The Troubled Years

The Troubled Years, sometimes called “The Troubled Century” is a term dubbed by historians for the massive internal upheaval across the globe, starting at around 1927 and still continuing to this day, with some countries recovering while others have not been able to.

## Troubled Years

Unemployed men eating soup in Washington D.C, 1930.

### **Outcome**

American Civil WarRise of Pan-Africanism

Indochinese Wars

Collapse of Switzerland

South African War

Bolivian Snap Election

## **The Beginning of the “Troubled Years” and the immense global outcomes**

The main reason the Troubled Years began was originally due to the London Market Crash thus triggering the New York Crash just a few weeks later. In less than 1 month 2 of the most important worldwide stock exchanges collapsed, causing irreversible damage to non-Socialist nations. It caused a major worldwide depression, in which several nations would hugely struggle to get back on their feet. Many consider the crashes to be the beginning of a new era, an era of worldwide radicalism on all sides of the political spectrum. For one, it allowed Leftism to grow considerably across the world, especially in industrialized nations. 9 years later, democracies would be on the line, with the last remaining social democracies like France and Spain would be considerably weakened. The biggest democracies in the world collapsed after 1927, with Britain breaking apart into Socialist Scotland and Wales while England would be taken over by Oswald Mosley and turned into a National Populist state. Most surprisingly, years of instability and weak government policy lead to the collapse of the USA entirely, overtaken by radical factions and reduced to Alaska.

The Troubled Years have led directly or indirectly to things like the Populist takeover in Brazil, Russia and Britain, the rise of factionalism across the Americas and Europe, the Red Scare in Canada, the birth of Scotland and Wales, the decline of European colonialism, the collapse of Switzerland, the rise of Pan-Africanism, the Second American Civil War and the Arabian Civil War.

France, Spain and Poland are the last vestiges of Social Democracies that were present just 10 years beforehand. Much of the late 1920s and the 1930s have been defined by the “Troubled Years”.

Although states in the Socialist Bloc have been largely unaffected, which is why many have been radicalized to the Left of the political spectrum, given that small amounts of trade with non-Socialists occurred, there was some disruption in everyday life. But by 1936 basically every Socialist state has fully recovered. Yet, although Socialism has been on the rise, there has also been growing amounts of factionalism.

There was recovery by dozens of countries, from the Chinese warlord states to Colombia, the Second American Civil War directly worsened the situation. America had been the most influential trading partner in the world, and because their territory immediately became a war zone, they were in a less than ideal state to be trading with as all trading imports and exports freezed in the country. Only after the civil war old trading resumed, but the Syndicalist People’s Union of America completely undermined capitalist nations needing American resources. The PUA had controlled much of the valuable states with many resources and vital ports then used for world trading, like in Boston or New York City. The problem, was since the PUA is syndicalist they weren’t willing to trad with the rest of the world. Because of this much of the rest of the world was forced to look elsewhere to find other resources. Many countries struggled to find new trading partners now that America was gone, first reduced to the insignificant Alaskan territory then being outright annexed by Canada.