Challenge: Greater Great Depression

1. Get US to enter a civil war which results in new nations. Bonus points for at least one Socialist nation.

2. England has a major government change. Whether to Socialist, Fascist, or something else, is your choice, but the current form of British government must not survive.

3. At least ONE South American country experiences a successful Socialist revolution. Now, whether that's religious, secular Socialist, or full blown atheist Communist is up to you. But, it has to be Socialist.

That's it. I'm sure this is totally ASB, but perhaps you can prove me wrong.
 
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I've done it! I've created conditions that no one here can accomplish! It wasn't even that ridiculous(except the first one) all things considered.
 
Definitely ASB, only way I could see that happen is if Yellowstone blew its top. Frankly that level of unemployment is difficult in this time with so much agricultural labor going on. For that matter the government has a considerable labor force as well. So you need to heavily damage agriculture and get a governmental collapse, kind of difficult, governments are like cockroaches, damn hard to kill
 
Sorry Enigmajones, edits have been made.

As for Scipio Africanus, who said anything about that POD? You can have an earlier POD, the effects just need to primarily show up in the time slot of the Great Depression.
 
Sorry Enigmajones, edits have been made.

As for Scipio Africanus, who said anything about that POD? You can have an earlier POD, the effects just need to primarily show up in the time slot of the Great Depression.

October 1929 started the Great Depression.
 
Yes, but you can have earlier PODs that have seemingly little impact at the time, but end up showing heavily later on, say PODs in the earlier 1920s for example.
 
You'd be surprised. If the Great Depression had lasted longer perhaps, England may have collapsed, unless somehow Attlee could implement his Keynesian economic plans.
 
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October 1929 started the Great Depression.

Not so. The origins are much earlier, in the freewheeling atmosphere of the twenties, which resulting in a housing bubble which began to burst in 1926. (Sound familiar?) 1929 was when it became obvious, with the stock market crash.
 
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