States that are more inclined to stay isolationist. My idea is that Roosevelt never becomes the democratic nominee. Maybe he never runs in the primaries because is health is to fragile ITTL or one of his...