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==We Accidentally Fucked the Economy (1929 – 1939)==
'''What Happened:''' October 29, 1929, "Black Tuesday": The Stock market shat itself. Everybody gets fucked. Globalization is a bitch, and takes every country down at once. Bonnie and Clyde go through their big crime spree. In '33 that German guy with a book is appointed as chancellor of the Reichstag. Apparently he figured out that a tiny coup is the wrong way to take over a country.  He manages to get Germany to recover from all that economy stuff... even though everybody else was recovering at about the same time and really his influence on the matter is pretty much incidental.   LZ 129 Hindenburg has a fatal crash at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, effectively ending the era of airships (The Nazis would continue to use them for military purposes through Shit Sandwich 2, but that's about it).  By the end of this era, Germany would annex Austria and Czechoslovakia, setting the stage for the next big pile of Dung on Rye. 
*'''Themes to Use:''' Despair, Desperation, but also tenacity, and perhaps even a touch of [[Humanity Fuck Yeah]], as we survive some truly shitty times. A good setting for games about a group of criminals or gangsters. If you want historically accurate airship shenanigans, this is about your last chance. Later on, there's a lot of tension building in the world as Germany starts to rise back up. Still, most of this tension is meta. We know what's just around the corner. Again, foreshadowing the war to come is practically required.  
*'''Notable Works Set In This Period:'''  
:Books: (if you're an Americunt, you probably read ''at least'' one of these in school) The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, To Kill a Mockingbird; 
:Movies: "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", The Green Mile