[FONT="Century_Gothic"]
Bank runs in 1923; United States of America
Unfortunately for all, and in the most cliché of stories, such an event occured...unfortunately for all...
February the Fifth became the most notorious date in history after July 28 1914
The Berlin Stock Market took the greatest plunge ever experienced by a financial institution since the American financial crisis in 1923. The shock immediately reverberated across the world. The spark that began on Wilhemstaße continued into every noticeable economy on earth. The streets of Berlin were filled with stock brockers and investors, many on them sullen faced, many shocked and several in tears on the pavement.
Many nations begin plot their responce to this disaster and limit its damage. Several begin to think of how to profit from this disaster. One began to mobilize.
Mass rally in expectant of the Reichskanzlers speech in the aftermath of Schwarzer Montag
Peace is sought through War
[/FONT]
In March 1919, after three and a half years of attritional warfare, the German offensive on the Western Front finally succeeded in overrunning the Entente defences. French morale collapsed along with her army against the onslaught as the Reichswehr exploited the breakthrough and marched towards Paris and the Loire valley. As the army collapsed the exhausted French surrendered and allowed the German army to occupy their proud nation. Following this stunning victory, German troops were rapidly sent to the existing Italian and Turkish fronts and forced entry into the lightly defended parts of northwestern Italy. With the arrival of these veteran troops, the Central Powers defeated both the British and Italian armies, restoring Ottoman power in the Middle East and occupying Northern Italy. The war with Britain and the remaining Entente forces overseas dragged on inconclusively until 1921 when a “peace with honour” was secured, ending the Weltkrieg. Not everything was well within Germany though - 7 years of war had pushed her population to the brink of starvation, German industry stagnated following the wars end as demand was slashed and the costs to the government mounted as they were forced to subsidise conversion back to domestic production, struggled to feed its population and fought the ever-present danger of inflation that had arisen from printing money to fund the war effort. In 1924, Admiral Tirpitz became Chancellor and his policies started a golden age of German Weltpolitik, bringing the economy under control through regulating the markets, subsidising food imports with money gained from reparations and the sale of technology to Germany’s allies and client-states. Tirpitz’s hugely successful regime culminated in the well-executed occupation of British colonial possessions following the outbreak of the British revolution and the establishment of Freistaat MittlelAfrika. However, since the Grand Admiral’s death in 1930 things have been going downhill for Germany. A general slowing of the world economy is decreasing industrial output and national income as other nations recover their manufacturing power, and growing nationalism in Germany’s eastern clients is starting to cause tensions as both populations and governments begin to drift away from the Reich. In 1936, Imperial Germany stands at a crossroads, the cracks that are beginning to appear in her mighty empire are slowly widening, and her ancestral enemies are getting stronger once more…
Bank runs in 1923; United States of America
The year 1936 begin as any other in Germany. Germany was the undisputed economic and military power in the world. Its legions ruled territories from the Rhine to the Don, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Berlin and into every nook and crevice that's worth claiming as land. Germany reigned supreme on land, air and sea and yet all of these accomplishments stood in mockery to the state of the world; to the price at which this empire had been gained. Great states and nations have been fragmented; Syndicalists ruled in the great cities of London and Paris, ever plotting to expand the domains of the workers states. America laid in economic despair; partially due to the expansion of German industry and mostly the loss of their old trading partners. Political stability did not help the country. America was the powder-keg on the Mississippi was the commonly heard opinion on the streets of Berlin.
Yet the average German prospered, with incomes rising and the wealth flowing from the vast Imperium into the coffers of Großdeutschland (as the state had been christened). Yet all of this prosperity rested on a fragile balance of power, and the slightest of tremours might unleash a destructive force that had not been seen since the Great War. German blood will must again be spilled in defense of the Vaterland.
Yet the average German prospered, with incomes rising and the wealth flowing from the vast Imperium into the coffers of Großdeutschland (as the state had been christened). Yet all of this prosperity rested on a fragile balance of power, and the slightest of tremours might unleash a destructive force that had not been seen since the Great War. German blood will must again be spilled in defense of the Vaterland.
Unfortunately for all, and in the most cliché of stories, such an event occured...unfortunately for all...
February the Fifth became the most notorious date in history after July 28 1914
The Berlin Stock Market took the greatest plunge ever experienced by a financial institution since the American financial crisis in 1923. The shock immediately reverberated across the world. The spark that began on Wilhemstaße continued into every noticeable economy on earth. The streets of Berlin were filled with stock brockers and investors, many on them sullen faced, many shocked and several in tears on the pavement.
Many nations begin plot their responce to this disaster and limit its damage. Several begin to think of how to profit from this disaster. One began to mobilize.
Mass rally in expectant of the Reichskanzlers speech in the aftermath of Schwarzer Montag